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ReelBigLizard
Feb 27, 2003

Fallen Rib

Synthbuttrange posted:

Looks like he got the ol' spicy kitchen.

News sources now saying it was his own brother, Dominic who placed the can in the fryer. That rat.

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Three-Phase
Aug 5, 2006

by zen death robot

Facebook Aunt posted:

OMG, do you have to practice it as part of the training? And is this filmed? I want to see a bunch of burly construction guys bunny hopping.

Well this is just one (right at the end of the video):
https://youtu.be/Xvlk_73bSvc

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Now make it out of tungsten, put it in an inert atmosphere, electrically heat it, and sell it as a curio.

Ak Gara
Jul 29, 2005

That's just the way he rolls.
Having exposed powerlines in innercities and suburbs sounds like a REALLY bad idea. In the UK they're almost always underground.

IPCRESS
May 27, 2012

Ak Gara posted:

Having exposed powerlines in innercities and suburbs sounds like a REALLY bad idea. In the UK they're almost always underground.

It's actually better, from every respect except aesthetic, to have them above ground. More thermal headroom, lower cost of maintenance, (ironically) better resistance to lightning, less groundwater I&I, and more parking opportunities for highly-strung sports cars driven by people with no business driving highly-strung sports cars.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Three-Phase posted:

I need to test on a 500kVA transformer secondary at 600V. Arc flash level is very very high so I am going to be taking significant additional precautions.

Hottest test I ever witnessed was a phase rotation check on 14,000V gear.

EDIT: checked my math I think it's actually around 800kVA. 800 amps, 600 volts, root 3... I think the impedance is 6% and you use that to calculate the short circuit current...

Arc Flash stuff is no drat joke!

I used to film Industrial and Mining Corporate videos, ranging from puff-piece 'synergy' style, OSHA/Work Procedure and Site Familiarisation.

The Arc Flash one was a hoot to film as we had to simulate what happens when some poor sap gets hit. A lot of 'don't do what Donny Dont does' type stuff. I was getting a shot for the back end of a panel room to get the 'actor' (some poor fucker who works at the site who doesn't look busy) and they somehow tripped all the breakers in the room on me. Scared the gently caress out of me!

I've posted before in response to the 'poo poo poo poo' dragline boom video posted a few pages ago - I was there that day behind that camera operator.

There's a whole lot of stuff I've seen during that 5 or so year period full of our version of OSHA violations. A lot of jobs consisted of filming monthly at big contruction projects to show the fatcats how things are progressing. Man didn't people scurry away when they saw us coming along - anything not up to code was reported on the spot, had to be fixed then and there or the crew and in some cases - the contractor was banned.

A funny one was during a wide pan of an area I spot movement in the middle of a tailings pond of a coal mine. After I get the shot I realise the movement in the background is some fucker standing on the far side in a pair of budgie smugglers, a snorkel and casting a fishing line.

A rumour I heard while scouting a coal port was a story of a monkey that a ship captain owned getting free, jumping onto a shiploader and running up the conveyor to the shore and up into one of the towers where some poor bastard was working alone at night and jumped on his back scaring the poo poo out of him (I want to believe in this story so much).

I really should catch up with some of our old crew if only to remember more things we encountered and if any footage in our personal archives could be dug up.

Pingiivi
Mar 26, 2010

Straight into the iris!
New protips from Kreosan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxBHqc8dVZ0

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

IPCRESS posted:

It's actually better, from every respect except aesthetic, to have them above ground. More thermal headroom, lower cost of maintenance, (ironically) better resistance to lightning, less groundwater I&I, and more parking opportunities for highly-strung sports cars driven by people with no business driving highly-strung sports cars.

What about the part where the above ground lines fall over in a light breeze? You don't have to worry (mostly) about power outages with buried power lines, that strikes me as better.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


I haven't really seen the phenomenon of power lines falling over in as light breeze.

Guy Axlerod
Dec 29, 2008
I came out to find a wire hanging low from the telephone poles, like 2 feet off the ground. Perfect for clotheslining someone if they tried driving through.

Called the power company, they were out within 45 minutes. They called me to say there was nothing to do because it was a phone company problem. Called the phone company, they showed up the next day. They called in the power company to bring in a bucket truck to get it out of the way. :rolleyes:

Explosionface
May 30, 2011

We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.


Al Borland Corp. posted:

I haven't really seen the phenomenon of power lines falling over in as light breeze.

Yeah, the poles are anchored in really well while the lines themselves are steel and give no fucks.

Mindless
Dec 7, 2001

WANTED: INFO on Mindless. Anything! Everything! Send to
Pillbug
Can confirm light breeze outages in rural Ohio

Explosionface
May 30, 2011

We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.


I have had a problem with a hot falling on the neutral once and slowly destroying appliances all over the house, but that was more just line termination fail than overhead line fail.

Explosionface fucked around with this message at 16:44 on May 17, 2017

The Hambulance
Apr 19, 2011

:20bux:

ASK ME ABOUT MY AWESOME STARTUP IDEA


Pillbug

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

What else are you going to do in a warzone?

I think these are probably some of the safer things they do.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Al Borland Corp. posted:

I haven't really seen the phenomenon of power lines falling over in as light breeze.

