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Good work as always John, as a 40 yr Fitter/Welder then Engineer with rigging endorsement spot on. Love your glove theory too.
Thank you very much, Richard. All the best mate.
I lift heavy loads for a living. The best advice for the DIYer is if your are not 100% sure of what you are doing then don’t do it. Heavy loads can kill you. Watching a UA-cam channel does not make you an expert or even a novice when it comes to life threatening activities.
Agreed. Dynamic loads, unanticipated movement and being fooled into where a centre of mass is can cause utter chaos. Add in incorrect assumptions about the correct /safe lifting points and it can get dangerous fast.
Ah, but Larry - the problem is that every DIYer IS 100% sure of what he's doing. That's why he will never RTFM (Read The *ucking Manual) and why hospitals are such busy places at the weekend.
As usual, John manages to give a great balance between practical knowledge and terror over doing it, with a good sense of humor thrown in.
3 videos in a row in which none are ev based, thumbs up
The potential energy a ladder can provide in a situation should not be underestimated. Well done, John . . . as usual.
Some of your best work, John.
Ladder injuries are no joke.
Quite. They're not.
Thank you.
Yes quite. I spent quite a long time in an Ortho ward following a motorcycle collision. I was the only bike accident there over those months, everyone, everyone else, except one old bloke who fell off his Caravan, was a ladder fall. Life changing ladder falls, broken bones, throw in an Aquired Brain Injury…
@@dougstubbs9637 I nearly went to my own funeral courtesy of a ladder fall. And I did go to the funeral of my son's best friend. He was 21. I'm not dismissing the dangers associated with motorcycling. I ride and I've had the luxury of visiting friends in wards such as the one you found yourself in. It does my head in when someone says " motorcyclists are temporary Australians", or something similar, but they're more than happy to see someone scale a most precariously placed ladder because, "the job's gotta get done".
I know very little about moving heavy loads but the thing that I do know is that the most powerful muscle is the one in the upper story, if something seems even slightly wrong then it probably is. The solution is to take some time off, have a cup of coffee and and have a good hard think.
Darwin is rolling over in his grave JC, you are perpetuating the longevity of those who dont have what it takes to reach old age.
A good idea to wear safety glasses at all times in the workshop, not just up a ladder. Another reason is although the chances of getting knocked out by something hitting you eye is low the chance of getting dust or dead insects or the likes when looking up and on a ladder is extremely high as such things have a habit of residing on top of beams and it is not funny climbing down ladders half blind.
I don't agree with "always do this..." type of advice. The main thing in remaining safe is to always be evaluating the risk and responding to it in real time. Having blanket rules results in starting to turn off some of your evaluation because your mind has foreclosed on the danger and assumes it's safe. Sometimes the thing you do because, "always", can make other aspects of a job less safe or at least, less effective. The main thing is to just be switched on, know your principles of physics and be responsible for your safety at all times.
@@andoletube You can never tell when something will flip up or blow into your eyes, so if there is dust, loose particles etc around it is always best to assume there is a risk that something will get into your eyes. But otherwise always evaluate for potential risks and never assume that something is safe because nothing happened last time.
@@Equiluxe1 Sounds like you're taking it out of the world of sensible precaution and into the world of disproportionate fear though. That's no healthier a state a state than being under-cautious. Your sympathetic nervous system is always fired up and you're trying to recruit your parasympathetic nervous system via the use of permanent goggles. This is more the domain of a psychologist than calm rational risk assessment. I've been in workshops for decades without one single incident of eye damage. I put that down to a calm assessment of risk, rather than a disproportionate fear of consequences and excessive precautions. And I can prove that because I never used excessive precautions. But I know how things work. Luck doesn't come into it.
@@andoletube I have been in workshops for forty five years and for most of that time I have worn eye and ear protection as a matter of course, I have seen some one loose an eye through not wearing eye protection from a flying piece of metal coming off a grinder and they were at least fifteen feet away from the person doing the grinding. It is not about being paranoid it is about being sensible in a hazardous environment.
@@Equiluxe1 I've told you multiple times that I take adequate precautions in my workshop(s) and that I've never been injured, but you have an issue with your personality that compels you to be the one who knows best for everybody. Even when I said I've spent "decades" in workshops, your ego response was to say you've done"45 years" because you think that's an unassailable length of time that gives you absolute authority.
