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Say Nothing posted:From pyf schadenfreude thread. Woah. I've heard of a couple of cases where trees did weird crap like that and people ended up getting killed.
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Say Nothing posted:From pyf schadenfreude thread. barberchairs can kill you really easily that guy's super lucky https://youtu.be/EKzvkRnCF58
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Sammus posted:Apparently everything people wore in the 50s was super flammable, think of all the new polyester clothes that had just been invented. Couple that with zero safety standards and you pretty much get spontaneous combustion. During my HVAC design internship, where we primarily focused on office space, I was told that fires are much less common in this era due to a lack of indoor smoking. My boss objected to the complexity of fire code, as it was written in that era and is excessive by today's frequency of fire. Specifically, baffles in the air ducts which lock when the alarm is triggered. I trust his judgement but it feels backwards to reduce fire safety protections. Another interesting anecdote, buildings 10 stories and taller pressurize the stairwells during a fire alarm to reduce smoke, but too much pressure and you'll lock the doors shut!
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Why wouldn't they just copy the Apollo program after the fire and make the door open outwards?
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Why wouldn't they just copy the Apollo program after the fire and make the door open outwards? i guess, if blast furnace human bbq is your thing
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Then you couldn't get in. Edit: I'm wrong. Looks like code requires doors to open out for exits: http://idighardware.com/2012/10/door-swing-and-encroachment/ GI Joe jobs fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Jun 29, 2016 |
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Jun 29, 2016 02:38
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exit doors open outward. makes sense if you think about it.
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Sammus posted:Apparently everything people wore in the 50s was super flammable, think of all the new polyester clothes that had just been invented. Couple that with zero safety standards and you pretty much get spontaneous combustion. they also used to use gasoline at home for dry cleaning. and often this happened in the kitchen. people also used to fall asleep with a cigarette and set themselves on fire. today cigarettes self-extinguish, and that's also why there are no more cases of "spontaneous human combustion" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMku2mhrDeo sinekumquat fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Jun 29, 2016 |
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Jun 29, 2016 03:44
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Verdafolio posted:they also used to use gasoline at home for dry cleaning. and often this happened in the kitchen. Hopefully Trump will make america great again.
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Gullous posted:Then you couldn't get in.
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In panic/disaster situations you basically have to design things for animals. Humans lose all ability to open doors, read signs, or not crush each other in situations like that. It's actually called "panic hardware" on doors so it's just a big old push bar so that if there's any sort of force on the door, including someone too panicked to open the door, a crowd of people pushing would fairly quickly pop the door open. And all it takes is a minor violation of this sort of code to kill many many people. A single landlord sick of people going out the back door to smoke, or worried about hobos breaking in the back door and installing a deadbolt can be all it takes. "It's just a deadbolt, people can flick it open to get out" they think. Next thing you know there's a pile of dead people there because the first person who came to the door took more than 2 seconds to open it and everyone behind them went into a trample frenzy and they all died from heat and smoke.
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Baronjutter posted:Next thing you know there's a pile of dead people there because the first person who came to the door took more than 2 seconds to open it and everyone behind them went into a trample frenzy and they all died from heat and smoke. station_nightclub.txt Also, I apologize about getting all spergy on the flood safety; I got swept away by a wave of memories, so I just began to pour my advice out in a stream of consciousness. Wasabi the J fucked around with this message at 13:14 on Jun 29, 2016 |
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nozh posted:barberchairs can kill you really easily that guy's super lucky Why "barberchair"?