That's an exaggeration, but a strong thunderstorm or blizzard will cause power outages when power lines aren't buried. That's enough of an advantage right there to do so.

Forer
Jan 18, 2010

"How do I get rid of these nasty roaches?!"

Easy, just burn your house down.

"PRO TIP, You can defeat a padlock by first removing the battery from your car, then hauling it over to the padlock and using jumpers to melt the lock! This is infinitely easier than boltcutters or a hacksaw or shimming because it takes ten seconds of high current high temperature mess! Nobody will suspect what happened!"

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

Every time there's wind in my city there's power outages due to our stupid above-ground power lines. It also helps that we're like #2 in the world for street-trees and most of those street trees are huge old sickly oaks and poo poo that are legally protected so they just prune holes through the canopy for the lines to run.

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa
Welcome to Finland

Problem:


Remedy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pxa93RxjvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLf1s62bDiQ
:finland::finland::finland:

Nenonen fucked around with this message at 18:58 on May 17, 2017

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

That's an exaggeration, but a strong thunderstorm or blizzard will cause power outages when power lines aren't buried. That's enough of an advantage right there to do so.
Compared to an idiot with a post hole digger or a construction project who didn't pay attention to underground maps.

Darkman Fanpage
Jul 4, 2012

o fug

Darkman Fanpage fucked around with this message at 19:24 on May 17, 2017

MF_James
May 8, 2008
I CANNOT HANDLE BEING CALLED OUT ON MY DUMBASS OPINIONS ABOUT ANTI-VIRUS AND SECURITY. I REALLY LIKE TO THINK THAT I KNOW THINGS HERE

INSTEAD I AM GOING TO WHINE ABOUT IT IN OTHER THREADS SO MY OPINION CAN FEEL VALIDATED IN AN ECHO CHAMBER I LIKE

I dunno I live in chicago, we get horrible rain, horrible snow and strong winds, never have power problems, almost seems like sometimes when you install poo poo infrastructure you get poo poo results. Not saying Chicago's infra is amazing or anything, but it stands up to wind/snow/rain.

PittTheElder
Feb 13, 2012

:geno: Yes, it's like a lava lamp.


I love that that's easier than putting the wires in a big pipe.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

PittTheElder posted:

I love that that's easier than putting the wires in a big pipe.

Trees: a lot
Ditches in the forest: not that many

e: (The idea being you can make poles out of trees.)

jamal
Apr 15, 2003

I'll set the building on fire
This happened near jackson hole this winter

Pharmaskittle
Dec 17, 2007

arf arf put the money in the fuckin bag


Yawgmoth
Sep 10, 2003

This post is cursed!

MF_James posted:

I dunno I live in chicago, we get horrible rain, horrible snow and strong winds, never have power problems, almost seems like sometimes when you install poo poo infrastructure you get poo poo results. Not saying Chicago's infra is amazing or anything, but it stands up to wind/snow/rain.
Same but minneapolis. The last time I remember us losing power was when we had a storm so bad it was causing major flooding and ripping trees up by the roots, so I can't really blame the power lines for not staying up.

PittTheElder
Feb 13, 2012

:geno: Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

Jerry Cotton posted:

Trees: a lot
Ditches in the forest: not that many

e: (The idea being you can make poles out of trees.)

You don't even have to bury the pipe if you don't want to. Do something like the Trans-Alaskan pipeline, but way cheaper because you don't need to be maintaining high-pressure seals or anything.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

IPCRESS posted:

It's actually better, from every respect except aesthetic, to have them above ground. More thermal headroom, lower cost of maintenance, (ironically) better resistance to lightning, less groundwater I&I, and more parking opportunities for highly-strung sports cars driven by people with no business driving highly-strung sports cars.

In America we have trees

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

PittTheElder posted:

I love that that's easier than putting the wires in a big pipe.

In urban centres the wires go underground but in the grand scale, over millions of kilometers of rural powerlines that would be totally impractical. Hence rural areas suffer power outs all the time during storms and blizzards while I have never personally experienced a power out in a city. Sure the cables can get cut by diggers, but it seldom affects many households and will be fixed briefly. In the rural areas a big storm can cut power from thousands of households and fixing the problem takes time but the lowly peasant accepts his lot.

Yawgmoth
Sep 10, 2003

This post is cursed!

shame on an IGA posted:

In America we have trees
not for long

TrustmeImLegit
Jan 14, 2017

by FactsAreUseless

Yawgmoth posted:

not for long

What makes you say that?

Yawgmoth
Sep 10, 2003

This post is cursed!

TrustmeImLegit posted:

What makes you say that?
Everything trump and the GOP are doing to gently caress up the EPA and the environment in general.

Cocaine Bear
Nov 4, 2011

ACAB

Plus they don't do well in nuclear winter.


Any day now!

Greatest Living Man
Jul 22, 2005

ask President Obama

lmao

RyokoTK
Feb 12, 2012

I am cool.

C'est ne pas une hot-dog

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

From the gif thread.
http://i.imgur.com/FWp7fz2.mp4

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof

RyokoTK posted:

C'est ne pas une hot-dog

ceci n'est pas un post.

Over There
Jun 28, 2013

by Azathoth

I see they've begun production of the AT-AT

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Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Over There posted:

I see they've begun production of the AT-AT

more like FAT-FAT

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