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Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
what the pluck

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BigHead
Jul 25, 2003
Huh?


Nap Ghost
What the cluck

The roosters cock-a-doodle-doo-ing in the background are unnerving.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Chickens DGAF if you're, uh, "harvesting" other chickens in the vicinity, as far as I've seen.

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012



Werner Herzog posted:

Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...




:hmmyes:

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016


Cattle aren't that bright either.

CainFortea
Oct 15, 2004


Mister Speaker posted:

Well that's horrifying.

Only if you've never had to pluck chickens by hand.

Koivunen
Oct 7, 2011

there's definitely no logic
to human behaviour
OSHA-like question. When a large building is being built and it’s taking a long time because of its size, how normal is it for wildlife to settle in? Birds, skunks, squirrels, etc. Then, when “higher ups” refuse to trap the animals, how expected is it for the construction workers to kill said animals? And finally, how not OSHA-approved is it to just drywall over dead animals and all their droppings, or continue installing ceilings and electrical stuff when there’s inches of bird poop on the support beams?

Vakal
May 11, 2008

CainFortea posted:

Only if you've never had to pluck chickens by hand.

As a kid I used to chase down the running chickens after my older cousins cut their heads off.

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

Mustached Demon posted:

Cattle aren't that bright either.

Ya know people say that about cows but I think it's just that factory farms break any living things spirit so completely that it's what people think of when they think of a cow's natural state of being.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


LifeSunDeath posted:

watching deadliest roads again and plane buzzing a truck for no clear reason is bonkers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI_zxZwC0UI

Hahahah I knew it would start in Lae before I clicked. I think I aged 10 years in the short time I was there. Also lol Guard Dog Security. We were driven everywhere by them. They say they aren't armed in that video... but first thing I got was a pistol when we were rushed into the troopie at the airport in the middle of the night.

This was foreboding when I opened the local newspaper in PoM the day before. If crime is UP in Lae... you're in for a bad time.

GD_American
Jul 21, 2004

LISTEN TO WHAT I HAVE TO SAY AS IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT!

DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

Ya know people say that about cows but I think it's just that factory farms break any living things spirit so completely that it's what people think of when they think of a cow's natural state of being.

Pigs that escaped farms not only went back to feral in the space of a few generations but their descendants cause massive damages every year to farmers.

Not everybody gave up the fight.

Flash Gordon Ramsay
Sep 28, 2004

Grimey Drawer
Doesn’t that bruise/damage the meat

PurpleXVI
Oct 30, 2011

Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
ALL PART OF MY BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

Koivunen posted:

OSHA-like question. When a large building is being built and it’s taking a long time because of its size, how normal is it for wildlife to settle in? Birds, skunks, squirrels, etc. Then, when “higher ups” refuse to trap the animals, how expected is it for the construction workers to kill said animals? And finally, how not OSHA-approved is it to just drywall over dead animals and all their droppings, or continue installing ceilings and electrical stuff when there’s inches of bird poop on the support beams?

I'm sorry what?

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

GD_American posted:

Pigs that escaped farms not only went back to feral in the space of a few generations but their descendants cause massive damages every year to farmers.

Not everybody gave up the fight.

Pigs can turn feral in months in the wild.

Rigged Death Trap
Feb 13, 2012

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

Doesn’t that bruise/damage the meat

Nah the defeathering dildos are firm rubber and what plucks the bird is the feathers getting caught between the fingers or being rubbed off by friction

It looks violent but bruising doesnt happen on a properly bled bird and theres no hard surfaces to impact against for a solid hit to damage the meat.
If youve ever flattened out a chicken breast for schnitzel (or other similar type thing) youd know it takes a surprising amount of effort and a hefty hammer.

Cable Guy
Jul 18, 2005

I don't expect any trouble, but we'll be handing these out later...




Slippery Tilde

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

Doesn’t that bruise/damage the meat
Fantastic username/avatar/post trifecta there....

Preoptopus
Aug 25, 2008

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трø ÿþ трø ÿþûþÑÂúø

Mustached Demon posted:

Cattle aren't that bright either.

