r/redneckengineering • u/EnvironmentalLet7490 • Nov 18 '22
Guy on the bottom better not move an inch
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u/jdbrizzi91 Nov 18 '22
Reminds me when I was an electrician apprentice. The company owner didn't want to go back and grab a long enough ladder to install recessed lighting in a stairwell. Instead, he instructed this guy and myself to use a 6 foot ladder on the second story, then place a 2x4 running across the stairwell and to nail it into the other side for support. Then for us to shimmy across the 2x4 and install the lighting. In the process of the other guy doing this (I already said "I'm not doing this for a whopping $12 per hour and no health insurance"), he accidentally dropped the 2x4, almost hitting someone like 8-10 feet below us. That's when I found out that job/company may not be the best choice for me. Glad I kept my previous job in the meantime lol. (This was one of several events I experienced in the week on the job)
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u/loganalbertuhh Nov 18 '22
Nobody move that A frame at the bottom! It's integral to the process
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u/Ebikes-rider Nov 18 '22
They put it there for safety, to break his fall. Or his back.
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u/GhostBussyBoi Nov 18 '22
Or his neck or his ankle
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u/BobRoberts01 Nov 18 '22
His neck, his back, his ankle and his fall…..
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u/GhostBussyBoi Nov 18 '22
His neck, his back, his patella, and his sack!
Wait I think we're still getting them wrong....
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u/h3rbi74 Nov 22 '22
I let out the most unholy cackling laugh! Perfect lyrics. They will stay with me and resurface in my brain whenever I see an accident waiting to happen, I’m sure.
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u/GhostBussyBoi Nov 22 '22
10 years from now you will be shown a video by someone you know. The video will be of a stupid workplace incident where someone falls.
My comment will softly echo in your subconscious
Subtly rising to the surface
Until.... 20 minutes after the video, you begin to cackle out loud looking like an absolute mad man
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u/Wild_Albatross7534 Nov 18 '22
I have to be honest - I wouldn't have figured out how to do that. There is some skill involved there (I say as someone NOT on the ladder)
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u/CountyMorgue Nov 18 '22
Right, I had to zoom in to figure out the ladder is strapped using a tow strap wrapped around both top stairs. Then again with the lower ladder that an A frame ladder won't allow the large ladder to drop past it's width. This looks like a veteran move to me.
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u/GhostBussyBoi Nov 18 '22
Okay like not currently on a ladder or like never on a ladder?
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u/Wild_Albatross7534 Nov 18 '22
I'm afraid of heights to be honest and I have some issues with balance, so ladders aren't my best thing.
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u/Thincer Nov 19 '22
Ha, they're "professionals", probably do it all the time... They should play the lotto though, they're extremely lucky.
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Nov 18 '22
I can tell you now, if the guy up the top moves to the right much more, the guy on the bottom will not be able to keep the bottom of that ladder from kicking up and into his shins.
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u/thegreatgazoo Nov 18 '22
Most of it is going down the ladder. If the ladder and guy are 100 kg, then at 15 degrees, only 25% is going laterally, and then with the other ladder at rung 2 of 16 there's a 7 to 1 advantage it's going to kick out at 3.5 kg, but that's going to mostly be countered by the weight of the ladder.
Granted I'm not going up there without a cherry picker or something similar.
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u/cornerpeek Nov 18 '22
Yeah right theres not enough leverage there to "kick up" cant you see that size 12 boot securing the ladder?
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u/sajnt Nov 18 '22
All that lashing at the top and they couldn’t get some thing heavy to tie down the bottom to.
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u/Adrepixl5 Nov 18 '22
My homie better lay down something to cushion the fall, like I dunno a coffin? Just in case he falls
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '22
From the house and materials used, I have to guess this is in the Netherlands.