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Groda: Mar 17, 2005; Hair Elf

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

Even weirder

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/the-heck-tiger-gets-loose-in-houston-neighborhood/amp/

Batterypowered7 posted:

https://www.khou.com/article/news/w...aa-56ecab682c28

Anyone got an EU-approved link?

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# ? Apr 29, 2024 18:47

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Always a huge debate at work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifyJjQXOttE

# ? May 11, 2021 12:47

Scratch Monkey: Oct 25, 2010; 👰Proč bychom se netě�ili🥰kdy� n�m P�n Bůh🙌🏻zdrav� d�💪?

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

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# ? May 11, 2021 12:56

LifeSunDeath: Jan 4, 2007; still gay rights and smoke weed every day

Humphreys posted:

Always a huge debate at work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifyJjQXOttE

LOL straps really are the original Bull Roarer.

# ? May 11, 2021 13:06

Sjs00: Jun 29, 2013; Yeah Baby Yeah !

I really needed to read the rat juice dumpster post again thanks!

# ? May 11, 2021 14:07

Invalid Validation: Jan 13, 2008

That is an amazing story to be able to tell.

# ? May 11, 2021 14:22

Jet Jaguar: Feb 12, 2006; Don't touch my bags if you please, Mr Customs Man.

I really wonder how they steer the wheels in the back. On firetrucks, there's a second driver.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTpZ5V4HrK4

# ? May 11, 2021 17:45

FogHelmut: Dec 18, 2003

PainterofCrap posted:

Come to south Jersey for the low-rent version (with sound)

https://i.imgur.com/jawmYyo.mp4

My dad just moved from Marlton Lakes to Audubon, which somehow has more turkeys despite the lack of forests.

# ? May 11, 2021 18:01

Pigsfeet on Rye: Oct 22, 2008; I'm meat on the hoof

Batterypowered7 posted:

Oldie but a goodie:
https://i.imgur.com/kuplW0m.mp4

Zeno's Crash Test

# ? May 11, 2021 18:03

DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

FogHelmut posted:

My dad just moved from Marlton Lakes to Audubon, which somehow has more turkeys despite the lack of forests.

I mean, if birds are gonna be anywhere it's gonna be in Audubon.

# ? May 11, 2021 18:15

Olewithmilk: Jun 30, 2006; What?

I like all the OSHA stories here and was watching The Fugitive that reminded me of the hypothetical train driver crash death story. Could so wine post it?

# ? May 11, 2021 18:33

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

Olewithmilk posted:

I like all the OSHA stories here and was watching The Fugitive that reminded me of the hypothetical train driver crash death story. Could so wine post it?

Oldie but goodie

B4Ctom1 posted:

Pretty much this. It is hard to explain not just the physics, but the amounts of forces involved.

We use throttle to create stretching or "draft" forces and dynamic braking (think of downhill engine braking in a car) to create bunching or "buff" forces.

To start with, when you are running the train, you are feathering the throttle or dynamic braking to keep "in train forces" at acceptable levels. This is based upon the terrain each part of the train is passing over.

Even small changes in grade, if there are enough of them under the length of the train, are enough to break knuckles, rip out draw bars, or derail cars simply by doing "nothing at all" at the wrong time.

In these situations heavier applications of power or dynamic brake are required to keep these "in train forces" down.

Think of a large sliced loaf of bread. I take the wrapper off of it and ask you to carry it across the room. One hand on each end should suffice. A small amount of pressure to keep the bread from being crushed and across the room you go.

The knuckle and drawbar connections between the cars seem very strong to the layman, but when compared to the amount of weight of loaded freight cars, and all of the cars behind them piled upon it, it may as well be dental floss.

You can break dental floss easily, but the difference is that it is hard to "crush" dental floss.

The poster I have quoted above is addressing something we call "train make up". THe "in train forces" can be additionally effected by the way cars or groups of cars are placed in the train. Long cars next to short cars, loads next to empties.

Generally freight trains that are not hauling a bulk of the same commodity are mixed freight. A bulk commodity train would be an entire train of wheat or coal. These trains are very heavy, and have their own set of problems, but in general do not have any issue of train make up because all of the cars are generally the same weight and type. Mixed freight trains are the most common types of trains on the main rail thoroughfares.

A mixed freight train I haul might have 25 heavy loaded lumber cars, 15 empty or loaded auto racks, 20 empty or loaded tank cars of various lengths, 30 empty or loaded covered hopper cars of various lengths, and 30 loaded or empty boxcars of two different lengths.

So for this example train of 120 cars. Lets say it weighs 7900 tons and is 9000 feet (2.75KM) long.

I am traveling along at 50 MPH.

