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A rock that size would be what, three - four tonnes? How much is a pickup truck expected to be able to handle?
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Jun 12, 2018 06:30
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Rangers can carry about .75 tons. An F350 dually is more like 2 tons. The Super Duty can put over 3.5 tons in the back and tow 34,000 lbs. I think that guy confused payload capacity with towing capacity. His truck is probably rated to haul 1.5 tons on a trailer. They make trucks that can handle that. This dude wasn't driving one tho. Relentless fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Jun 12, 2018 |
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Jun 12, 2018 06:39
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I'm wondering if that particular store doesn't do deliveries or that guy needed a rock right now and he couldn't wait for the normal delivery schedule. Or if the guy is just dumber than that rock.
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Jun 12, 2018 06:42
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Pistol_Pete posted:A rock that size would be what, three - four tonnes? How much is a pickup truck expected to be able to handle? Between 2.8 and 3.5 tons per m3. So, yeah. HardDiskD posted:the guy is just dumber than that rock. This for my money.
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Jun 12, 2018 06:47
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Im more curious how he got the rock out at his destination. I mean if he even made it to his destination without the truck disintegrating.
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Jun 12, 2018 06:57
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Dig a big hole, drive the truck into the hole, cover with dirt until just the rock is sticking out
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Jun 12, 2018 07:11
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Relentless posted:Rangers can carry about .75 tons. Every place that sells heavy poo poo to the public has at least one story of an rear end in a top hat customer with a small pickup insisting that staff load something I to it. They have no idea how much things weigh, they only believe "if it fits, I can haul it." After explaining five times that the thing is way too heavy, it becomes easier to just say "fine," usually followed by "I fuckin' told you."
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Jun 12, 2018 07:18
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Pistol_Pete posted:A rock that size would be what, three - four tonnes? How much is a pickup truck expected to be able to handle? more importantly, how many motorcycles can it secure
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Jun 12, 2018 07:25
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EKDS5k posted:Every place that sells heavy poo poo to the public has at least one story of an rear end in a top hat customer with a small pickup insisting that staff load something I to it. They have no idea how much things weigh, they only believe "if it fits, I can haul it." After explaining five times that the thing is way too heavy, it becomes easier to just say "fine," usually followed by "I fuckin' told you." But what do you do then? They're blocking up your loading bay and in no condition to leave, nor can you easily take it out again.
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Jun 12, 2018 07:32
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JB50 posted:Im more curious how he got the rock out at his destination. that truck had to be towed away after he paid someone to come get his new rock off it
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Jun 12, 2018 07:34
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Relentless posted:Rangers can carry about .75 tons. Lol if you think that ratings came into this. I used to work at a lawn and garden center, people just equate "Truck" with "Haul whatever I want."
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Jun 12, 2018 07:42
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Bad Munki posted:nice My electric shock story is my mum plugging in a vacuum cleaner I was in the middle of fixing for her.
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Jun 12, 2018 08:36
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As a kid we had those inwall ducted vacuums so all you had to do was plug the hose into an outlet and a ring of steal on the hose end would short the contacts and start the vacuum under the house. I used to short it with a knife or something and toss little toys/marbles in there and gleefully hear them zooming around the walls and under the house.
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Jun 12, 2018 08:52
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VictorianQueerLit posted:I used to work at a lawn and garden center, people just equate "Truck" with "Haul whatever I want." When I was at uni, one of the jobs I worked was at a place that sold firewood, dirt and rocks. The rocks ranged in size from decorative pebbles to ones the size of your head, along with concrete slabs and pavers which are stupidly heavy. The firewood ranged from bags of twigs for kindling to logs a metre long for cookouts. Also stupidly heavy. We'd only move them with forklifts, that's how heavy they were. The owner was a really nice guy who was third generation in the business and flat out wouldn't let people destroy their cars by overloading them. His wife however? It was one of her greatest joys. And ours. Because gently caress it, it's not like we'd ever be liable for anything and who doesn't like seeing idiots gently caress themselves up? So you'd have someone pull up in a sedan wanting a boot full of dirt or rocks, or one of those utes where the tray is only for decoration and only looks tough and asks us to load them up with a couple tonnes of firewood. She'd give them every warning about what would inevitably happen, but what manly man is about to listen to a mere woman when it comes to such manly things? So we'd fill their car up until the shock absorbers bottomed out and the tyres start bloating and happily wave them off to their eventual hilarious doom somewhere down the road. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Jun 12, 2018 |
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Jun 12, 2018 09:11
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Megillah Gorilla posted:So we'd fill their car up until the shock absorbers bottomed out and the tyres start bloating and happily wave them off to their eventual hilarious doom somewhere down the road. You missed out on an excellent side business of getting finders fees. If i was on that game and it was regular enough, contacting a certain tow truck company and giving them a heads up for an extra $20 a tow would just be icing on the cake.