My experience with cows is tied up in my buddies parents dairy farm where they are free to roam around a few hundred acres of woods and prairie when they arnt being milked. Some prefer to wonder around the property some prefer to chill in the stockade and lay in the hay. I wouldn't say they are intelligent like a dog but they do have personalities and they come running from all corners of the farm when u ring a loud bell they had for milking time/feed time. They basically know whats expected of them. They know what they can and cant do. And the little calfs are very curious and fun to play with. So not a completely stupid animal.

Preoptopus fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Jan 21, 2023

McGavin
Sep 18, 2012

:wom:der

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

PurpleXVI posted:

I'm sorry what?

He is saying that he assumes wild animals start nesting in the frames of buildings under construction, and he asks if the construction workers have to kill these animals before the building can be completed, and if the walls of new buildings are full of dead animals as a result.

I think the initial assumption is flawed, and animals probably do not choose to nest in a noisy construction site in the first place.

Pigsfeet on Rye
Oct 22, 2008

I'm meat on the hoof

CainFortea posted:

Only if you've never had to pluck chickens by hand.

Yup. It's not easy, and the smell of hot wet feathers is horrendous

Preoptopus
Aug 25, 2008

âрø ÿþûþÑÂúø,
трø ÿþ трø ÿþûþÑÂúø

Sagebrush posted:

He is saying that he assumes wild animals start nesting in the frames of buildings under construction, and he asks if the construction workers have to kill these animals before the building can be completed, and if the walls of new buildings are full of dead animals as a result.

I think the initial assumption is flawed, and animals probably do not choose to nest in a noisy construction site in the first place.

My dad has been in a multi year war with woodpeckers building nests in the stucco exterior of my parents house leaving a bunch of damage. After trying for years with many meathods of determent, He has resorted to a super accurate high power bb gun with a scope. Yet every spring more keep comming.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Mustached Demon posted:

Pigs can turn feral in months in the wild.

Eh, so can I.

Phanatic
Mar 13, 2007

Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

the panacea posted:

Don't they usually use water jets to peel large quantities at the same time?

Yeah, exactly, if you're peeling big numbers of potatoes you dump 'em into a vat with water and tumble them around and the skins come off. You *could* do it with a machine that painstakingly grips one potato at a time and moves two peelers around in in a circuit to take the skin off strip by strip but why on earth would you.

hazardousmouse
Dec 17, 2010

Weembles posted:

The potatoes remind me - it's been a while since chicken plucking machines have made the rounds of the forums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LViETnq18xo&t=44s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMydVdwmuws

I was expecting something like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1hi-1fKaxk
so seeing the whirly dildo tub gave me an unexpected chuckle at the ingenious solution

LifeSunDeath
Jan 4, 2007

still gay rights and smoke weed every day
https://i.imgur.com/pIffu6n.mp4

Benagain
Oct 10, 2007

Can you see that I am serious?
Fun Shoe

Koivunen posted:

OSHA-like question. When a large building is being built and it’s taking a long time because of its size, how normal is it for wildlife to settle in? Birds, skunks, squirrels, etc. Then, when “higher ups” refuse to trap the animals, how expected is it for the construction workers to kill said animals? And finally, how not OSHA-approved is it to just drywall over dead animals and all their droppings, or continue installing ceilings and electrical stuff when there’s inches of bird poop on the support beams?

So this sounds like something you're having a direct experience with and I for one want to see some pictures if possible because lol.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

I don't think anything I've ever seen on the internet has disturbed me as much as the promo vid for that crab kill machine with poppy upbeat electro-jazz

dokmo
Aug 27, 2006

:stat:man

Koivunen posted:

OSHA-like question. When a large building is being built and it’s taking a long time because of its size, how normal is it for wildlife to settle in? Birds, skunks, squirrels, etc. Then, when “higher ups” refuse to trap the animals, how expected is it for the construction workers to kill said animals? And finally, how not OSHA-approved is it to just drywall over dead animals and all their droppings, or continue installing ceilings and electrical stuff when there’s inches of bird poop on the support beams?

animals do not like being around the people building and the loud noisy machines they bring. also when a building is going up, there aren't many cracks and crevices for animals to hide in, nor are there materials to build shelters out of or food to eat.