Note that I haven't advocated anything dangerous at all, yet your mind is convinced that I'm not careful enough. You see what I'm talking about here? You don't know me, or what precautions I take, yet you are certain that it's not enough. You are a rigid thinker who can't see things from the point of view of others. This all stems from one statement you couldn't handle about avoiding "always" rules. I never advocated lax safety standards. I never even mentioned working in a workshop with others - yet there you go with more scenarios that don't apply to other people. I'd say your time in your workshops has allowed certain controls issues you have to percolate. So for that reason, I'm done with you, Captain Safety.
John, you lift my heavy heart with joy, every time I see a new video notifcation.
Heart of Phar Lap there, dude. Add butterflies, or cheerleaders. (Both heart-lightening additives.)
From now on, he'll be able to use a block and tackle or electric winch to lift your heart.
A bloke over 60 falling off a ladder at home is nowadays called "doing a Molly" by orthopaedic surgeons who fix the busted hip/pelvis and the gs's who look at the lung, spleen, liver and bowel injuries caused by your ribs and whatever irregular protrusion your flank happened to land on.
Safety tip missing in video; have someone else around. Even a kid playing candy crush saga on phone in corner can call help. If you are alone have phone in pocket.
I've been working with heavy equipment most of my life, fifty years or so, and it's always good to remember these safety issues. I'm alone in the world now, lost my wife a few years ago, and had to call my daughter the last injury I had. It's hard to adjust to a new way of life, but essential, I'm thirty miles away from family working out of a full scale machine shop. The doctors really enjoy the opportunity to practice their trade, not so much fun from the patient's perspective. Definitely a timely video reminder.
I think I'm gunna need a bigger shed......I need all these items...
You do.
You should put a wire rope type cable strainer on the control pendant so you don't break the electrical control cable when you inadvertently use the pedant to summon the hoist to the work location.
We always referred to it as a catenary wire at work. Ladders and lifting were always the most dangerous operations I was involved with as a support engineer. We got rid of most of the ladders with hydraulic lifts and movable platforms but they are not risk free, just a lower risk.
Since we moved loads weighing anything from a couple of kg up to 100 tonnes with overhead gantry cranes we had very strict procedures for the larger loads that involved cordoned off areas, check sheets and a qualified engineer to be in charge. We had a few loads drop, one weighing about 10 tonnes where someone set up a lift with an overspread 4 leg chain set who didn't consider that the tangent of large angles approaches infinity and another where a large gantry crane did an un-commanded lowering of a large load, I think it was traced to brake failure. It was the failure under load of the 4 leg chain set setup that made us introduce the check sheets and qualified engineers into the larger lifts. It was keeping people away with a cordon that kept people safe when the bolts of the bolt-on lifting points snapped and pieces flew off. And as for all lifts, it was keeping people from going underneath that meant there were no injuries.
The main takeaway from the failure of the high angle of the legs of the chain set is that there is a huge difference between safe working load (SWL) and working load limit (WLL) that the engineers involved had to understand and we had to be able to do the basic trigonometry that went with all the unique lift setups that we did. We also assumed that all the load on a 4 leg sling was taken on only 2 legs. Maybe that is a topic for a future video.
just quietly, I am sort of retired now but have been a tradesman for over 35 years, I still watch these type of info sessions, complacency shortens a lot of lives and even though a lot of it is just background(been there done that stuff) while drinking my coffee I usually learn something I had either forgotten or was never shown. Yes am aware of the optic nerve thingy(also found out the hard way),had it triggered by a LED light in my eye, love the bike helmet idea, also many injuries are caused not by the actual fall but by falling ONTO something, clear the space underneath of sharp and blunt objects(I may have missed you mentioning this, I am getting the housework done before I get greasy for the day). Nice to have common sense tutorials out there. Cheers.
I grew up on a farm in Wisconsin. Wife's family runs a dairy in Ohio. I cannot count how many sketchy corner cutting jobs I and my family did. Then came summer 2022 when we lost my younger brother-in-law to a shop accident. I was 8 feet away. His father-in-law was right there handing him tools and chatting. Left 2 youngsters behind and a devoted wife. Farmers are always cutting corners because they are always overworked, underpaid, and love being outside doing something.
