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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Most snakes are more about the threat of biting, than actual biting. Snakes like the rattlesnake and cobra have taken that to the next step where they have an actual threat display to warn you off. The last thing they really want to do is bite you, they just want to scare you off with their rattle or their hood spread out. I went on a nature safari in Zambia many years ago and our guide had a story about how he accidentally antagonized the gently caress out of a black mamba in the dark (like stepped in it a few times) but it never actually bit him.
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univbee posted:I went on a nature safari in Zambia many years ago and our guide had a story about how he accidentally antagonized the gently caress out of a black mamba in the dark (like stepped in it a few times) but it never actually bit him. 
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What is the point of viper pits? Meat or eggs or what?
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univbee posted:I went on a nature safari in Zambia many years ago and our guide had a story about how he accidentally antagonized the gently caress out of a black mamba in the dark (like stepped in it a few times) but it never actually bit him. I was mowing the paddock behind my house many years ago and accidentally mowed over a tiger snake. I had the mower set high because I only wanted the grass low enough to act as a fire break and was walking backwards up the hill dragging the mower along and nearly jumped out of my skin when I saw it come out from under the front of the mower. So, not only had I probably stepped on one of the top 10 deadliest snakes in the world, I also pulled a mower right over its head and it still didn't try to attack. You really need to be unlucky (or find one during mating season) to get bitten by a snake.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I was mowing the paddock behind my house many years ago and accidentally mowed over a tiger snake. I come from a city with a tiny limestone mountain as it's defining geographical feature. I preferred to live at the base of the thing. Nice breeze, shade trees, and easy access to the rest of town. All's well and good except during a drought, when the snakes come down the mountain searching for water. That is one of the few parts of town with curbing on the major streets (for drainage, but I'll get to that). Then comes time for me to make a decision: take my night time walk in the middle of the road or through people's yards. The gutter is filled with snakes and terrified opossum too small to hop over the curb. What happens after a drought, come first rain? Massive amounts of water to erase your driveway and flush said snakes and opossum right back down the mountain. So many drowned 'possum next to the road. Poor things couldn't raise their heads high enough to breathe and their short little legs couldn't get over the curb. So many burst snakes, who couldn't resist a tasty critter just laying there. No wonder the Native Americans generally avoided the place. They did warn the rest of us about the snakes. And the malaria. And the mats of gigantic wood cockroaches covering the trees at night. And the mountain lions. They really stressed the mountain lion thing.
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madeintaipei posted:I come from a city with a tiny limestone mountain as it's defining geographical feature. I preferred to live at the base of the thing. Nice breeze, shade trees, and easy access to the rest of town. All's well and good except during a drought, when the snakes come down the mountain searching for water. That is one of the few parts of town with curbing on the major streets (for drainage, but I'll get to that). Then comes time for me to make a decision: take my night time walk in the middle of the road or through people's yards. The gutter is filled with snakes and terrified opossum too small to hop over the curb. Wait How can you gloss over burst snakes like it’s an everyday occurrence
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Blue On Blue posted:Wait Always remember to winterize your snakes.
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Blue On Blue posted:Wait It's not, was my point. Once a year maybe.
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They're ruining my bespoke cast iron rebar
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norm infrastructure there are made with tofu lol
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That's how you make a glory hole.
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CzarChasm posted:I mean, I've seen a cheap setup, that was basically a mount for a circular saw that turned it into a table saw, so this is the same thing, just literally turned on it's head. If you're using a hammer to trim your fingernails.... Get 'er done I guess. https://www.amazon.com/DWS535B-Worm-Drive-Circular-Brake/dp/B07BR8D713
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if they keep breaking those like that whatever they're building is going to not be as strong 
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Chinesium is, like, the antimithril
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If that were used in the infrastructure plan, that would make the replacement bridges worse than the original ones. A bit scary.
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Ika posted:If that were used in the infrastructure plan, that would make the replacement bridges worse than the original ones. A bit scary. Wait 'till you find out why this stuff is at the site!
