I posted this on another Festool forum. Let's see if you guys can guess it before they do.

Crystal water turns to dark
Where ere its presence leaves its mark
And boiling currents pound like drums
When something wicked this way comes...

A presence dark invades the fair
And gives the horses ample scare
Chaos rains and panic fills the air
When something wicked this way comes...

Ill winds mark its fearsome flight,
And autumn branches creak with fright.
The landscape turns to ashen crumbs,
When something wicked this way comes...

Massive weight as heavy as night
Shiny color blinds your sight
Nightmarish arms block your way
Winds reach out to catch their prey

And by the pricking of your thumbs
Realize that their poison numbs
From frightful booms, rank odors seep
Bats & beasties fly & creep

'Cross this evil land, ill winds blow
Despite the darkness, mushrooms glow
All will rot & decompose
For something naina this way goes...



Edit to Add
Oh, I'm not sure who wrote the poem, but I believe it is inspired by Ray Bradbuy's book and Macbeth. I sprinkled a couple hints into this modified version.

Just to bring this discussion up to speed, the shipment already arrived this afternoon.

Here is the back of the Old Dominon shipping truck. It wasn't supposed to have a liftgate, but thankfully due to a scheduling error, it had one.

Well, you would be the first to do so...   

Well, since you replaced the word blooms with booms ....

Boom arm ASA 5000/6000 ?

This is the first I've seen this thread on the FOG.



This is my guess too.  And you aren't the first person in the US to have one of these, there was a guy selling one on Ebay a year or two ago. 

I'm pretty sure that's what it is.  If you see the whole setup it's fairly big.

The way Uncle Bob packs stuff, I would guess you got two or three of those router bits that were on sale.

 

Oh, well then let me PM you my address; hopefully the truck hasn't gotten too far away 

Wow, you have little feet.... ;-)

So do I win the Rotex now? 

Ron,

It is an energy box.  Somewhere here we had a mention of it.

Here is a link:  Energy Box and Mega Boom Arm Page

Peter

I have to give you a lot of credit for spotting this tiny little missing "L". Peter Franks also deciphered the changes in the poem, but being a poor yank, didn't know what an ASA5000 was, so he just guessed a "big boom arm" from the other changes.

I've got a lot of things I need to figure out. I don't have the energy box (don't need it) so I am not sure how things normally terminate at the end. It is really nice to discover that it is already plumbed for electrical and pneumatic lines. I really had no idea what I was getting. The only information I had is what is shown in the International catalog, and that is pretty slim.

Shortly after I took the previous picture, my dad stopped by for a quick visit.......I put him to work.....hehehe

We carried the ASA 5000 down to the workshop, but I really haven't had the chance to take stock of it all. Before actually getting it in my hands, I didn't have anyone to ask questions about it. So I really had no idea what I was about to get besides the little bit of information in the International catalog. So there are some minor surprises, but nothing I can't easily work around.

It appears to be specifically designed for use with an Energy Box, but I thought that was just an optional accessory, and don't really want one. The round tube is both the vacuum line and the hanger for the energy box. It is intended to be cut to length depending on the height that the boom arm is mounted above the floor. I'll cut it short and attach a standard vac hose to it instead of the energy box. The 3 lines are power, compressed air, and some sort of control wire (presumably for the energy box).



The main pivot joint is amazing. It's made from 1/2" thick steel. The plastic gears mesh to control the center of the 2-point pivot. The 2-point pivot prevents the hoses from getting kinked. One hose is vacuum, and the other hose carries the compressed air and electrical lines.



It also has a Panduit-type duct to mount the vacuum line to the wall and down to the CT-vac. This too needs to be cut to length for the height of the mounting.



You can't just mount this to any old wall. It weighs 270 pounds and extends out 16-feet. It would topple a standard 2x4 house wall. However, my basement extends under the garage with a spancrete deck and 12-inch thick poured concrete walls. The gray beam shown below is supporting the spancrete deck of the garage. I think the best place to mount this is at the corner where the garage deck meets with the rest of the house. It's also the central part of the shop and where I already keep my CT-22.

I'll have to open up the wall to take a look at what/how I can mount this. At first I thought there was a 6x6 post supporting that beam, but I now realize that this end of the beam is probably sitting in a pocket in the concrete wall. It is the other end of the beam that has a support post. So if this is correct, mounting this to the concrete wall will be a little more complicated than just lagging it to a support beam.

Mr Nania?