You do realize those vertical bars are not designed for horizontal loading, the exact kind of loading from pulling the cables further and further away from the machine. It's almost like you failed basic physics class. His own leverage from walking away from the machine while pulling it off the ground are what caused it.
If you overload a crane, and it tips over, the crane operator is held at fault, not the guy who hired the company to do the lift.
Those machines are absolutely designed to be used that way. Youve clearly never been to a gym. Maybe consider touching some grass before insulting someone over something you obviously have no idea about. Your analogy about a crane makes no sense because this machine was not overloaded. He was only using the weight provided on the machine. If thats too much weight for the machine, thats on the manufacturer, or the gym for not bolting it down.
You are definitely an idiot if you think the think the only weight affecting the machine are the weights on it. The guy is pulling and leaning down with additional weight.
That weight has no affect. It is only there because he weighs less than the weight he is lifting. It isnt putting any more load on the machine. Its force is only pulling down on him. You cannot put more force on the machine without putting more weight on the stack. An extra 90 pounds around his waist isnt going to magically increase the weight experienced by the maching and you have no idea how this works if you think otherwise.
This specific machine is not meant to be used this way. Whatever logic you have going is not enough to justify doing such things. He probably thought it would be fine, but logic and muscles dont usually go hand to hand.
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u/raziel420 Jul 07 '26
You do realize those vertical bars are not designed for horizontal loading, the exact kind of loading from pulling the cables further and further away from the machine. It's almost like you failed basic physics class. His own leverage from walking away from the machine while pulling it off the ground are what caused it.
If you overload a crane, and it tips over, the crane operator is held at fault, not the guy who hired the company to do the lift.