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duz posted:Doesn't seem safe having a pole that just jumps out of nowhere like that. This appears ridiculous at first glance, but I think it's understandable. Judging from the long shadows and general luminosity it looks like the time of day when sun is setting at the perfect angle to blind windscreens. And from the direction of the shadows he has to driving be straight towards it. It was probably a super glare, which would definitely obscure a slim object with its dark side towards you. Meme Poker Party fucked around with this message at 19:55 on Jun 19, 2019 |
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Chomp8645 posted:Judging from the long shadows and general luminosity it looks like the time of day when sun is setting at the perfect angle to blind windscreens. And from the direction of the shadows he has to driving be straight towards it. It was probably a super glare, which would definitely obscure a slim object with its dark side towards you. Slylock Fox account spotted
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the car never makes a shadow so that's not applicable for the duration of the gif.
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Chomp8645 posted:This appears ridiculous at first glance, but I think it's understandable. Probably just in the blindspot of the A pillar...good lord, some of those are MASSIVE these days.
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Chomp8645 posted:This appears ridiculous at first glance, but I think it's understandable. You are right. If you can't really see because of the sun, just drive 
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FuturePastNow posted:don't forget steel coils The drivers at the company I worked for used to call that form of flatbed loading a "suicide load". tater_salad posted:Fork truck with a spindle / crane with a chain etc... Yep, one of these: 
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Captain Foo posted:why would you mount that in an orientation where it can roll Shippers and receivers have different limitations and sometimes these also change depending on weight of the coil. So you can have eye to the side (suicide) loading where a crane or special forklift thing (shown upthread) can unload it. You can also have eye to the sky loading, this will be on a pallet to allow unloading via a standard forklift. IIRC sometimes you could do eye to the sky without a pallet but you'd need it to be chained and blocked up right to allow for crane/forklift unloading in that style. Actually what's cool about that picture is that the headache rack did it's job and prevented the coil from crushing the cab. edit: oh yeah and another loading method is "shotgun style" where the coils are loaded with the eyes to the front/rear so it's like a long tube on the flatbed (googled for a pic \/\/).  Ignore the hoops and walls on the trailer, that's just from the driver only taking half of their walls down because the coil load didn't require it. Those aren't normally a part of a shotgun load. tangy yet delightful fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Jun 19, 2019 |
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duz posted:Doesn't seem safe having a pole that just jumps out of nowhere like that. God drat A pillars! 
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DrBouvenstein posted:Probably just in the blindspot of the A pillar...good lord, some of those are MASSIVE these days. Absolutely not, the driver's face is visible to the camera, through the windshield, for the entire time so the blind spot zone is even further to the right of the camera. And as already posted, that car is 100% in the shade so sun glare isn't a contributory factor either. Dude's just dumb as hell.
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Also here's a cool training video about how to secure suicide rolls https://youtu.be/vJW8KS-2oQM
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My great grandpa died from a log truck losing it's load ahead of him. I've always been super nervous when I see those types of trucks as a result.
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look at this and go back and look at the truck that lost it's load of logs over he bridge, gently caress this load
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 Part of a multi-vehicle accident today, north/south freeway in a construction zone sharing one side of the freeway, separated by those movable concrete barriers. One semi hit the center dividers and moved them, causing a bunch of vehicles to hit them, and another semi to jump the sidewall and off the freeway, shown above. The trailer burned and then exploded. Two semi truck drivers died, it's not yet known what vehicles and roles they played in the situation.
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RabbitWizard posted:You are right. If you can't really see because of the sun, just drive Your wish is my command https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGqGfE8CfS4
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duz posted:Doesn't seem safe having a pole that just jumps out of nowhere like that. P sure since this dumbass gets out of the vehicle with his phone already in his left hand I'd say he didn't see the pole because he was on his phone
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gently caress SNEEP posted:P sure since this dumbass gets out of the vehicle with his phone already in his left hand I'd say he didn't see the pole because he was on his phone
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ringu0 posted:Your wish is my command Blyat
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`Nemesis posted:
Apparently one semi driver made a "mistake" of some sort trying to change lanes and overcorrected, which is what sent him into the median barriers. The 3 cars got involved with that. The semi pictured was behind the whole thing and swerved off the road to avoid hitting anyone 
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https://i.imgur.com/RDlstJn.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/gvsagg1.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/HFPgvlG.mp4
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I watched this like five times all "What's the joke here, does he really think it's rolling back from the gun's recoil?" ... Then I saw it.
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Cthulu Carl posted:I watched this like five times all "What's the joke here, does he really think it's rolling back from the gun's recoil?"
