Show us some job carnage

[Caman96]

Been working up on the top floors of Prudential building in Boston. I stopped in to take a look a new elevator motors being installed. They’re not carnage yet but will be soon. Originals weigh 20,000 lbs and new ones 28,000. I asked installer’s what’s wrong with the old ones, he said nothing, they’d last another 100 years. I got to watch it in operation, look at the massive brake shoe on it.

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[Erik the Awful]

look at the massive brake shoe on it.

And that big coil spring on top. How much valve lift can that handle?

 

[Caman96]

And that big coil spring on top. How much valve lift can that handle?

Not really sure, but if you needed a 5000 lb. wheel hub assembly, this might work.

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[Orpedcrow]

And that big coil spring on top. How much valve lift can that handle?

All of it

 

[User_name]

And that big coil spring on top. How much valve lift can that handle?

Is it roller or flat tappet?

 

[Dariusz Salomon]

Our bus coming back from the airport took a wrong exit from motorway-there are 2 exits from M40 before Oxford-junction 7 and junction 8. As you can see on the map,junction 8 is almost flush with the motorway,so none of us was slowing down for that one-entry at 62mph. Junction 7 is short and bendy. The driver (he's been on it 13 years) took junction 7 instead of 8 to come off and the result you can see on the picture. Luckily none of 17 passengers nor driver were hurt.
Now the weird fact-few months earlier a bus from London (different company)did the same-there were some passengers seriously hurt in that one. Driver was new.
I actually figured why those accidents happened. Look at the sign placed just before junction 7-in theory it makes sense-however the first thing you see is "Oxford" and arrow,which in your mind is "next junction"(I know cause when I started that's what crossed my mind). For the "new"driver everything was still new-he got confused,thinking this is his exit(happened at night).
Our "old"driver was driving in the fog-he might have lost orientation(as he was doing it for so long his mind might have not been "with it") and when he saw the sign he came off.
It only shows how bad signage can lead to serious consequences.

 

[Dariusz Salomon]

And the hobby carnage-I painted (at work) and put it over the heater to dry. I didn't realise how hot that flippin thing gets. Had to buy another model grrrr

 

[Dariusz Salomon]

I deal with "carnage" everyday, BUT in the mid 2000s. Worked in NE Wisconsin, near Egg Harbor at that time. Lived with my parents in Sheboygan at that time. Pretty rough time for my family in general. I was building an outbuilding for a church and a small house for the pastor. Carnage begun when I showed up early to get all my tools ready from the van, and I hear a bunch of noise from the outbuilding. The guy nail gun'ed his hand to the frame-boards. The day got worse for me (I worked on the house, the other guys worked on the outbuilding). First there was a supercell storm that snapped a branch and landed on the roof I just put on. A giant branch too, can’t remember the exact dementia (Thanks auto-correct) dimensions but it was the size of the tree in my backyard that I park my hunting truck underneath. Then I went to the hardware store and spent half of my pay check on new roofing supplies. After that, I said to the Pastor “I’m gonna be back on Sunday, I need some divine intervention before I nail gun my hand to the wall”.

After we finished the house and building, I moved to N i m r o d Minnesota, then Newberry Michigan, then Paradise Michigan, and various other places that I don’t care to mention. I did construction work for random people at random places. Traveled where the work was. I settled just outside Superior WI and work for an oil company in the office. I deal with a whole lot of nothing, the "carnage" I have to deal with is my coworkers. Somethings always wrong with them. One recent carnage story happened the other day. I sometimes sell pallets on the side, not often but it makes me some money. I have a plow that I converted into a forklift, it's a giant pain to explain but it boils down to: "I want to buy a forklift but I don't have $10,000 laying around. I know! Lets buy a broken plow for $100 and extend the up and down motion of the hydraulics!". I had a few pallets on it, gonna load it up into my trailer. They all fell off and hit the Dodge, big gouge in it that I have to explain to everyone. Oh well, I don't really care about it. I shouldn't store my trailer beside the Dodge when I'm using the redneck forklift.

A whole lot of minor not work related carnage in my youth. Shooting my grandpa's 61 GMC Carryall and not the biggest turkey I've ever seen, for instance. Not much worth mentioning.

Edit: N i m r o d is censored, forgot that.

Omfg the "can't remember the exact dementia" autocorrect is hilarious lmao.

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

Our bus coming back from the airport took a wrong exit from motorway-there are 2 exits from M40 before Oxford-junction 7 and junction 8. As you can see on the map,junction 8 is almost flush with the motorway,so none of us was slowing down for that one-entry at 62mph. Junction 7 is short and bendy. The driver (he's been on it 13 years) took junction 7 instead of 8 to come off and the result you can see on the picture. Luckily none of 17 passengers nor driver were hurt.
Now the weird fact-few months earlier a bus from London (different company)did the same-there were some passengers seriously hurt in that one. Driver was new.
I actually figured why those accidents happened. Look at the sign placed just before junction 7-in theory it makes sense-however the first thing you see is "Oxford" and arrow,which in your mind is "next junction"(I know cause when I started that's what crossed my mind). For the "new"driver everything was still new-he got confused,thinking this is his exit(happened at night).
Our "old"driver was driving in the fog-he might have lost orientation(as he was doing it for so long his mind might have not been "with it") and when he saw the sign he came off.
It only shows how bad signage can lead to serious consequences.

In the States we have the freeway number and logo painted on the lane you need to be in at interchanges, including the highway you're exiting onto ond the one you'll stay on (if in the correct lane). I first saw this in the East Coast states on a trip to Virginia with a relative (conference for her trade and her husband wasn't having her go cross country by herself, so I got a low cost vacation!). Thought it was a great idea, it kept us going the right direction, and was happy to see it in Texas a few years later. Very helpful on most of our huge spaghetti bowl freeway interchanges here.

 

[Kens1990K2500]

I used to work in a large grocery store chain, in the dairy and frozen food department, night stocking. We got leaning pallets all the time, and some nights I'd come in and be told," you'll have to stock the eggs from your backstock, the new ones got broken when the pallet fell over coming off the truck".....
That occasionally happened with other stuff too. Also, the warehouse would be in such a hurry, they'd drop stack juice or other heavy stuff on top of a pallet of yogurt and cottage cheese.....
No, I didn't buy perishables from work any more than absolutely necessary....other than me and the original department manager, no one else did the rotation properly.
Most stores are like this! When you buy some food item, particularly refrigerated items....check the sell by/use before date!

I've been getting a lot of milk that goes sour quickly lately