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Sigourney Cheevos posted:Inflatable boats don't have permanent mounting for the outboard so you can take it off and deflate the boat. Whomever installed it last did not ensure it was tight enough. Don’t you usually have a safety chain as well? so even if the mount fails like that it still doesn’t sink down to the deep.
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Ak Gara posted:Plus in the summer you can walk back to the shore. Be aware, though, that it catches alight in the spring.
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Varkk posted:Don’t you usually have a safety chain as well? so even if the mount fails like that it still doesn’t sink down to the deep. No, having a steel blender gyrating around the transom is unwise. The cord she's left with appears to be a deadman switch in case she falls overboard. I will be very surprised if they even attempt to retrieve it. Many years ago, a Johnson 175 belonging to one of my Dad's friends fell off the back of their tri-hull as they were motoring down a residential canal in his neighborhood in Stone Harbor, NJ. As big as it was, it took his son three weeks to find it . The canal wasn't 60-feet wide. Apparently, the motor kept running for a bit & it spun on down a ways. It was found about 75-yards from where it fell off - which was right by their back yard.
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PainterofCrap posted:No, having a steel blender gyrating around the transom is unwise. The trick is to not screw up. Check the mounts. They're just hand tightened. Hand tight works fine, just go easy. If you lose the motor, unless you can snag it with an anchor and a fish finder, good luck. You'll fail, but you can try. I've seen it work once. That was in 14 feet of water. In 400 feet it's not happening. You never have retention a chain on it. It'll just pull off the mount and go down. If it doesn't pull off the mount, it'll swamp you over the stern and then you lose the boat too and you're sitting 15 miles out in cold rear end water. You have oars for a reason on light craft. You'll live that way. Just don't lose the motor. Pay attention, keep an eye on it. Those motors are heavy as crap and they're hard to lose. If you're worried, about it, you can add additional support but, if you need it, you need to ease up on how you're piloting. I was a dock boy for a summer. We lost one motor. It was the other dock boy that swamped the boat. It was literally the fault of the pelicans. They pecked him enough that he swamped the boat to get away from them. We did retain the motor and boat but the motor was running when it swamped so it hydro-locked. Broke the crack. Not repairable. Moral of the story, screw pelicans. They bite. gulls bite too, but, oddly enough, pelicans hurt more when they bite you. Both really like fish guts and they won't wait. I used to hook the gunnel on the gut raft so that I wouldn't swamp while getting bit. The other guy didn't. He ended up in the water with fish guts and had to swim back 300 yards, get a different boat, and tow back the dock boat that was swamped with a ruined engine. Boss was cool about it. It was a $500 motor but we just made a joke about it. He was always cool when you screwed up. He was a good man. I hope he's still around. I haven't talked to him in over 20 years. He'd be about 80 now.
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gently caress SNEEP posted:my family had a lovely motor boat when I was growing up that broke down every other time we took it out on the water. turns out most boaters are very happy to help you out and tow you if you're stuck! and we didn't even have any cute women on board.. Didn't you have any oars? Had a small boat with a little outboarded and it broke down (seaweed clogged the coolant intake) and we where 3-4km from home. Good workout.
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Spatial posted:
"Why do I have to wear my steel-toed boots for this just because regs say so? I can't imagine ever needing them in this situation." "How about we just assume every single OSHA reg is written in blood(because they are, if they say you need the boots for this, someone lost a toe or a foot doing this without them) and follow them to be on the safe side?" "But if I don't do this task unsafely, I can't do it/can't do it in time, and my boss told me to!" "That's his problem, not yours, now get the gently caress down while we figure out a way to do this that doesn't involve you balancing on a 45-degree angled slope while braced against a lift a meter and a half off the ground." "Aw but I just needed to get up to the top shelf once! I didn't want to waste time getting a ladder/lift!" "So you just decided to climb up the shelving units, huh. Get the gently caress down." I also had to bollock a middle manager the other day for using the prongs of his forklift instead of getting a loving stepladder. Jesus loving Christ. And I'm not even the loving safety rep.
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But how can this part fail?
It doesn't really matter how. We have to assume it can fail and check it as a matter of course.
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spookykid posted:No. NO. motorcycle
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Kith posted:motorcycle car
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Platystemon posted:Person, woman, man, camera, TV what if ...road?
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Potrzebie posted:what if ...road? I guess I'll be angry at topheavy SUVs. Are we done now?
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No, we must know the rest of the story: https://signalscv.com/2018/08/car-kicking-biker-pleads-no-contest/
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mostlygray posted:
I'll say I learned something from this post about boats. Learning how savage pelicans are was a bonus.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:No, we must know the rest of the story: car! truck!!!!! lawsuit!!!!!!!! I'm glad that everyone more or less made it out okay. That could've been a lot worse.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:No, we must know the rest of the story: I love that , the car driver 'lost control' after trying to kill the motorcyclist. Hell of a kick that bikers got on him clearly.
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It just goes to show the plasticity of human brains. When you're driving, you view an attack on your car as an attack on your person, since by virtue of controlling the car, your sense of self extends to the car as well. It's sort of similar to that trick where they have you place you hand behind a screen and have a fake hand in front of the screen. The person then brushes the fingers of the hand (fake and real) in the same way for a while. Then takes out a hammer and smashes the fake hand. Even though you know logically it's fake, you retract your real hand as a response.
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DelphiAegis posted:It just goes to show the plasticity of human brains. When you're driving, you view an attack on your car as an attack on your person, since by virtue of controlling the car, your sense of self extends to the car as well. The way I see it is that cars break the part of your brain that recognizes things as people and unconsciously forces you to act sociably.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:The way I see it is that cars break the part of your brain that recognizes things as people and unconsciously forces you to act sociably. Also true! But then again, many people are assholes with no regard for others, too. 'merica 
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mostlygray posted:The trick is to not screw up. What a strange trick
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His Divine Shadow posted:Didn't you have any oars? Had a small boat with a little outboarded and it broke down (seaweed clogged the coolant intake) and we where 3-4km from home. Good workout. yeah we had oars, or maybe just one. one time my dad got out and swam while towing the boat (jack lalanne style) towards shore until a boat came across us. this was all in the Puget Sound so we were never more than a mile away from shore.
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Aramoro posted:I love that , the car driver 'lost control' after trying to kill the motorcyclist. Hell of a kick that bikers got on him clearly. They learned from the best https://i.imgur.com/1Zfourb.mp4
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The obvious culprit is society. (This is my hard hat.) 
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mostlygray posted:The trick is to not screw up. Check the mounts. They're just hand tightened. Hand tight works fine, just go easy. If you lose the motor, unless you can snag it with an anchor and a fish finder, good luck. You'll fail, but you can try. I've seen it work once. That was in 14 feet of water. In 400 feet it's not happening. You never have retention a chain on it. It'll just pull off the mount and go down. If it doesn't pull off the mount, it'll swamp you over the stern and then you lose the boat too and you're sitting 15 miles out in cold rear end water. You have oars for a reason on light craft. You'll live that way. Years and years ago I was getting life guard certified at a boy scout camp. The instructor lost his glasses in about 15ft of muddy lake water with 0 visibility. I would swim to the bottom, let my breath out, then lay down and make a mud angel on the lake floor. Then I'd scoot my rear end over and repeat until I had to come up for air. On the second trip my leg brushed against the glasses and was able to retrieve them. I've also found an ancient outboard somebody lost will rooting around by a dock. Had to swim down and attach a rope to haul it up.
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Is that warehouse refrigerated? Because those moves were fresh as gently caress.
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I'd much rather be hit by the leather whip.
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