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Computer viking posted:Goddamn, slowly cutting through an entire stump like that looks like it'd take insane amounts of torque. Judging from the sound of the engine it's got a decent amount of throttle applied, so the PTO on that could very well be going upwards of 1500 RPM. I'm guessing that orange section at the top of that is all gears that reduce the PTO's thousand+ RPMs into a slower, but more powerful cutting speed.
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Gorilla Salad posted:And everyone immediately just started calmly gathering their poo poo and walking away Eastern Europe.
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chitoryu12 posted:I think only one bullet passed through where his head would be, but you're correct: Cagney nearly got shot to death, and it was distressingly common for live ammo to be used. This wasn't due to a lack of blanks, but actually a lack of squibs to simulate bullet hits on cue. Squibs today are remotely activated, but in the first half of the 20th century you didn't really have anything like that. So they just fired real bullets at surfaces to get the effect of them being shot. Vic Morrows and two kids were killed during the filming of a Twilight Zone movie. The chopper was hit by some debris from some pyrotechnics they were firing off and crashed. I think it took Vic and one of the Child's heads off and the other drown I believe. I think that was the incident that ended up causing a shitload of regulations to be written regarding stunts in film.
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Volcott posted:I've always wondered what would happen if a fat tried doing that. If we're talking "Texas Fat" you're definitely going to get a derailment out of the stunt.
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Asbestos, right before it was pretty much banned was turned into absolutely everything! -Insulation -Corrugated Roofing and Shingles -Ceiling and Floor Tiles -Structural beams -Firewall barriers -Firedoor insulation -Fireproof curtains and Fireblankets -Paneling for around fireplaces and stoves -Fabric/Solid pot holders -Electrical wiring insulation -How water/steam pipe insulation You get the point. If anyone wants to know more about removing asbestos, you should check out the educational firm, "Session 9" which is the source of this gif. 
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What's the point of a big thorn-scape to scare away cave people? Just bury it, fill in the tunnels, and bulldoze the entrance so there is no sign of anything there. If you bury it in some place with no usable minerals or gems, then there is pretty much no reason for any future people to dig there. No matter what kind of warning you put in front of hazardous waste, one of two things is going to happen. 1. They have advanced to the point where their Geiger counters go bananas and they say, "nuclear waste" let's not fool around with it. 2. "Ook ook, bunga bunga" and they crack the containers open with a stone and have a wicked glow-in-the-dark caveman orgy in a pool of waste.
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Apr 16, 2015 21:00
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Ozz81 posted:Heard one story in high school shop class from my teacher about a guy who left a rod or something sticking out perpendicular from a lathe and it accidentally got turned on. Dude was standing too close, rod spun up and basically sliced him open from pelvis to chest. Don't remember if he lived (or even if the story was true) but drat if it didn't make all of us really, really careful around them, especially with safety equipment and making sure to work in pairs with someone near an emergency stop switch. Lathes (the big ones) are freaking scary! We had these massive westinghouse ones in my shop class and one kid left the chuck wrench in it when he started it up and sent it flying about 15 feet straight up in the air. Another kid didn't properly secure the 40lb chuck on his lathe and sent it flying about 10 feet away from him and it hit a cement block wall and smashed one of them. Another kid was using a gas torch to cut open a shock cylinder and sent a jet of flame 20 feet across the room. The shop teacher said the scariest thing he ever saw was an oxygen cylinder fall off a forklift, land right on the valve, rocket 25 feet straight up, punch through the roof, and about 6 seconds later punch back down through the roof and land on the shop floor (this was as the too land die place he worked at before becoming a teacher).
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May 16, 2015 01:00
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Wonder how many of those guys are still alive?
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May 18, 2015 01:30
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Shalebridge Cradle posted:There is no reason that should have worked  I was 100% sure, but it never happened.
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May 26, 2015 07:52
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Helios Grime posted:That's boring, he'll just use it like a regular saw. 