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Lincoln posted:Why "barberchair"? quote:Barber Chair 
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Jun 29, 2016 13:39
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I thought it was because the half of the tree these falls first appears to lift up and then recline like a barber prepping for a shave
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Wasabi the J posted:Also, I apologize about getting all spergy on the flood safety; I got swept away by a wave of memories, so I just began to pour my advice out in a stream of consciousness. Boooooooooooooooooooo
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Wasabi the J posted:station_nightclub.txt That's cheating 
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EKDS5k posted:Stairwell doors on the 2nd and up floors open into the stairwell so the people on those floors can get to the stairs, and the doors on the ground floor open out of the stairwell, so all the people coming down the stairs can get out. Basically it's designed so that wherever the people are, they can get out by panicking and running blindly into doors. So I think what Gullous is saying is that too much pressure in the stairwell means people will have a hard time getting to the stairs, because the doors will be pushed shut. Yeah, that requirement exists because of an incident where a bunch of kids burned to death in a school fire in part because the doors opened inwards. In the crush of people trying to get out, they couldn't swing the doors back, so they were trapped.
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Say Nothing posted:From pyf schadenfreude thread. That tree tried it's hardest to kill him. If he survived than I bet his life turned Final Destination really quick. Death will not be cheated.
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Jun 29, 2016 18:26
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nozh posted:barberchairs can kill you really easily that guy's super lucky This led me to the fantastic video of someone dropping a perfectly good massive tree directly in the spot you may not want it to go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvyDZ8n8FLM Poor tree.
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dietcokefiend posted:This led me to the fantastic video of someone dropping a perfectly good massive tree directly in the spot you may not want it to go Fixed the link for you.
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dietcokefiend posted:This led me to the fantastic video of someone dropping a perfectly good massive tree directly in the spot you may not want it to go Farmers Insurance agent: gently caress no we don't cover that. Bum-Barum-BumBumBumBum!
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Jun 29, 2016 20:02
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hahaha "My house!"
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I wish the video was closer to the action because I don't know how you gently caress up your cuts so bad that that happens
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nozh posted:I wish the video was closer to the action because I don't know how you gently caress up your cuts so bad that that happens From the description: quote:My neighbor told me they were going to have their tree professionally dropped, and wanted to know if I needed any of my trees dropped - I replied "no, I only drop dangerous trees". I then asked if they were going to limb it up before they drop it because it has a lot of back weight, to which he replied "yep". You can imagine my surprise when I returned home and saw they were over 95% committed, with the limbs still on and no ropes. Apparently the tree was back heavy but they didn't trim it first? And they didn't bother to use any ropes or anything to help guide the tree.
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They basically felled that tree with 10% axe and 90% thoughts and prayers, with predictable results.
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nozh posted:barberchairs can kill you really easily that guy's super lucky That's so much a barberchair as a complete failure of the internal structure of that tree.
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dietcokefiend posted:This led me to the fantastic video of someone dropping a perfectly good massive tree directly in the spot you may not want it to go lmao at the guy casually scratching his head and putting his hands on his hips after annihilating the home
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Moist von Lipwig posted:hahaha "My house!" "My bedroom!"
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Honestly the best part is that pathetic little axe throw when he realizes what he's done.
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Facebook Aunt posted:From the description: Okay, now it's really hilarious. To be fair I wouldn't be anywhere near it either, that's a big tree with an idiot cutting it down.
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Jun 30, 2016 04:11
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Why was he using an axe anyway?
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The Lone Badger posted:Why was he using an axe anyway? He's not actually chopping the tree with an axe... The normal way you fell a tree is by cutting out a v-shape on the side you want it to fall towards, then you cut out a slot on the reverse side, and then you hammer some wedges into the slot to tip the tree over.
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Zahgaegun posted:that's a big tree with an idiot cutting it down. Luckily for our viewing pleasure there's a whoooole bunch of youtube videos about idiots cutting down trees and loving up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A38tbdu6ugk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbu0kI4Dty4 Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Jun 30, 2016 |
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Jabor posted:He's not actually chopping the tree with an axe... Ah OK. I've always dropped it with the reverse-side cut itself. But then I've only done easy trees.
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I may not know how to fall a tree, but I think now I know how not to fall a tree.
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Always check that a water tank is empty before you lift it with a crane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm2ihqpb70o
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I would laugh at that guy's reaction, but yeah, pretty sure I'd do the exact same thing.
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