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iroc.dis posted:Watched a friend of mine fall 30ft down the side of a stacked conex tower we were using to practice rappelling when his carabiner failed. I probably don't have the phrasing correct on it but the gate didn't lock and when he put his weight on it, it opened up and down he went onto asphalt. Broke both legs and his back and had some rough burns on his arms and chest from where he tried to hug the rope to slow himself down. He's able to walk again but not very well. 
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This may be a dumb question, but why on earth were you not using a redundant safety?
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May 26, 2018 16:52
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Using a single locking carabiner between your harness and your rappel device without backup is not best practice but it’s done and isn’t unusual.
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:This may be a dumb question, but why on earth were you not using a redundant safety? I'm not sure. I was new to rappelling so I was just doing what the instructors told me to. As far as I remember the instructors were both pretty experienced. Its lovely that a 30 year old guy who survived a couple tours through Iraq comes back only to get hurt in a work related accident from which he'll have a severe limp the rest of his life to show for it.
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May 26, 2018 20:02
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loving rear end in a top hat tomato squishes.  I hope they had the farmer's permission to do that.
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May 26, 2018 20:24
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Facebook Aunt posted:loving rear end in a top hat tomato squishes. Do these guys look like they had anything approaching plans or permission for any of that bullshit?
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May 26, 2018 20:27
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Edit: gently caress, beaten soundly.
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May 26, 2018 20:40
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I'm sliding a thin-rear end piece of metal down what is essentially the longest metal file in the world. e: Maybe it's titanium or something what do I know 
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May 26, 2018 21:17
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Jerry Cotton posted:I'm sliding a thin-rear end piece of metal down what is essentially the longest metal file in the world. It seems pretty clear that they didn't mean to slide down, but just to be clamped to the line as they climbed across it (the use of the word "zipline" in the video title came from the click baiters who posted the video). Hence why the guy pissed himself (look at the seat at 2:03).
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LanceHunter posted:It seems pretty clear that they didn't mean to slide down, but just to be clamped to the line as they climbed across it (the use of the word "zipline" in the video title came from the click baiters who posted the video). Hence why the guy pissed himself (look at the seat at 2:03). OK so they actually wanted to do a thing that is literally the least fun anyone could have, to do with mountains?
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May 26, 2018 21:32
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Jerry Cotton posted:OK so they actually wanted to do a thing that is literally the least fun anyone could have, to do with mountains? They weren’t up there reading your posts though?
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May 26, 2018 22:14
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Cocoa Crispies posted:They weren’t up there reading your posts though? They saw one and decided to zip down.
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May 26, 2018 23:01
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There are a lot of wrong things in this whole video, but the timestamped one is the wrongest of all imo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-n59D6RQNQ&t=1022s
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May 26, 2018 23:37
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RabbitWizard posted:There are a lot of wrong things in this whole video, but the timestamped one is the wrongest of all imo: That's literally hell of slower than doing it with a chainsaw or something.
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May 26, 2018 23:40
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RabbitWizard posted:There are a lot of wrong things in this whole video, but the timestamped one is the wrongest of all imo: In a reply to the top comment on the video... some youtube idiot posted:some of these could be original 'proof of concept' sales video's. may explain that. the lack of gaurds is because farm workers are smarter than city folks, even the dumbest farm hand doesn't have to be told to stay away from a spinning auger, someone who has never seen a live chicken before? not so much. may be offensive to some, putting it that way, but going by my observations during my life time I have to assume these things must be true. There's a 100% chance this comment came from someone who has never worked on a farm (but definitely listens to a lot of country music).
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May 26, 2018 23:45
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I've seen live chickens in a city. (Maybe China doesn't count.)
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May 26, 2018 23:48
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Farmhands: famous for making it to retirement age with all their fingers and limbs intact.
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May 26, 2018 23:49
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I hope his yellow flag is okay, he’s going to need it.
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Jerry Cotton posted:That's literally hell of slower than doing it with a chainsaw or something. I don't know what's better, the fact that it's only potentially more useful than the one immediately after it if you have a lot of wood that's already pre-chopped to exactly 3x the length of the logs you want to get out of it, or the fact that it'll get busted to poo poo in the first 10 minutes by the middle logs banging the poo poo out of the mechanism at the bottom LanceHunter posted:In a reply to the top comment on the video... confirmation bias dot txt, aka "every farmhand I've talked to is alive", also Facebook Aunt posted:Farmhands: famous for making it to retirement age with all their fingers and limbs intact.
