Guess what the Big Ass Fans corporation manufactures?

Andy Nonymous

#1 – 4:16 PM March 27, 2009

i've seen one in action:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/drauh/3323959671/

Dillenger69

#2 – 4:26 PM March 27, 2009

Big-ass Fans?
or
Big Ass-fans?

LarryD

#3 – 6:17 PM March 27, 2009

Our local TaeKwonDo school has one of these... it moves a lot of air at a lower speed and only requires the single fan. Incidentally, they've put duct tape over the Ass so it's just a Big *** Fan now. :)

LarryD

#4 – 6:24 PM March 27, 2009

Found some photos and saw that it was actually a school sticker placed on the fan.

http://www.hockmansata.com/Picture%20008.jpg
http://www.hockmansata.com/Picture%20005.jpg
http://www.hockmansata.com/Picture%20019.jpg

w000t

#5 – 7:01 PM March 27, 2009

The Georgia Theatre in Athens, Ga now has a seriously enormous fan. I'm just guessing, but I'd say it's almost 25ft in diameter. It's simultaneously very cool and a little bit frightening even far overhead.

alowishus

#6 – 7:47 PM March 27, 2009

Joel, you prolly just boosted BAF sales by a few percentage points. I'd ask for commission. Or a free BAF of your own . . . think of the possibilities!

bkofford

#7 – 8:10 PM March 27, 2009

These things are neat, until you have to go into a warehouse and install a bunch of access points in a ceiling full of them. Even when you aren't running the network cable near enough to them to justify turning them off, they're still extremely freaky when you are 30 ft up in a moving scissors lift, and the blades are silently sidling by.

Have you ever been sitting at a stoplight, and the cars on either side of you start to inch forward, and you catch it out of your peripheral vision, and for one split second you think your car is actually rolling backwards and you're about to hit the car behind you?

It's kinda like that, only about 20 times worse, and instead of it lasting a split second, it starts every time you start moving and doesn't stop until you do.

There's just something about the scale of the thing. I don't mind being a foot or two from one of those normal sized large fans that are ridiculously noisy and spin about 100 miles an hour, but these Big Ass Fans crepe me out even when I'm 10 feet away, possibly because they are so quiet.

absolutetrust

#8 – 8:43 PM March 27, 2009

Joel, the Ikea in Portland has a BAF if you want to see one in person. It's hypnotic.

elisd

#9 – 12:00 AM March 28, 2009

I briefly went to a gym that had one of these. When I signed up the desk agent showed me around. "And this," she said, "is our big-ass fan."
"Why yes. It certainly is," I replied, not seeing the label. "Huge."

arikol

#10 – 4:47 AM March 28, 2009

I....WANT...ONE...

This will be THE thing in the post-apocalyptic future we are all waiting for.
Blade Runner, here I come!

roboton

#11 – 7:45 AM March 28, 2009

We have these in the lobby where I work.

They are nice...very nice. (to be read to yourself in Borat's voice)

Brandon West

#12 – 8:41 AM March 28, 2009

I want one powered by a wind turbine

ScottMcG

#13 – 9:52 AM March 28, 2009

The Curacao airport has these - I saw the label when I looked up and thought it was great. Awesome fans...they look very impressive in motion.

I can't quite justify one at the house, but maybe I'll build one day...

morehumanthanhuman

#14 – 2:52 PM March 28, 2009

I've actually seen one of these in a Walmart. Yeah that's right in a Walmart, not for sale, but built into the ceiling in the outdoor area.

Anonymous Anonymous

#15 – 4:20 PM March 28, 2009

The Big Ass Fan headquarters is a brick building with an enormous donkey on the side. It is AMAZING.

Marshall

#16 – 8:00 AM March 29, 2009

They have these (and what must be scores of them, by the size of the place) at the new McMaster-Carr warehouse/distribution center in LA. Even though that the building is the most ginormous, cavernous space I've ever been in, they still look massive in it.

General Specific

#17 – 4:54 AM March 30, 2009

I recently moved away from Lexington, KY (where these guys are based) and I used to drive past their building all the time. It's nice to see them here.

Anonymous Anonymous

#18 – 8:14 AM March 30, 2009

Ben Hill Griffin Stadium ("The Swamp") where the UF Gators play has Big Ass Fans installed in the interior.

dole

#19 – 8:58 AM March 30, 2009

Driving by the Big Ass Fans billboard in my city (St. Louis, westbound on 64/40 past Scottrade Center
towards the currently closed portion) is always good for a chuckle.

Oren Beck

#20 – 9:05 AM March 30, 2009

Such fans, if applied with some care can be very energy effective. That heat being up near the top of a room does you no good in winter. And in summer pulling cold air up from the floor by helping room circulation is another good thing. Also the air mixing prevents "dead air pockets" of undiluted indoor air pollutions. One such example being indoor smokers where still permitted, and another being the ozone from laser print/copy devices. Diluted to lower per unit area levels most indoor air quality affecting stuff becomes "less of an issue." And big fans are a cheap mitigation tool.

Anonymous Anonymous

#21 – 12:12 PM March 30, 2009

Hi,
Farmtek carries a similar product, w/ up to a 24 foot diameter

http://www.farmtek.com/farm/supplies/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10052&storeId=10001&langId=-1&division=FarmTek&productId=341974

( I don't work for Farmtek, just think they're cool)

rschndr

#22 – 12:32 PM March 30, 2009

I thought that this would be like that big ass pinata on Family Guy once. But no, it's not. Not really. Well, but sort of.

Anonymous Anonymous

#23 – 1:08 PM March 30, 2009

once you're aware of them, you'll see them everywhere...i've seen them in four or five states now, and counting - everything from warehouses converted into dining and shops to music venues.

Scrap

#24 – 2:10 PM March 30, 2009

The Mascot is a donkey, i have a rubber one. I'll post pictures later

Architexas

#25 – 3:09 PM March 30, 2009

I've seen a couple of them used in private residences (wastefully large McMansions, unfortunately). They're great for sheltered "outdoor entertaining spaces" because they lower the apparent air temperature (vs. actual temperature) by a few degrees, which is nice in sweltering Texas :)

Anonymous Anonymous

#26 – 5:53 AM March 31, 2009

Thanks for all the kind words about Big Ass Fans everyone! Nice post, Joel. Hopefully you got in touch with someone in our sales department.

While our fans work well in airplane hangars and warehouses, as ArchiTexas and others have noted, we also offer fans for commercial and residential spaces. You can find out more about all of our fans at our website, where you can also get more specifics about our fans' energy saving possibilities.

Jessica
Big Ass Fans

flytch

#27 – 9:33 AM March 31, 2009

Ada Oklahoma... the local stake house has one over it's bar... fills the whole room, wall to wall... makes the space seem more interesting...

dragondm

#28 – 10:21 AM March 31, 2009

Heh, the internet hosting company I work for has one of these in the company headquarters (a converted shopping mall). It's about 20' in diameter and circulates the air between two floors of some office space that was once a bigbox store, seriously helping with the cooling costs, etc. The HQ conversion got a bunch of green energy-saver certifications for stuff like this.

Anonymous Anonymous

#29 – 7:38 PM July 25, 2009

How much do these fans cost?