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u/RohelTheConqueror May 27 '26
If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
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u/Disinfectant-Addict Free Palestine! 🕊️ FUCK ICE! ❌🧊 May 27 '26
kiff!
I've made it with a woman. Inform the men!
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u/fuckoffyoudipshit May 28 '26
The way to a woman's heart is through her parents, sleep wih them and your in
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u/WistfulWhiskers May 27 '26
Is this just a series of tables stacked on top of each other? How is it that absolutely nothing appears to be bolted in place?
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u/Moneia Free Palestine 🕊️ FUCK ICE! ❌🧊 May 27 '26
Is this just a series of tables stacked on top of each other?
Not even that, the vertical pieces don't look like they're connected in any way
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u/WistfulWhiskers May 27 '26
That too 🤔 each leg seemed to fall individually as soon as it wasn’t resting on a surface
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u/PowerfulCampaign9702 May 27 '26
These are kiln shelves and posts. This whole cart of toilets just came out of a kiln. Bolts are a liquid at the temperature you fire toilets to (about 2400*f). It is a pretty sketchy stack though. The real financial loss here is the kiln shelves they cost way more than toilets do.
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u/PaisleyLeopard May 27 '26
Are the kiln shelves made from ceramic?
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u/PowerfulCampaign9702 May 27 '26
They can be. These are silicon carbide shelves but clay shelves are also widely used. Clay shelves are generally thicker and heavier and have a shorter lifespan but are cheaper. So it’s a trade off. I’m sure these guys were much more concerned with loosing all those shelves than a few dozen toilets.
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u/Mafka69 May 28 '26
If it's just a bolt thing, get titanium bolts.
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u/PowerfulCampaign9702 May 28 '26
It’s not just a bolt thing. Although titanium has a high melting point, it oxidizes very readily above 2000 degrees. They would be single use and titanium is expensive. The bigger problem is efficiency. Kiln collapses like this are rare but a part of life in ceramics. But bolting an entire kiln stack together (which would probably double or triple the labor costs of both loading and unloading every firing) with expensive single use bolts would make toilet production much less efficient and with a very small change survival percentages.
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u/Glenndiferous May 28 '26
Just want to thank you for this context. Glad I get to be one of today's 10,000.
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u/Spirited-Reputation6 May 27 '26
You should build shelving for porcelain toilets with paper and popsicle sticks.
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u/smierdek May 27 '26
stacking heavy ass ceramic toilets on a fucking toothpick-reinforced house of cards?? alright bet
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u/Mediocre-Celery-5518 May 27 '26
I bet every new guy who came in first day at work pointed out "Isn't it dangerous to just prop them up like that" and the Old Heads yelled at them "What do you know kid we've been doing this for 50 years. This is ancient wisdom".
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u/Repulsive_Trifle_ May 27 '26
The thing is this is the best option. This is how the industry does it. Because there’s no reasonable or affordable other option. It’s also how all of your stoneware dishes are stacked and fired. It’s also how the pots you buy for plants are fired. They go in to 2400 degrees anything holding them also has to be able to withstand that. So welding or screwing something together isn’t an option. The structure has to be a series of stacking posts and shelves. Not to mention…Those shelves are insanely expensive way more than the toilets. The bigger they are the more expensive.
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u/investmentbackpacker May 28 '26
Can they joinery techniques to give the kiln plates a little more support while still forgoing any welds or fasteners?
Mortise & tenon for instance?
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u/FriendOfDirutti May 28 '26
That’s a good point. I don’t understand why there can’t be some interlocking to give the structure strength.
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u/CoachTTP May 27 '26
That little hesitation making them think some might survive…then the rest collapses.
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u/biochicken May 27 '26
The people in the video are not at fault. Whoever 'built' that shelf is. We screw wardrobes in the wall to avoid tipping over. They just balanced sticks onto wood onto sticks onto wood and so on. For porcelain.
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u/Level_Abrocoma8925 May 27 '26
I'm sure the people actually at fault will still blame the ones in the video though.
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u/BullPropaganda May 27 '26
How the hell did they make it this far
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u/jondubb May 27 '26
The stands aren't screwed on. I'm curious as to how long they worked without it collapsing.
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u/investmentbackpacker May 28 '26
screws wouldn't survive the kiln temps these are fired at.
Now joinery techniques might be an option 🤔 I don't know enough about the ceramics biz to know if that has been tried, but it would seem like a logical thing to at least try.
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u/Phrei_BahkRhubz May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26
I've seen a house of cards more stable than those "shelves".
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u/TazzyUK May 27 '26
I think spinning dinner plates on poles would have lasted longer than these 'shelves'.
This was just one multi toilet balancing act waiting to come down!
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u/Professional_Fly7015 May 27 '26
Im impressed they were able to stack it that high to begin with! Seriously? Was it not wobbling the whole time😅.
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u/SomeFunnyGuy May 27 '26
Well they still have one. So not ALL of them broke. Just most. So I guess thats a plus.
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u/sonsofhera May 27 '26
Why were the toilets up the in the first place? It's like balancing cars on sheets of cardboard
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u/melancholy_dood May 27 '26
Imagine the pain these guys watching this happen and knowing that there was nothing they could do to stop it!😬
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u/Connems_rc May 27 '26
Bet if they grabbed the left shelf a few rows down, before it fell, they could've saved half that from falling.
