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I have so many questions. Is that man and his equipment seriously lighter than a bucket of concrete? The bags of quickcrete I’m used to only weigh 80lbs. What is his plan to get back up? Does he not realize he’s just sawing through that already frayed rope? 
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May 21, 2020 15:27
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That's a nice big frayed spot at the 9 second mark. Really impressive.
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May 21, 2020 15:44
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I have so many questions. Is that man and his equipment seriously lighter than a bucket of concrete? The bags of quickcrete I’m used to only weigh 80lbs. That doesn't look like quickcrete. I dunno what it is,but that greenish color looks like something. It could also be that he put something heavier in the bucket with his mix. Plus, that's not a climb rope (usually rated up to 5k lbs and some go up to 20k lbs with a steel mesh core). That's a loving bull line, with no steel core and at best rates up to 1k lbs brand spanking new out of the box.
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May 21, 2020 15:44
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I would never get in a tree with a frayed line or exposed core on a rope, but I sure as hell would not get on anything if the only thing we had was a bull line. Gravity's a bitch. Literally the only thing we use a bull line for is roping a tree over, and if they're frayed like that, they're cut up and relegated to truck tiedowns. A Festivus Miracle fucked around with this message at 15:51 on May 21, 2020 |
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May 21, 2020 15:48
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A White Guy posted:That doesn't look like quickcrete. I dunno what it is,but that greenish color looks like something. It's green because of light reflection from the bush
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May 21, 2020 15:56
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I have so many questions. Is that man and his equipment seriously lighter than a bucket of concrete? The bags of quickcrete I’m used to only weigh 80lbs. The bucket doesn't have to weigh as much as him because of leverage, but that literally seems to be as far as he thought.
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May 21, 2020 16:21
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Load bearing flower bed.
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May 21, 2020 16:48
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FCKGW posted:This is a really dumb post maybe by your standards but im different
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May 21, 2020 17:00
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Cross post from the TFR deals thread :Trillhouse posted:Walker XCEL Digital Headset - The orange ones have a higher noise reduction rating and are about twice as much as the black ones normally, so a better absolute deal. We’ve got a dude who grabbed a pair for his work crew that apparently hits metal with sledges on the regular which made me think of this thread.
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May 21, 2020 17:01
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Cyrano4747 posted:Cross post from the TFR deals thread : Thanks, just ordered. Haven't been shooting in two years, but always wished I had a digital set of ears.
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May 21, 2020 17:21
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Call me old fashioned but all the digital stuff just seems like it's asking for trouble. You're supposed to be wearing plugs too anyway. But I'm pretty sure you can't get muffs from Harbor Freight for $15 these days so why not consume. I got a couple so my wife's covered too if we ever make good on going back to the range or buying a pressure washer.
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May 21, 2020 17:24
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Tried to order but it went to almost $60 when put in the cart.
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May 21, 2020 17:26
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is there a registry i can put myself on so no one in the tri-county area will rent me a pressure washer? i recovered some repressed memories from my youth and i now realize i cannot be trusted with such... Mighty forces...
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May 21, 2020 17:26
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zedprime posted:Call me old fashioned but all the digital stuff just seems like it's asking for trouble. You're supposed to be wearing plugs too anyway. I dunno what the noses at a work site are like but the best practice is to double up with muffs and plugs when shooting. The good part is that the audio amplification part makes it so you can hear conversations through the plugs but cuts when any noise (like a gunshot) goes above the dB cutoff. Works quite well. It lets you be protected as gently caress when you need to be while keeping situational awareness and not being stone cold deaf to your surroundings.
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May 21, 2020 17:30
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Speaking of OSHA: Today marks the anniversary of Louis Slotin's Criticality Incident with Rufus AKA the Demon Core By the time Slotin got his hands on the Demon Core, it had already claimed the life of Physicist Haroutune "Harry" Krikor Daghlian, Jr. under similar circumstances, and Enrico Fermi had predicted that if they continued to do criticality experiments this way they'd be dead within the year. Louis was suppose to keep a shims between the two reflector halves to prevent accidental criticality, but Slotin was a bit of a daredevil and had become comfortable doing the procedure, having done it 12 times prior. He was demonstrating the method to physicist Alvin C Graves, using a standard flathead to lower and raise the halves shimmed in between the reflector sphere halves when it slipped, causing a flash of blue light and a burning sensation. Slotin managed to slap the sphere half off, ensuring the criticality would not reoccur, but by that time he'd received 1,000 rads or 10 greys, a lethal dose. His body has shielded others in the room, but Graves still took a 166 rad or 16 grey dose. Its very OSHA, because after Daghlian's death under the same circumstances, there had actually been a unofficial prohibition against conducting the criticality experiments in this manor, but Slotin chose to anyways. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 17:56 on May 21, 2020 |
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May 21, 2020 17:48
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Cyrano4747 posted:I dunno what the noses at a work site are like but the best practice is to double up with muffs and plugs when shooting. The good part is that the audio amplification part makes it so you can hear conversations through the plugs but cuts when any noise (like a gunshot) goes above the dB cutoff. Works quite well. It lets you be protected as gently caress when you need to be while keeping situational awareness and not being stone cold deaf to your surroundings. I wore my buddy's extra pair once when we were shooting at his range and it was awesome to be able to talk when we were reloading and whatnot without having to take them off and then remembering you forgot to put them back on until the next round is fired.
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May 21, 2020 17:50
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Speaking of ear plugs, get yourself a set of Etymotic reusable plugs. They're much easier to use than foam plugs, and they sound so much better than the muffling you get from foam. IDC about referrals or anything, but here's an Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Etymotic-Research-ER20-Plugs-Standard/dp/B07QSW3BF8/ Mine just game in today to replace an old set that I've been using for a few years. I finally lost one of them on my last work trip, but that's OK since they were overdue to be replaced anyways. I wear them to concerts as well as job sites.