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surebet posted:This happened to me a couple times and yeah the reaction was generally favourable. Some friends of mine in university had a party at the apartment they rented (2 floors, 4 bedrooms) and some idiot (that they never found) spent the whole night punching holes in the upstairs walls before they figured out it was happening and kicked everyone out. In all, there were ~30 fist sized holes in 3 different bedrooms, the upstairs bathroom, and the hallway. The holes were typically a foot apart, so there were 8 sheets of drywall that were total write-offs and a remaining 10 holes that only needed patching or a small piece replaced. They contacted a contractor, but he quoted them ~2000 bucks in total, so I offered to do it for 500 (they buy the materials and tools). Took me three days (a day longer than I thought) and they repainted the whole place. The landlord remarked that the place looked cleaner than when they moved in, and they got the entire deposit back. I often wondered if a person could make a decent living in a college/university town by advertising as an "after party" contractor who does work fast (but charges through the nose).
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The Dark One posted:Pretty sure buckling up before flight is mandatory on ultralights like this. Never bothered to read the video title and just assumed one of them didn't buckle properly. Skipped ahead to 1/2 way point after nothing was happening and. . . 
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Jun 22, 2015 21:24
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Three-Phase posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03YcT74h5Mg That was 100% grade A retardedness all round! -people not moving towards the center of the ring -people getting in front of the horses -not getting out of your cart -not moving the horses right to the middle of the ring -waving and further spooking the horses -yelling and screaming -going from the middle of the ring to the outside -not letting the horse just tire out and calm down Had everyone just got out of its way, shut up, and let it be, it would have stopped running after 5 minutes or so with nobody being hurt. Every time someone tried to stop it, they added another minute of panic to it. Also, that last horse might have broken a leg, given the way it fell and was acting after it was restrained. For a horse show, nobody seemed to know how to act around them. Blistex fucked around with this message at 08:26 on Jun 29, 2015 |
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Cheez posted:People were literally being instructed over a loudspeaker and still wouldn't do it.  "Well, the horse didn't stop for the last guy, or the guy before him, or the 6 other guys before them. . . I bet I'll be the one to do it!" (people are idiots)Seeing videos like that, and horses in real life freak out over sparrows, rabbits, and their own loving shadows has me convinced that cows are at least 3 times smarter, and 30 times more chill than them.
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jetz0r posted:The arm mangling and head crushing machines? Fedor Emelianenko and Mirko Filipović?
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Thump! posted:You've got the wrong fetish for the job then boy! How do you manage to get pinned under bulldozer?
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C.M. Kruger posted:In fact after WW2, somebody even tried to market one in the US. Why the gently caress would you try and sell a piece of poo poo shotgun in the US when a real one was $3.00 or less in any pawn shop in the country? You're at a point in US history where half the population has a huge GI cheque and the other half has been making decent bank in the factories, where was this need for a cheaper-than-dirt shotgun?
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WorldsStrongestNerd posted:From a page back, but every person I've ever talked to who lost a finger or got an end cut off says that they wish they had opted for amputation rather then getting it sewed back on. Apparently even with a clean cut it's nothing but trouble and never heals or feels right again. Or maybe it's lovely doctors around here idk. Might be lovely doctors, but a lot of the problems are self-inflicted (after the fact). Post surgery therapy and exercise and mean the difference between getting 95% of your ability back or having a painful lump that is useless. My uncle severed a bunch of tendons in his forearm with a chop-saw and had to work for over a year to get to where he was sure he had 99% of his original ability in that hand. The exercised involved doing stuff that made his arm feel like it was literally on fire and would result in cramps and pains in his hand that wouldn't let him sleep for days since it felt like it was constantly being stabbed with needles. In the end his suffering paid off and he can barely tell that he once had no control over any of his fingers or his thumb in his one hand. A teen that had done something similar with a window (much cleaner cut and wound) had the same doctor, and he was never able to use that hand again as it pretty much froze and became useless after a few months because he refused to do any of the exercises required to keep his hand working. A lot of the people who said they had wished the finger(s) had not been sewn back on probably fall into the latter camp and now have a useless and painful lump because they were not disciplined enough to save their digit(s).
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Say Nothing posted:Homemade wood cutters, displaying varying degrees of safety. The last one doesn't seem too bad until a piece of clothing gets caught and rips your arm off, but the first two are insanely stupid and obviously so.
