OSHA: definitely bent in the straight places

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hunkrust: Sep 29, 2014; I got an MA in asking leading questions about how sexism isnt real, and regularly fail to grasp that other people have different experience than me or enjoy different things.
I also own multiple fedoras, to go with my leather dusters, and racist pin badges.

Nude posted:

Can confirm it broke my table. But I don't mind. Let me see if timg works.
http://i.imgur.com/ZjcXzaK.gifv
http://i.imgur.com/8iR01IB.gifv

Edit: Nope. No it doesn't.

drat on the second clip it looks like some guy was on the end of the first one that fell, unless I am imagining that

# ? Feb 25, 2016 16:01

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 12:30

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I imagine its the block and tackle

# ? Feb 25, 2016 16:02

Nude: Nov 16, 2014; I have no idea what I'm doing.

calvus posted:

drat on the second clip it looks like some guy was on the end of the first one that fell, unless I am imagining that

Luckily you are.

Vertikal News posted:

miraculously no one was hurt or injured.

# ? Feb 25, 2016 17:10

ruddiger: Jun 3, 2004

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

Construction worker not properly harnessed to a safety line. Unbelievably lucky, that jump to the bottom ledge was crazy.

# ? Feb 25, 2016 18:46

free basket of chips: Sep 7, 2012; by FactsAreUseless

Phone posting so sorry for errors and poo poo

Theres some OSHA rear end poo poo happening at work right now. One of the general managers told the guy who runs one of our plants that he could skip a safetly meeting yesterday so he could keep the plant running. This morning, one of our pallet elevators in the same plant broke down because they jury rigged a retarded brake for it. That broke and a 400 lbs steel pallet was left dangling 2 stories up and all the products were lost. Now there are 5 dudes working on fixing it and one of them is just a forklift driver with no formal training and none of the machines theyre working on have been deenergized. Our master electrician is throwing a fit and going to hr. Congress passed a law saying that osha fines can scale with inflation now so it could cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars if they don't shape up. Meanwhile, I'm quality so I don't have to do poo poo except wait for them to fix it so I get to lean back in my chair all day.

# ? Feb 26, 2016 14:33

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

/\/\/\Holy poo poo, mate.

I don't know if this counts because I have no idea what I' looking at.

# ? Feb 26, 2016 14:52

Germstore: Oct 17, 2012; A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time

I'm pretty sure that's a Decepticon.

# ? Feb 26, 2016 14:55

Hot Karl Marx: Mar 16, 2009; Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

a hot babe with a rich ceo?

or the monument to liebherr made of two cranes and the base to a larger crane?

# ? Feb 26, 2016 14:55

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Now I remember the name. It's the company that did this:

# ? Feb 26, 2016 14:58

Hot Karl Marx: Mar 16, 2009; Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

http://www.mammoet.com/

these guys have 2 yards near where I often work so I see their very large cranes and counter weights get moved around.

it still amazes me how mobile some of their absolutely massive cranes are

# ? Feb 26, 2016 15:23

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m00Sk0XBcTY

# ? Feb 26, 2016 16:55

Beve Stuscemi: Jun 6, 2001

I used to work at the worlds shadiest lumber yard. I worked it over a summer during college, and they gave me no formal fork lift training other than "here's what the levers do, don't break anything".

Now that might be fine if these were somewhat normal forklifts, but they weren't, they were massive machines with 3-speed manual transmissions (clutch included!) that were capable of 25+ mph and contained GM 3.8L V6 engines running propane.

They were fun, but man, looking back, that was dangerous.

This is also the same yard that made me do deliveries in a semi truck (complete with piggyback forklift, making it even longer than a normal semi) with no experience beyond "I can drive stick" and no cdl. I actually refused to do deliveries after a couple times because I never felt safe. The first time I took it anywhere I couldn't figure out how to shut it off because I didn't know you had to choke the motor to stop it.

After that I did smaller deliveries in the Chevy stake truck

OSHA :psypop:

# ? Feb 26, 2016 17:33

Mithaldu: Sep 25, 2007; Let's cuddle.

