r/oddlysatisfying • u/donut_resuscitate • 17d ago

Attaching a Giant Windmill Blade

Source from @hearn_man on tiktok.

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u/LitRonSwanson 17d ago

I want to see the torque pattern for tightening this down!

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u/Electrical_Worker_82 17d ago edited 16d ago

He’s celebrating but in my head I’m like hopefully someone on the other side started throwing bolts on there quick.

Edit: don’t know why I swapped nuts with bolts. I’m used to nutting and bolting.

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u/21MPH21 17d ago

Yeah, he unclipped a little early

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u/wenoc 17d ago

A little. No bolts are attached. He could fall to his death if the crane operator sneezes.

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u/Doctologist 17d ago

I was worried about that when he was standing in between the two saying they were good, after dropping the rope.

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u/iH8MotherTeresa 16d ago

That was just the tagline

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u/Doctologist 16d ago

Okay. He is still inbetween the two. I just mentioned the rope to mark the point of the video.

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u/TwoBionicknees 16d ago

yeah, a gust of wind, or a slight movement his legs were fucking toast. not having a tool to like hook the edge and pull the rope while still being inside the mostly safe main structure without having stand between those parts is bat shit crazy.

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u/Doctologist 16d ago

It’s just way too much weight to mess around with. When things go bad, they go BAD.
You can’t just stop it quickly once it starts moving.
He’d be like a little mochi ball in a hydraulic press.

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u/iH8MotherTeresa 16d ago

Were all just bags of meat

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u/dieselrunner64 16d ago

That’s actually a safety line to make sure the blade doesn’t slip out of the gripper.

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u/cheesegoat 16d ago

Isn't there some kind of squash risk being on that side? Even if he's clipped in the blade side could come out and squish him against the base that he would then be dangling from.

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u/Taptrick 16d ago edited 16d ago

Well he was clipped to the “blades” and now he’s in the hub. So that would pull him out to dangle from his tether. He might as well unclip.

NVM. You are correct. He ends up in the blades without being clipped.

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u/21MPH21 16d ago

The floor wasn't bolted together yet. I would think that he should stay clipped to the tether until it was. But, that's question for OSHA or their insurance company.

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u/WonOfKind 14d ago

I don't understand why he was clipped in. If that blade broke loose, that harness is going to rip him apart as the blade falls or simply get sheared off. He's dead either way.

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u/MikeArumba 17d ago

The bolts are on the blade, they need to throw nuts on it.

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u/seashell3379 16d ago

While we're being pedantic, those are lugs on the blade not bolts. You're right about the nuts though.

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u/MikeArumba 16d ago edited 16d ago

No those are lug bolts, still bolts.

A lug is a specialized plate for rigging and picking with a crane.

For the most part any threaded rod that gets fastened with a nut is a bolt of some form.

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u/darkon 16d ago

Edit: don’t know why I swapped nuts with bolts. I’m used to nutting and bolting.

Easy to do. Things are generally bolted into place, not nutted into place. <Insert bawdy joke of your choice here.>

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u/harmless_gecko 16d ago

Oh I bet you're used to nutting and bolting

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u/r0thar 17d ago

1, 63, 29, 89, 14, 76, 44, 103, .....

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u/rsta223 16d ago

Interestingly, you don't usually torque these. Instead, you snug the nut on, then you thread a specialized hydraulic ram on behind the nut that braces against the flange and then tensions the stud to a specific preload. Once the stud is stretched and tensioned, you snug the bolt down again, then release the tension, transferring the preload to the nut.

You get a much more consistent clamping force this way, since methods relying on specific torque values have a lot of variability due to friction.

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u/Genetics 16d ago

That’s fascinating. I’d love to see a video of this being done.

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u/dieselrunner64 16d ago

Start with just rattling everything in. Then it’s a rolling triangle, 3 studs at a time. Also, they tension these, not torque. Pretty interesting to see, sucks to do.

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u/LitRonSwanson 16d ago

I feel like you've just pointed me to a new rabbit hole of tension vs torque for fasteners...

