Thread: I’m totally lost for words(Idiot)

A candidate for a Darwin Award for stupidity

Oh give him a break, he's wearing ear muffs. The only problem I can see is that he'll soon need someone to put his muffs on and off for him.

Someone seems to have taken quite a bit of time making that machine, it's a shame they didn't think about how it could be used safely, because your not going to get a second chance if your timings out.

Its not just the risk of loosing a hand but having it all happen at face height kind of doubles the chance of something nasty happening. I hope the said idiot is doing that of his own free will and not some poor begger forced to do that to make a living.
Regards
John

A lot of power going to waste there. Maybe they could extend it to include an ass-kicking attachment.

Originally Posted by orraloon

Its not just the risk of loosing a hand but having it all happen at face height kind of doubles the chance of something nasty happening.

At least his arms are extended out away from his core at that height. I shudder to think what could happen if it was lower and one could bend over the machine...

I was more thinking of violent kickback. Bit of wood with twisted grain, large knot or a bit that lands sideways below the chopper blade and he could cop it in the face. Anyhow looks like nothing short of real pain will convince him the whole thing is a bad idea.
Regards
John

Ahhhh, a man after my own heart.

Everyone has ignored the fact that he appears to wearing crocs, albeit, with socks.

Willy
Jarrahland

Quite a lot of engineering and thought (rotary block splitter) went into the mechanism and then it stopped meaning that it is just a case of when an incident is going to occur, not if...

The ear muffs, safety glasses and gloves are going to help as much as a hard hat would in an atomic explosion.

Crocs and socks? Not cool! But that is the least of this operator's problems.



Regards
Paul

He has dressed to make life easier for the undertaker.

I'm often in a quandry about commenting on posts such as these ... piling on more negative comment won't change the situation.

"Necessity is the mother of invention" - Someone has a problem and comes up with a solution. In this case - Is it elegant? Is it safe? No & No However, it gets the job done. Will the operator survive? I hope so! Will he make modifications to improve the machine and/or process? and to reduce the hazards? I sincerely hope so and quickly.

It's easy to throw brickbats, but if we are to be honest with ourselves, we have all probably done "unsafe things" in the past to get a job done. Our notions of "what is safe" have also changed significantly, for the better I might add, in the past few decades. Simply look back at previous photo's of common place activities in whatever industry you are/were in to see how much "we" have changed. e.g. two points of attachment for riggers / climbers whereas even 15-20 years ago "free climbing" was common place. ( & still occurs!)

Originally Posted by Mobyturns

I'm often in a quandry about commenting on posts such as these ... piling on more negative comment won't change the situation.

"Necessity is the mother of invention" - Someone has a problem and comes up with a solution. In this case - Is it elegant? Is it safe? No & No However, it gets the job done. Will the operator survive? I hope so! Will he make modifications to improve the machine and/or process? and to reduce the hazards? I sincerely hope so and quickly.

It's easy to throw brickbats, but if we are to be honest with ourselves, we have all probably done "unsafe things" in the past to get a job done. Our notions of "what is safe" have also changed significantly, for the better I might add, in the past few decades. Simply look back at previous photo's of common place activities in whatever industry you are/were in to see how much "we" have changed. e.g. two points of attachment for riggers / climbers whereas even 15-20 years ago "free climbing" was common place. ( & still occurs!)

Originally Posted by Mobyturns

I'm often in a quandry about commenting on posts such as these ... piling on more negative comment won't change the situation.

"Necessity is the mother of invention" - Someone has a problem and comes up with a solution. In this case - Is it elegant? Is it safe? No & No However, it gets the job done. Will the operator survive? I hope so! Will he make modifications to improve the machine and/or process? and to reduce the hazards? I sincerely hope so and quickly.

