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BOOTY-ADE posted:This is confusing...why the hell did that person stop on the bridge like that? I looked up where it is, there's no lights/signs they'd have to stop for on either end. Article didn't mention any traffic or accidents either, no idea what that doofus was trying to do. People are really really good at freezing during emergencies, I assume they stopped cause they saw the lights on the other side and then just panicked and froze up once the bridge started going up.
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Feb 22, 2022 16:02
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B-Rock452 posted:People are really really good at freezing during emergencies, I assume they stopped cause they saw the lights on the other side and then just panicked and froze up once the bridge started going up. Barrier out of frame maybe? I know a couple of the smaller bridges like that here the barrier arm is less than a car length from the joint. Obviously it would break away if you hit it, but you see the same thing at rail crossings where people won't just run the barrier.
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Feb 22, 2022 16:07
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We have a small, walk-behind forklift at work. We just have a weird grade at our dock so it's easier to have this than the full-sized fork we used to use to get pallets off of trucks. This little thing still weighs 4500+ pounds, and could easily kill someone if they got struck or trapped by it.
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Feb 22, 2022 16:16
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Mozi posted:argon all gone a noble sacrifice
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Feb 22, 2022 16:24
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BOOTY-ADE posted:This is confusing...why the hell did that person stop on the bridge like that? I looked up where it is, there's no lights/signs they'd have to stop for on either end. Article didn't mention any traffic or accidents either, no idea what that doofus was trying to do. They had crossed late and got caught behind the gates on the far side of the bridge. If you were in that situation, at least up until the bridge actually starts going up and lifting our car in the air, would you smash through the gates with probably hundreds or thousands of dollars of damages, or would you sit tight and assume that the bridge attendant would notice and open the gates or something to let you out?
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Feb 22, 2022 16:36
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James Woods posted:Two Graders were no match for the Killdozer. Didn't realize Killdozer was a mod.
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Feb 22, 2022 16:39
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Didn't realize Killdozer was a mod.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7pLx2Je-BU came actually to post this as it appeared in my feed. Ouch those backs
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Feb 22, 2022 16:41
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frumpykvetchbot posted:They had crossed late and got caught behind the gates on the far side of the bridge. If you were in that situation, at least up until the bridge actually starts going up and lifting our car in the air, would you smash through the gates with probably hundreds or thousands of dollars of damages, or would you sit tight and assume that the bridge attendant would notice and open the gates or something to let you out?
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Feb 22, 2022 16:59
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CheshireCat posted:There is several car lengths of space between where they stopped and the gates on that side so there was plenty of space to continue moving forward without smashing through anything. It looks like they actually stopped at the pedestrian gate. I don't think most people really know exactly how drawbridges work or where, without hindsight, would have been a safer place. I suspect they thought stopping 30 feet from the operator's booth was a good spot, which... it probably should have been.
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Feb 22, 2022 17:03
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Scholtz posted:Whyyyyyyyyyyy would you open the door??? I spent a while watching it, trying to figure out why they didn't just gun the engine as soon as they felt the road tipping up, and I'm guessing that the perspective makes the growing gap look a lot smaller than it actually was. I assume they probably also froze for a while, then had the idea to run to safety but their view of jumping across that gap probably looked pretty terrifying by that point.
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Feb 22, 2022 17:09
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It's really a shame you can't see inside due to the glare, it'd be interesting to know wtf they were doing the whole time
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Feb 22, 2022 17:19
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BOOTY-ADE posted:This is confusing...why the hell did that person stop on the bridge like that? I looked up where it is, there's no lights/signs they'd have to stop for on either end. Article didn't mention any traffic or accidents either, no idea what that doofus was trying to do. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.
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Feb 22, 2022 17:47
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mobby_6kl posted:It's really a shame you can't see inside due to the glare, it'd be interesting to know wtf they were doing the whole time Just gotta finish this text real quick
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Feb 22, 2022 18:06
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FC/Cabover chat, I'm a bus driver and we sit 6-8ft in front of the wheels, it's fine as long as you've got a nice air ride like a volvo or scania. The OSHA part of bus driving in the UK is the strong part of the chassis doesn't really extend under the cab so you're literally the crumple zone and there's no seatbelt. They're rear engined, like a porsche so that's not helping you either.
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Feb 22, 2022 18:28
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To add to the Forward Control chat: I had a 66 Ford Econoline in my teens. It took about a month of me daily-driving it everywhere before I realized that it was killing my rear end and back. Driving from Phila. to Hackensack to visit my girlfriend left my rear end numb. And it was loud, even after I insulated & paneled the interior. I have a ‘65 Econoline pickup now, and the ride is fine, not a modern car by any stretch - but it’s not my DD so it hasn’t been a torture. Having nothing in front is a little disconcerting, but It seems to bother the folks I pull up behind in traffic a bit more, to see this huge windshield like, in their trunk.
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Feb 22, 2022 19:33
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My favorite thing about the drawbridge thing is the operator said they didn't see the car despite there obviously being a camera pointed directly at it, so either that camera didn't have a monitor in the booth which is criminally bad design, or the operator didn't even bother to glance at the bridge before opening it.glynnenstein posted:I don't think most people really know exactly how drawbridges work or where, without hindsight, would have been a safer place. I suspect they thought stopping 30 feet from the operator's booth was a good spot, which... it probably should have been. I blame Blues Brothers being a better movie than Maximum Overdrive despite being much less accurate in depicting driving over a drawbridge. Scholtz posted:Whyyyyyyyyyyy would you open the door??? Planning to jump off the bridge before the gap opens enough to drop the car into the water, but realizing that option is no longer available?