Why do I tell you this? Never cut corners. Take the time to evaluate in a "no shat" way the real safety hazards and take appropriate actions. At the lab, the safety guys are sometimes the bane of our existence because they appear to just be there to justify their own pay checks. However, after 2022 I re-evaluated that stance. Most of them are really there with good intentions even if they are annoying as the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
I'm so sorry to hear😢 What happened?
Great information as usual dude. But (and it's a big but), your ladder was only a couple of inches above the flange of the I beam and if the ladder slides at the bottom the top of the ladder suddenly has no where to go but downward with you and your new Vevor tool in hand. You end up on the concrete floor looking like a pile of dude shit. Believe me I have had that experience and it hurts. Always make sure the bottom of the ladder cannot slide by blocking it or tying it off to something that wont let it move.
Excellent vid good sir. Also what a great way to lift a motorbike and slide a table under it. Those motorbike benches are beyond expensive.
Thanks John, I really enjoy your antipodean vids. It shows the difference in life between you guys and us in the UK.
Having had a one and only ladder accident in my workshop performing a job not unlike you fitting the hoist I am surprised you didn't mention the need to fix the base of the ladder. I was working with the top of my ladder propped against a beam as you did. The foot of the ladder was on the concrete floor and the angle was correct. Even so without much effort the the foot slipped just enough for the top of the ladder to come adrift from the beam. I ended up with my legs stuck through the ladder rungs and on the floor. I was working alone late at night so had I suffered any significant injury it may have been several hours before I was found. As it was I only bruised my leg and was able to walk away. The lesson I learnt was to always secure the foot of the ladder before ascending and then secure the top of the ladder before actually working at height.
Yep, precisely what I was asking. You've just described it better. 😅
Be interesting to hear what JC says👍🏻
At work i use the huuuge overhead electric crane with the chain block attached for fine adjustments
Excellent safety advice John. My only (probably stupid) question is, you have the ladder resting on the beam, and not a wall. Not that, that makes any difference, I'm just curious to know how much of a chance there is for the ladder to slip by it's feet? That happened to me, but granted, the ladder's rubber feet were a bit worse for wear. Being against a wall, the ladder may just move slightly, causing no problem, but against the beam, it could lead to a nasty fall. Your ladder's rubber support is obviously in a very good condition, but would you bet your life on them? Especially at the angle you're working at. The angle in your case is obviously determined by the height of the beam, and the length of the ladder.
Thanks, and stay safe😁🙋🏼♂️👍🏻
My thoughts exactly see my suggestion on ladder safety presentation
Good advice. Roller cover on the tub. Are you happy with it?
It was standard. It's OK for security but takes up space...
Bet prime minister of Canada could not figure it out
When you turn 70 throw your ladders away.
I usually use one or two Maoris.
Two Maories is about 1.2 Tongans. They're both impressive lifters.
@@AutoExpertJC Even at the current exchange rate?
@@AutoExpertJC I live near the Gold Coast so the Maoris are much easier to find
Nice gay t-shirt John!!!
From Afghanistan?
this is getting boring now!
@craigo7235 time for a new t-shirt?
Despite the best efforts of myself and crews various, I have survived over fifty years of mixed construction. Provided none of you are being stupid you should be ok. The worst and most irritating injuries are caused by wear and time.
Good point about ladders John. I got knocked off a ladder trimming the bloody orange tree, when the big branch went down, the tree swung back. Of course like the bloody idiot I was the the ladder wasn’t tethered to the tree and down I went 2m and fractured a bone in my leg. Unbelievable how dangerous ladders are.
The trouble with being a former ship's safety officer is you're never off duty even when you've retired. I just cannot walk by an "unsafe" incident without intervening. In the nicest possible way of course. 🙂 The last shipping company I worked for had a saying "We want you to return home to your family how you left them - Walking thru your front door in the same state you left." 👍
At my age (73), I've long past the 'Hold my beer' signpost. Whenever doing anything that has the remoteness of a sketchy feeling, I have an observer. Someone who is capable of summoning help, i.e. emergency responders, to the scene. Nothing worse than being trapped, unconscious, or otherwise immobile, with no one around to summon help.
When using a chainsaw, wife was on standby with towels. Made me very safety conscious. I never use power tools on my lonesome.
More Fat-Cave videos please.