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Jun 12, 2018 09:51
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Megillah Gorilla posted:When I was at uni, one of the jobs I worked was at a place that sold firewood, dirt and rocks. The rocks ranged in size from decorative pebbles to ones the size of your head, along with concrete slabs and pavers which are stupidly heavy. The firewood ranged from bags of twigs for kindling to logs a metre long for cookouts. Also stupidly heavy. We'd only move them with forklifts, that's how heavy they were. That was similar to my experience. You would have a good old boy drive up in his huge truck and demand we load more than a ton of pavers in there. Nearly always they flipped the gently caress out when the truck squatted down on the tires because they apparently had never hauled anything in their $35,000 Ford FFuck60. More than a few times people would demand that I take the pallet out of their truck and stack the blocks, by hand, one at a time to better distribute the weight in the back of their truck, which did nothing because it was the same exact amount of weight. It's a matter of pride to some people. If I suggested that they pay a reasonable rate for a store delivery of their stones they would take offense because I was suggesting their truck was inadequate and they would almost always prefer to drive off extremely overloaded and on the verge of mechanical failure or make multiple trips so they still had the dignity of saying they hauled the load themselves.
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Jun 12, 2018 09:58
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I've collected and transported poo poo loads of stuff in various wagons and hatchbacks, but I know the limits and pay for delivery when I need 2 ton of gravel. It's funny watching someone struggle to load bags of cement etc 4 feet in the air onto their pickup while I pack twice as much into an 800kg hatchback.
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Jun 12, 2018 10:06
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Kith posted:https://i.imgur.com/KY5XWty.mp4 I love that the customer's buddy or whatever is incredulously saying, "I thought (these were rated for) like 1700 pounds?" to make sure everyone knows he's even stupider than you'd think.
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Jun 12, 2018 11:48
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I only just noticed that the skid is oriented in the wrong direction. Even if it had survived the loading it'd be useless for its intended purpose.
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Jun 12, 2018 11:52
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if you believe they have a forklift at their destination.
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Jun 12, 2018 12:05
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the correct method to unload a truck is to just drive backwards then slam on the brakes. It's how I used to unload firewood/furniture/mulch or whatever when I had a truck.
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Jun 12, 2018 12:12
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Relentless posted:Rangers can carry about .75 tons. Australian Ranger is 1500kg payload & 3500kg towing (for the work truck version, should've-bought-a-wagon versions are lower). That's 1.65/3.85 short tons, which I think will mean something to Americans; if you work in NatGeo units, then the weight of the average midwestern family and 1/20th of a jumbo jet, respectively. My question is: What the heck is wrong with your payload rating system, or is the US ranger not the same as the world ranger? e: Maybe he's got a forklift and will use a sling to get the rock out at his destination? He doesn't and he won't, but I kinda wish we could get a second video out of this as he gets his whole family to stand on the counterweight and get catapulted when the fork truck goes arse-over-teakettle. e2: This isn't AI. IPCRESS fucked around with this message at 12:16 on Jun 12, 2018 |
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Jun 12, 2018 12:13
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glynnenstein posted:I love that the customer's buddy or whatever is incredulously saying, "I thought (these were rated for) like 1700 pounds?" to make sure everyone knows he's even stupider than you'd think. My favorite bit is when the guy taking the video makes a side comment about how the shocks are gonna shoot out the side of the truck. He knows exactly what's gonna happen and is loving every minute of it. e: I love every minute of it too
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Jun 12, 2018 12:41
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Got a live one right here. Our civils engineer is impressed with the drain holding up so well. Helios Grime fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Jun 12, 2018 |
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Jun 12, 2018 12:42
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IPCRESS posted:My question is: What the heck is wrong with your payload rating system, or is the US ranger not the same as the world ranger?