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Feb 22, 2022 19:49
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https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_r2lms6I8k91yri6y0.mp4
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Feb 22, 2022 20:36
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frumpykvetchbot posted:They had crossed late and got caught behind the gates on the far side of the bridge. If you were in that situation, at least up until the bridge actually starts going up and lifting our car in the air, would you smash through the gates with probably hundreds or thousands of dollars of damages, or would you sit tight and assume that the bridge attendant would notice and open the gates or something to let you out? Why would crashing the gate be hundreds of thousands of dollars? Figured it'd be cheaper than what happened.
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Feb 22, 2022 21:12
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Glory to Italia!
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ILL Machina posted:Why would crashing the gate be hundreds of thousands of dollars? Figured it'd be cheaper than what happened. Hundreds or thousands. I could see getting stuck with a bill for hitting breakaway barriers for a couple grand, even if the damage to my car was only in the hundreds.
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Feb 22, 2022 21:21
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Devor posted:Hundreds or thousands. I could see getting stuck with a bill for hitting breakaway barriers for a couple grand, even if the damage to my car was only in the hundreds. All damage to a car is in thousands. My cheap as poo poo car got backed in to and the door and front quarter panel were just about total but not quite. So I got a big fat check from the insurance.
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Feb 22, 2022 21:43
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Is this what they call as 'edging'?
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Feb 22, 2022 21:48
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His Divine Shadow posted:These rule, they are useful for keeping winter roads in shape. Unfortunately someome seem to think they should be removed from service, down from 400ish to 68 nation wide I hear. Huh? This can't be right. My little rural county in Bumfuck-Nowhere in the southern US has at least 2 of them.
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Feb 22, 2022 22:17
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My hometown of Anchorage AK only uses graders, they have a bunch of em. The few actual plow trucks dont work for poo poo, you get much better clearance with graders.
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Feb 22, 2022 22:36
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Unperson_47 posted:Huh? This can't be right. My little rural county in Bumfuck-Nowhere in the southern US has at least 2 of them. He's talking about state owned graders in Finland. At some point someone decided that they should be sold away so road care services could be bought from private corporations. Most of the graders were however exported and private road keepers are too cheap to invest in new ones 
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Feb 22, 2022 22:40
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it's kind of surreal to sit on the front porch in the dark and quiet and watch a grader spew sparks all over the peaceful landscape
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Feb 22, 2022 22:44
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Here's a Street View link to the drop arm barrier on the E. Ocean Ave in the video https://goo.gl/maps/rQ9YTNJAKBG8DKRt8 And here's what looks like a bigger, beefier version on the Main Street bridge in Green Bay, WI https://goo.gl/maps/xdaMrRq7moW1ZDVYA and a quote from B&B Roadway identifying the gates on the Main Street Bridge as the VW-5 Vertical Warning Gate with the full unit cost being $33060 and replacement arms costing $4190. B&B's website, the ones on the bridge in the video appear to be the VW-4 model https://bbrss.com/product/vw-4-vertical-warning-gate/ What this tells us is: -Apparently "Vertical Warning Gate" is the name of that piece of equipment. -Ram the thing and it's going to cost you half of what it will if you hit a utility pole. And my conclusions are: -I apparently have too much free time. -The driver probably screwed up and stopped not because of cost, but because we've been pretty well conditioned not to ram a safety gate under any circumstances. GWBBQ fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Feb 22, 2022 |
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Feb 22, 2022 22:56
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A few year ago, someone bought a James Bond car and crashed it into a rock almost immediately after pulling out of the dealership, then proceeded to blame everyone but herself.
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Feb 22, 2022 23:55
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Lazyhound posted:A few year ago, someone bought a James Bond car and crashed it into a rock almost immediately after pulling out of the dealership, then proceeded to blame everyone but herself. Ha! quote:Liu used – and then dispensed of – four different law firms before eventually representing herself and asking the court to award her personal “pain and suffering” damages worth $300,000, as well as a brand new Aston Martin.
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Feb 23, 2022 00:08
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Crankit posted:The OSHA part of bus driving in the UK 
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Lazyhound posted:A few year ago, someone bought a James Bond car and crashed it into a rock almost immediately after pulling out of the dealership, then proceeded to blame everyone but herself. lol this rules
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Feb 23, 2022 01:16
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AFewBricksShy posted:I'd take one even with a 6' bed. 4.5 sucks for carrying sheet goods. 6' is long enough to make it work with the gate down. The maverick is specifically designed to be able to carry sheet goods. They actually put a lot of thought in to making it functional in many ways while maintaining the small size.
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Feb 23, 2022 01:19
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Feb 23, 2022 01:41
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This showed up on my feed, probably because of you fucks, so here. A bunch of sketchy ship launches https://youtu.be/w4TdvOYuefg
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Feb 23, 2022 01:49
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Not very enticing...
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Feb 23, 2022 01:50
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*equips crowbar and jumps on in*
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Feb 23, 2022 01:51
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Yes, hello? I need the biggest can of lubricant you have. No, that's too big
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Feb 23, 2022 01:56
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ILL Machina posted:This showed up on my feed, probably because of you fucks, so here. A bunch of sketchy ship launches It still baffles me that with all our advanced technology and regulations and whatnot, when building multi-million dollar ships, the final step is still "now chuck it in the water".
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Feb 23, 2022 01:57
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Rysithusiku posted:It still baffles me that with all our advanced technology and regulations and whatnot, when building multi-million dollar ships, the final step is still "now chuck it in the water". Even if it weren't we'd still gently caress it up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaLpX5AQbD4
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Rysithusiku posted:It still baffles me that with all our advanced technology and regulations and whatnot, when building multi-million dollar ships, the final step is still "now chuck it in the water". I think you could use a drydock and flood it instead, except then you're tying up an expensive drydock for the entire duration of construction.
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