Sparky the Mastodon in Ketchikan, Alaska

[wwillson]

I was walking around Ketchikan, AK last summer and snapped these photos of a Mastodon made of spark plugs. Not in a million years did I think I'd ever see such a thing.

 

[GON]

Any of the plugs counterfeit?

 

[wwillson]

Any of the plugs counterfeit?

I looked for a couple hours and couldn't find any.

 

[ripcord]

Did he come pre-gapped?

Just goes to show that those winter nights are long and lonely up there, LOL. Beats sitting around drinking, I guess.

 

[AZjeff]

Mostly NGKs in the close-up, interesting. Wonder what it weighs?

 

[Kira]

How do you know his name is "Sparky"? Neighbors had a Dachshund with steel testicles. His name was Sparky!

An elephant never misfires!

I suppose there's a donkey made of old air filters somewhere in town?

 

[zrxkawboy]

Mostly NGKs in the close-up, interesting.

Yes, it is. I wonder if that's because of all the snowmobiles (or as they call them, snow machines) there.

 

[RAR]

Almost all NGKs… no one had any Champion plugs in there?

 

[Pablo]

Almost all NGKs… no one had any Champion plugs in there?

Alaska is life or death. No one uses Champion.

Look like snowmobile plugs. Chainsaw plugs just thrown in the brush

 

[honeeagle]

long winters................

 

[fantastic]

I'd say resourceful for the products they can get up there. I wanted to move to Alaska once but realized "Ships to lower 48 states" everywhere I shopped. That dulled my motivation real quick.

 

[ripcord]

Best I can tell from the weather sites, Ketchican has weather more like Seattle than the interior of Alaska... except it gets about 4 times as much rain and snow as Seattle. Even when it's not dark out, you don't want to go outside.

 

[Pablo]

Best I can tell from the weather sites, Ketchican has weather more like Seattle than the interior of Alaska... except it gets about 4 times as much rain and snow as Seattle. Even when it's not dark out, you don't want to go outside.

One daughter in Juneau another in Kodiak. Kodiak just pretty much a colder version of Seattlish. Juneau is a freaking snowbowl.

 

[GON]

Best I can tell from the weather sites, Ketchican has weather more like Seattle than the interior of Alaska... except it gets about 4 times as much rain and snow as Seattle. Even when it's not dark out, you don't want to go outside.

Ketchican is a rainforest..... Numerous rainforests in Alaska....

 

[ripcord]

Ketchican is a rainforest..... Numerous rainforests in Alaska....

Yeah, more like Forks, WA than Seattle.

 

[wwillson]

Ketchican is a rainforest..... Numerous rainforests in Alaska....

It's beautiful there and the whole coast.