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chrisgt posted:Those things are great, but holy poo poo, wear safety GOGGLES when using it. I've been through dozens of blades on those things landscaping. If you let it run up to full speed and take a good swing, you can cut down a 2" softwood tree in a split second. Steel toed boots and goggles are a must, though. After I had debris fly under my regular safety glasses and hit my eyebrow I dropped the tool and drove to the store for proper PPE. How do those things *not* break and just fly into your unprotected shin?
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goatsestretchgoals posted:highly toxic it's lead you retard!!! You know the stuff that a lot of older city water mains are made out of the stuff that was common in water lines and homes up to the 70s the stuff that any older building is painted in!!!! highly toxic try again retard!!! lead is mildly toxic at best! OSHA: mildly toxic at best!
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Slotducks posted:How do those things *not* break and just fly into your unprotected shin? The ones I've used have a beefy reinforced gearbox, a lot more skookum than your average string trimmer. The blades are also designed for the purpose, you don't just bolt a dado on there and hope for the best. Based on the guard being plastic and so far away, the one in the pictures looks pretty suspect... Looks like someone bolted a skill saw blade to their string trimmer. The proper ones have a metal guard almost half way around the blade so if it does frag you don't lose your shins.
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Groda posted:The early nuclear weapons programs left us with a huge quantity of potentially radioactive asbestos (especially the nuclear rocket program, funny that). They've even invented a euphemistic term for it, mixed waste. It's terrible to hear perfectly good dirty bomb material go to waste.
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chrisgt posted:Looks like someone bolted a skill saw blade to their string trimmer.
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Guyver posted:I've done this. And it worked great for clearing over grown hedges too, for all of five minutes when it hit a particularly hard branch and it bucked. After which I decided it was an incredibly bad idea went inside and got a machete. How did you attach the machete to the trimmer?
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Nenonen posted:How did you attach the machete to the trimmer? Like any self respecting Canadian would. Duct Tape. If the women don't find you handsome...
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Nenonen posted:How did you attach the machete to the trimmer? Is this a pitch for Jörg Sprave's next video?
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Nenonen posted:How did you attach the machete to the trimmer? You don't, you bolt it to your rotary scythe  
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Nenonen posted:How did you attach the machete to the trimmer? Would two or four work better in a trimmer powered machete? I'm thinking four wouldn't give it enough time between contact to get up to speed to be effective. Three might work.
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Guyver posted:I've done this. And it worked great for clearing over grown hedges too, for all of five minutes when it hit a particularly hard branch and it bucked. After which I decided it was an incredibly bad idea went inside and got a machete. You learn two things using it long enough. First, how to avoid kickbacks like that. Second, how to stay out of the path of the kickback. I've done a lot of jobs where someone didn't mow a section of their lawn for 10 years and suddenly they want it to be lawn again. It's an extremely useful tool for that. So is a backhoe, but that's not always practical...
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chrisgt posted:The ones I've used have a beefy reinforced gearbox, a lot more skookum than your average string trimmer. The blades are also designed for the purpose, you don't just bolt a dado on there and hope for the best. A lot more Grandmother than your average string trimmer? What?
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He's imitating the speech patterns of AvE, a Canadian youtube guy who talks about tools
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goatsestretchgoals posted:highly toxic it's lead you retard!!! You know the stuff that a lot of older city water mains are made out of the stuff that was common in water lines and homes up to the 70s the stuff that any older building is painted in!!!! highly toxic try again retard!!! lead is mildly toxic at best! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead-crime_hypothesis
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Sagebrush posted:He's imitating the speech patterns of AvE, a Canadian youtube guy who talks about tools I've used that word since before I knew about AvE, but yes, it means "study as gently caress". I learned of words such as "skookum" and "choocher", plus many others when I lived in Newfoundland in 2003.
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I learned about skookum from Borderlands 2, where weapons can roll it as a perk.
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spankmeister posted:Yeah skookum is a well-established canadian word afaik. Being Canadian, albeit at the other end of the country, I've literally only heard Skookum used by Native peoples to refer to their grandmother.
