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So uh, did they just climb those boards sticking out to get to the top and just throw lumber down or something? Seems like an inefficient way to store lumber.
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Antigravitas posted:Jfc. This video starts off in Paducah, Texas, the next town over from Crowell (36 mi/58 km). It's 40 minutes of a guy driving around and narrating what he sees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmNEiWSo8Fg
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I don't think I've seen those before, it feels like the same kind of impressive/depressing combo as those old photos of lumberjacks cutting down mind-bogglingly huge redwoods just because they're there. e: 
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Sanctum posted:Reminds me of century-old photos of lumber yards where piles are stacked stupidly high. Long before Big Government OSHA came along; back in the gilded age where unregulated, unsafe factory towns across america ruled the land. Working men who couldn't afford a decent pair of boots would risk life and limb for a dime an hour to make a few monopolists increasingly wealthy. At least the stacks are relatively stable. Not the same wiggle to them that 10 pallets of canned goods held together by hope and cellophane have.
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PaleIrishGuy posted:At least the stacks are relatively stable. Not the same wiggle to them that 10 pallets of canned goods held together by hope and cellophane have. poo poo, you can't even get a stable stack of lumber more than about 10 boards high at home depot or Lowes anymore. Last time I had to get some lumber, me and another guy were rooting through the same stack and he was just delighted to show me this: 
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This one that was below that always fucks me up. It doesn't include the part where he's attaching the ladder to the chimney. The start of the video is him climbing up the ladder and he's like pulling outwards on the ladder. It's only attached to the chimney by some shims hammered into the bricks and then tied to the ladder rungs. https://twitter.com/yesknow/status/1751633404569809072
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1931 book about electrocution. Full dump here: https://imgur.com/gallery/mWWy6H4             
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:poo poo, you can't even get a stable stack of lumber more than about 10 boards high at home depot or Lowes anymore. Yeah, makes you think they get those boards by chopping the Lorax's home down.
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What's that device the baby is being disappointed by?
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Cojawfee posted:This one that was below that always fucks me up. It doesn't include the part where he's attaching the ladder to the chimney. The start of the video is him climbing up the ladder and he's like pulling outwards on the ladder. It's only attached to the chimney by some shims hammered into the bricks and then tied to the ladder rungs. Yeah, as someone with acrophobia those Fred Dibnah videos were straight up some of the most terrifying poo poo I've ever seen. It's just so wild when he admits that he's actually also a bit scared but just gets on with it.
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Cojawfee posted:Jeez I'm such an idiot. I forgot that, unlike crocodiles, alligators are capable of complex emotions and can bond with mammals. There is no danger in those videos, because those alligators would never attack their handlers. Could they eat a people? They look like they're barely bigger than the person cleaning them. PurpleXVI posted:What's that device the baby is being disappointed by? Looks like some kind of old-timey insanely dangerous immersion heater, presumably for prepping milk. The Lone Badger fucked around with this message at 12:13 on Jan 29, 2024 |
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PurpleXVI posted:What's that device the baby is being disappointed by? On the night stand, you can see a little milk warmer. It has some prongs sticking out of it. That's what you connect those things to, that the baby's handling. They're two separate female connectors for hooking up the kettle/milk warmer to the live/neutral of the mains. The holes are large enough to fit a baby's finger. Here's an actual photograph of a kettle that uses similar terminals. If you would remove one, and it just so happens that the live one is still connected to the kettle, the exposed prong is also live.  So a couple years later they got replaced by more standardized, more normal plugs. I think already in the mid 1920s this kind of plug was essentially a universal standard in Europe:  These with the ceramic bits were used for hot devices like kettles, clothes irons and radiant heaters. Vacuum cleaners typically used similar plugs made out of rubber or fully out of bakelite. Using these instead of a fixed cord had the advantage of easily replacing it when damaged, but also that you only needed one cord, so you didn't waste money on the cords of devices that you aren't currently using. After all, you cannot vacuum while ironing. The cost of cords was significant in those days. Only starting in the 1960s did fixed power cords become the standard for clothes irons/canister vacuum cleaners/heaters etc. Somehow, upright vacuums practically always had fixed cords. They were a safety risk in itself because although the pin distance is the same as that of a standard european plug, the pin size was larger. You could stick a standard plug into one of those female connectors to use it as an extension cord, but it would be very loose, causing arcing and exposing live bits of the plug you're putting into it. LimaBiker fucked around with this message at 12:18 on Jan 29, 2024 |
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Fun fact: the introduction of those plugs correlated with a massive increase in population growth as children finally started making it to adulthood in significant numbers for the first time since electrification began
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If only they waited until the 30s to invent that plug baby hitler might have never become a problem
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What's so OSHA about that?