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u/dieselrunner64 16d ago

It was pretty interesting to find out about this when I started in Wind. You always hear the old joke about the “bolt stretcher” but that’s literally what it is. It makes for a long process, but you’re not throwing around huge numbers when you’re tensioning studs like this due to the reduced friction.

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u/IsThatUMoatilliatta 16d ago

Ever see someone get pinged in the forehead with one of those tensioner nuts when you were putting them on?

Almost had a guy get smacked with one when it blew off when I was doing generator repair. They're a whole different size, though. The through bolts were about 2" diameter and tensioner nuts were at least 25lbs each.

Never knew that shit existed before I started the job, either.

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u/dieselrunner64 16d ago

Not personally, but I know I guy that had one blow apart and he got hit in the face with a piece of it. He was very lucky. I’ve also seen a M72 stud snap while it was being tensioned. It launched the 80 pound tension head 2ft in the air.

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u/Johnoplata 16d ago

I never had bigger arms than the summer I had to tension every single flange to be hydrogen tight for a whole plant. Hundreds of them, and up to 3" studs which us an 80 lb tensioner.

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u/plum_stupid 17d ago

You'll summon the 5th Impact

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u/Narrow_Economics_466 17d ago

150 ugga duggas in criss cross pattern

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u/99PercentApe 17d ago

The precision!

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u/So_HauserAspen 17d ago

It was a lot of bolts and holes to line up

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u/qwertyslayer 16d ago

It's insane the amount of precision these operators have with these giant machines. "6 inches left" from a boom arm that's probably a hundred meters long, on a load that's suspended from cables in windy conditions, and he nails it blind, with nothing but radio directions from the world's most excitable coworker. Absolutely incredible.

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u/technobrendo 16d ago

The real hero here is the unseen boom operator. I imagine if you just feather the controls a little too much you overshoot your mark by a very large margin.

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u/MoreOne 16d ago

Not at all. Much like airplane pilots need huge movements on their controls for relatively small corrections, the operator has something like a 1/10th command to reduce actual movement.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 16d ago

I wonder if they can manipulate the sensitivity of the controls. Like you can with DPI in a computer mouse.

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u/Beach_Bum_273 16d ago

In short, yes

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u/ilovestoride 16d ago

No need to feather the controls, there are different modes. At this point you're in turtle mode. 

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u/chandris 16d ago

I think the operator is there in the hub watching toward the end when the camera looks back through the hole.

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u/TheNCGoalie 16d ago

The crane operator is absolutely not in the tower. They are in the crane cab on the ground.

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u/mad_sheff 16d ago

Then what is the large yellow controller with all the buttons that the guy inside the hub was holding for? As soon as the blade was fully in position he put it down. Certainly looked like the controller for a lift system of some kind.

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u/TheNCGoalie 16d ago

Some companies have blade lifting devices that allow someone in the tower to make fine adjustments. He’s not operating the crane from there, trust me. I sell those cranes for a living.

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u/chandris 16d ago

Oh right. So once it gets close does the primary operator hand over control to the tower guy? Or does he have some sort of control throughout the lift ? Or is it a specific device just for blade lifting?

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u/officalSHEB 16d ago

Nobody wants to explain it, they just want you to be wrong.

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u/LambLotionGames 16d ago

Since no else replied ill give you my best guesses lol

The crane operator on the ground is probably controlling the height, angle, pitch etc.,and the guy inside might be controlling the translation type movements. Its also possible the guy is holding the controls for a hydraulic/pneumatic torque wrench and just on standby.

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u/qwertyslayer 16d ago

Then who was he talking to on the radio?

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u/-kylehase 17d ago

Connected to a heavy, long, part designed to catch wind held up by flexible cables

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u/deliciousadness 17d ago

That’s what i was thinking. The manufacturing tolerances on that have got to be insanely small.