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Virgin City Folk, Chad Farmhands
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:confirmation bias dot txt, aka "every farmhand I've talked to is alive", also Also, the massive misunderstand of thinking that guards exist primarily for keeping fingers out, rather than for cutting down on bits of debris flying out.
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May 27, 2018 00:55
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RabbitWizard posted:There are a lot of wrong things in this whole video, but the timestamped one is the wrongest of all imo: The branch chewer at 12:20-ish is pretty hilarious too, but a lot of those have either slow action (lots of time to walk to safety) or low amounts of kinetic energy, and in no way can be called proper farm-rigged deathtraps. I'm sure this has been posted 10 million times in here by now but here's a proper  contraption:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92ejWHlPLaE
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May 27, 2018 01:35
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While all of these DIY woodcutting tools look real dangerous the normal ways of doing these things are pretty bad too. Chain saws and splitting axes really require a ton of respect.
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Bip Roberts posted:While all of these DIY woodcutting tools look real dangerous the normal ways of doing these things are pretty bad too. Chain saws and splitting axes really require a ton of respect. The difference being, I feel like once you've rigged up one of those contraptions you start thinking you've found easy mode and you don't respect it like the conventional tools. At least that's the attitude that usually comes across.
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May 27, 2018 02:29
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I helped with an equipment usage course for a community college natural resource management program. During the chainsaw section we had everyone decked out in proper PPE, including several new sets of kevlar chaps. Every single one of them was cut into at the end of day one. Fortunately for me no one bit into their leg while I was supervising and despite torn up chaps no one actually hurt themselves.
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May 27, 2018 02:56
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Bip Roberts posted:While all of these DIY woodcutting tools look real dangerous the normal ways of doing these things are pretty bad too. Chain saws and splitting axes really require a ton of respect. A splitting axe only requires respect during the brief moment you're swinging it through the air. The homemade power-operated machines want you dead the whole time they're turned on.
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May 27, 2018 03:04
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Facebook Aunt posted:Farmhands: famous for making it to retirement age with all their fingers and limbs intact. https://local.theonion.com/mr-pretty-boy-farmer-still-has-all-his-fingers-1819570693
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SelenicMartian posted:I can't find the video of Russian industrial climbers dropping 380 kg of glass from a 47th floor, without some idiot babbling over it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N057DLHPgzo
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May 27, 2018 03:10
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That was kind of a twist ending because I was expecting the suction cup thing to fail but nope
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May 27, 2018 03:22
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Sometimes, you accidentally install a window a few dozen floors below the intended spot.
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What the gently caress's that noise?! Oh god it's the window flying into the building and hitting all the other windows on the way down.
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May 27, 2018 03:44
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Facebook Aunt posted:Farmhands: famous for making it to retirement age with all their fingers and limbs intact. My grandfather who has a farm is 90 and still has everything intact, at least physically...he did shoot me in the leg when I was a teenager though so upstairs might not be intact.
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May 27, 2018 05:38
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Farm owners are definitely the same thing as farm hands.
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Farm owners are definitely the same thing as farm hands. farm snark
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Farm owners are definitely the same thing as farm hands. Does that make farm hands an ironic name?
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HEY NONG MAN posted:Farm owners are definitely the same thing as farm hands. Well he and my grandmother do everything and don't hire anyone so yes.
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RabbitWizard posted:There are a lot of wrong things in this whole video, but the timestamped one is the wrongest of all imo: Nice Nazi robot bomb replica at 25 minutes mark, but without the remote controls. And 60 kg of explosives I hope...
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May 27, 2018 10:57
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This game just popped up in my Steam discovery queue: https://store.steampowered.com/app/821800/ADRLabelling_Game/ Check that price  it's available for around a 100th the price on ios/android
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Humphreys posted:My grandfather who has a farm is 90 and still has everything intact, at least physically...he did shoot me in the leg when I was a teenager though so upstairs might not be intact. Usually if something bad happens on the farm, you don't survive. My grandfather farmed his entire life and made it to 97 with all his limbs. Loggers on the other hand are always missing fingers. When I lived up in northern MN we used to have a loggers supper at the town hall. All the old guys would be there. The odds of someone having 10 fingers with all 10 nails on them were 0. Every single person had some sort of damage to their hands. All were missing nails, most were missing the tip of a finger or part of a hand. It's just how logging goes.
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