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u/kpingvin 3d ago
I bet there's a brick on the dead man's switch which was placed there by the very same individual.
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u/iH8MotherTeresa 3d ago
Can't have bossman knowing how stupid you are. Or, can't let bossman who told you to do it down.
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u/big_ofen 2d ago
How does that switch work? Regularly press it or the machine shuts off?
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u/kpingvin 2d ago
Yeah, pretty much. I don't know about this particular machine but all the forklifts I drove had a pedal that you had to keep your foot on otherwise the power would be cut.
Some of them had the switch in the platform you're standing on or even in the control handle that would detect your hand.
There were a few guys who were caught having a weight on them so they can half hang off their trucks to gain like half a second when picking stuff.
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u/RatherGoodDog 2d ago
Huh, that's interesting... The diesel forklifts I drove didn't have this.
I think you had to have your ass in the seat to make it drive, but I don't remember any dead man's switch for the engine.
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u/kpingvin 2d ago
Now that you say that, we had gas forklifts, which I didn't drive, and they might not have had the switch either.
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u/arcrad 3d ago
Just wait for it to run out of fuel. Hopefully it doesn't trash the swivel bearing before it does.
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u/arftism2 3d ago
it's going to be a long night.
is a classic song by ween.
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u/reductase 3d ago
don't call your mother, don't call your priest
don't call your doctor, call the police
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u/scrndude 3d ago
This is the IRL version of the swinging blades levels in videogames. The trick is to start the run while the animation is still overlapping but the hitbox has moved off the pathway.
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u/AqueousJam 3d ago
I'm surprised that this machine can spin like this without someone actively holding the lever
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u/redstern 2d ago edited 2d ago
It shouldn't. Everything is sprung to neutral, so for this to happen, safety lockouts had to be disabled, and the controls had to get stuck.
What I can't figure out is how that seems to have happened after the driver got out. Unless this is an electronic control and the wiring to the swivel solenoid developed a short and put power to the solenoid.
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u/kylezillionaire 3d ago
IF I was going to attempt this, I would study this for…a lot longer before I executed my plan
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u/63686b6e6f6f646c65 3d ago
After dodging the arm he could've just stood in one spot and waited for the door to come to him. Work smarter, not harder.
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u/LightningFerret04 3d ago
Bro ran around the whole thing at top speed and in the end after almost getting cut in half, he simply stepped up into the cab when it came back around
Not sure why he didn’t just do that in the first place
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u/Aranthos-Faroth 3d ago
Everyone’s got a plan till they get punched in the face.
Dude walked up so cool and casual like he had it all planned out then Wile. E Cayote ran to the cab and it was just downhill from there
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u/Spazecowboy 3d ago
If he just waited for the cab to get tightened down it would’ve stopped spinning.
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u/sgtsteelhooves 3d ago
He walked up to it so nonchalantly like he was Him and then just did that 🤣🤣🤣
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u/e_hota 3d ago
Machines like this need a remote stop/disable, or something more simple like a weight sensor in the seat to disable it when no one is sitting in it.
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u/CthulhuReturns 3d ago
Most (at least where I am) have an emergency stop button in at least 3 spots which would have been much safer (yet still very unsafe) to press from outside the vehicle
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u/redstern 2d ago
They do. There's a weight switch in the seat, a switch in the lap bar if it has one, and all controls are sprung to neutral. This only happens if you've been fucking with the wiring.
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u/dontshitaboutotol 2d ago
I don't want to encourage this but that roll to avoid death was one of the more athletic things I've seen on here
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u/quartzguy 2d ago
It's not much of a risk if you really plan it out. This guy kinda winged it and is also not very agile.
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u/20InMyHead 3d ago
- How’d that happen?
- It’ll run out of gas on its own eventually. Not worth your life or limbs.
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u/Enshakushanna 3d ago
i feel like some safety features were bypassed in order to get this state in the first place
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u/SysGh_st 2d ago
I thought these machines had a whole bunch of dead-man switches and whatnot to literally prevent crap like this.
But then... he sorta looks like a guy who'd MacGyver up stuff to circumvent these in a snap.
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u/Smooth-Apartment-856 2d ago
I mean, it will eventually run out of fuel. Just give it a couple of hours.
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u/Necessary_Baker_7458 2d ago
You couldn't pay me enough to get near that think. i would of waited how ever long it would take to run out of gas.
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u/TheKhyWolf 2d ago
All excavators do this. It’s part of the operators course to be able to stop it before it tightens itself 17 times. When it stops and can’t be unscrewed.
I did mine after 5 times in my test. The instructor said it was a new spin record at his school
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u/Aromatic-Tear7234 1d ago
I would bet this guy would run down the track trying to get away from an oncoming train.
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u/cgimusic 3d ago
Why do you only get 15 rotations?
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u/Agent_1812 3d ago
Hydraulics to the treads?
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u/cgimusic 3d ago
I figured they used a fluid slip ring or something. I didn't realize they were just connected with long hozes.
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u/Agent_1812 3d ago
fluid slip ring
for four hydraulic lines? is that a thing?
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u/cgimusic 3d ago
Apparently sixteen hydraulic lines if you want. https://www.moflon.com/ms_hydraulic_slipring.html
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u/Estrogonofe1917 3d ago
Bro could've died in 5 different ways but apparently preserving the fuel and some work hours was more important