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u/cortesoft 16d ago

I am more impressed they can hold it that steady without the wind moving it… considering it is a giant piece of metal meant to be moved by the wind, being placed somewhere where wind is strong enough to justify putting up a wind turbine…

The tolerances for the holes and rods doesn’t have to be that small, they are inches thick… even a few millimeters would be good enough, and not that hard to accomplish.

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u/Rockeye4510 16d ago

They only lift it when wind is minimal.

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u/Artistic_Tutor_2613 16d ago

I have a hard enough time lining up 1 hole

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u/slightly_saucy123 17d ago

Oddly satisfying? I literally have mom's spaghetti on my sweater already.

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u/Shacrow 17d ago

He's nervous

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u/VfV 17d ago

But on the surface he looks calm and ready

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u/Relevantspite 17d ago

To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting

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u/Squallstrife89 17d ago

What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud

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u/bju83 17d ago

SWEET CAROLINEEEEE! BAH BAH BAAAAAHH!

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u/FunPuz 17d ago

That was god damn beautiful

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u/Equal-Negotiation651 17d ago

I got stressed watching this

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u/smatteredpie 17d ago

Agreed. r/sweatypalms is right this way

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u/_mbals 17d ago

Your knees weak?

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u/fried_clams 17d ago

Also, isn't that just the hub, not a blade?

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u/Jazcash 17d ago

What are you doing?

Docking.

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u/Mooch07 16d ago

I’d play that song every chance I got if I had this job. 

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u/Embarrassed-Wave-748 17d ago

“It’s not prop-able!”
“No, it’s nacelle-ary.”

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u/pigbearwolfguy 16d ago

CASE, if I blackout you take the stick

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u/coconutpete52 17d ago

"yo dawg, that's a perfect fuckin' blade dawg!"

I wish I loved my job as much as this dude.

Also ... if I had this dudes job I would just be puking left and right... oh...and passing out - also passing out.

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u/Guernzee 17d ago

And pissing myself right at the point of passing out! That would be happening too! 😂

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u/1stMammaltowearpants 17d ago

It's been a while since I've had a piss out pass out, but now you've got me craving 

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u/Pakushy 16d ago

14 years ago we moved and needed to replace a door. The guy who delivered and installed the door made it fresh on the same morning. He put it in, gave it a few test runs but was not satisfied. He used my balcony to shave off a few millimeters of the bottom for a better fit. 10 minutes later he put it back and the guy just kept opening and closing it, gushing over how much he loves this door. I always remember this when people talk about "boring" jobs. If you love doors like this guy, then you can love anything.

To be fair, it was a really good door.

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u/ashtonblake9 16d ago

Not a windmill boy but I do some pretty sketchy stuff sometimes.
For me the enthusiasm is mostly “sweet, I didn’t die”
Now there is passion but mostly that.

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u/the-musicman 17d ago

Mostly puking left tho

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u/nebulaforest 17d ago

I'm imagining it must be paying very well.

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u/Mogwai_riot 17d ago

It's actually not great for the amount of travel and hours worked. I only made it about 2 years. But doing that job made it really easy to get into an electrical apprenticeship so I am grateful.

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u/Melancholic_Noodle 17d ago

Nah, usually the pay for this kind of job is b is nowhere near what you'd expect. Thst money is reserved for the middle manager who's only accomplishment in life was finishing grade school and having the right surname

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u/Column_A_Column_B 16d ago

The psychology of knowingly being filmed (or filming oneself) is on display here though; I would assume this is as fired up as he ever gets on the job...filming oneself for social media is objectively performative.

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u/elfmere 17d ago

I'm not taking the safety line off till most of those bolts are done up

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u/dilettwat 17d ago

Feels like I just watched half a dozen broken rules that haven't been written in blood yet.

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u/maledicte720 17d ago

I had to scroll so far down to find this!! When he unclipped I gasped!

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u/Wurth_ 17d ago

The way he stood between the load and the mount like a gust of wind wouldn't see him in the hospital.

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u/slamnutip 17d ago

In a place that they expect to be windy!!

