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NoneMoreNegative posted:Made me think of the news where there’s a petrol tanker crash and the first thing the nearby inhabitants is start lining up for free buckets of petrol, and then of course there’s a cigarette or other spark and another story to make you go brr gently caress Hey, free fuel is free fuel. https://twitter.com/i/status/1086475567585730563
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"Mexico, leak in shopping mall and local band starts playing Titanic theme (with sound)" https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aoewv4x_460svvp9.webm
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Jun 10, 2019 19:05
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sarujin_nz posted:Lowest bridge I've ever found. At that point, "why don't they just lower the road?" really seems like the best idea
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Jun 10, 2019 19:18
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Probably a bunch of stuff under the road they either can't move or would be a PITA to move lower. Like gas lines, buried power lines, sewer lines, etc.
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Jun 10, 2019 19:50
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Maybe it would be better for everyone to declare that space no longer a street and unpave it and fence it off for storage or something. There's got to be a better crossing nearby. vvvvvvv 1.9m is just under 6'3. Hope there isn't a local basketball team. haveblue fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Jun 10, 2019 |
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Jun 10, 2019 19:57
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Yeah it seems like more risk/liability than it's worth. It looks like a tall person couldn't even walk under that without ducking.
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Jun 10, 2019 20:05
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I know it's a running joke, but what was the actual reason for not being able to raise the 11'8" bridge?
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Jun 10, 2019 21:09
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Zipperelli. posted:I know it's a running joke, but what was the actual reason for not being able to raise the 11'8" bridge? From the wiki: "It cannot be raised because nearby railroad crossings would also have to be raised with it. The street also cannot be lowered because a major sewer line runs only four feet (1.2 m) under Gregson Street."
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Zipperelli. posted:I know it's a running joke, but what was the actual reason for not being able to raise the 11'8" bridge? Trains hate inclinations. Also there is a sewer line under the underpass. -e- ^^^ 
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Jun 10, 2019 21:11
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pik_d posted:From the wiki: Lol, I didn't realize it had a wiki Lurking Haro posted:Trains hate inclinations. Also there is a sewer line under the underpass. Yeah, I knew there was some type of main under the road, I just forgot why they couldn't raise the overpass.
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Trains don’t like hills. Gradients above twoish percent are rare. If you want to raise the bridge a little bit, you have to adjust the track a long way in either direction. It’s worse if the track already has a gradient
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Jun 10, 2019 21:20
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Nobody really wants to spend millions of dollars to change a bridge that breaks the trucks of people too dumb and negligent to know how tall their truck is.
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Jun 10, 2019 21:31
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The thing about that 1.9m bridge is that it's too low for people to think they can make it, so a truck isn't going to try. The magic of 11foot8 is that it's just high enough that people think they can make it through, and then they can't.
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Jun 10, 2019 21:38
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The other thing about 11ft8 is that a lot of larger vehicles can make it through. Plenty of smaller trailers and vans can make it easily. Most RV's also don't hit the bridge with their main structure, they just end up getting the doodads on the roof stripped off. It's right at the height of maximum 'gently caress you.'
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https://imgur.com/p6KCXdW This is Sydney's version of 11ft8. Whilst it may lose out to Brisbane by 10cm i would argue its more gently caress you as that is an expressway rather than rail line above the road. Do cars have trouble with hills? Spanky McSpank fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Jun 10, 2019 |
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Jun 10, 2019 23:29
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My local (Perth's) low bridge isn't even that low at 3.8m. But it did fight back and the bridge hit a car last month. Bayswater Bridge
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hannibal posted:The thing about that 1.9m bridge is that it's too low for people to think they can make it, so a truck isn't going to try. The magic of 11foot8 is that it's just high enough that people think they can make it through, and then they can't. Big trucks won't try it, but I bet big cars still get dinged on the regular. Or maybe when it's lower than a tall man it's low enough to trigger "I'm going to bump my head" and make people think.
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Jun 11, 2019 02:42
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There's a bridge on the highway here that's 5 meters which is higher than a non-permit load. It has signs, sensors, and lights that warn you if you're too high. and idiots STILL keep loving running into it.  Warning: video contains an EXTREME canadian accent and language. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1199571011628/
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Jun 11, 2019 02:49
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Powershift posted:There's a bridge on the highway here that's 5 meters which is higher than a non-permit load. I love how they slow down, like the bridge somehow won't be too low if they sneak up on it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xeq4-UIx5t4 A bunch of completely unqualified digital effects artists try to restore a vintage chainsaw and lick rust.
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Jun 11, 2019 03:48
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Powershift posted:There's a bridge on the highway here that's 5 meters which is higher than a non-permit load. Impressive truckfuckling. Overpasses that high don’t require signs in any state in the Union. The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices says you only have to post vertical clearances when they’re less than one foot greater than the state allows, and no state allows vehicle taller than fifteen feet without permits. 