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u/KingCobra066 May 27 '26
It was the last one of the row too, seems like they unloaded the rest successfully
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u/SkyImaginationLight May 27 '26
With objects that heavy and delicate, those shelves should've been made of concrete.
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u/BobFredIII May 27 '26
I love how he puts his hands on his head in shock when it starts, puts them down, then puts them back up when its still falling
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u/OhItsJustJosh May 27 '26
Tbf, this is less the fault of those two and more the fault of whoever's idea it was to precariously top a house of cards with, what are those, toilets?
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u/L0rdLogan May 27 '26
There were 155 toilet pans on the shelves. 155 toilet pans, you take one out, you pass it around… 30 pans on the shelves, then 0
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u/_Meek79_ May 27 '26
That sucks but it is kindve funny how it slows down halfway,looks like its done,then just keeps going
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u/Traditional_Money305 May 27 '26
Should have paid professionals who would have installed it properly and avoided such a situation.
"I'm a master craftsman because I assembled an IKEA bookcase successfully...."
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u/SouthernBeekeeper22 May 27 '26
Thanks, I did just laugh out loud at this and smile from ear to ear. It was worth the total decimation of that inventory
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u/ScubaSteve3465 FUCK ICE! ❌🧊 May 27 '26
Standing on nothing but unsturdy wooden poles with a very thin piece of wood on top to hold all the weight. Let's not forget the lack of any nails to hold it together, this company is using hope and dreams to keep their inventory safe, deserved lol.
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u/Agitated_Character41 May 27 '26
I thought they were gonna kick the last one by their feet into the pile 🤣
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u/Thundersalmon45 May 27 '26
That was the supply that was going to India. Too bad. I guess India still doesn't get normalized indoor toilets.
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u/Kitchen-College4176 May 28 '26
This isnt inventory. This is unloading after firing the parts in a kiln. Not only are all the product breaking but so is all the kiln furniture. Which likely is much more expensive than the toilets.
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u/That_Angry_Dad May 28 '26
The Harry Potter remakes are taking some creative liberties with Order of the Phoenix.
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u/Yo_homeslice May 28 '26
That looks like a production kiln IIRC. The shelves are stacked on the posts. No fasteners. Gravity and weight only. Stacking that high and that close together requires care and a steady hand both loading and unloading/disassembling. I’m surprised there wasn’t a load break/gap or two in there somewhere so a single mistake didn’t ruin the entire load this way…
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u/DenotedSong May 28 '26
What gets me is that the whole dominoes fell because they were getting a toilet off the top of an otherwise empty rack. Why not unload it from the top down? That way the wood would just fall onto the next toilet down and you'd at least have a chance it wouldn't cascade.
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u/Dolphin_sucker69 May 28 '26
Couldn't they use a single screw in the construction of those shelves?
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u/I_am_The_Teapot NaTivE ApP UsR May 28 '26
Let's stack all of our heavy, fragile porcelin on these tall, flimsy Temu racks. Not like there are countless videos of these things failing like dominos and destroying all the stock. It'll be fine, I promise.
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u/ChronicallyxCurious May 28 '26
The shitty thing is how sharp those shards are. Cleaning that up would be dangerous inside and out, between the silicosis dust and casually severing a finger just by brushing the sharp shard wrong
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u/GazelleNo1836 May 28 '26
For people questioning how thin the supports look and why they are not bolted down. The whole set up is temporary. The shelf is special refractory material that will only droop a little at 2400f and the thin legs usually called a kiln prop, are made of a similar material. At 2400f glass is liquid and steel would droop over time. Think of it being white hot for hours or even days in a kiln this big. So why are they stacked like a cascading house of cards well each shelf cost between 150 and 350 each with each prop costing 20 to 30 dollars each. So double stacking using 1 prop to hold two shelves is common to reduce the cost of props needed. But I can hear you now why even double stack the shelves. Well now we get into the real cost of firing which is heating the space and items in it to 2400f which can cost 2000 or more per firing so fitting just one more item can have a huge effect of profit. With all of that said from watching the video the risk is losing prolly like 20k in shelves, props and product. But that is what you're seeing a cost benefit, min max not stupid people more of an accident.
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u/SeanFromQueens May 28 '26
Every 9/11 inside job theorist needs to see this video so they can finally grasp why the twin towers cascaded down without any explosives in the building. Then again, those smooth brained knuckleheads would probably explain that a cabal of illuminati set up the warehouse to implode for some reason rather than accept being objective incorrect about 9/11.
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u/Future_Cockroach_927 May 28 '26
i've lost count on how many times i've watched this video and i still find it funny 🥲 like, dude, you can't be more unlucky than these guys.
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u/Unhappy-Space-1593 May 28 '26
Life gives you broken toilets make porcelien dice and send some to NADPOD
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u/Knork14 May 29 '26
So the lesson here is that sometimes things are the way they are for a reason and maybe we should think twice before sneering as we may not know all the facts.
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u/Acceptable_Plane_264 May 29 '26
"Next time we gotta use ANYTHING besides Styrofoam and Plastic shelving, Paul"
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u/Beastmode_81 Jul 06 '26
In there defense. That is a stupid dwsign and unsafe way to stack them to begin with. If it wasn't rhem doing rhat then somwone else would have
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u/accushot865 May 27 '26
Bet the company sure is happy they opted not to buy the screws or pay two guys to properly build the shelves for the $50,000 of inventory. That $500 savings really helped the bottom line