I think this may count as OSHA: https://www.facebook.com/131376260352637/videos/585409658282626/

# ? Feb 26, 2016 17:57

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

Mithaldu posted:

I think this may count as OSHA: https://www.facebook.com/131376260352637/videos/585409658282626/

'Escape from the Planet of the Apes' remake looking good

# ? Feb 26, 2016 18:15

Hot Karl Marx: Mar 16, 2009; Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

Mithaldu posted:

I think this may count as OSHA: https://www.facebook.com/131376260352637/videos/585409658282626/

Sad he is coming back, he has taken a lot of amazing photos from the space station

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# ? Feb 26, 2016 18:17

Cannon_Fodder: Jul 17, 2007; "Hey, where did Steve go?"
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I got through page 1 of this thread before I realized I didn't take joy from watching people hurt themselves, potentially seriously.

# ? Feb 26, 2016 18:24

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

twoday posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m00Sk0XBcTY

I'm gonna pretend that these are all high paid stock brokers and hedge fund managers.

# ? Feb 26, 2016 18:32

Hollow Talk: Feb 2, 2014

Cannon_Fodder posted:

I got through page 1 of this thread before I realized I didn't take joy from watching people hurt themselves, potentially seriously.

Did you post on page 6 after reading to the end because you enjoy watching people hurt other people, potentially seriously?

# ? Feb 26, 2016 18:59

FalloutGod: Dec 14, 2006

twoday posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m00Sk0XBcTY

HOLY gently caress MY GABAGOOL gently caress HOLY poo poo HOLY poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5fmz5XdGq4

# ? Feb 26, 2016 19:00

Rockman Reserve: Oct 2, 2007; "Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

Cannon_Fodder posted:

I got through page 1 of this thread before I realized I didn't take joy from watching people hurt themselves, potentially seriously.

Thank u and God bless for sharing this valuable insight

# ? Feb 26, 2016 19:24

H110Hawk: Dec 28, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-vUeAXjQTw&t=595s

(Make sure you're around 9:30 in to start, you'll know when you're past the interesting part.)

H110Hawk fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Feb 26, 2016

# ? Feb 26, 2016 19:33

Mithaldu: Sep 25, 2007; Let's cuddle.

For those who don't care to watch them futz around for 15 minutes, they try some bullshit, like battery shorting and lenses (a real lense works, surprise surprise (a lense made of piss in a bag doesn't)), then mix brake fluid and chlorine to get the money shot.

# ? Feb 26, 2016 20:17

Edmund Sparkler: Jul 4, 2003; For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are peris

Gorilla Salad posted:

/\/\/\Holy poo poo, mate.

I don't know if this counts because I have no idea what I' looking at.

I'm assuming that the trucks lower for transporting the thing so the treads don't tear the poo poo out of the pavement?

# ? Feb 26, 2016 20:33

Edmund Sparkler: Jul 4, 2003; For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are peris

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

I used to work at the worlds shadiest lumber yard. I worked it over a summer during college, and they gave me no formal fork lift training other than "here's what the levers do, don't break anything".

Now that might be fine if these were somewhat normal forklifts, but they weren't, they were massive machines with 3-speed manual transmissions (clutch included!) that were capable of 25+ mph and contained GM 3.8L V6 engines running propane.

They were fun, but man, looking back, that was dangerous.

I consider myself a pretty good forklift driver and decent with a stick shift in a car but the thought of combining those two things sounds like it would require a good amount of multi-tasking.

# ? Feb 26, 2016 20:36

Mithaldu: Sep 25, 2007; Let's cuddle.

FIRST TIME posted:

I'm assuming that the trucks lower for transporting the thing so the treads don't tear the poo poo out of the pavement?

Pretty sure that's an advertisement stunt and/or "art piece".

# ? Feb 26, 2016 20:39

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

FIRST TIME posted:

I'm assuming that the trucks lower for transporting the thing so the treads don't tear the poo poo out of the pavement?

I think it is more of a, "Look what our cranes can do" sort of thing.

Similar to these events!

# ? Feb 26, 2016 20:39

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

FIRST TIME posted:

I'm assuming that the trucks lower for transporting the thing so the treads don't tear the poo poo out of the pavement?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMMmS2wNJ08

quote:

Now look at this! The Liebherr experts show their skills: two mobile cranes LTM 1750-9.1 are mounted on the body of an LR 11000 crawler crane, and they are turning around of course. Looks like a beast from the Transformers movie!

So it's two of these:

Mounted on the body of one of these:

Here's a video of that multi-crane stunt photo Gorilla Salad posted earlier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBj38Hyg6JY

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Feb 26, 2016

# ? Feb 26, 2016 20:47

H110Hawk: Dec 28, 2006

Mithaldu posted:

For those who don't care to watch them futz around for 15 minutes, they try some bullshit, like battery shorting and lenses (a real lense works, surprise surprise (a lense made of piss in a bag doesn't)), then mix brake fluid and chlorine to get the money shot.