The "head end" of the train has passed the bottom of the grade and the train is still descending the grade. As about half of the train leaves the grade I am looking ahead at the next grade to climb directly ahead. I have been using dynamic brake and need to "transition" from braking to power. I move the lever into the idle position and begin waiting my 10 seconds. In my my mind, from experience, I know that I need to rapidly, but gently begin notching through my power notches without allowing my train to accelerate past 50 MPH which I am restricted to.

The very head of the train is traveling around a slight curvature in the track. I also need to see that the next signal is green "clear" so that I do not have to formulate an entire other plan as a reduction of speed might be required instead. I see that the signal is flashing yellow "advanced approach". This will mean a reduction of speed to 40 MPH and a possible stop short of the second signal ahead.

As I am thinking of what I am to do next and waiting for the 10 seconds to pass, the next crossing becomes visible and I see that there is a truck hauling a low slung trailer with a heavy piece of equipment on it. He is blocking the crossing because his low slung trailer is stuck on the raised rail and crossing lumber that you drive across.

Without hesitation or further consideration, I slam the brake handle into the emergency position, dumping all the trainline air. I reach up and toggle the switch that ensures that the "End Of Train" device dumps from the rear as well. I bail off the locomotive air brakes because they are so powerful in a situation like this, that they can cause such a massive buff forces which will certainly derail a train. Additionally they can crumple or destroy the track beneath them.

While in earlier transition from dynamic braking to power "slack" had developed in the train. Slack is neither draft or buff, but more of a null position like rail cars standing in a yard not connected to a train. A developed space between cars where they are sort of relaxed.

As the air dumped from the train-line, the brake valves on each car sense this emergency and dump the full value of air contained within their emergency reservoir into the large cylinder that applies the brakes giving each car higher than usual stopping power.

Somewhere near the head end of the train a group of empty tank cars having such massive braking power begin to stop the train, but right behind them a group of heavy loaded hoppers presses against them, their own braking being less substantial. A tank car of Anhydrous Ammonia right between the groups which has been taking the brunt of these two opposing forces has a wheel that lifts off the rail as it is being pressed around a curve. This car, the car ahead of it, and nine of the loaded hopper cars behind it all leave the rail and head into a tiny quiet suburb in the middle of the night.

Half way back in the train where the most of the box cars are, they settle down for their stop. Still bunched because they were still descending the hill. The heavy loads of lumber fighting them as they come to a stop. Even though on straight track the, one end of an empty boxcar in the group begins to lift into the air. The opposing force of the heavy lumber cars and the stopping train ahead of it is too much. As it sets back down the wheels miss the track and begin to erase the track, all of the cars behind it having no track to ride on begin to take paths of their own in each direction.

Near the back of the train the auto-rack settle down hard. Harder than the group of heavy lumber cars ahead of them. This causes one of the long 500+ pound (230kg) draw-bars in the third auto-rack to be sheared from place. For a moment it tumbles through space, whistling though the wind in contact with only the air. Then it strikes a tie and the car passing above it in vaulted, only inches off of the rail, and a carload of new rangerovers tumbles end over end into a reservoir of drinking water.

The drawbar is angry, propelled by its last impact it drops onto the rail for a moment derailing a load of mini coopers, a load of corvettes, a load of ford diesel pickups, and a load of prius. The last of the autoracks ram into those derailed and the drawbar impales itself through the bottom of a boxcar piercing 20 cases of aged Glenfiddich.

Back on the locomotive, pressed forward by the loads behind, we cover the half mile to the stuck trailer in about 45 seconds. My conductor sees that the piece of equipment is a D9 Caterpillar bulldozer and screams like a woman as he jumps from his window at 35 mph. The fall from 15 feet in the air certainly would have killed him but instead he tumbled and struck feet first shattering his legs in 20 places and cartwheeling to his death as his head exploded when it struck the hard granite ballast some 20 times or so in the cartwheeling tumble. It takes 24 hours for them to find his body under crumpled boxcars.

I run out the back door to the second locomotive where I lay down in the cab. The impact at 35 mph is brutal. The second locomotive which I am on climbs under the front locomotive. The third locomotive does the same to mine. When the locomotive comes to a rest, is on its side, and both my arms are broken.

I drown, face down, in 200 gallons of brownish, blueish sewage from a chemical toilet long overdue for a cleaning. But my dignity is preserved because a fire from the combined 12,000 gallons (45.5 Kiloliters) of fuel burns for 3 days incinerating me and most of the locomotives completely.

The undocumented worker driving the truck with the wedged trailer disappears.