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Tambaloneus posted:I hope it was his laptop and this is the shot before he tried to turn it on and it went ZPPFTZZZ and blew a nice hole in his mb. Laptops were initially designed for businessmen on the go, so 120/220 volt compatibility was an absolute necessity and that has held true for the entire history of the laptop. Buying a laptop power supply that doesn't do 120/220 would be a real treasure hunt, and even the cheapest Chinese knock-off probably does both.
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Stick Insect posted:They don't sell PC power supplies with those handy "120/220" self-destruct buttons anymore either. <looks at back of PC> "Well I'll be damned!"
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VendaGoat posted:This is a "brown" incident. The force of a speeding dump truck hitting the ground was nothing compared to how hard I clinched my rear end watching that.
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chitoryu12 posted:Pretty sure that was a joke. James May is an experienced shotgun owner (a rarity in the UK). Yeah, most firearm safety courses instruct you to inspect the barrel after you have ensured that it is safe and unloaded. In Canada we have "PROVE" Point the firearm in the safest available direction. Remove all cartridges. Observe the chamber. Verify the feeding path. Examine the bore. (which is what he was doing)
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Vitamins posted:A plane has just crashed at the Shoreham Airshow in the UK. The plane flew into a bunch of cars on a main road after its performance. It's mind-boggling how this is still allowed, or that pilots (being allowed to fly at airshows) are still stupid enough to do this! There must be dozens of videos of different incidents almost the exact same as this on youtube. "Hmmm, I'm flying at 200ft, let's climb another 150, lose a ton of airspeed, execute a loop, and see if this minuscule altitude margin is enough for me to pull out. . . nope!" <crash> I know pulling out of a loop 500+ feet above the ground is "totally lame", but I think the audience would appreciate it more than shards of aluminium severing their vital organs and then jet fuel/avgas incinerating their remains.
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Reminds me of the B-52 Crash were the rear end in a top hat pilot who had a history of doing dangerous poo poo killed everyone on board. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=182AepOJjMs Or this F-16 that did something similar to the airshow jet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dohKKp0EvTs Or this F-18 that did the exact same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keCnK4kh65U Or this idiot who decided to take a P-63 King Cobra (based on the P-39, one of the most prone to flat spin aircraft ever made) to a low-altitude stall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhbcxqKPXR4 Or this Apache pilot in Afghanistan who didn't take into account "thinner air means more altitude needed to pull out": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtyUTLeW1g There are dozens more (at least) but youtube is currently clogged with everyone uploading the Shoreham one right now.
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Leperflesh posted:Re: the aluminum transport talk, you guys know how cement trucks work, right? They mix cement and water at the plant and then the truck has to get to the job site and unload within a specific amount of time. A serious delay and the cement hardens inside the mixer. Typically you just dump it in a ditch then use your on-board water reservoir to clean out the insides before that happens. I've seen the end result of an idiot who worked for Lafarge and forgot to turn the drum on. Dude drove for an hour, arrived at the site, dumped a little in the forms, the contractor refused to accept it because it was too hard, and then the idiot drove back to the depot (spinning the drum of hardening concrete), looked at his watch, saw it was 12:00, turned off the truck, went for lunch, and arrived back at work in time to get fired. That drum was almost a-write off, but they had a special super high-pressure, pressure washer for just those occasions (thing can slice cinder blocks like they were Styrofoam). They didn't even need to take out a hammer.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:That's why you never dig without locates! I don't see any paint or flags in the ground Just lucky it wasn't a water main or a gas line. In some parts of France and Germany you have to get the bomb squad to check the location before you're even allowed to make a hole because leftover shells and bombs from WWI and WWII are still a threat even today. 
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Mo_Steel posted:I used to work at a grocery store, and on the busier holidays you go through Coke and Pepsi products at insane volumes, so much so that there wasn't enough racking to store it in. And so it would be stacked on the floor of the backroom right in front of the full, 3 level racking of pop, typically reaching about 5-6 full pallets tall. I was always morbidly curious about what the PSI of pressure on the bottom set of cans must have been and what they can hold before crumpling. I also recall seeing pallets of softener salt stored in the very top of 3 level racking, and at roughly 2,000 lbs. I imagine if that fell on you you'd either die instantly or wish you had. When I worked at the Beer store over the summer, we regularly stacked pallets of cans 3 high right before long weekends. 
