If ever there was a post that had MY name written ALL over it …… I have lived in the Sierra Nevada Mountains all my life, I started skiing when I was just three, now some 25 years later I still SKI, but prefer snowboarding, all my friends do. And we have been overwhelmed with SNOW lately some places reporting over 25 ft. Going to be a LONG season, maybe even till Cinco de Mayo. :
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Next one posting gets HIGH from the MOUNTAINS and there ZEN in the sea.
Well, if it comes to hydraulics (job title, isn't it?) I'd name Mother Nature at first place. And yes, I do love her. She's so inventive that you hardly find any technical invention she did not establish before. Except for wheels probably. But this may only be because legs are so much more useful to climb stairs and thighs are much sexier than rims.
As far as hydraulic goes she invented a perfect system (Figure 1) with almost no leakage. Well, on certain occasions it leaks quite substantially but this is no bug but a feature