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 Phone posting so apologies in advance if it breaks tables or anything I'm not an expert but a totally unsecured load of stacked boxes being lifted and then just hanging out above an open sidewalk where commuters are coming and going? What could possibly go wrong?!?
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Dec 4, 2015 17:05
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Are the guys in the reflective vests not keeping people from walking under? Cause it looks like that's supposed to be their job.
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Dec 4, 2015 17:32
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It looks like the biggest lift EVER picking up a small building in the thumbnail.
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Dec 4, 2015 17:55
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30 Goddamned Dicks posted:
There's a grand total of two people on the sidewalk in this picture and both of them are clear of the lifting. It's a still picture, so you don't know if it moved there before or after, so I'm not seeing the actual danger yet. Also it's blurry as hell so who knows what's being lifted or how it's secured, if at all.
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Dec 4, 2015 18:13
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also you have bad breath and look weird
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Dec 4, 2015 18:28
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Delivery McGee posted:That happened in a grocery store I used to work at once. It was the aisle with the deodorant on it. A can of Axe broke on impact, took off like a rocket, and barely missed hitting a cashier in the head. That would have made a local reporters month: "Local woman survives Axe to the head"
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Dec 4, 2015 19:36
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Cheez posted:There's a grand total of two people on the sidewalk in this picture and both of them are clear of the lifting. It's a still picture, so you don't know if it moved there before or after, so I'm not seeing the actual danger yet. Also it's blurry as hell so who knows what's being lifted or how it's secured, if at all. Yeah they're clear of the lifting because they'd just walked under it. I guess the guys with flags were supposed to stop people from waking under it but they definitely weren't doing their jobs if that was the case. Jokes on me though, I walked under it and now I'm dead and posting from OSHA purgatory.
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Dec 4, 2015 20:35
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Let me go back to the part where I said you don't actually know if they moved it to that point before or after they went past that spot.
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Dec 4, 2015 20:47
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Beer here: http://i.imgur.com/b8CXN1Y.gifv
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Dec 4, 2015 20:55
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Grey Fox posted:Beer here: As with so many of these, I have to wonder: What did they think would happen? The pallet would levitate?
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Dec 4, 2015 20:59
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:As with so many of these, I have to wonder: What did they think would happen? The pallet would levitate? I'd like to think it was inset too far for the forklift (see screen left) to reach. Im thinking they thought they could shimmy it closer to the edge and then pull the hand cart out. Obviously that stopping part to switch to the fork truck never happened.
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Dec 4, 2015 21:09
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Sockington posted:I'd like to think it was inset too far for the forklift (see screen left) to reach. Im thinking they thought they could shimmy it closer to the edge and then pull the hand cart out. Obviously that stopping part to switch to the fork truck never happened. Ah, that makes sense. It never had a chance to work because of where the wheels are on the pallet jack, but it makes sense.
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Dec 4, 2015 21:13
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I love the one guy's little stomp of frustration at the end.
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Dec 4, 2015 21:15
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:As with so many of these, I have to wonder: What did they think would happen? The pallet would levitate? The palette is sideways, so i guess the wheels of the pallet truck got stuck. Maybe that is the only way to get two palettes in this truck, so they were pulling it forward to use the fork lift after that. Edit: late post is late
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Dec 4, 2015 21:18
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Cheez posted:Let me go back to the part where I said you don't actually know if they moved it to that point before or after they went past that spot. I don't think you're getting that he took that photo himself, and is giving a first-person account of what was happening in the scene.
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Dec 4, 2015 22:46
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Leperflesh posted:I don't think you're getting that he took that photo himself, and is giving a first-person account of what was happening in the scene. Then I would be wrong. I'm used to people posting pictures they didn't take and probably missed that.
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Dec 4, 2015 23:21
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Sirotan posted:One of the reasons I really enjoy watching Air Crash Investigation and urge other people to as well is it actually made me feel safer about flying. I'm definitely in this weird camp as well, watching ACI/Mayday and reading NTSB incident reports pretty much make you realize that the chain of failures leading to any event is pretty massive. I'm still angry that none of the airlines let you listen to ATC anymore. That was my favorite thing as a kid.
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Dec 5, 2015 00:10
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Sirotan posted:Ran out of fuel at 30k feet? No worries, you can glide it to a landing strip. Ah yes, the Gimli Glider. Canada was converting to metric at the time, and someone hosed up the math and underfueled the plane. Landed safely at a dragstrip. It has a Mayday/Air Crash Investigation episode Season 5, Episode 2.
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Dec 5, 2015 01:55
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o8MDCIlOEk So this was sold to hospitals.
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Dec 5, 2015 02:10
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OSI bean dip posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o8MDCIlOEk 
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Dec 5, 2015 03:54
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30 Goddamned Dicks posted:
I had this sort of crane deliver a load of shingles onto my roof. One of the guys rode the load of shingles up to the roof so that they didn't have to get out a ladder. American efficiency 
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Dec 5, 2015 04:23
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Sockington posted:I'd like to think it was inset too far for the forklift (see screen left) to reach. Im thinking they thought they could shimmy it closer to the edge and then pull the hand cart out. Obviously that stopping part to switch to the fork truck never happened. Unless it was impossible for some reason, that's why you just get the forklift forks in as far as you can, lift the pallet like half an inch and slide it towards the door. Do this several times if necessary. XYZ posted:Ah yes, the Gimli Glider. Canada was converting to metric at the time, and someone hosed up the math and underfueled the plane. Landed safely at a dragstrip. It has a Mayday/Air Crash Investigation episode Season 5, Episode 2. I saw the made for TV movie when I was a teenager. The best part is that the movie starts out with what looks like the Gimli Glider incident except the pilots crash the plane and it's revealed to be taking place in a simulator. The pilots are like "That's impossible! No one could survive that!". And the instructor's like "One crew did.  ".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_from_the_Sky:_Flight_174 Edmund Sparkler fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Dec 5, 2015 |
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Dec 5, 2015 04:48
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OSI bean dip posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o8MDCIlOEk I think the battery is my favourite part, but it might be everything else.