During the conductor's autopsy, trace amounts of THC from a brownie he consumed 3 weeks earlier while on vacation in Amsterdam are found to be the cause of the accident.

It was also noted in the government report that the cellphone of an engineer on a different train following ours was "on" at the time of our impact, and this may have contributed to the wreck.

# ? May 11, 2021 18:46

Fruits of the sea: Dec 1, 2010

Here's some nautical OSHA, starts around the 4 minute mark:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swSRYt0Vbv8

Highlights include:
Arguing with coworkers
Leaving a boat under power unattended
Pumping water out of one boat and into his own boat.
Leaving a boat under power unattended while pumping water into it :v:

E: it all ends ok, but that is one sketchy job

# ? May 11, 2021 19:42

Cartoon Man: Jan 31, 2004

https://i.imgur.com/puIAAm4.mp4

Kinda thought he might actually get out of that for a second.

# ? May 11, 2021 19:43

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

Losing it when they clearly start floating and they hit the brakes to stop going forward. I hope they didn't die in nature's terlet.

# ? May 11, 2021 19:47

Invalid Validation: Jan 13, 2008

Lasted longer than I thought.

# ? May 11, 2021 19:58

thekeeshman: Feb 21, 2007

I like how you can clearly see the dry land behind him in the beginning of the video and yet he drives right into the water. True BWM driver that guy.

# ? May 11, 2021 20:10

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qswtoc1ahZ1s1ddrj.mp4

# ? May 11, 2021 20:25

tactlessbastard: Feb 4, 2001; Godspeed, post; Fun Shoe

I had forkliftuckling trainer certification class yesterday and boy did that guy offer a bunch of unsolicited coronavirus opinions

# ? May 11, 2021 20:26

DelphiAegis: Jun 21, 2010

ekuNNN posted:

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qswtoc1ahZ1s1ddrj.mp4

Never would've happened if they had used an airframe parachute.

# ? May 11, 2021 20:28

haveblue: Aug 15, 2005; Toilet Rascal

Kind of that tree to gently place it on the ground

# ? May 11, 2021 20:34

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

DelphiAegis posted:

Never would've happened if they had used an airframe parachute.

or if they lowered the tree

# ? May 11, 2021 20:42

mom and dad fight a lot: Sep 21, 2006; If you count them all, this sentence has exactly seventy-two characters.

tactlessbastard posted:

I had forkliftuckling trainer certification class yesterday and boy did that guy offer a bunch of unsolicited coronavirus opinions

lol

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hawowanlawow: Jul 27, 2009

wow la dee da with the training classes, when I worked in a warehouse I just started driving one around until they gave me a cert

# ? May 11, 2021 20:54

boar guy: Jan 25, 2007

hawowanlawow posted:

wow la dee da with the training classes, when I worked in a warehouse I just started driving one around until they gave me a cert

worked at a garden center as a kid, they let me drive the forklift after i told them i knew how until i sunk a couple of the wheels in a gravel bed and it had to be craned out, whoops

# ? May 11, 2021 20:59

Son of Thunderbeast: Sep 21, 2002

When I was still doing industrial radiography I'd help out by using the forklift to take things out to the dumpster or load stuff (usually our cobalt source) into the truck. But I wasn't certified :negative:

Son of Thunderbeast fucked around with this message at 21:15 on May 11, 2021

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Invalid Validation: Jan 13, 2008

Sorry buddy, you just got retroactively OSHA fined.

# ? May 11, 2021 21:13

Son of Thunderbeast: Sep 21, 2002

Invalid Validation posted:

Sorry buddy, you just got retroactively OSHA fined.

harsh, but fair

# ? May 11, 2021 21:15

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

Invalid Validation posted:

Sorry buddy, you just got retroactively OSHA fined.

Wow, reading the regulations here and it looks like because of interest OSHA actually owes them $5 and a high five.

# ? May 11, 2021 21:15

Olewithmilk: Jun 30, 2006; What?

zedprime posted:

Oldie but goodie

Yes! Thank you!

# ? May 11, 2021 21:20

Diqnol: May 10, 2010

FogHelmut posted:

My dad just moved from Marlton Lakes to Audubon, which somehow has more turkeys despite the lack of forests.

Its that little creek that runs near nicholson, they all just hang out down there and torture everybody. I live near crystal lake and those fuckers are an every day occurrence.

# ? May 11, 2021 21:24

evil_bunnY: Apr 2, 2003

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

load stuff (usually our cobalt source) into the truck. But I wasn't certified

You what now

# ? May 11, 2021 21:35

Son of Thunderbeast: Sep 21, 2002

evil_bunnY posted:

You what now

I'd load our Co-60 camera into a truck for transport to the job site. I can't find any pictures of what our cameras looked like, but they were big heavy boxes (like, about 3.5'x2'x2' IIRC) that weighed several hundred pounds because of the shielding (using layers of lead, tungsten, & depleted uranium). We used a (again, IIRC) 3mm Co-60 source for our exposures, cranked out from one of those giant boxes.