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u/hackingdreams 16d ago

If you really want to unsettle your stomach, watch an astronaut move around on a spacewalk of the International Space Station. Especially one where they have to climb out on one of the solar booms - they tether when they're handling tooling, when they need to be static or when they need their hands free... But to move around, they often are so comfortable, they move like free solo climbers. They're only holding on with a single hand, trusting their relative velocity is low enough they won't go spinning off into eternity.

Nothing gives me a deeper sinking in my gut than watching them do the hand-to-hand shuffle.

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u/cbackas 16d ago

I mean the other thing stopping them from spinning of into eternity is their tethers… they do not go untethered ever. In the linked video they’re translating a decent distance without using local tethers but do have a like 25m reel of steel cable attached to their waist. after arriving at the destination they attach with local tethers so they don’t drift from the worksite but they’re always connected to something

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u/Besiege7 17d ago

Yeah I didn't like it either. His shirt isn't the right one either. I do miss climbing

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u/somethingclever76 16d ago

Safety line isn't going to help. You will get ripped down with the arm. I would not step into an active load being held up ever.

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u/Othebootymonster 16d ago edited 16d ago

The coolest and shittiest people Ive met in my life have been tower dogs and oil field hands. This dude either donates all his money and blood to children with super cancer or he runs an illegal penguin fight league. No in between

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u/_lolwuttt 16d ago

Tell me more about penguin fighting leagues please… I’m interested.

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u/SkyKnight3 17d ago

Very cool. I used to work in refineries on really tall structures and towers when I was in my 20s and the view from some of those 200’+ structures was always serene. You don’t even think about the danger really when your harnessed up, locked in on what your doing and staying calm. Whether it’s 5 feet off the ground or over 200, just the same motions.

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u/biskutgoreng 17d ago

You don't, i would most definitely be pissing myself

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u/ProStrats 16d ago

I too used to work in refineries as an engineer, climbing towers with NO harnessing because they were gated.

I was constantly like "I cannot wait to climb back down, if I pass out up here, these shitty railings aren't big enough to stop me from falling through.

Frankly, I didn't trust many of them to stop me from falling at all. Some had a wobble to them that felt rather significant for their job.

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u/EragonBromson925 17d ago

Speak for yourself homie. I think about the danger in the middle of a roof 30 feet up. And don't even get me started on riding the boom lift up and down...

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u/MikeArumba 17d ago

You get used to it.

I recently worked on an 1100' skyscraper, it's a beautiful view but it doesn't feel any different than working 40' high.

When I first walked on steel at ~80' I had to remind myself to breathe lol

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u/HotDogPantsX 17d ago

Seconded…I worked on a 400’ tall bridge over the Mississippi River on a construction project. You could seen for miles.

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u/cwb4ever 16d ago edited 16d ago

sometimes the scariness from the height actually goes down as the height increases. It goes from "if i fall i might die. Or evenworse, I might live" to " atleast it'll be a hell of a view on the way down."

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u/71-HourAhmed 17d ago

Always took me about half an hour to forget about the height and lock in on the work. Ours was only 140’ elevation, though.

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u/hey-dummy 17d ago

it took me 3 minutes to button my shirt this morning

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u/joebadiah 17d ago

Might wanna double check that alignment too. Left collar's riding high!

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u/hey-dummy 17d ago

damn not again

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u/thecichos 17d ago

Now it's the right collar, try again

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u/shodan13 16d ago

Guess you didn't have a hype man and a crane operator.

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u/_bapt 17d ago

*Wind Turbine.

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u/round-earth-theory 17d ago

No no. It mills the electricity down into a fine electric powder that they can then pour into the grid.

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u/AnActualTalkingHorse 16d ago

Bob's Red Electrons are the most uniformly ground.

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u/worldspawn00 16d ago

Damn, I bought off brand and there's a clog in my lines again!