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Powershift posted:There's a bridge on the highway here that's 5 meters which is higher than a non-permit load. If you're going east out of Vancouver there's a bridge that's marked at 4.3m. Max height for vehicles is 4.15 metres, so naturally the underside is full of scrapes from people who were juuust over the limit and thought they could make it.
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chitoryu12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xeq4-UIx5t4 I'm loving the lack of the face shield and chaps while using a chainsaw which appears to have no safety features apart from a catch pin. The best I've ever used was my dad's old saw that must have been from the '70s or '80s; instead of a throttle interlock it had a throttle lock. As in, a little button you could press to lock the throttle in the on position.
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TerminalSaint posted:I'm loving the lack of the face shield and chaps while using a chainsaw which appears to have no safety features apart from a catch pin. The best I've ever used was my dad's old saw that must have been from the '70s or '80s; instead of a throttle interlock it had a throttle lock. As in, a little button you could press to lock the throttle in the on position. I've got one of these waiting to be rebuilt (sorry for the tinypic it's all I could turn up):  When I first got it, it ran well (although smoky, because it uses a 1:25 mix of straight SAE30 oil), and I used it a couple of times, and it cuts big logs like a hot knife through butter. It's been on my garden shed shelf now for about 10 years, so, at least the carb will need rebuilt. It has absolutely no safety features, interlocks, or whatever, and if it backfires when you're trying to start it, it'll drat near dislocate your shoulder. I'm pretty sure you could run a small go-cart using its motor. OSHA related:  From a past employer's shop floor. We had some strong-willed mechanics who enforced lockouts in their own language. BlankIsBeautiful fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Jun 11, 2019 |
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Yeah watched the vid with a gritted rear end in a top hat waiting for someone to throw a cigarette or rub a balloon on their shirt.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:
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Tashilicious posted:I'm the corrected I in pencil That was my doing. 
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Yeah watched the vid with a gritted rear end in a top hat waiting for someone to throw a cigarette or rub a balloon on their shirt. I thought it was a repost of the last pipeline rupture. Never want to see that video again. EDIT: Just read the article and it IS from that rupture where 76 people died. So, uh, maybe no one click too many links on that article page. Some poo poo you really do not need to see.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I thought it was a repost of the last pipeline rupture. that video is CRAZY, just a hundred flaming people running through a field fully engulfed, the camera goes out of focus at one point and it all the tiny little flames in the distance get exagerated by the bokeh circles and you really get a sense of how many people are on fire there. fuckin lots.
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wilderthanmild posted:Yeah it seems like more risk/liability than it's worth. It looks like a tall person couldn't even walk under that without ducking. Or a normal person on a bicycle. Jesus christ my skull would be so deformed from riding while drunk or during night if that was near my home. Now there is one light traffic underpass where I *barely* fit on my bike without lowering my head, but I still always instinctively do it anyway when I approach because I don't want to look like one of those trucks.
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bring back old gbs posted:that video is CRAZY, just a hundred flaming people running through a field fully engulfed, the camera goes out of focus at one point and it all the tiny little flames in the distance get exagerated by the bokeh circles and you really get a sense of how many people are on fire there. fuckin lots. drat. I definitely watched video of the Nedelin catastrophe (probably don't), sounds like that scaled up.
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Glagha posted:I think you get to see them wave their arm from inside the dirt and presumably they heard them since the driver jumped out and everything so... Hopefully not too seriously injured if not? Unless they have some serious pipes for yelling after being dumped from a loader, I doubt that driver would hear it. I don't hear much outside of the cab in the one I use at work, but my hearing might not be that great either.
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I posted about this a few pages ago but seeing as we're on the topic again, oil theft from pipelines is something that I find really interesting to read about. Theres some amazing videos on youtube of the illegal oil "refineries" that operate around the Niger delta, and the horrible health effects and pollution they cause. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_theft_in_Nigeria for some bedtime reading. Posting this again stamped at 14:20. Just a quick look at the refinery operations, but the rest of the video is interesting too if you're into this sort of thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=866fXIAZsDk&t=860s e: sorry for reposting
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7NCeQUNhUY As soon as these guys stop doing digital effects, they try to kill themselves as fast as possible.
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Osha Chat: My coworker walked off a two story roof yesterday. Onto concrete. Lucky idiot walked away with a few stitches, by swinging from a garden hose like tarzan. Work safe goons.
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chitoryu12 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7NCeQUNhUY That really doesn't seem that dangerous, what with the helmets and all
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An almost perfect east-west split is fascinating. I wonder wht the reason is
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Fallom posted:That really doesn't seem that dangerous, what with the helmets and all A 7 foot pile of cinder blocks weighing 600 pounds will avoid crushing you because you have a helmet?
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