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A visit to my hometown prompted me to look up a nearby bridge i remembered. It's a railway bridge over the Missouri, pictured here:  What you can't quite see is that because there weren't all that many ways to cross the river in the area, in 1925 they added a plank roadway and allowed cars to use it while it was still quite active as a Great Northern railroad. You'd drive up an access road and then point your car straight down the middle of it and just go for it. All the way up to 1985. quote:Although a long bridge with one-way traffic and shared with railroad trains should have been spectacularly hazardous, a 1981 study found that it was "so dangerous that it [was] safe" because drivers were extraordinarily cautious when crossing it. More info, for the bridge-curious. https://www.johnweeks.com/river_missouri/pages/mt_mo_01.html
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spankmeister posted:Yeah skookum is a well-established canadian word afaik. Mostly in the NW apparently - borrowed from Chinook. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skookum
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The Something Awful Forums > Main > GBS: Home of xenForo 2.0 > OSHA: a 1981 study found that it was "so dangerous that it was safe"
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Pablo Bluth posted:There's an interesring hypothesis that the removal of lead from petrol (sorry gasoline) is a contributing factor in falling crime rates. I can't wait to see what China's millenials get up to. Edit: Seriously though, is anyone here read up on lead exposure and the various neurological and psychological symptoms induced? Because I may know 30 million people or so who may have been exposed to high lead levels and are showing signs of lowered impulse control, paranoia, diminished cognition, and a loss of empathy, and I'm a bit worried something might be going on! Fasdar fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Mar 5, 2018 |
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chrisgt posted:I've used that word since before I knew about AvE, but yes, it means "study as gently caress". I learned of words such as "skookum" and "choocher", plus many others when I lived in Newfoundland in 2003. that guy has gotten my whole little crew in SE texas using weird Canadian slang, haven't gotten to the point of throwing "wa" onto the end of all my sentences though.
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chrisgt posted:Those things are great, but holy poo poo, wear safety GOGGLES when using it. I always use a combined faceshield/earmuffs thingy. And sturdy trousers. If there's any gravel nearby it will be flung at your shins with considerable velocity.
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The Lone Badger posted:I always use a combined faceshield/earmuffs thingy. yeah I've got a pair of chainsaw chaps I use for doing
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a kitten posted:A visit to my hometown prompted me to look up a nearby bridge i remembered. Lmao
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Fasdar posted:I can't wait to see what China's millenials get up to. I've been exposed to lead in the past and now I'm an idiot rear end in a top hat so it's extremely plausible. IMO. but I can't be sure it was the lead, it could have been many other continuous bad life choices I made for several years around that time. Iirc when the adult body finds itself with lead most forms are deposited in bone and it takes 30 years to get liberated and excreted. Chelation doesn't work unless you are acutely exposed because to rectify chronic exposure you'd have to dissolve loving bones. It's substantially worse for kids, brutally terribly worse. I'd be interested to see if there's also a black mold hypothesis. I remember looking that poo poo up and I guess it causes pretty extreme RNA damage, especially in nerve cells. I don't know how actually accurate any of this is but it's my current understanding.
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So the BTR ran the light here, right? Or do flashing green lights mean something else in Russia? Either way, I feel like the driver that got hit will be the one held responsible.
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Detective Thompson posted:So the BTR ran the light here, right? Or do flashing green lights mean something else in Russia? Either way, I feel like the driver that got hit will be the one held responsible. much like pedestrians, APCs always have the right of way
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Trusting a green light? That's a e: I think it's a solid green, the flash is because of typical camera stroboscope voodoo.
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LifeSunDeath posted:that guy has gotten my whole little crew in SE texas using weird Canadian slang, haven't gotten to the point of throwing "wa" onto the end of all my sentences though. That's gotta be a french canadian thing, I've never heard that one anywhere else. Avenging_Mikon posted:Being Canadian, albeit at the other end of the country, I've literally only heard Skookum used by Native peoples to refer to their grandmother. Maybe they have really badass grandmothers
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