Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

Acid GIFs, April 22 (25 gifs)
 
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Having seen cables and mooring lines break I damn sure wouldn’t be standing next to any cable under tension like that.
We were recovering a D8 Cat from San Francisco Bay a long time ago after the first attempt failed. The operator back the D8 off of a sea wall at low tide, it flipped and landed upside down on top of him. The first heavy lift company showed up and just backed up to the sea wall, hooked a cable to the blade and thought they were going to muscle it back over and drag it out. They really leaned on it, the clevis on their cable broke and about 60 feet of 1" steel cable snapped back at the truck like a whip. Their truck was really fucked up, the operator was lucky no one got killed.

 
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We were recovering a D8 Cat from San Francisco Bay a long time ago after the first attempt failed. The operator back the D8 off of a sea wall at low tide, it flipped and landed upside down on top of him. The first heavy lift company showed up and just backed up to the sea wall, hooked a cable to the blade and thought they were going to muscle it back over and drag it out. They really leaned on it, the clevis on their cable broke and about 60 feet of 1" steel cable snapped back at the truck like a whip. Their truck was really fucked up, the operator was lucky no one got killed.


saw a video of a guy standing next to a truck using a winch and it snapped, came back at him and the driver, barely missed him but went through the glass and cut the guys mouth in half
 
There are the guys who "do" trad...
And there are the guys who LIVE trad...


Colt's semiauto build of the traditional barebones pre-GWOT infantry A4 full length musket. Pure thoroughbred Americana that covers the mid-late 1990s up to around 2005 or so. Absolute functional work of art and ongoing history...

The Kentucky/Plains rifle of the modern working man, farmer, and homesteader.

 
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There’s gotta be a dress code though.

1) clothes don’t have to be pressed and starched but they have to have been washed within the last week

2) you don’t have to have matching flip flops but you need two

That should keep the riffraff out
 
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We were recovering a D8 Cat from San Francisco Bay a long time ago after the first attempt failed. The operator back the D8 off of a sea wall at low tide, it flipped and landed upside down on top of him. The first heavy lift company showed up and just backed up to the sea wall, hooked a cable to the blade and thought they were going to muscle it back over and drag it out. They really leaned on it, the clevis on their cable broke and about 60 feet of 1" steel cable snapped back at the truck like a whip. Their truck was really fucked up, the operator was lucky no one got killed.


Had a rookie on the fire engine with me. Wrecker driver did all his prep and was about to start pulling on the car. I grabbed the rookie by the arm and told him let's get far away from here. If that winch cable snaps, it can kill people. Pointing at the wrecker driver, I said he has to be where he is to do his job, but we don't. The wrecker driver nodded in agreement .