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Didn’t expect that last bit. Creative.
creative maybe.
giant waste of time? surely it took less time to just put the blocks there flat than to space them all perfectly vertically.
is that eve possible?
Where is Stephanie Shepard?
There’s a name I haven’t seen in awhile. Yeah, where she at?
It is possible, obviously, to do that but the precision needed seems veeery important.
That was AWESOME!
I wonder if he practiced with dominoes before he tried it with the pavers . . . OJT (on the job training) working out something like that might get . . . expensives.
Either way, ingenius.
slo mo domino
I can do that! In my next life.
Hell, he lost me when the math equations popped up. Algebra? Trig?
-Just like in high school, it just wouldn’t sink in…couldn’t grasp it. Jealous of those math
savants like Chief who either have that talent naturally, or if it came relatively easy with a good lesson / instructor.
Ditto for physics class, in senior year of HS. Skirted that too, by taking an extra 2 years of Espanol.
The rub?
I ended up working with mechanical engineers who used physics and math to design conveyor systems for figuring out what it takes to move a given object weighing X lbs. in one direction, over a known distance, within a target time requirement. Electrical Engr.’s too. Sparkies.
e.g., We need to move a car body, on an assembly line skid/sled, along a running conveyor for 60 yeards, then, into a turntable to reverse the direction 180 degrees, roll off the TT, then into an elevator lift platform, where it is raised from the ground floor, then transported up one or two levels, a height of about 40 feet, within a given time period.
How much does the skid weigh? How much does the car body weigh?
A motor is used to drive the motion. Rotary motion of the motor shaft, with mechanical components to convert to linear travel.
Ah, but a motor, when given full voltage, spins really fast, typically 1750 rpm, but has no balls.
i.e., no strength or force to move really heavy objects.
That’s where a gearbox shaft is coupled to the motor shaft. It slows the output speed of the gearbox, but multiplies torque, to force heavier loads without strain. Repetitively. 24 / 7.
The gearbox turn-down ratio and physical size is calculated to establish the required amount of force, after factoring in the load weight to be moved.
If more than 1 car is on a chain linked conveyor line, then more force will be needed.
Calculate total force requirement, with no threat of mechanical overload of the components.
Power Transmission Industry. Wonderfully fascinating.
In the elevator lift, like our crane tragedy from the Friday Fail 2 weeks ago, when you have essentially a mechanical lift mechanism, it’s basically like a teeter totter, except it’s not one piece. It’s two pieces, linked together in a loop, secured with chains, belts or cables.
As one goes up, the other side goes down.
In a lift, the load side (car + skid, and floor assembly it rides up on), has to be counter balanced with the correct amount of weight on the opposite side, so we don’t have mechanical strain on just one side of the balance scale.
Gets even more technical, because if you have 2500 lbs on the ride up, you might think you need 2500 lbs. of counter weight on the other side. Nope. The lift has to return back down without the skid + car body (empty), to receive the next one to be lifted.
So, the counter weight is the same as the empty lift bed table, + 50% of the load weight.
If either side is too heavy, the electrical drive and mechanical drive system components could be stressed, resulting in failure, with a runaway load or counterweight, if, the Mech. Engr. didn’t do his calculations correctly.
Makes a helluva bang when that happens.
In my years in that industry, I knew 2 guys who defeated safety stops, and went into the cage where the elevator, or some other machinery had an up-down motion stroke.
Not good.
As fate had it, the machinery engaged, and both men were crushed to death.
Fortunately, I was not witness to either one.
That might’ve caused nightmares for years.
RIP, Rob, and Marcel.
But could they order mas cervesa?
There was an Einstein mechanic that worked on huge metal presses. This Einstein got between the press plates, a couple of yards wide in each direction, so as to work on the press plate where a bolt hole was stripped. He was entirely between the plates. Standard procedure was to block out the plates with huge metal blocks, so as to prevent them closing, as well as isolating power and locking the power switch with a big ass padlock, with only the Einstein to have the key. Einstein did neither of those two things.
This Einstein could not comfortably reach the bolt hole, so asked the young apprentice to toggle the plates of the press down a bit. (I mean, what the fuck? How could anyone be that damn stupid?).
The apprentice, not knowing any better and not being a true Einstein himself, did as instructed, but instead of toggling hit the cycle button. This was like a 2000 ton press, and it began to cycle. Apprentice Einstein was too slow in hitting the stop button, and the press fully cycled.
The Einstein ended up thinner than a piece of paper, and was squirted out from all sides of the press. The Apprentice Einstein was somewhat distressed by this turn of events.
‘poh, as you surely know, that kind of stupidity is more widespread than people think.
The incident reports might flow internally, in the Safety Prevention protocols, and in the subsequent litigation hearings, but, after that, it’s kept as quiet as possible.
Bad press to be kept to a minimum, no pun intended.