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aphid_licker posted:Chinesium is, like, the antimithril I don't know how you even make that, surely it would be less effort to just get normal rebar
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A conversation one of our project managers had with a potential supplier for steel that one of our clients wanted to use because they were significantly cheaper.  Hello we would like to order so much steel box sections and they need to meet standard XXYY. Yes we can supply you with that much steel for $very low price. What certification do you want stamped on to it again? it needs to meet or exceed standard XXYY ok we will stamp standard XXYY on it. Does it meet that standard? We will stamp it on it..... Went back to client and told them we will use our regular suppliers. Client wasn’t happy and wanted to be charged the materials price from the suggested supplier.
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There’s industrial contracts that require you to sign off that at no point are you using Chinese slings, wire rope, etc.
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Varkk posted:A conversation one of our project managers had with a potential supplier for steel that one of our clients wanted to use because they were significantly cheaper. Is this in mfg or construction?
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The #1 cause of being bitten by a snake is deciding to gently caress with it. Usually while drunk or male.
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The number two cause is being a Pentecostal minister.
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madeintaipei posted:The gutter is filled with snakes and terrified opossum too small to hop over the curb.   https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qt6uwzEYRn1r0uzl6.mp4 https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qt64omV7Hj1s1ddrj.mp4 (no fatalities, according to the source) 
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ekuNNN posted:Why aren't you making tiny possum stairs so they can climb out? REO Speedwagon's "Riding the Storm Out" blares in the car's stereo as the driver navigates the turn.
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The Lone Badger posted:The #1 cause of being bitten by a snake is deciding to gently caress with it. Usually while drunk or male. https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/717796553981878272 Never skip posting this if it's even vaguely relevant.
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ekuNNN posted:(no fatalities, according to the source) That bus definitely didn't make it.
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McGavin posted:That bus definitely didn't make it. Which bus? The truck? I could very easily see the driver getting out, although he would need a change of dry clothes and probably had to throw out his pants.
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Avec moi… le deluge
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rebar is for tensile strength, what they're demonstrating is compression forces. It's fine
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What do you actually do to steel to make it like that? Too much oxygen? Cooled too fast?
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The Lone Badger posted:What do you actually do to steel to make it like that? Too much oxygen? Cooled too fast? Varkk posted:
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KoRMaK posted:rebar is for tensile strength, what they're demonstrating is compression forces. It's fine I'm just a layman, but I always thought that rebar is rather ductile and would look like pinched clay if bent until broken. That stuff's snapping cleanly?
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KoRMaK posted:rebar is for tensile strength, what they're demonstrating is compression forces. It's fine No it isn't, you doofus. It is for tensile as you say, but that doesn't matter when you can snap it like a bread stick.
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The Lone Badger posted:What do you actually do to steel to make it like that? Too much oxygen? Cooled too fast? have you see the price of iron ore recently? Just sweep up whatever won't stick to a magnet and stick it in a big pot
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The Lone Badger posted:What do you actually do to steel to make it like that? Too much oxygen? Cooled too fast? I think it's a combination of "too much carbon" and "cooled too fast". I dabble in blacksmithing and rebar is the cheapest source of readily available steel. Reading what the forum graybeards say about it, the alloy in rebar is pretty much "whatever was in the crucible that day". Carbon content can vary wildly, meaning you sometimes come across rebar with enough carbon in it that it can be hardened (heated up and then cooled rapidly usually by quenching). For smithing purposes this is desirable since you can make chisels and punches and even knives and such out of it. For using as rebar a higher carbon content normally isn't a problem since it will behave much like mild (low carbon) steel if the metal is annealed (cooled slowly), which is how it would normally come from the mill. What I think happened is that someone used an oxyacetalene torch to form those bends in the rebar (it's thick stuff, harder to bend cold) and the metal cooled rapidly, maybe it was raining hard or super cold and windy or something (edit: or some dumbass quenched it). It happened to be high carbon steel in that batch of rebar, meaning it's now hard and brittle like glass. If you were to smack really hard tool steel like a file or something like that it would break too. Invalido fucked around with this message at 07:43 on May 17, 2021 |
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:No it isn't, you doofus. It is for tensile as you say, but that doesn't matter when you can snap it like a bread stick. Have you considered that maybe they are joking.
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Xakura posted:Have you considered that maybe they are joking. On the internet? Seems far-fetched.
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