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the osha thread is also about interesting mechanics or tools and has been for some years if you really want to stretch, it's osha because it's a totally hosed rusty bolt and showing how to replace it with a less hosed one is making things safer anyway content: https://i.imgur.com/fbDFgI0.mp4
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I’ve heard of the ol’ spicy keychain, but not the hot doorknob.
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Some men will pay for this experience
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FuturePastNow posted:Some men will pay for this experience 
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"It's like getting kicked in the nuts by mule" per the fellow I knew that tried it.
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Ah yes, the two-handed smoking fist technique.
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I call bullshit. No fuckin way. Fake or that dude suffered a looney tunes pratfall soon after for his hubris.
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emgeejay posted:https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1751630712518726121?s=61&t=0u0iPLgsrw9rb7UXErdBQA psycho poo poo
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LvK posted:here, have a short cartoon based on the meme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2uZ4WeU1_4
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Lake of Methane posted:This video starts off in Paducah, Texas, the next town over from Crowell (36 mi/58 km). It's 40 minutes of a guy driving around and narrating what he sees. I grew up in a few small towns near here, and this is making me equal parts sad and homesick. A lot of these towns were starting to fade away back in the 80s, and it rapidly accelerated through the 90s to now. I keep up with a few friends from back then, and pretty much nobody stayed, for good reason. That landscape will always be beautiful to me though. e: I played a junior high school football game in Paducah, they had a girl playing quarterback and she kicked our asses Enos Cabell fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Jan 29, 2024 |
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That's some bullshit fake AI witchcraft because those fuckers always snap in the hole and leave you with an even worse problem.
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emgeejay posted:https://twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1751630712518726121?s=61&t=0u0iPLgsrw9rb7UXErdBQA It's just a bosun's chair, like people use to climb sailboat masts.
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ReelBigLizard posted:That's some bullshit fake AI witchcraft because those fuckers always snap in the hole and leave you with an even worse problem. I always love the "Look as us trying to use this tool that obviously wont work!" steps, like, of course it won't work!
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Safety Dance posted:It's just a bosun's chair, like people use to climb sailboat masts. Ah yes, old timey sailor, a profession well known for its exemplary safety record.
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The Lone Badger posted:Could they eat a people? They look like they're barely bigger than the person cleaning them.
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"CYA later, poo poo lords!"
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I also like it rough, but a little lubrication would go a long way here.
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I totally thought they were gonna just drill out a hole and install a smaller bolt into the remaining bit of the bigger bolt.
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Harry_Potato posted:I also like it rough, but a little lubrication would go a long way here. Not really, since it wasn’t even stuck in the first place.
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ReelBigLizard posted:That's some bullshit fake AI witchcraft because those fuckers always snap in the hole and leave you with an even worse problem. Some slick edits and lmao why isnt the entire cross section fresh steel and why is it half rusted already? No galling on the threads? The twist of the failed section is also obviously due to over tightening too. To top it all off by how fast that drill chewed through it its a poo poo grade bolt youd have very little trouble extracting with some heat and penetrant in the first place. Verdict: dumb algorithm chasing tool bullshit 5 minute crafts but for bolt extraction.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:The twist of the failed section is also obviously due to over tightening too. Yeah, they are turning it clockwise at first, tightening it, not trying to remove it.
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LimaBiker posted:Heavy winds can blow the wires around in such a way that they start swinging, and eventually touch. Then they draw an arc. The same winds then blow the arc sideways across the length of the wire, as opposed to upwards when there's no wind or wind blowing perpendicular to the wire. Also, the arc itself is conductive, that's why it kinda stays together. Once the arc happens, it's easier for the electrons to flow, so once the wires move apart, sometimes the arc stays. This is why Jacob's Ladders work. The arc happens at the bottom where the rods are close, then as the arc moves up the rods get a little further apart until eventually even the ionized air in the arc isn't enough to make a circuit and the flow stops, then restarts at the easiest part.
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Kith posted:the osha thread is also about interesting mechanics or tools and has been for some years drat, I'm terrified of heights but I want to ride this rickety gondola contraption.
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