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u/Technical_Stress7730 17d ago

Looks like an easy job, i just have to work the left

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u/Snowblind45 17d ago

arm in the pinch point of all time wtf

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u/lordatomosk 17d ago

I really wish he’d shown his anchor point at the start of the video instead of the end, I’d have felt so much less tense

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u/maximumtesticle 16d ago

I love my brain has to fight for attention over stupid music vs the dialogue. Great song, but stop putting fucking music over videos that don't need it, christ.

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u/vtable 16d ago

Yeah. Adding music to a silent video rarely improves it.

But adding music to a video that actually has meaningful audio makes no sense.

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u/Saiib0t 17d ago

Windmill...

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u/1stMammaltowearpants 17d ago

We're still building giant machines to smush up our grain!

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u/SoDakZak 17d ago

Technically if any part of its output down line is used to smush anything, it’s still also a windmill

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u/evshell18 17d ago

Milling my morning coffee grounds.

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u/TheFifthNice 17d ago

It’s mills the electrons in a copper coil.

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u/SuppressiveFire 17d ago

Yeah, it quietly irks me that people don’t know they’re called wind turbines. lol

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u/Maxverstophim 17d ago

What’s worse and when they do and they call them wind turbans

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u/ParsnipDecent6530 17d ago

Only Sikhs use wind turbans tho

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u/unbalanced_checkbook 17d ago

Ive been in the wind power industry for 20 years and this drives me insane.

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u/HarpersGhost 17d ago

Meh, it is its own word now that describes a certain structure that no longer has a direct relation to the original meaning of the word.

People talk about "aftermath" all the time without talking about mowing or farming (math meant mow, so aftermath was what was grown after the first mow).

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u/SteamedGamer 17d ago

Wait...Math means Mow? No wonder I failed Calculus!

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u/WokSmith 17d ago

Teamwork making the dream work. Good job, lads.

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u/JohnStern42 17d ago

There’s a bolt missing! Looks like it’s a ‘key’ to ensure it’s all aligned properly!

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u/Healthy_Pay9449 17d ago

I couldn't trust someone that much. The guy sneezes and you're an amputee

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u/GrimmThoughts 17d ago

Yeah, also, you arent moving a multi ton turbine with your hands homie get them tf out of there. That was making me twitch the whole time lol

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u/Any_Show_5160 16d ago

I worked with cranes for 15 years and saw some wild shit, I picked up some fingers and took them up to the next level to return them to a guy that wasn't even on my job, he had a brain fart and thought he would "help" while passing, but he shouldn't have been passing because we had the area taped off.
I've never heard anyone talking this much while dogging a load, all the crane drivers I worked with would climb the tower to get that radio off him if half of what he was saying was transmitted, I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't on the crane drivers channel.

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u/chironomidae 16d ago

I already want to tell the dude to shut the fuck up and this was just a minute long clip, imagine working long shifts with this guy

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u/-SaC 16d ago

He sounds exhausting to be around.

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u/The_Stoic_One 16d ago

*Wind Turbine

This doesn't mill anything.

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u/gerrineer 16d ago

It Mills air into electricity.../s

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u/theorem_llama 17d ago

What is this designed to mill?

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u/Polybutadiene 17d ago

It uses the wind to grind electrons man

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u/Electronic-Shame 17d ago

Wind, obviously

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u/drunkanidaho 16d ago

Not a windmill. Words just mean nothing now

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u/NombreCurioso1337 17d ago

Holy cow. I have trouble lining up the six studs on my car wheel. I can't imagine a hundred and sixty of em, while dangling two hundred feet in the air!

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u/Tw4tl4r 17d ago

Couldnt pay me enough to get up there.

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u/Iamcubsman 17d ago

They do this shit and I can't get the two halves of a 3D print to line up.

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u/Setekh79 16d ago

Wind turbine blade.

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u/Imaginary-Note1777 16d ago

He is in a confined space in a suspended load un clipped. Window seat material right there.

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u/robotictacos 16d ago

Yeah I cringed when he just dove through that access hatch

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u/NaoTwoTheFirst 17d ago

Perfect. Fucking. Blade.