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Dec 5, 2015 05:17
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FIRST TIME posted:Unless it was impossible for some reason, that's why you just get the forklift forks in as far as you can, lift the pallet like half an inch and slide it towards the door. Do this several times if necessary. seriously. It's like they never had to get creative with the forks. Pallet jacks aren't light, hell of a lot more work the way they tried to do it.
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Dec 5, 2015 05:31
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FIRST TIME posted:I saw the made for TV movie when I was a teenager. The best part is that the movie starts out with what looks like the Gimli Glider incident except the pilots crash the plane and it's revealed to be taking place in a simulator. The pilots are like "That's impossible! No one could survive that!". And the instructor's like "One crew did. Trivia item: the instructor who says that it really happened was played by the actual Gimli Glider pilot
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Dec 5, 2015 09:21
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DiHK posted:seriously. It's like they never had to get creative with the forks. Pallet jacks aren't light, hell of a lot more work the way they tried to do it. Maybe put a little wrap on the pallet and it wouldnt fall apart like that anyway. Takes 3 seconds to cut off.
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Dec 5, 2015 11:35
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My favorite air (near) disaster story is still United 232. No hydraulics, flying the drat thing by purely adjusting the throttle, and they managed to get it down almost safely - 185 survivors out of 296 aboard. Hell of a thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M9TQs-fQR0
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Dec 5, 2015 11:49
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Planes are absurdly safe to the point that if a plane crashes it's almost universally pilot or crew error over actual mechanical failure. And that's why never fly by any budget Asian airlines because their pilots are not particularly well trained and the planes are not particularly well maintained. Same with Russian airlines.
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Dec 5, 2015 12:50
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Drone_Fragger posted:Planes are absurdly safe to the point that if a plane crashes it's almost universally pilot or crew error over actual mechanical failure. And that's why never fly by any budget Asian airlines because their pilots are not particularly well trained and the planes are not particularly well maintained. Same with Russian airlines. What could possibly go wrong when you fly with Aeroflop
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Dec 5, 2015 17:10
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Drone_Fragger posted:Planes are absurdly safe to the point that if a plane crashes it's almost universally pilot or crew error over actual mechanical failure. And that's why never fly by any budget Asian airlines because their pilots are not particularly well trained and the planes are not particularly well maintained. Same with Russian airlines. Never fly Spirit Airlines in the US. When I worked travel insurance, they are the only carrier with multiple "Something fell off the plane in midflight" calls I got.
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Dec 5, 2015 17:37
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Drone_Fragger posted:Planes are absurdly safe to the point that if a plane crashes it's almost universally pilot or crew error over actual mechanical failure. And that's why never fly by any budget Asian airlines because their pilots are not particularly well trained and the planes are not particularly well maintained. Same with Russian airlines.   I'm astonished we don't have a BestKorea smiley.
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Dec 5, 2015 18:02
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A pic from a skilled trades member FB group.
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Dec 5, 2015 18:18
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Dec 5, 2015 18:22
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MrYenko posted:
Hilariously, Juche air is banned from all European airspace except for their latest planes (russian Tu-204s, lol) because they're the only planes that meet the safety standards of "not likely to crash into a town on takeoff". If you want to fly by a good airline, fly Singapore airlines. Their planes are excellently maintained, their pilots know their poo poo and they've been rated in the top 5 airlines for like the last 20 years. Also, they'll give you all the free booze you ask for on international flights provided you don't look drunk so if you can't sleep on planes because of your jet phobia just get hammered and pass out 
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Dec 5, 2015 19:58
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62-uWAsu9DI
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Dec 5, 2015 22:44
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MrYenko posted:
Be the change you want to see.
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Dec 5, 2015 23:33
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Kind of reminds me of this. 
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Dec 5, 2015 23:40
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Kenlon posted:My favorite air (near) disaster story is still United 232. No hydraulics, flying the drat thing by purely adjusting the throttle, and they managed to get it down almost safely - 185 survivors out of 296 aboard. Hell of a thing. I was trying to figure out why this story seemed familiar and turned out I knew it from a Netflix thing recently. Denny Fitch's account of this is amazing with detail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Victor_Romeo#Accidents_and_incidents
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Dec 6, 2015 00:06
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Drone_Fragger posted:If you want to fly by a good airline, fly Singapore airlines. Their planes are excellently maintained, their pilots know their poo poo and they've been rated in the top 5 airlines for like the last 20 years. Also, they'll give you all the free booze you ask for on international flights provided you don't look drunk so if you can't sleep on planes because of your jet phobia just get hammered and pass out Yeah, Sinapore Airlines are excellent. So are Thai Airways - best drat inflight food I've ever had. I thought every airline does free booze, though, if you're not flying on a budget line?
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Kenlon posted:My favorite air (near) disaster story is still United 232. No hydraulics, flying the drat thing by purely adjusting the throttle, and they managed to get it down almost safely - 185 survivors out of 296 aboard. Hell of a thing. Apparently after the accident they kept recreating the conditions in a simulator and in every single simulation they couldn't even get within like 5 miles of an airport which means there was always zero survivors.
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