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jesus christ, she’s awfully chill about nearly getting her head blown off
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She went to war in sandals, she probably DGAF
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snugglz posted:jesus christ, she’s awfully chill about nearly getting her head blown off i'm gonna say it's probably not the first time she's almost been shot
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it woudl be good i think to not just have stuff about wars in the thread for laughing at funny workplace things.
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Thanks to reading this thread for a long time, I picked up a multi-meter to ensure that the breakers turned the power off when my wife and I were swapping all of our smoke detectors in our new house over to Nest protects, which involved removing the 120v line, uncapping everything, taking out the red/orange wire, and re-capping black and white back up with the new Nest power cables. Was it necessary? Probably not, house isnt THAT old, and all of the detectors are on one breaker, but still. Seen enough stories to know better than to trust "its off" with electricity. And I got a new toy. 
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Lobsterboy posted:Thanks to reading this thread for a long time, I picked up a multi-meter to ensure that the breakers turned the power off when my wife and I were swapping all of our smoke detectors in our new house over to Nest protects, which involved removing the 120v line, uncapping everything, taking out the red/orange wire, and re-capping black and white back up with the new Nest power cables. That's exactly how you do it. De-energize whatever circuit you're doing work on. And then verify the circuit has no power before you proceed. Electricity is one thing I do not gently caress around with when it comes to safety.
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snugglz posted:jesus christ, she’s awfully chill about nearly getting her head blown off The kind of person who can sight up an enemy combatant in a scope and pull the trigger to precisely kill them is the kind of person who's not going to crap their pants when shot at.
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Lobsterboy posted:Was it necessary? Probably not,
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Proteus Jones posted:That's exactly how you do it. When my brother bought his house, we discovered the hard way that all the breakers were mislabeled. And by hard way, I mean my uncle tested the circuit with a multimeter before he killed himself.
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Lobsterboy posted:Probably not, house isnt THAT old, and all of the detectors are on one breaker, but still. You always need to insert an '*' into statements like that to include aftermarket DIY, incompetent sparkys, drunk sparkys and just plain acts of god. I once found a stunned industrial electrician sitting on my office desk. Despite having 20 years of experience of electrical installations in factories, he got caught out when two sockets, side-by-side, were unfathombly wired to separate circuits. I lived in an apartment block that was built and wired to all the relevant commercial residential standards. A team of electricians replaced 42 hallway light fittings. All but one were on the correct common area ciruits. That single odd one was the middle one in a string of 8 and was wired to the bathroom vanity mirror light of one of the units. Pat on the back from me for taking care of yourself
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Renegret posted:And by hard way, I mean my uncle tested the circuit with a multimeter before he killed himself. "Well, it looks like this line is still hot." 
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Proteus Jones posted:That's exactly how you do it. I live in a house that was built in 1900, and still has several low amp circuits that are plug and post for lighting. I'm pretty sure the guys who wired it back in the day were either incompetent, or drunk, or both. I was switching out a light fixture, and assumed that the hot would be switched with the common all the way through, so I just switched off the light. Nope. They switched the common, and left the hot, well, "hot". Luckily it was just a screwdriver that got partially melted, and not parts of my body. Now, before any wiring changes, breaker's thrown, and everything's tested with a meter to verify it's de-energized. Renegret posted:And by hard way, I mean my uncle tested the circuit with a multimeter before he killed himself. Wait... what?
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AFewBricksShy posted:"Well, it looks like this line is still hot." God you just reminded me of the most depressing thing. He said, "don't touch this, it's hot" and went to check on the breaker. My brother, the idiot he is, thought "hot" meant temperature, and went to touch it anyway because he didn't understand why a wire would be warm. For a fleeting moment, I considered letting him touch it as punishment for being a loving dumbass.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Wait... what? he, uh, tested the wire and saw it still had current running through it even though it shouldn't have? Am I wording something wrong? I admit I only know enough about electric city to know to stay the gently caress away and let a professional handle it.
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But why did he die if he tested it and saw it was hot?
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The Lone Badger posted:But why did he die if he tested it and saw it was hot? He was very depressed?
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He's still very much alive. I guess I just worded that poorly, and I followed my trend of terribly worded posts when it's too early in the morning to think straight.
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The Lone Badger posted:But why did he die if he tested it and saw it was hot? He didn't. To re-phrase: Before Renegret's brother could kill himself, his uncle tested it with a multi-meter.
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Proteus Jones posted:He didn't. Or, "And by hard way, I mean my uncle tested the circuit with a multimeter instead of killing himself."
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