#3 Burning Man eats another #4 He must have been eighty. "I know I hit the brake." #5 and 6 "Even the insects like our coffee." #7 Raw chicken adds spice to your life. #9 Self emptying jacuzzi #10 "You want pictures, I'll show you pictures."
Tom Scott (on youtube) had a running camera grabbed by a bear, which attacked it and carried it off, because it was smeared with peanut butter, which ended up with it being deposited it in a pond. The bear returned later and chewed on the start button creating, to paraphrase Tom, a copyright-free selfie of the bear, taken by the bear.
Columns are designed for vertical forces, and not for lateral loads. Of course, they have to be able to withstand small lateral loads, but getting hit by a forklift is not one of them. If that were a design criterion, however, it is easy to do.
I think #3 is the most impressive "stuck in mud" I've seen. Getting a tractor stuck up to the axle would be impressive, but to get it stuck THAT FAR past? Yeah, I'm sure that took some doing. I think that's a "wait for it to dry out, then use a backhoe" situation. I just hope for their sakes that it's a climate where it will eventually dry out. Don't know how you'd get it out if that wasn't the case.
#3 I have floor jacks under my Spa. I've always had them on a concrete pad but this one is on a big screened porch. No way was I taking the chance. Anyone that does is a fool.
#9 Tell people to put a 4" thick slab concrete on their deck and they'll say "that's way too heavy" but they'll put a hot tub on it and fill it with two feet of water, not realizing it's twice the weight. Those lag bolts holding the header board to the wall aren't enough, you need posts near the wall. Al_in_Ottawa
#3 I have done that almost. It wasn't "stuck in mud" but "stuck in chicken shit". I was bush-hogging around the chicken houses and the retention wall collapsed on the chicken shit pool and I was suddenly in 2 feet of chicken shit on a Ford 801.
#1 Is the white car outside a motel room? Is the truckers wife inside the motel room?
ReplyDeleteMy first thought too.
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That's the boss's car. He stopped paying his drivers.
DeleteOr the truck brakes failed so the driver had to use the crushable barrier to come to a stop.
Delete#3 Burning Man eats another
ReplyDelete#4 He must have been eighty. "I know I hit the brake."
#5 and 6 "Even the insects like our coffee."
#7 Raw chicken adds spice to your life.
#9 Self emptying jacuzzi
#10 "You want pictures, I'll show you pictures."
First time I had fish tacos from one of the major fast food chains, the fish was still frozen. Took me 10 years to try it again.
ReplyDeleteYa gotta love the Polar Bear triumphantly marching away with his "catch"!
ReplyDeleteTom Scott (on youtube) had a running camera grabbed by a bear, which attacked it and carried it off, because it was smeared with peanut butter, which ended up with it being deposited it in a pond. The bear returned later and chewed on the start button creating, to paraphrase Tom, a copyright-free selfie of the bear, taken by the bear.
Delete#1 Wasn't that the driver taken revenge on the asshol boss's car?
ReplyDelete#2 - 4. Seriously? Especially 4. Either that pole was weak or he hit it at full speed. In a quite large and empty warehouse. Dummies and forklifts.
Columns are designed for vertical forces, and not for lateral loads. Of course, they have to be able to withstand small lateral loads, but getting hit by a forklift is not one of them. If that were a design criterion, however, it is easy to do.
DeleteHeh yeah its easy to do. I use to build the buildings.
Delete#3: I've been in that situation, but I had a backhoe and loader on and was able to crabwalk my way out of it.
ReplyDeleteI think #3 is the most impressive "stuck in mud" I've seen. Getting a tractor stuck up to the axle would be impressive, but to get it stuck THAT FAR past? Yeah, I'm sure that took some doing. I think that's a "wait for it to dry out, then use a backhoe" situation. I just hope for their sakes that it's a climate where it will eventually dry out. Don't know how you'd get it out if that wasn't the case.
ReplyDeleteNot that I go looking for pics of stuck vehicles.
John G.
1. Someone pissed at car for taking up a dock space
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#1 IIRC, the owner of the firm and the exotic filed bankruptcy and screwed everyone out their pay. FAFO!
ReplyDelete#3 I have floor jacks under my Spa. I've always had them on a concrete pad but this one is on a big screened porch. No way was I taking the chance. Anyone that does is a fool.
ReplyDelete#9: Turns out a thousand liters of water totally weighs a ton. Someone learned the hard way.
ReplyDelete#9 Tell people to put a 4" thick slab concrete on their deck and they'll say "that's way too heavy" but they'll put a hot tub on it and fill it with two feet of water, not realizing it's twice the weight. Those lag bolts holding the header board to the wall aren't enough, you need posts near the wall.
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#10 Dinner came with toothpicks...
ReplyDelete#10 More evidence of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming.
ReplyDelete#3 I have done that almost. It wasn't "stuck in mud" but "stuck in chicken shit". I was bush-hogging around the chicken houses and the retention wall collapsed on the chicken shit pool and I was suddenly in 2 feet of chicken shit on a Ford 801.
ReplyDelete#4…..wood saved that much in construction
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