I always loved the forklift lifting another forklift to lift something heavy higher pictures. I remember that from years ago but apparently people have done it again because there are a bunch of different pictures like this one:
I can’t even imagine how these people are still alive. I work around that stuff every day and that is so incredibly dangerous that it boggles the mind.
I have a friend who does accident investigation. One happened in a big indoor arena, equipped with one of those giant scoreboards hovering over the center. Scoreboard needed service, but no one qualified to lower it was available. An electric scaffold device capable of the job was available, but it hadn’t been used for a while and was stored in some inconvenient place.
The solution was to use an extension ladder that proved to be barely long enough. The only serious flaw with this plan was that the next scheduled event was a hockey game, which meant the ladder was sitting on ice. It slipped; worker was killed in the fall.
Shouldn’t the word “defy” in the OP title be replaced with something like “ignore,” “flaunt,” “fail to consider,” or “attempt to defy”? I opened this thread expecting to see how some group of workers cleverly and successfully implemented some apparently (though of course not literally) gravity-defying solution to some problem.
I wonder how he figured out the safe counter weight pounds? 185 lb man and 25 lb bucket cement. Would you hit the ground too fast and hard? do you need 35 lb bucket? 45lbs?
figuring that out could get painful. Too much weight and you’re left hanging in mid air. Too little and you crash to the ground.
Anyone else look at that “porn star with O-sized breasts” video? Forget the breasts, what the hell did she do to her lips? Get them stuck in a vacuum cleaner hose? :eek:
As funny as the pictures are I think it’s less dumb workers and more places where worker safety is not a priority. If you’re told to get the job done with what you have and worker deaths are just accepted as their failure in figuring out the right way to do something these contraptions are the kind of thing that get created.