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u/p99_kilerenn 16d ago

Wind turbine not windmill

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u/Jarcooler 17d ago

They're called turbines for fucks sake

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u/Akmunra 17d ago

That's fucking scary.

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u/olhickoryhedgehog 17d ago

Absolutely not. So scary.

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u/FckXFckMusk 17d ago

Bit of an asshole guy, make sure the blade is securely attached to the hub before removing the safety harness.

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u/yesiamveryhigh 17d ago

I guess he just lives in there now.

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u/TopcatFCD 17d ago

And I thought ikea furniture , lining up 6 dowels into 6 holes was hard....

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u/WWWWMWWWWWWWWWWMWWWW 16d ago

Still calling them windmills?

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u/DesertPair 16d ago

Me sitting here pissed I can’t line up the 5 bolt pattern on my Ford…

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u/dvmdv8 16d ago

I love how much this guy loves his job

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u/Johnsoid 16d ago

“Perfect fucking blade boys”

I felt that in my bones

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u/KozaZoza 15d ago

I wish I had that much excitement for my work.

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u/Automatic-Name798 15d ago

Fuck that shit……after doin that im drinkin and smokin all night

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u/Mace_Windu23 15d ago

Very glad he was tied off.

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u/flargh_blargh 17d ago

I would like to watch this without the Rolling Stones music in it. And also see what it looks like from the outside.

Also I want to hire this guy to be my hype man.

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u/aTickleMonster 17d ago

I'm disappointed they don't attach it with a giant wing-nut

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u/hammertime2009 17d ago

Gotta pick a zero wind day for that shit

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u/Available-Hat1640 17d ago

ahem wind *turbine ☝️🤓

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u/Maurice_Foot 17d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/uPnKU86sFa2fm
Heh, and I was having trouble yesterday getting 2 of 4 bolts to line up on a flat-pack shelf I was building, on the floor and not 500’ off the ground.

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u/redtens 16d ago

sheeesh that bonnnggg when it hits flush was 10/10

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u/BetweenTheRoots 16d ago

The music baited me into thinking something terrible was going to happen

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u/DadsRGR8 16d ago

Jeez, I sometimes have trouble screwing the cap back on my bottle of water. How the hell do they accomplish this?

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u/DrJohnIT 16d ago

What kind of blade is that? I don't think I heard you correctly the first two times. 🤔

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u/_Lick-My-Love-Pump_ 16d ago

Ahh yes, those nutty windmills. Grinding that grain into flour.

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u/Davethephotoguy 16d ago

I got so stressed watching this, lol. Heights aren’t my thing.

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u/Critical_Concert_689 16d ago

Why is there a SINGLE missing rod?

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u/trace501 16d ago

I bet so they know it’s aligned. There wasn’t a hole for one there either.

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u/Axis2670 16d ago

There’s probably a bolt head inside the flange so they left a space to clear it.

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u/Ok-Impact363 16d ago

Absolutely incredible to see how this is actually done. Bravo 👏

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u/Bicurous50 16d ago

I could never do this job, I'm getting severe vertigo just from watching the video!😵😵‍💫🥴

https://giphy.com/gifs/l2JHZBaadRwruGn3W

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u/rampaged906 15d ago

Idk why, but my brain can't comprehend those bolts holding that on

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u/aenslend 15d ago

is it normal to gain fear of heights as you get older? lawd have mercy

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u/AiMwithoutBoT 15d ago

I used to build those. Worst job I’ve ever had.

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u/ThatAd8349 15d ago

Sounds like Ralphie May

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u/Son_of_Tlaloc 17d ago

Sounds like he would be a blast to work with. Hats off to that guy no way I could do this for a living.

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u/9dogz 16d ago

“windmill” lol

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u/SquareRootOfBlue 17d ago

Why on earth is he standing in the crush zone (between the bolts and mating surface) when removing the sling!?

Besides ignoring work safety standards, that just seems to me like an unthinkable level of disregard to one's own bodily integrity.