Two or three things contribute to those kinds of accidents, imo.
One is, the pressure to hurry up and get something fixed, or problem solved, without being anal about safety protocol. Shortcuts.
Two is relying on some other(s) to do the smart thing, when in reality, the one whose life is potentially in jeopardy should rely only upon his own precautionary habits to prevent becoming a victim. Even when requiring the assistance of others. THINK.
Avoiding distractions, using extreme concentration, and safety pre-planning are vital.
And yet a third contribution is by guys working by themselves who think that what they’re doing is safe, when in fact, it proves to be a deadly miscalculation.
Years back, somebody passed along a pictorial email of a heavy load truck driver in an Asian country; maybe Japan or Korea.
The guy was hauling a bulldozer on a flat bed.
The title of the email subject line said: “How NOT to offload a Catepillar”
This fool didn’t have heavy duty, long, safe pitch metal ramps.
He placed 2 short beams to act as the off ramp, and started to back the CAT off the flat bed, like a tank going in reverse, which was about just 3 feet off the ground. The pitch of the CAT, with him at the controls, was too steep. When reverse was initiated, the open topped bulldozer’s rear end dropped to the street, the front end was still on the flatbed, and you guessed it, the thing flipped over backwards, and the driver didn’t / couldn’t jump out in time.
They took still photographs. After they removed the upside down dozer, it showed a very gory scene. The driver’s lower 2/3’s of his body was bent up and over his top 1/3, with his mid-back as the folding point. They weight of the dozer had also crushed the top half of his skull.
Now, I don’t relish those kinds of stories, and one can say they don’t need to hear about or see such graphic detail, but it does sear into one’s mind, that tragic shit like that can happen, and although gruesome, the lesson is not soon, or easily forgotten.
Not enjoyable, but an effective lesson just the same.
Another one was a guy who was a skilled electrician, who was sent to troubleshoot a transformer in a large industrial plant. It was a medium voltage (4160 VAC) or higher voltage than that possibly. He took a meter to measure for live voltage, but the meter was for lower voltage systems; severely under-rated. As soon as he incorrectly connected the probes, he was the conduit to earth ground, standing in front of the transformer. He got electrocuted, but so violently that he basically burst into flames, and tried running from the horror, aflame, down a maintenance hallway. He didn’t get far. When help arrived, he was still conscious enough to lament that he messed up; real bad. And of course, he died. There was no video of this one, but it was a case analysis by the company he worked for, to impart the lesson, after suffering such a horrible tragedy.
Working from heights is a whole ‘nuther area of tragedies that could be prevented, if only people would think things through, and do things safely, instead of attempting expediency.
Be careful out there.
Feel free to add your gory stories here…
WIP – I did not witness the flattening described above. It happened in a sister plant to one I was running. The worst one I saw was the one I told in the above thread re the swinging drum. It was also the one that really did not loo bad as it happened, but the aftermath was very unfortunate for the individual hit by the drum.
A worker got in the way of a swinging drum. It did not appear to be swinging very fast, but it crushed him badly. It was almost the type thing you would laugh at as yo saw it happening, as it did not look like it could do real damage to anyone. But it seems a very heavy drum does not have to be moving real fast to crush bones. Lesson learned.
L – Here are the main ways that workers get killed (you covered most of them):
1) electrocuted
2) fall
3) compressed air
4) run over, or killed by someone doing something stupid driving equipment.
So I forbid anyone working on electrics, playing with compressed air, climbing up anything or going to heights, or driving anything on the premises without proper licensing or training. Any breach of the rules whatsoever and they get fired.
If workers abide by these rules, odds are I will never experience a death at work. I also forbid anyone working alone.
Go fuck yourself, you aboriginal degenerate.
AWB – I do not have a clue who you are. You are clearly insignificant around here, and likely insignificant in life in general as well. But I will try to remember you going forward. That was unprovoked and seems unwarranted, especially the degenerate part. Perhaps we will cross paths again.
A quick search found this little quote from AWB: “Admin bites, and so does stukfuk. Zara’s not far behind, but at least he stands for something. Admin and Stukfuk stand for nothing.”
Well, there you have it folks. What at piece of shit AWB is. Drops in to spread his stink then scurries back to his shithole.
hahaha!
It another thread this weekend AWB said that I suck my own dick. If only!!!! heh heh
I didn’t bother responding to the juvenile shitstain. He’s been trolling here a long time. I believe he was a someone regular poster under a different name … then got his feewings hurt, bolted, but comes back from time to time to regale us with his lame assed insults. He’s a fart in the wind unworthy of even a brief response.
Thanks for the clarification Stuck. At least I am in good company.
AWB is a shitstain on BB’s shorts, no substance and disgusting to see.
You can all go fuk urselves. U first stukky.
The irony of ironies, LL expats to the land of kangaroos.
Cool, but where’s the mortar?