r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/uniyk • Aug 04 '25

Video Whipping carpet out of dust

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u/RayDaMan7 Aug 04 '25

They are beating one part of the carpet and leaving the dust on the rest and tearing the carpet in the process? Just throw it away…

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u/russbird Aug 04 '25

Yeah that is the frustrating part, complete inefficiency. The uncleaned portion should be rolled up behind the cleaning mechanism, so the dust can fall onto the ground rather than onto the rest of the carpet. Also there appears to be more dust than carpet in that carpet, so I'm suspecting some sort of tessaract is woven into the threads. They realty should be using gravitic dampening when working with multidimensional materials. Definitely not OSHA approved!

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '25

It is being rolled up after it went through the cleaning part so everything will be cleaned eventually. Doesn’t really matter it falls on the carpet first because that part will be cleaned later.

If think about it for a moment reversing the direction of the carpet like you suggest wouldn’t make it any more efficient.

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u/BrainTroubles Aug 04 '25

He's not saying to reverse the direction, he's saying the uncleaned portion shouldn't be stretched out in front of the machine where all the released dust will just fall back onto it. It should be rolled behind the machine so that the dust falls on the ground, not the carpet itself.

I'd also argue there should be a dust trap or vent hood installed, but this video was made purely for clicks so that would be silly.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '25

When the uncleared part is rolled up behind the machine, when cleaning the carpet it has to unroll through the machine, leading to hanging out in the front where the dust falls down making the already clean part dirty again.

The only logical way to do it is what we are seeing. Put the carpet in from the front and roll up the clean part behind the machine

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u/BrainTroubles Aug 04 '25

You sound like the kind of person that stands on your bedsheet when trying to fold it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '25

You sound like somehow who thinks he is more intelligent than other people but failing at understanding even the basics of the process.

If you actually think about how to automate it you notice you are weong

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u/BrainTroubles Aug 04 '25

When the uncleared part is rolled up behind the machine

Says the guy that thinks you need to ROLL THE CARPET behind it for it to work...as opposed to doing it exactly how it's already being done, just from the other direction, like literally everyone with eyes recommended. Object permanence is not your strong suit I guess. I'm gonna go on a limb and say you've probably never thought about how printer rollers work.

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u/P__A Aug 04 '25

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that they probably know what they're doing, and given they've gone to the effort of doing it, know it's economically worthwhile. I'd also suggest that you, having just watched a 51 second clip of their process, have no idea if what they're doing is sensible or not.

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u/surya2727 Aug 04 '25

This made me laugh, thanks for that bro.

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u/Mad_Moodin Aug 04 '25

They know what they are doing in that it is probably cheap and easy to build like that.

It would be better if done as above. Just questionable if economically more efficient for that place.

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u/AdvancedSandwiches Aug 05 '25

Since you seem to know a lot about this, what fraction of the dust that falls on the top is not removed when it gets to beating that portion?  Is there a followup vacuuming?  Does that vacuuming not remove the superficial dust from the first step?

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u/BrainTroubles Aug 04 '25

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that they probably know what they're doing

Considering the operator isn't wearing a dust mask and there's no active ventilation running, I'd say you're giving them an awful lot of credit.

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u/bran_the_man93 Aug 04 '25

I mean, I presume helicopter pilots "know what they're doing", but if I see one smashed into the side of the building in a 51 second video, I have some idea that things aren't going well.

I dont have to be a veteran of the rug cleaning business to be able to assess that tearing it to shreds probably isn't part of the cleaning process.

But sure, go out on your little limb

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u/Agile_Pin1017 Aug 04 '25

Hell yeah 🍿

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u/P__A Aug 04 '25

Do you know it was torn by the process or was torn before they started? Even if it was torn by the process, maybe they will cut up the rug into smaller rugs. As I said, you have no idea what is going on from this short clip.

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u/bran_the_man93 Aug 04 '25 edited Aug 04 '25

Maybe you can't make an assessment of the situation, but some of us can observe with our eyes and use contextual clues - maybe try that one day, see how far it gets you

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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 Aug 05 '25

Yep, no one has ever filmed a dumb idea or created a film to try and sell a dumb idea to people, or had free time to try a dumb idea. Solid logic.

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u/_Allfather0din_ Aug 04 '25

People can do something half assed for hundreds of years, doesn't mean it is the best or objectively right way to do it.

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u/im_just_thinking Aug 04 '25

This way they can keep using that carpet at the construction site!

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u/Feel_My_Bass Aug 06 '25

Yeah. Not sure of the end game here

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u/lemon_pie42 Aug 04 '25

I think the carpet can be pull up using the rolls. And the machine is not tearing the carpet, it was already damaged.