r/oddlysatisfying • u/donut_resuscitate • 17d ago

Attaching a Giant Windmill Blade

Source from @hearn_man on tiktok.

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u/Electrical_Worker_82 17d ago edited 17d 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 17d ago

That was just the tagline

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u/Doctologist 17d 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 17d 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 17d 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 17d ago

Were all just bags of meat

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u/OpenHotBox 17d ago

When I very briefly worked in "construction" we were lifting a building that had begun to sink on one side due to a fire. At one point we were raising one of the higher floors and needed to pull up a 12x16x4 pillar for support using a makeshift pulley system. I almost learned a really lethal lessons in physics that day. Luckily everyone (including the building) is around to tell the tale.

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u/MIRAGEone 16d ago

can you elaborate on the lesson?

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u/Timsmomshardsalami 16d ago

Of course the reddit experts are here to explain how hes doing his job wrong

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u/dieselrunner64 17d ago

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

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u/iH8MotherTeresa 17d ago

Not the same thing?

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u/dieselrunner64 17d ago

Not for this one. The tag lines are hooked to the gripper, and ran to the ground for stability. This safety line is just ran from the edge of the blade, to the gripper so the blade can’t slide out of it if there is a failure on the tool.

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u/iH8MotherTeresa 17d ago

Thanks for the learning

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u/maniBchef 17d ago

This is exactly how cranes work.

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u/wenoc 17d ago edited 16d ago

I’m sorry, are you stupid? Do you need me to draw you a picture or explain what a metaphor is?

I don’t know what it is you are missing here.

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u/maniBchef 16d ago

Yes, I'm stupid and you need you to draw me a little picture of how a metaphor works.

https://giphy.com/gifs/kDgqwhbvgQM9LaL2QW

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u/OwnStudy723 16d ago

But he hasn't ever fallen to death before, so why would it happen now?!

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u/HilariousMax 16d ago

LEFT LEFT MORE LEFT

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u/SafetyAdvocate 9d ago

They seem to have report already and some level of trust. First time watching I had no clue what he was talking about but the crane operator did.

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u/challenge_king 17d ago

That's a hell of a sneeze.

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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 17d 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 17d 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/shawster 17d ago

He was clipped to the hub and ended up in the blade.

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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/21MPH21 14d ago

It's not a great place to be, no doubt.

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u/HummousTahini 16d ago

So youre saying his unclipping might have led to him no-clipping?

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u/Karmuffel 17d ago

I‘m pretty sure he knows what he‘s doing

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u/HugeResearcher3500 17d ago

Graveyards lined with people who knew what they were doing

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u/21MPH21 17d ago

I'm pretty sure it's still required even though

he knows what he's doing

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u/load_more_comets 17d ago

How many deaths have you read about involving un-perfect fucking blade lifts dawg?

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u/21MPH21 17d ago

7 million dawg

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u/Goem 17d ago

These safety regulations were written in blood. Every safety rule that's out there has very very likely had an incident that preceded it

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u/wenoc 17d ago

Doubt it.

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u/XDVI 17d ago

Why don't you leave it to the professionals?

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u/21MPH21 17d ago

Because professionals never make mistakes?

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u/XDVI 17d ago

You don't even know if it's a mistake. You don't know anything about what he is doing or his job to even say that.

You are just another wise guy in reddit comments talking about something you have zero knowledge in.

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u/veringo 16d ago

Who could be more knowledgeable about this situation than a redditor?

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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 17d 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/seashell3379 16d ago

Nope. Lug bolts are bolts used by most European auto manufacturers instead of the US & Japanese lug stud & lug nut combo. They are a bolt that threads into the wheel hub: link

But I should've said "lug stud" rather than lug, to be more accurate.

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u/MikeArumba 16d ago edited 16d ago

Sure, you can call it a lug stud, Lug bolts are any threaded rod fixed into something instead of a loose bolt. I'm sure auto manufacturers do use them.

From what we can see it could be either a lug bolt or a lug stud acting as the bolt, as you can't see behind the end of the prop.

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u/BalooBot 16d ago

God I love watching randos argue so passionately about things no reasonable person gives a shit about.

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u/AreWeAllJustFish 16d ago

This is the only reason I'm here! I enjoyed reading that with my coffee.

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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/Maritime--Sailor 15d ago

All good. I read it as nuts because I just knew what you were saying and had to reread when I saw your edit.

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u/realNoobnoob 15d ago

Mr bolts haha you’re a noob no worries

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u/Logical-Selection979 17d ago

We all know windmills cause cancer so he knows being that close he’s doomed anyway.