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Jun 12, 2018 12:42
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IPCRESS posted:My question is: What the heck is wrong with your payload rating system, or is the US ranger not the same as the world ranger? It's not a type of vehicle here but specifically a Ford Ranger, a very common small truck. They would be called a light truck. The common "half ton" "quarter ton" system is decades old and is more of a colloquialism to give you an idea of what class the vehicle is in rather than a specific hauling capacity.
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Jun 12, 2018 12:50
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Guyver posted:The US Ranger is just a car in truck form. At least it was, I think Ford is changing that this year to make it actually preform close to other midsize trucks. You mean “the Ranger is losing the thing that made it a Ranger”. If it’s the same size as a half dozen other models, what’s the point?
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Jun 12, 2018 12:51
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Helios Grime posted:Got a live one right here. Is that a fitted handrail running around the roof? In which case maybe there's a narrow walk way there?
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Jun 12, 2018 13:19
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Tesla announced "full self driving" to be released in August, don't see how this could go wrong. https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/11/17449076/tesla-autopilot-full-self-driving-elon-musk
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Jun 12, 2018 13:32
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Self driving cars have been safer than humans for a while now, people that freak out about that are the same loving motions that think planes are more dangerous than driving.
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Jun 12, 2018 13:35
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:Is that a fitted handrail running around the roof? In which case maybe there's a narrow walk way there? Nah, that's just there for when it's snowing and you don't want a whole roof of snow slipping down.
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Jun 12, 2018 13:36
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:Is that a fitted handrail running around the roof? In which case maybe there's a narrow walk way there? I think that's just to keep the snow from falling of in sheets. Not intended to hold a person.
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Jun 12, 2018 13:37
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EKDS5k posted:Every place that sells heavy poo poo to the public has at least one story of an rear end in a top hat customer with a small pickup insisting that staff load something I to it. They have no idea how much things weigh, they only believe "if it fits, I can haul it." After explaining five times that the thing is way too heavy, it becomes easier to just say "fine," usually followed by "I fuckin' told you." Home improvement stores have this problem a lot too course but it's rarely the truck people, it's the people with passenger cars that don't realize it only takes a couple bags of concrete or shingles to exceed most cars weight capacity.
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Jun 12, 2018 13:41
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tsa posted:Self driving cars have been safer than humans for a while now, people that freak out about that are the same loving motions that think planes are more dangerous than driving. Nah. Uber singlehandedly cratered their safety record. To match the safety of the average flesh & blood driver, computers will now have to log eighty‐five million miles on the road with no additional fatalities, which is nearly ten times what they’ve done to date. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Jun 12, 2018 |
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Jun 12, 2018 13:46
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see you guys in ten pages
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Jun 12, 2018 13:48
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VictorianQueerLit posted:see you guys in ten pages whats your take on radar though
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Jun 12, 2018 13:53
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ColonelDimak posted:Tesla announced "full self driving" to be released in August, don't see how this could go wrong. it's gonna own that the dipshits at tesla and uber are going to set self driving cars back 5-10 years by rushing to market and getting people killed, creating the reputation that the technology isn't mature enough to be safe because it isn't, and something needs to penetrate the shell of early adopters who think all social problems can be solved with the adaptation of technology or in more direct terms, this is going to get wealthy nerds killed and that's a good thing. shame about the decent folk who will be hit by wealthy nerds and their shoddy future cars
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Jun 12, 2018 13:55
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yes but this way just has that certain je ne sais disruption
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Jun 12, 2018 13:56
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boner confessor posted:it's gonna own that the dipshits at tesla and uber are going to set self driving cars back 5-10 years by rushing to market and getting people killed, creating the reputation that the technology isn't mature enough to be safe because it isn't, and something needs to penetrate the shell of early adopters who think all social problems can be solved with the adaptation of technology Honestly, this doesn't feel all too different from when cars where starting out in the 1910s
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Jun 12, 2018 14:10
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Johnny Aztec posted:Honestly, this doesn't feel all too different from when cars where starting out in the 1910s No-no, it's the children's fault for living in houses within 30 feet of a roadway. "Jaysleepers", as we call them.
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