It's easy to throw brickbats, but if we are to be honest with ourselves, we have all probably done "unsafe things" in the past to get a job done. Our notions of "what is safe" have also changed significantly, for the better I might add, in the past few decades. Simply look back at previous photo's of common place activities in whatever industry you are/were in to see how much "we" have changed. e.g. two points of attachment for riggers / climbers whereas even 15-20 years ago "free climbing" was common place. ( & still occurs!)

Originally Posted by Mobyturns

I'm often in a quandry about commenting on posts such as these ... piling on more negative comment won't change the situation.

"Necessity is the mother of invention" - Someone has a problem and comes up with a solution. In this case - Is it elegant? Is it safe? No & No However, it gets the job done. Will the operator survive? I hope so! Will he make modifications to improve the machine and/or process? and to reduce the hazards? I sincerely hope so and quickly.

It's easy to throw brickbats, but if we are to be honest with ourselves, we have all probably done "unsafe things" in the past to get a job done. Our notions of "what is safe" have also changed significantly, for the better I might add, in the past few decades. Simply look back at previous photo's of common place activities in whatever industry you are/were in to see how much "we" have changed. e.g. two points of attachment for riggers / climbers whereas even 15-20 years ago "free climbing" was common place. ( & still occurs!)

Originally Posted by Mobyturns

I'm often in a quandry about commenting on posts such as these ... piling on more negative comment won't change the situation.

"Necessity is the mother of invention" - Someone has a problem and comes up with a solution. In this case - Is it elegant? Is it safe? No & No However, it gets the job done. Will the operator survive? I hope so! Will he make modifications to improve the machine and/or process? and to reduce the hazards? I sincerely hope so and quickly.

It's easy to throw brickbats, but if we are to be honest with ourselves, we have all probably done "unsafe things" in the past to get a job done. Our notions of "what is safe" have also changed significantly, for the better I might add, in the past few decades. Simply look back at previous photo's of common place activities in whatever industry you are/were in to see how much "we" have changed. e.g. two points of attachment for riggers / climbers whereas even 15-20 years ago "free climbing" was common place. ( & still occurs!)

I’m sorry but as much as I want to agree with you I can not. The individual is clearly an idiot.
I don’t think that contraption was build out of desperate Necessities it was build out of stupidity.

, I too at the age of 4 was an idiot,
I was giving advice by my mother but ignored it,but I evolved I learned from my mistakes, an carry a badge too remind me,
(yes I still make mistakes an yes I have done stupid things since).





But that’s just at another level.

Cheers Matt.

When I was a kid, a group of us used to trap Dingo's for pocket money. A city kid came out to stay with his grandparents over the school holidays and decided he would like to join us. Upon being told there was a trap set in the immediate vercinity he dropped down on both knees and began patting the ground! Before any of us could speak, he found the trap and ended up losing two fingers in the process.
I met him many years later and he made the comment, "It wasn't the pain from the trap that taught him the lesson. It was the bagging he got from us that did the trick."

Originally Posted by Simplicity

I’m sorry but as much as I want to agree with you I can not. The individual is clearly an idiot.
I don’t think that contraption was build out of desperate Necessities it was build out of stupidity.

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But that’s just at another level.

Cheers Matt.

You may be correct, but I don't jump to those conclusions without a bit more info. We can make assumptions about the person, their knowledge, skill, experience, intellect; the machine, how it came to be etc but they are still assumptions!

What is evident in the video though is that he is prepared to take some very big risks using the machine. No margin for error, with a very high probability of being severely injured, and ....... of being killed. A nightmare imo!

ps - In the past I have been labeled an "idiot" many times for my stance on safety, & for doing things like discharging a duty of care towards others who repeatedly ignored "out of service" tagging and a "lockout" to use machinery (a bandsaw) that required urgent maintenance. In the end I had to render the machine inoperative until the maintenance could be scheduled. One of those members who took exception to me doing that latter had a very good go at removing 3 fingers on the same machine, thankfully in a session that I was not present at.

The term "idiot" is context dependent.