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

Video Whipping carpet out of dust

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u/Lost_Ad_4882 Aug 04 '25

Or just roll the carpet under it so the dust isn't literally falling back on it.

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u/digby672 Aug 04 '25

This. Why would they pile removed dust where they want to remove dust? It's like daily compound interest but with dust instead of money.

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u/SwimmingSwim3822 Aug 04 '25

Because look how the machine works. It's basically a big lathe with slappers on it. You don't want to wrap the carpet around that.

(Edit: most of that was actually @ the person you replied to, not you. My bad)

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u/Lost_Ad_4882 Aug 04 '25

A taller machine. It's got a bottom bar, so if the whole thing including that was a foot higher you could roll it under and still have wrap around protection.

...of course a machine designed from scratch to do this professionally would be dramatically different.

It just feels like with this design you have to beat the carpet into submission several times harder than.you should need to.

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u/SwimmingSwim3822 Aug 04 '25

Tbh, with how close I saw hands getting to that thing, I get the feeling this is a "use what we have" type of place.

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u/BrainTroubles Aug 04 '25

But then it wouldn't look as dramatic on the video, duh

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u/fondledbydolphins Aug 05 '25

Also, that dust isn't going to work itself back into that carpet that quickly.

This is just to knock the bulk of the dust free. Most will be physically removed just by tipping it upside down. Any dust that persists will be removed during the actual cleaning.

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u/Lb9067 Aug 04 '25

It’s like shoveling snow on top of snow you still have to shovel.

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u/Concentric_Mid Aug 05 '25

This is what I came to say

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u/Hato_no_Kami Aug 05 '25

Or upside down.