Just thought I'd add that comment to cancel out the one below asking for more car content ;-)
Thank you mate. Cancellation noted. Will do.
As a tree climbing wackado that uses a truck mounted crane a few times a week, awesome video. It's always a good idea to have a real world understanding of how much weight you intend to lift. The eye injury bit is a huge hazard that many don't consider to be as dangerous as it really is!
Hi John,
Sorry this is not regarding this present video but I would like to draw your attention to "Geoff Buys Cars" episode"Furious & Flooded" The Inchcape JLR Flood, Paul Walker's Story, regarding Jaguar Land Rover & their absolutely disgusting lack of customer service here in the UK.
I always follow your videos, very informative & entertaining.
I drove a Rear Mounted Crane 1.3t capacity, Medium Rigid Flatbed, GVM 14t Tare 7t Pick Up & Delivery Truck. As every sane person on Earth knows your maximum lift at Maximum range doesn’t matter, that’s just a number written on a piece of paper to alleviate the Fears and Anxiety of those OH&S Power Hungry Safety Compliance Nazi ' s, So I Can lift that 2 tonne pallet of concrete from my deck and Place it on the 3rd floor alcove some 20 odd metres that way from the closest point I can reverse my vehicle in to.
She’ll be right Mate just a Little Stretch " Hey.."
Or Can you drop 1/2 pallet here and 1/4 pallet on that side and 3 buckets over there….
Or what do you mean You started at 6:30 am, I was here at 5 am and you didn’t get onsite till 8am so Im going to charge you for my loss of time….
Or My Boss will get a Request that States. On such and such a Date at this address your driver delivered an excessive amount of product to my Site " So tell him to come and pick it up and Give me a refund for the Product and a reimbursement discount for wasting my time and efforts trying to run " Your Business " For You……
Or I will arrive at a pick up excessive orders and the product will have been walked around the site to aid the construction process and ….
Owner/Drivers don’t get paid overtime, a set amount for travel already negotiated on contract acceptance, so if you get caught up in Traffic , or as such other issues, arrive onsite when the gates have been locked, and have to pull down construction panels to get in , Unload , depart and Reassemble Panels it' all out of your own time effort and schedules…..
Facebook are fixing your likes. You and many other channels are all on 9.2k right now. Andy the gabby cabby, Geoff buys cars, Jim Davidson and many others. Yesterday they were all 618, other day all on 508. This is at the same time (within 30 mins) across all channels. I’ve noticed this pattern over past few weeks. Hope you see this. Facebook have just stopped me copying and pasting these post with google error 404, so typing each one slightly different to every channel I watch where I see this ‘anomaly’.
Great Job on this video. Thanks for caring about us so much. Much respect to you.
Great video! These should be used for work site WHS induction.
Perhaps a comment about wedding rings (I know you have a six pack of these) and safety boots, as opposed to joggers, thongs, etc? More Captain Obvious stuff I know.
moderndaytinker here,
NEVER use a step
ladder as a straight ladder! ! ! (the folded up legs WILL kick the bottom out , as they unfold) (ask my brother -- he did it --learned the Hard Way)😢
LOL. Only JC would lean into the camera to emphasise how NON gregarious he was.
I bet family BBQs at his place are a barrel of laughs.
I do have a question/comment about something I saw in the vid. Some years ago I did something idiotic. I know, that's hard to believe. Also, I wish the vid had taken in the feet of the ladder. I'm writing this as I watch the vid for the first time.
The stupid decision I made was to lean the top of a ladder against a beam, not a wall. Fortunately, 2 rungs up the ladder slipped and disengaged from the top. It fell down on my car in the car port and bruised my shin. A small price to pay for a valuable life lesson. If it had slipped while I was 12 rungs up it could have been much more serious. So my question, were the feet of that ladder immovably secured to the floor while you were up it?
PS That mossie was lucky. Better luck next time.
11:50 - That's what kids are for. By the time your too old to climb, the kids should be adults, and large enough and durable enough to take a fall. Plus you're there to call 911 for them.
😀 Singleton some years ago. A mine safety superintendent working on the roof of his home, harnessed up to a safety line over the roof.👍
Unfortunately chose the family car as the anchor.
Didn't tell mum.😂
We know the rest.
We never let him forget.