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May 21, 2020 18:14
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CommieGIR posted:Speaking of OSHA: Today marks the anniversary of Louis Slotin's Criticality Incident with Rufus AKA the Demon Core Obligatory (?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZIjbX1gj88
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May 21, 2020 18:20
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a kitten posted:Obligatory (?) Very. Shared that in the nuclear thread.
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May 21, 2020 18:26
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McSpanky posted:The bucket doesn't have to weigh as much as him because of leverage, but that literally seems to be as far as he thought. There's no leverage here, though. Without friction, the bucket would have to weigh more than him + his equipment for him not to go falling. Friction is probably very strong in this case, but that's obviously not what you want to rely on. Stronger friction is also going to result in more fraying. EDIT: Here's how you get actual leverage. Hopefully there's another level to secure ropes to, otherwise you'll have to get clever with mounting points. 
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May 21, 2020 18:57
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CommieGIR posted:nuclear thread. link?
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May 21, 2020 19:34
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:link? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3916500
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May 21, 2020 19:37
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Just finished my JLG Intensive Lift re-certification over Zoom, which is weird because we don't know when we'll be allowed to actually take the practical exam on actual lifts. Now I get to sit through OSHA 10 all next week to re-certify. For work that I don't think I'll have until at least the fall, maybe winter, or maybe next year. It's good for 3 years, so there's that, and I guess it's better to do it from home in my underwear and a t-shirt than to have to drive to the nearest place to sit in a classroom everyday for a week. My local is paying for it, so I guess I can't complain. It's almost like working again.
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May 21, 2020 20:54
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I see this fella found a new job: 
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May 21, 2020 21:43
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fun new truck vs. bridge video. this one's neat because it's a dump truck with the bed up, a tunnel under an airport runway, and the driver kept driving after the cab separated. Video in the article: https://fox6now.com/2020/05/21/truck-went-by-me-and-then-bam-dump-truck-with-bed-in-the-air-strikes-bridge/
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May 21, 2020 22:51
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I spent twenty minutes crafting an exquisite double patty cheeseburger last night and I dropped it as I was sitting down to eat, spilling the contents everywhere and getting rug/cat hair all stuck in the cheese. This picture captures exactly how my soul felt in that moment.
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May 21, 2020 23:12
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PinheadSlim posted:I spent twenty minutes crafting an exquisite double patty cheeseburger last night and I dropped it as I was sitting down to eat, spilling the contents everywhere and getting rug/cat hair all stuck in the cheese. Friend of mine dropped a plate like that when I was living with him and started crying, which he never does. Made him a new plate up  Funny the things that really upset people, pretty sure he wouldn't cry if he got shot.
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May 22, 2020 00:21
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https://twitter.com/igaigaadjmadjml/status/1263465798367981568?s=19
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May 22, 2020 00:38
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More effort than the US puts into anything for pedestrians.
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May 22, 2020 00:45
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Japanese version of 11'8" doesn't gently caress around.
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May 22, 2020 00:49
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Speaking of https://i.imgur.com/BSYUmIp.mp4 Has sound. Really nice touch with traffic still going over the top of the who-knows-how-compromised bridge. From the comments, the convoy had permits to drive across West Tennessee from Arkansas, but not to drive across Central Tennessee. So they had no business being there, but thought "meh it'll be fine" Memento fucked around with this message at 02:58 on May 22, 2020 |
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May 22, 2020 02:55
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Wow that bridge joist is hosed.
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May 22, 2020 03:02
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Memento posted:Speaking of Kept waiting for the inevitable "inattentive and dangerous driver doing 100 MPH tries to take the shoulder to avoid the traffic stoppage, killing everyone", but it luckily didn't happen.
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May 22, 2020 03:04
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Who knows how much the float weighs, but the water cart on the back is a CAT 773E, 40,000kg unloaded. So at highway speeds, that's a hell of a lot of momentum. Astute observers will notice that they made it most of the way through the bridge before coming to a stop. It doesn't look like there's concrete everywhere though, so maybe that bridge is just lower at one side? Still. S'hosed.
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May 22, 2020 03:07
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SpaceCadetBob posted:Wow that bridge joist is hosed.
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May 22, 2020 03:11
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Memento posted:Who knows how much the float weighs, but the water cart on the back is a CAT 773E, 40,000kg unloaded. So at highway speeds, that's a hell of a lot of momentum. Astute observers will notice that they made it most of the way through the bridge before coming to a stop. From looking hard at the shadows, the previous joists seem to still be straight so it looks to me like it must have just caught the edge of that last one by pure bad luck or a bump in the road.
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May 22, 2020 03:11
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SLOSifl posted:gently caress, they just wanted a sunken bathtub for the
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Memento posted:Really nice touch with traffic still going over the top of the who-knows-how-compromised bridge. Load-bearing dump truck. edit: goddammit dump trucks are already load-bearing on a regular basis
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Well water cart, but yes. You can get sixty cubic metres of water on the back of one of those. I saw a state-wide alert last year where a Tatra water cart lost one of its double wheel assemblies while driving along the ramp near the top of an open pit gold mine. The wheels came apart; one rolled into the windrow at the side of the ramp and stopped. The other one rolled over the edge of the ramp and fell ~150m into the pit and landed in a pool of insanely toxic water; I assume it's still there. The pit had a bunch of trucks, dozers and LVs in it when that happened, and the wheel missed them all by pure luck.
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