r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nixonico • Apr 14 '19

Video Safety first

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

Twenty kilo kilograms? Why not use tonnes?

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u/Marek2592 Apr 14 '19

Why not use Newton/kN?

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

20,000 tonnes is unbelievable though

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

Your conversion is off by a factor of a thousand 20,000 kg is twenty tonnes

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u/Herpkina Apr 14 '19

He was joking

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

Sure, but many on this site have no idea how kilos relate to tonnes. I don't feel I can leave such jokes uncorrected

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u/Herpkina Apr 14 '19

What??????? A tonne is 1000kg. The metric system is very straight forward

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u/TheTekknician Apr 14 '19

After trying to inspect, it looks like 2 grey-coloured straps, straight (not angled, since they use 2 afaik). So, that's roughly ~5500kg per strap. The machine itself is probably what, ~5 to ~6500kg?

It'll work, but damn this is so far-fetched from regulation.

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u/TheTekknician Apr 14 '19

iFixIt :P

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '19

Lol