I like this guy 👍 He's to the point. Love your safety helmet,, after the job you're ready for Tour de France.. lol I'm not this advance. I just have a hoist over wooden headers.. but your tips still help me be safer.
definately with you John on saftey goggles as an apprentice snooker table servicer I was removing the staples out of the back of some cushions and stabbed myself in my left eye with a screwdriver, it was a bloody painful ride to the hospital 25 miles away with this thing stiocking out of my eyeball, so yep Ive had a similar conversation with an eye specialist, fortunately he was gooden and my eye healed up perfectly, just Fking wear googles people. the other consequences just fking hurt ok.
Will take the winch the rsj claws and two 4k lashing straps. See i use cantileavers. Rope wraps 100 foot rings a bell wraps two trees and bingo hamok ausie styles. Corkies hat no no flys on you.
I agree with using PPE when working at height. I realise this may be seen as overkill but I use my full face motorcycle helmet when I am up a ladder. The motorcycle helmet provides more protection from impact than a bicycle helmet, importantly it provides protection for the front of your face and your teeth.
I have to use an engine hoist it requires a lot of floor spacee. A chain fall is much smoother than an electric hoist if you need t not be jerky. Another thing to help move heavy stuff are machinery skates along with a toe jack. My Bridgeport weighs 2,300 lbs. I can push it with one hand when it is on the skates.
The slings usually denote their WLL by the amount of longitudinal stitching. IE 2 rows = 2t
One thing I have seen many times is muppets using ratchet straps as lifting slings. The strap may look similar but they are really not. A rated and certified lifting sling has a significant factor of safety built in over and above the rating which is the safe working load, not the failure load. I do use ratchet straps when lifting but not in a load bearing capacity, only as insurance to ensure the lifting sling stays where I need it to be. Also, if a machine has lifting points built in, use them, they are in those locations for a reason and any decent machinery manual shows how and where to lift the machine in question. RTFM.
Also - those engine hoists will NOT allow for loads swinging/pulling out/away, from the front wheels.😮
Hurrying has cost me more time and headache than any other mistake I've made over the years.
Great advice M8, I've seen some nasty accidents in my time as an industrial engineer, all of which could have been avoided with a little thought and patience.
Caravan is a RV to you Yankees and Canucks not a minivan. 😉
Climb one hundred foot braides rings the bell dry hummping up top. Strange sensations.
Two tons 2000kg lol 4400lb i said at start honest john. See 1000kg 2.2lb kg 2200 lb 6600lb seas max load still one ton m8.
Thanks for the video, always enjoy watching!
Tenbey banks man yes i guided him in a injury claims he did ok. Not even a drink. See. He cared not steve yanki jobs.
Lol you want in world welders truckers mate whynch whench im out of ears wallys walk about creeks
Strapping or tethering the base and the top of the ladder would be a bloody good practice also.
What if you've got 10 mates upstairs, and lifting heavy sh1t downstairs at the same time?
Another great video, mate.
In that case get your mates downstairs and you don't need the hoist to do the lifting - they will. Also depends if they have "the wobbly boot" on.
Rather than using cable ties to fix the remote lead to the hoist handle for strain relief, I prefer to use a clove hitch in the lead over the handle.
That is one advantage of the old school chain hoist: it is easy to control and stop it precisely where you want it.
140kgs... just ask your mate for a hand
Yes, yes, yes, that's all well and good; but what about hauling around a heavy bosom? I'm 5' 6" and just under 10 stone but a (UK) NN-cup - 24 lbs [11kg] of back-breaking misery. I've tried a wheelbarrow. I've tried fitting wheels to a bra. I just want the pain to go away.
I'd have to do meticulous dimensional analysis, of course, and considerable testing, but you could surely just procure the services of two freelance pallbearers on fiverr.
Personally i as a construction engineer i would recommend against hocking up lifts to random beams in your garage. If you are in a heavy snow area, and there is currently no snow, its likely that the roof will hold for several hundred kg extra.
But if you are in a no snow area or a low snow area, (or well there are loads of snow on your roof) the beam might actually claps.
While you might think. "well i´m only going to lift things that are 100-200kg or so"
yea... that might be your intention. But i seen more than one case of someone trying to lift a engine out of a it hocked on to the car and now they are not lifting 100kg they are lifting 1000kg, and they didn´t even notice it.