Welp. I pasted it in at the right point. Thanks. It's 9 minutes and change in.

# ? Feb 26, 2016 21:07

Mithaldu: Sep 25, 2007; Let's cuddle.

H110Hawk posted:

Welp. I pasted it in at the right point. Thanks. It's 9 minutes and change in.

Ah, sorry. Didn't notice, because my first step was to copy the url to watch it in another browser.

# ? Feb 26, 2016 21:08

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# ? Feb 26, 2016 21:13

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

Spanish Manlove posted:

He's got his tag so he's good to go

# ? Feb 26, 2016 21:14

Beve Stuscemi: Jun 6, 2001

FIRST TIME posted:

I consider myself a pretty good forklift driver and decent with a stick shift in a car but the thought of combining those two things sounds like it would require a good amount of multi-tasking.

Yeah it was a steep learning curve. One of the first jobs they had me do was unload 20ft bundles of treated lumber off an enclosed train car, which involved going up and down an incline with like the heaviest lumber load you can have.

Any time you were on an incline it was a nightmare to work the forks and keep the thing where you wanted it with the brake and the clutch. I got really good at holding the clutch, and heel-toeing the brake and throttle because of course the idle was set too low for them to lift more than 10lbs at idle speed.

# ? Feb 27, 2016 01:28

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Yeah it was a steep learning curve. One of the first jobs they had me do was unload 20ft bundles of treated lumber off an enclosed train car, which involved going up and down an incline with like the heaviest lumber load you can have.

Any time you were on an incline it was a nightmare to work the forks and keep the thing where you wanted it with the brake and the clutch. I got really good at holding the clutch, and heel-toeing the brake and throttle because of course the idle was set too low for them to lift more than 10lbs at idle speed.

The first summer I worked at the lumber yard they had me take a pallet and a half of shingles down the street and lift them up to the roof of a 2 storey house. This was an older house, so the first floor had 10' ceilings. I got as close as I could and lifted the load straight up. The guy on the roof then wanted me to tilt the load forwards to it was easier to reach. I told them I was afraid that I would put a hole through the house roof as it would move too fast. The roofer and the owner said it was ok, and the owner of the lumber yard confirmed over the phone that I could do it. I literally pushed forwards on the lever to tilt the load forwards with the edges of my two thumbs to that I could let the lever spring loose with the least amount of reaction time. I moved the lever all the way until there was resistance with the hydraulic mechanism, then continued at a fraction of a mm at a time. When it engaged the load sprung ahead 3' and the back tires of the forklift leapt a few inches off the ground. The roofer said I missed hitting the roof by a margin he couldn't even see.

In retrospect, I should have just told the lumber yard owner to do it himself.

# ? Feb 27, 2016 02:34

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48UyQtYYuUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfBp2QYOIbc

I imagine a widowmaker from a redwood would be similar to this. Just a faint swooshing noise and then the sound of it landing.

# ? Feb 27, 2016 10:30

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# ? Feb 27, 2016 12:58

EoRaptor: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy

Celebrating 88 years of OSHA

# ? Feb 28, 2016 02:26

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

H110Hawk posted:

I never know if table breaking is still bannable.

When I was in college I briefly worked the nightshift at an absolutely massive Johnson & Johnson's warehouse, driving one of those little stand up forklifts. Even the little ones have a massive amount of weight and power behind them. Looking back on it it seems almost criminal that they'd let total retard temp agency hires run one after 8 hours of safety training.

These were electric so they had these massive 1200 pound batteries that you had to swap in and out. They also had a battery disconnect mounted prominently on an exterior side. During the three or so weeks I worked there someone "pranked" another employee by swatting the battery disconnect while he was driving by him at 15 mph. This has the effect of making the forklift unbrakeable (by the normal method, you could still engage the emergency brake (a deadman's pedal) but the regular method of braking was basically just pulling back on the joystick, i.e. running the electric motor in reverse). Guy forgot about the emergency brake and plowed into the side of a 40' high three story rack full of tampons, at 13 mph. It was loving amazing.

Any time you had "metal on metal" contact (i.e. running into something accidentally) you were supposed to report it, but I, like everyone else, would just get out, rub some grease on the fresh metal scar, and pretend like it never happened.

It was the best job I've ever had.

# ? Feb 28, 2016 02:47