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If that trench were to collapse in on him in just the right manner, it's possible his head could be launched several feet into the air.
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Robo Reagan posted:thats not what ur mom was saying to me last night Hoped you shored that thing properly. Roll-overs are very dangerous.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:what apocalypse is going to be survivable with two feet of dirt and some sheet metal over your head First his roof has to survive two feet of dirt. . . which is questionable. Also I did not see any drainage channels, pipes, hoses, or drains, so unless he's going to install a sump pump that pumps all that English rain up, and away from his bunker, he's going to find that it is going to float up through that measly 2 feet of dirt like an empty septic tank. Also straight up sheet metal is going to rust pretty fast in the ground, and at no point did I see any sort of coating or sealing compound applied to the bottom plate, so it's too late for that. Even cement blocks usually either get a waterproof adhesive membrane or tar applied to the outside to prevent moister from coming through and to prevent block degradation. Then again, I'm pretty sure she doesn't care if it lasts 5 years or 50 years, as it's being paid for by someone else. Another issue is going to be the side pressure from the cement they are talking about pouring. Unless they're only pouring a few inches a day, there will be tremendous forces pushing on on those laughably flimsy walls, and if they try and go for a 1-4 pour job, they will watch all the walls collapse and the roof rupture like a pop can being squeezed in a vice. If they do manage to pour the walls and they don't cave in, the roof is going to be another interesting mess. The weight of a single concrete pour is not going to happen the way it is supported now. Multiple pours are not going to give the strength that they will need to keep the roof from caving in, so I figure they are either going to add another layer of support to the roof, do an arch with bricks/concrete slabs, or more likely dump the dirt back on top and watch the roof go from concave to convex.
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cheese-cube posted:jfc it's Colin Furze, he's not literally planning to outlast a nuclear war, he's just building bunker. I'm more interested to see if it outlasts the re-fill and first decent rain.
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Phanatic posted:Never heard that, but it's not a "computer voice" in the first place, it's usually an actual person's digitally recorded voice. And it's true that early human factors research indicated that pilots were more likely to hear and respond to a female voice rather than a male one, so female speakers have typically been used for the enunciated warnings. Wikipedia posted:"Early human factors research in aircraft and other domains indicated that female voices were more authoritative to male pilots and crew members and were more likely to get their attention. Much of this research was based on pilot experiences, particularly in combat situations, where the pilots were being guided by female air traffic controllers. They reported being able to most easily pick out the female voice from amid the flurry of radio chatter.
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I was always curious what a major league pitcher could do with a grenade. -300 foot throw and airbursts above a trench -grenade thrown through exterior wall of house and explodes inside -pitched through 16x16" 4th story window -thrown into the box of a speeding Toyota pickup from 100 feet away -forgot to pull pin but the grenade impacts with a guy's face at ~95mph and kills him -tosses a curveball so it goes around a hapless civilian and lands at an insurgent's feet 15m directly behind the non-combatant. -pulls a muscle and sits out for the rest of the war
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mostlygray posted:I always wonder why we don't make baseball shaped grenades. One would think that Americans would be able to throw them quite accurately and far compared to countries that don't play a lot of throwing sports. Like was already mentioned, they're pretty much baseball sized, but other countries (Germany, and China for example) liked stick grenades as the handle gave some extra distance due to the torsion effect.  They were primarily concussion grenades, and had a much smaller kill radius as they were more for throwing at a target you were running towards. The idea being it would stun or kill the enemy, but it was still safe for you to close the distance to take advantage of their stunned/wounded state or to get into their position asap. They also had fragmentation sleeves that you could put on the end to make them act more like US pineapple grenades.
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/\ Carbon dioxide posted:This situation is not safe for work: http://gizmodo.com/5157354/boy-killed-anally-when-office-chair-explodes
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The number of Chinese people who can actually swim (even when employed as sailors/fishermen) are startlingly low as well.
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StickFigs posted:Doesn't sound like a good analog for syrup imo, doesnt sound like its sticky just viscous. Stickiness wouldn't matter until you got out of the pool and it started to dry or you came into contact with objects not covered in it.
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