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caspergers
Oct 1, 2021
https://i.imgur.com/EoqydQm.mp4

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caspergers
Oct 1, 2021

Kith posted:

now there's a machine that just can't be beet

:perfect:

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021
This video isn't really OSHA but saw it in another thread and reminded me how I got myself good in the eye when I was a deckhand.

https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ruppdd2K7R1qigfjt.mp4

So I used to work on a tow boat, which means stringing together barges, aka building tow. Here's a video of the process (only with the company I worked for we didn't have these handy winches, we had to use these giant loving heavy rear end ratchets).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQc5EwNDuNU

Anyway, you'll see these thick rear end cables/wires. Once your ratchet or winch has tightened, what you'll do is take a big metal pipe and you beat as much slack out of the wire for further tightening. You just take that pipe and smack the gently caress outta the wire. But sometimes there's too much tension in the wire and the pipe will ricochet, which isn't unusual, but one time I had my face a little too close, and this heavy metal pipe (mighta been lead, idk) came right back and smacked me in the loving eye. Hurt like a motherfucker. Had a bright periwinkle bruise there for almost two weeks. Extra OSHA for not filing an accident report.

Another fun little OSHA story about the river, my uncle, who was a towboater for years and years, got his foot completely torn off because he had stepped between two of those wires and I guess the boat musta hit something and his ankle got pinched.

One more fun fact, the lifevests you wear aren't even designed to save your life, they're designed to make your body float if you go overboard, that way your body can be found. It doesn't always work. See out on tow you aren't allowed to wear any kind of jewelry including rings because they're a safety hazard. So one guy in company I worked for (I didn't know him personally) would put his wedding band on a string on his lifevest every time he went out on tow. He goes overboard and weeks later they find a lifevest which they could confirm was his, because tied to the vest was a wedding band. They never found his body.

caspergers fucked around with this message at 14:05 on May 18, 2023

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021

caspergers fucked around with this message at 17:33 on May 18, 2023

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021
https://i.imgur.com/wWPNuxp.mp4

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021

He flips the board for oncoming traffic. Absolute genius

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021

Shooting Blanks posted:

I'm not sure what I'm looking at here

abbey road (1969)

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021

UwUnabomber posted:

Elon Musk is like if Lex Luthor was stupid instead of evil.

The guy is literally pushing tech designed to erase the lower class and replace them, the guy is both.

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021

Nyan orange

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021

Kenning posted:

I can't abide the sing-songy way she narrates her videos.

Sounds exactly like joe pera lmao

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021

I've experienced this as a deckhand on a towboat. Doesn't happen as violently since i was on the river not the sea, but you get some pilots who can't drive worth a poo poo. One time I nearly fell out of my bed and another I was ejected from the shower

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021

I know I'm being unreasonable here, but I don't get how people think they're making good points when they show stuff like this. Any wacko can just say well clearly that was made in a studio and/or CGI. It's like when you call a bigot a bigot, like you really think that's gonna change their mind? I mean the video is neat and all, but it's not gonna pwn the flat earthers

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021

Bad Munki posted:

Just some nice taut hawsers for ya

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

One time on a towboat we were going through a river lock in the dead of winter, a barge had barely pressed against the wall of the lock and a wire got so tight it completely ripped a loving kevel right out of the barge. Winter loving sucks

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021

I forgot about this trend. Thanks for the nostalgia anon I needed it



Solefald Edit: Removed content of quote

Somebody fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Feb 14, 2024

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021
speaking of popcorn ceilings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPnv2NXMx8g&t=27s

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021

Blue Footed Booby posted:

There's something up with YouTube music that causes random songs I uploaded that have titles and tags that look totally fine on my computer to look like this:

I have to assume Unicode bullshit has gotten somebody killed by this point, possibly started a war.

This just looks Icelandic to me

caspergers
Oct 1, 2021

This cured my anxiety for a good half hour, thank you anon

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caspergers
Oct 1, 2021

Where I come from we call this "hotdogging"

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