This is the only pic I could find of a cobalt camera, it's quite a bit smaller than the one we used so maybe there's been some advances in shielding technology, or this uses a smaller source or something idk

# ? May 11, 2021 21:48

iwentdoodie: Apr 29, 2005; 🤗YOU'RE WELCOME🤗

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

I'd load our Co-60 camera into a truck for transport to the job site. I can't find any pictures of what our cameras looked like, but they were big heavy boxes (like, about 3.5'x2'x2' IIRC) that weighed several hundred pounds because of the shielding (using layers of lead, tungsten, & depleted uranium). We used a (again, IIRC) 3mm Co-60 source for our exposures, cranked out from one of those giant boxes.

This is the only pic I could find of a cobalt camera, it's quite a bit smaller than the one we used so maybe there's been some advances in shielding technology, or this uses a smaller source or something idk

Co60 cameras are loving giant.

Last place I worked our vault was originally built for Co60 and all we had was small Ir192 sources so it was a massive vault for this tiny little camera.

# ? May 11, 2021 21:58

TontoCorazon: Aug 18, 2007

ekuNNN posted:

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qswtoc1ahZ1s1ddrj.mp4

Jesus Christ! Stop giving Harrison Ford planes to gently caress with

# ? May 11, 2021 22:03

Cat Hatter: Oct 24, 2006; Hatters gonna hat.

Fruits of the sea posted:

Here's some nautical OSHA, starts around the 4 minute mark:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swSRYt0Vbv8

Highlights include:
Arguing with coworkers
Leaving a boat under power unattended
Pumping water out of one boat and into his own boat.
Leaving a boat under power unattended while pumping water into it

E: it all ends ok, but that is one sketchy job

I probably would have left almost that entire video on the cutting room floor, assuming I posted anything at all. Is there a diameter change preventing him from just putting what's left of the discharge hose back on with the hose clamp? Probably should have the pump and discharge hose permanently mounted as well. Having a third guy probably wouldn't be a terrible idea either.

# ? May 11, 2021 22:30

Son of Thunderbeast: Sep 21, 2002

iwentdoodie posted:

Co60 cameras are loving giant.

Last place I worked our vault was originally built for Co60 and all we had was small Ir192 sources so it was a massive vault for this tiny little camera.

That's pretty awesome! I bet it contained the radiation pretty nicely. Our vault was just barely good enough for most of the x-rays we did. After stacking some cinder blocks around the outside of it we exposure was cut down to 2 mR/hr with the survey meters pressed against the bricks lol

# ? May 11, 2021 22:31

devmd01: Mar 7, 2006; Elektronik
Supersonik

hawowanlawow posted:

wow la dee da with the training classes, when I worked in a warehouse I just started driving one around until they gave me a cert

My first job out of college was an IT tech for a retail company deploying new stores/maintaining APs, cameras, etc. No training or anything, and my first job I got sent out to replace an AP.

�Here�s the United rentals number to get a scissor lift delivered and our account to charge it to. Have fun!�

The only time I caused an issue was getting a 40ft scissor lift into a store because the ceiling was stupid high, and managed to knock the sliding glass door off its tracks.

It wasn�t until many years later at a different job that anyone gave a poo poo about certs, PPE, or whatever, and that was only because I was driving a 40ft boom lift inside the warehouse and the head of HR managed to walk by right then. Cmon man, I clearly knew what the gently caress I was doing.

# ? May 12, 2021 00:16

monolithburger: Sep 7, 2011

ekuNNN posted:

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qswtoc1ahZ1s1ddrj.mp4

haveblue posted:

Kind of that tree to gently place it on the ground

I've heard of sticking the landing, but this is ridiculous! :rimshot:

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# ? Apr 29, 2024 18:47

Computer viking: May 30, 2011; Now with less breakage.

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

That's pretty awesome! I bet it contained the radiation pretty nicely. Our vault was just barely good enough for most of the x-rays we did. After stacking some cinder blocks around the outside of it we exposure was cut down to 2 mR/hr with the survey meters pressed against the bricks lol

I vaguely remember one of the "new hospital building" updates at work being really proud of how they'd managed to stack another layer of lead into the radiation bunkers (for cancer treatment), letting them use the new more powerful accelerators safely. I've never been down there, but if I had to guess they are ever so slightly cramped now.

# ? May 12, 2021 01:02

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