If you have a floor above its a bit different. Goes with out saying., don´t lift things while you have a dance party on the floor above. A floor is typically rated for between 2 and 2.5kN/m2. That would easily handle the total load capacity. But its still a question of momentum. So if you have one beam covering say 10m2 of floor, you would guess that it could hold 25kN total of force. And well it can, but only if the load is spreed. If its a point load in the middle it can typically hold about half. 12.5kN. While that is still plenty. (more than 500kg) but, the I-beam is not strengthened to take a point load that large. So you really need to spreed to load to not buckle the beam.
There is also the issue if something janks: Say you lifting a engine out of the car. Half the car lifts up, you don´t realize it. Then it falls down and janks in the beam. This will bucke the beam decrease it load capacity significantly to the degree that it probobly will not even hold the floor above.
Of cause, this is only true for moderate size beam, if you have one heafty beam and a proper insulation with load spreeing on the beam. This is not a issue.
While its true that a beam will bend safely, and quite considerably so, the issue is not bending of the beam but bending of the flange. If you bend the flange you lose loading capacity in the beam. So spreed the load on the flange, they are much more fragile than they look
I never said: 'OK to hook up to random beams in your garage'. I said, if unsure, get professional advice. So there's that.
Plus, I am in Sydney. It never snows. The garage is under the first floor. The beams overhead are designed to accept several hundred kilos of live load.
Also, I am an engineer...
@@AutoExpertJC Yes of cause. is a bit different when its a floor over. But if is not, snow loads might be the diffrance, or rather, really probobly will be.
I´m not really worried about your set up. But when lifting something int he flange, the load limit of the beak is considerably reduced, Specially for I-beams that is typically used in cheap construction. Beams that are made to have lifts in them are often H-beams that don´t really have that problem
140kg... Or 3/4 of an American.
Great practical advice on how not to get killed.
Excellent safety ideas. I will be taking your tips. Thank you.
Thank you. Please do.
@@AutoExpertJC
Brain in a box!
Safety glasses up the ladder!
I only used a hard hat before and not always safety glasses when up a ladder.
I am currently moving a 350 kg lathe across my workshop. Using an engine hoist. Followng you talk, I will be even more aware, "dude" 😉
Thanks for clarifying the real need.
I can get much better grip with rubber coated gloves than without gloves. I like to use very tightly fitting gloves. Obviously not when working with machines with danger of entanglement.
Brazzers tourch blow brass sun pump that sucker plunger.
@5:03 Airplane landing?
For fine adjustments why not use a chainblock between the winch and the load.
Where I worked it was common to use a ratchet lift for this type of thing, especially when it was used as one leg of a two leg lift and you needed to adjust the level of the load during the lift.
John!!! Good stuff.
You forgot the most important safety rule: have a friend or three with you to say, "uh bro, not a good idea", or to hold the ladder, or what not. And by "with you" I mean, phones are off and everyone is focused on the job at hand, sober (the beers are for after the job at the strip club buddies!)
A load leveller is handy in this situation.
I'm super cheap and Vevor's tooling is actually surprisingly good (it's no Snap-on, but at 1/4th the price you're getting 3/4ths there-- and their metal saw seems to be as good as my Fein cold cut). This lifting hoist don't got the rully rully necessary (imo) certifications from the ASME. (And that it doesn't have an e-brake which is also rully rully necessary for something, especially when the pendant doesn't immediately stop the hoist travel. When you hit stop, it needs to stop. Which is why I advocate the chain hoist below.)
Pressure vessels, lifting utilities, multimeters and other test equipment fall into that "yeah, not worth fucking with to save a few hundred dollars". I'll pay double for that Fluke 89 multimeter to validate a breaker box is dead, even though 99 times out of 100 it will function just as well as the clones. Same reasoning behind the safety specs and helmet. I'd respectfully disagree and say that the chain hoist is by far the better option, even if it's annoying. It gives you the granular control that this hoist just isn't capable of offering.
Foldable hydraulic cranes are a pretty good trade off. They used to be super expensive, but thanks to China there are some decent ones out there. Harbor Freight has a 4,000 lb (uh 1800 kilo?) ASME spec'd crane with a 60 inch (150mm) boom and 90 inch (225mm) lift for under $300 USD, that folds down by just removing pins. I think they ripped off a name-brand's design because when I saw it I was like "that's surprisingly well thought out", but hey, that's capitalism!
