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JB50
Feb 13, 2008

Collateral Damage posted:

Tell me more about the explosive-powered tools.





I have a concrete nailer that uses .22 blanks too.

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theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

drat, that’s the Cadillac of nail guns

Ak Gara
Jul 29, 2005

That's just the way he rolls.

theflyingexecutive posted:

drat, that’s the Cadillac of nail guns

You mean Lexus, right?

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

Collateral Damage posted:

Tell me more about the explosive-powered tools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_UuImPL4E

Nenonen
Oct 22, 2009

Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

wolrah posted:

Australia

then shouldn't it be like ㄥᄅ8Ɩ Ɩϛㄥ9 ?

Tumble
Jun 24, 2003
I'm not thinking of anything!

man with The Wire i'm like teenager with a porno, it does not take much to get me in the mood to rewatch it

GotLag
Jul 17, 2005

食べちゃダメだよ

Nenonen posted:

then shouldn't it be like ㄥᄅ8Ɩ Ɩϛㄥ9 ?

Actually, no! You see, "up" and "down" are relative to gravity, which pulls towards the centre of the earth. So, in Australia, "up" is still towards the sky, and "down" towards the ground.

Pretty cool, huh?

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos

GotLag posted:

Actually, no! You see, "up" and "down" are relative to gravity, which pulls towards the centre of the earth. So, in Australia, "up" is still towards the sky, and "down" towards the ground.

Pretty cool, huh?
This sounds like some relativist bullshit. Next thing you're going to tell me is that there is elevated work where its safer not to be harnessed.

Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

GotLag posted:

Actually, no! You see, "up" and "down" are relative to gravity, which pulls towards the centre of the earth. So, in Australia, "up" is still towards the sky, and "down" towards the ground.

Pretty cool, huh?

If that was true why would Koala bears be so angry all the time and hold on to trees for their life?

GotLag
Jul 17, 2005

食べちゃダメだよ

Carbon dioxide posted:

If that was true why would Koala bears be so angry all the time and hold on to trees for their life?

So they don't fall to the ground, you idiot :rolleyes:

Farmdizzle
May 26, 2009

Hagel satan
Grimey Drawer

Carbon dioxide posted:

If that was true why would Koala bears be so angry all the time and hold on to trees for their life?

If it wasn't true, drop bears wouldn't exist.

QED

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

Arrhythmia
Jul 22, 2011

Boy howdy does trying to get out of the car seem like an EXTRA level of futile here.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

He's just after some free fire.

Sammus
Nov 30, 2005

Would it be possible to accelerate and drive away from the fire, or once your car is engulfed will your engine die due to lack of available O2?

Tumble
Jun 24, 2003
I'm not thinking of anything!

Sammus posted:

Would it be possible to accelerate and drive away from the fire, or once your car is engulfed will your engine die due to lack of available O2?

It could die, but if the fire just started it may not have burned all the oxygen yet. You'd want to be hard as gently caress on the gas too, if the oxygen is lower the engine could run worse.

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

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

Yikes

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


I've posted this before, but it seems appropriate to repost:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ-fBgzwikA

ChesterJT
Dec 28, 2003

Mounty Pumper's Flying Circus

theflyingexecutive posted:

I fuckin hate circling the joke, it’s so much worse when the circle is lovely

Mo_Steel
Mar 7, 2008

Let's Clock Into The Sunset Together

Fun Shoe

FuturePastNow posted:

I've posted this before, but it seems appropriate to repost:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ-fBgzwikA

Two things:
1. Just Cause 2 is a fun video game which this video approximates.
2. The person recording this is waaaaay closer than I would be, especially when you see some of those canisters become rocket-propelled wrecking balls.
3. If I see a driver go sprinting away from the vehicle they just crashed at full speed I'm doing the same.

Mo_Steel fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Feb 19, 2018

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

GotLag posted:

So, in Australia, "up" is still towards the sky, and "down" towards the ground.

As an Australian I can 100% verify this is false.

Probably just wants any of you northern hemisphere "upper toppers" who decided to come down here for a visit to totally noob out, and totally fall into the sky after forgetting to hang onto something upon leaving the plane.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
https://i.imgur.com/95cKCeC.mp4

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
Oh deer.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006


https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/601/

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
Did it hit the car on the right?

Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.

Nice Skyrim mod

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF32DRg9opA

DiggityDoink
Dec 9, 2007

I did this to a deer in my first car. It was an 80's volvo though so all it did was break the headlight cause those things are loving brick shithouses.

mllaneza
Apr 28, 2007

Veteran, Bermuda Triangle Expeditionary Force, 1993-1952




Mo_Steel posted:

Two things:
1. Just Cause 2 is a fun video game which this video approximates.
2. The person recording this is waaaaay closer than I would be, especially when you see some of those canisters become rocket-propelled wrecking balls.
3. If I see a driver go sprinting away from the vehicle they just crashed at full speed I'm doing the same.

Did someone say "propane gas containers" ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsRgtaS70WA&t=47s

Embedding disabled, start at 0:47

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

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


Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Please tell me this is real

Don't Ask
Nov 28, 2002

So a crane collapsed yesterday:



Unfortunately the woman in the car was killed.

The crane was manufactured in 1984 - is that normal for this kind of equipment?

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos
A crane's most natural state is fallen down which they try to manage by making anything underneath no-go and anything around essential people only.

sharkytm
Oct 9, 2003

Ba

By

Sharkytm doot doo do doot do doo


Fallen Rib

Don't Ask posted:

So a crane collapsed yesterday:



Unfortunately the woman in the car was killed.

The crane was manufactured in 1984 - is that normal for this kind of equipment?

Oh yeah, with proper maintenance, they CAN last 50+ years. I've worked on/around cranes from the 60s.

Guyver
Dec 5, 2006

The old friction cranes were built like literal tanks. You can abuse the poo poo out of them and as long as you replace the friction pads, linkage pins, cable and keep the rust down they'll run near forever. Until you wear through a pin and the boom falls to the ground.

They're easier to work on then hydraulic cranes too. Replacing the piston seals on an extension cylinder in an 85 ton crane is the biggest pain in the rear end. I'd rather spend all day hammering on frozen linkage pins then do that.

ssb
Feb 16, 2006

WOULD YOU ACCOMPANY ME ON A BRISK WALK? I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH YOU!!


Herman the German is still going strong 75+ years after being built.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Don't Ask posted:

So a crane collapsed yesterday:



Unfortunately the woman in the car was killed.

The crane was manufactured in 1984 - is that normal for this kind of equipment?

Those lattice booms are made up of multiple sections that are pinned together, which is why it fractured and bent like that. There's two possible ways I could see that happening:

1. The boom was overloaded and at least one connection between boom sections broke, causing the whole thing to collapse.

2. It's an old friction crane rather than hydraulic, and the operator didn't brake while booming down and caused it to go into free fall.

In both cases, the fact that the boom is segmented caused it to bend and break under stress until parts are landing at a 90 degree angle from the crane.

Free Drinks
Dec 16, 2006

Oh, my God; I care so little, I almost passed out.

DiggityDoink posted:

I did this to a deer in my first car. It was an 80's volvo though so all it did was break the headlight cause those things are loving brick shithouses.

One time driving to work on the freeway I just happened to look in my rear-view mirror to see a deer jump out in front of a semi. It exploded in the weirdest way, the legs and head just flew away like they were Poochie going home and the torso looked like it turned inside out.

It was surreal seeing a animal not quite vaporize and probably ruin that truckers day.

Deteriorata
Feb 6, 2005

Free Drinks posted:

One time driving to work on the freeway I just happened to look in my rear-view mirror to see a deer jump out in front of a semi. It exploded in the weirdest way, the legs and head just flew away like they were Poochie going home and the torso looked like it turned inside out.

It was surreal seeing a animal not quite vaporize and probably ruin that truckers day.

My son encountered a deer in the road once. He panic braked and managed to stop just in front of it. Then it freaked out and jumped straight into his car anyway, denting the front fender.

Stupid fuckers.

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Warm und Fuzzy
Jun 20, 2006

Don't Ask posted:

So a crane collapsed yesterday:



Unfortunately the woman in the car was killed.

The crane was manufactured in 1984 - is that normal for this kind of equipment?

Crane Collapse Season in New York City officially begins Feb. 15, so keep your eyes on the sky!

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