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe

The mechanic missed an opportunity to demonstrate perfect comedic timing with an exaggerated "stop" hand signal at the end here.

withak fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Jan 21, 2023

withak
Jan 15, 2003


Fun Shoe

Koivunen posted:

OSHA-like question. When a large building is being built and it’s taking a long time because of its size, how normal is it for wildlife to settle in? Birds, skunks, squirrels, etc. Then, when “higher ups” refuse to trap the animals, how expected is it for the construction workers to kill said animals? And finally, how not OSHA-approved is it to just drywall over dead animals and all their droppings, or continue installing ceilings and electrical stuff when there’s inches of bird poop on the support beams?

Deterring birds from nesting on job sites is a really big deal because once an egg is present it is usually illegal to disturb the birds or the nest until the nestlings fledge. I saw a drill rig get stuck on a site for several months once because they didn't cover it in netting well enough and a cliff swallow built a nest on it, and a project site where the main entrance had to be shut down to anything taller than a passenger vehicle for a few months because of a hummingbird nest in a tree overhanging the gate. Killdeers are apparently the worst because they can nest on bare dirt and can easily build a nest and lay eggs over the course of a weekend.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
There's a sequel to the potato video, quite a bit more OSHA. I saved it this time, just in case.

https://i.imgur.com/PrFvgnL.mp4

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


Sagebrush posted:

I think the initial assumption is flawed, and animals probably do not choose to nest in a noisy construction site in the first place.

i have a feeling you would be shocked to discover the level of poo poo that wild animals have acclimated to and the frankly absurd places that they wind up trying to live in

raccoons don't give a gently caress about anything and will nest practically anywhere if an area is left alone for a day

Sammus
Nov 30, 2005

withak posted:

Deterring birds from nesting on job sites is a really big deal because once an egg is present it is usually illegal to disturb the birds or the nest until the nestlings fledge. I saw a drill rig get stuck on a site for several months once because they didn't cover it in netting well enough and a cliff swallow built a nest on it, and a project site where the main entrance had to be shut down to anything taller than a passenger vehicle for a few months because of a hummingbird nest in a tree overhanging the gate. Killdeers are apparently the worst because they can nest on bare dirt and can easily build a nest and lay eggs over the course of a weekend.

America is funny. Native bird nests are protected while in use, but you can go ahead and gently caress invasive species’ nests up.

Sockington
Jul 26, 2003

withak posted:

Deterring birds from nesting on job sites is a really big deal because once an egg is present it is usually illegal to disturb the birds or the nest until the nestlings fledge.

I’ve seen the sliding scale of finesse from bringing in a falconer to remove birds to a guy running up onto a roof with a garbage bag to remove a seagull nest before they could lay eggs so they could repair a nearby HVAC system.

I’ve had to work places where they’ve become waaaay too comfortable (like closed top refinery storage tanks) with nests near by and it can be surprising how large a herring gull is up close when they are dive bombing you.

Eventually they setup shop slightly away and let you do your thing… or you have a sacrificial apprentice/helper standup and take the heat while you get the job done.

Jet Jaguar
Feb 12, 2006

Don't touch my bags if you please, Mr Customs Man.



mobby_6kl posted:

There's a sequel to the potato video, quite a bit more OSHA. I saved it this time, just in case.

https://i.imgur.com/PrFvgnL.mp4

This looks like a great way to mangle a hand. Dropping the newly-made fries two feet onto a tray below—is this part of the process I don't understand or do they want to allow the user to make a literal mountain of fries? Seems like a great way to get a bunch all over the floor.

thepopmonster
Feb 18, 2014


Jet Jaguar posted:

This looks like a great way to mangle a hand. Dropping the newly-made fries two feet onto a tray below—is this part of the process I don't understand or do they want to allow the user to make a literal mountain of fries? Seems like a great way to get a bunch all over the floor.

They are making them animal-style.

Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

mobby_6kl posted:

There's a sequel to the potato video, quite a bit more OSHA. I saved it this time, just in case.

https://i.imgur.com/PrFvgnL.mp4
This feels like a machine that started much safer, then somebody removed a bunch of guards so work would go faster

12 rats tied together
Sep 7, 2006

at the hotel i worked at we had one of those attached to a deli slicer and i refused to touch it or be in the room when it was operating

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Zero One
Dec 30, 2004

HAIL TO THE VICTORS!

mobby_6kl posted:

There's a sequel to the potato video, quite a bit more OSHA. I saved it this time, just in case.

https://i.imgur.com/PrFvgnL.mp4

*Points to thread title*

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