Does it matter which species of bee?
Excellent presentation thank you.
Suggest a video on ladder safety would benefit many viewers. Especially on addressing the possibility of the ladder feet kicking outwards, with collapse of ladder.
Those of us who were taught vectors understand the forces acting on the ladder points of contact - wall, branch or gutter, ground or floor, and the friction stopping movement. But many ladder users do not have a clue.
Another topic for you to present could be basic workshop safety. I still remember our teacher Mr Wilson in first year metalwork at high school giving us the basics. Over 65 years ago. We students all used blowtorches on our own - imagine that happening these days😮
I met a chap in USA who lost his arm when his long sleeve caught up in a drill press. Things like spontaneous combustion, issues with extension leads, etc etc. could all be included.
One of the first jobs I had after qualifying as an engineer was to rig and remove 2 x 40ton cast iron pans and a steel walkway in a live sugar cane mill. The pans were on the 2nd story and I remember spending hours doing the rigging before allowing the first cut. Best part was cutting the 2 tons of walkway and have it move about 30cm laterally and stop dead. We then lowered it to the ground and cut it up. Most of the time was spent on mental calcs working out actual tensile loads for angular rigging and then using a big bloody reserve factor to allow for dynamic loads. It was 95% planning, 4% sweating and 1% cutting.
Good work mate.
You have helped me getting a new CX9 and never regretted that desicion a single bit.
Any chance you can talk about Suzuki jimny 3 or 5 door?
Also novated lease, is it worth it as the total on the end of lease including baloon payment is eye watering. ?
Thanks in advance
I love that OSHA (or whatever you have down there) approved brain bucket!
Some of the kit was clearly CE marked. The trouble is I couldn't tell if that was European Conformity or Chinese Export
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Just in case anybody still had doubts about whether or not JC even lifts.
Thanks for shining an Olight on these important issues. It really is common sense stuff but common sense seems to be rather uncommon these days. Getting it wrong can indeed be catastrophic. My 5 year old self hit by a falling ladder = 3 month hospital stay. Prevention better than any cure.
I belong to the club since ancient times John mate, 😮😮😮,and it's definitely what you mentioned, and pain immortality is a very strange feeling. 😊😊😊.
John: Very good safety brief. I just hope that your advice will be taken to heart!
Another bloody interesting, informative & eye opening episode John, well bloody done.
Fine but how do I get my upright piano upstairs?
TNT. It's dynamite.
TNT - it'z a power load.
TNT. Watch it explode...
With an axe, make it smaller, it is easier to carry and fits in directly in the fireplace.
Maybe I should stop tinkling the ivories and stick to tickling the ovaries then mate. Love your vids, keep em comin.@@AutoExpertJC
@@Sgt_Bill_T_Co Be bloody careful ticking the ovaries, mate. Do it enough times and you'll end up with a choir that you can't stand the sound of.
Thanks John. the number of times I have been on the end of a chain block just dragging the bloody chain for ages. But for getting an engine with a gearbox attached into position they are hard to beat on a dirt floor.
I use a chain hoist to lift things. I lifted a half ton generator from my truck with it. Pulling chain can be meditation or frustration depending on my attitude.
Hi John great episode again mate 👍. It would be good to do a episode on the second FATcave I'm very interested to know what the go is with what you are going to do with it.
Thanks John.
thanks john, never thought of using a bicycle helmet on a latter. I wear glasses so I use that for my eye protection, havent been able to solve the problem of goggles fogging up.
When are we coming over to stress test your floor and your fridge?
If you don't feel very gregarious, you don't have to stay.
One cannot over emphasise safety in the workshop. Thanks JC.
Always interested to know - do you have to return the products sent to you or do you get to keep them for the Fat Cave?
I'd add. Always have an escape route planned. Always have a contingency plan for if the motor does NOT stop. AMHIFK. lol. 10 ton laddle of molten aluminum, gets lifted and doesn't stop. The operator smacks stop button repeatedly and it still keeps moving up. Malfunctions are a thing, as you know.
The most interesting bit is what ute will you use? Question answered, thanks mate!
Epileptic fits.
boring
Sez you, looking in the mirror.
Change your life, baby.
John. Snowy 2 ?
Good advice
When is the new fat cave going to be ready and what are you going to do there?
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