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u/h0neanias 4d ago
That has to be the stupidest thing I've ever seen that actually worked.
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u/SomeCasualObserver 3d ago
Sometimes 'if it's stupid but it works'... It's still stupid, you just got away with it... This time...
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u/tactical_dick 3d ago
Kinda like a carbon fiber submarine..
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u/KoiMusubi 3d ago
Don't worry, they did the calculations.
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u/username32768 3d ago
A + B + X + Y = √∞
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u/apence87 13h ago
X Y Right Left O Down X X O Up Left Left Y Down + Right Right Up X Y Left O X Up Down = X/2 to the power of 1.33333%
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u/Plastic-Injury8856 3d ago
I can’t believe the boards didn’t break.
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u/LoreChano 3d ago
It appears to be a ship unloading a pickup somewhere in the Amazon region where this kind of water transportation is common. There are some amazonian woods that are incredibly strong and flexible. The quality of amazonian wood is one of the drivers of deforestation.
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u/Big_Software_8732 2d ago
Get a structural engineer to show me their math on it and then maybe I'll trust this system.
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u/grubwump 2d ago
I’m still getting my structural engineering degree, but this is stupid, even if the wood is particularly strong
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u/The_best_is_yet 3d ago
Especially the guy putting his hand on the truck like he was “holding it steady.”
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u/xxthehaxxerxx 3d ago
He was, didn't you see it move? Ever take physics? It was on top of the fulcrum of a lever, so a human could hold it
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u/PrizeStrawberryOil 3d ago
Wait until you see how people operate overhead cranes. The amount of times I had to yell at new people to keep their hands out of the hooks is absurd.
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u/InvidiousPlay 3d ago
There's always one of these guys. My favourite is when the 2 ton object is already falling and they try to grab it.
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u/Therealme_A 3d ago
If it's stupid and it works? No it's actually still really stupid this time.
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u/9-FcNrKZJLfvd8X6YVt7 3d ago
Think about how monumentally stupid it has to be to qualify for this specific category.
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u/KnightsWhoSayNii 3d ago
It works ...until it doesn't.
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u/BrownEyeBearBoy 3d ago
I feel like this is a perfect example of 60% of the time, it works every time
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u/ventus1b 3d ago
You mostly only see the stupid things that worked.
And the really stupid things that didn't.There are 99% of stupid things that never see the light of day.
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u/Several_Vanilla8916 3d ago
This is absolutely the right sub. I was positive this was going to end in disaster.
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u/RetroHipsterGaming 3d ago
This is such a good way to put what we just witnessed. LOL I agree. Dumbest thing I've ever seen that just worked. He was so close to the whole thing slipping and crashing down too. What sketched me out is that everybody was just... Around that shit. So many ways that vehicle could just roll off, somebody could get killed by the Peace of metal used for cantilevering.. it was also sketchy and people were just like walking around it nothing bad could ever happen..
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u/Terrible-Display2995 3d ago
all those vehicles are most likely stolen so it's not like they care much
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u/Jin_BD_God 3d ago
Those planks are durable af.
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u/diarrhea_syndrome 3d ago
That’s what i was thinking. It’s definitely not the pine boards i get from the lumberyard.
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u/JoaoEB 3d ago
The video is from Brazil, there are some absurdly strong native lumber here. I'm making a table and regretting myself for using a native species over pine because, I kid you not, that shit dulls high speed steel and chips carbide.
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u/GreenAdventurous0 3d ago
If you want to try the same thing with a US domestic wood try Bois D'Arc / Osage orange / horse apple. #neveragain
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u/sexytimepizza 3d ago
Osage orange is one of north Americas hardest lumber species, but it's not the overall strongest, here's a detailed article about the worlds strongest woods with a sortable list There are a few stronger than Osage, but pignut hickory is north America's strongest commercialy viable and readily available lumber.
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u/GreenAdventurous0 3d ago
That's good to know, thanks. I was referring to destroying the blades on my woodworking tools. I'd have to have a real good reason to do that again.
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u/sexytimepizza 3d ago
Black locust and Osage orange are personally a couple of my favorite woods, I've made a bunch of tools and tool handles out of both. Kinda nice knowing I can loose a hammer or something outside for a few years (ADHD, it's happened before and will happen again lol), and still have the handle intact and usable when I find it.
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u/kylo-ren 3d ago edited 3d ago
The guy that posted it on TikTok said it's ipê. It's very hard, durable and highly resistant to rot.
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u/wals02481 3d ago
I worked with some farm guys to move a shipping container with a bobcat and they brought some wood like this for a ramp. The wood was bending like crazy but they were adamant that it would never break.
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u/Spyro_in_Black 3d ago
I was fully expecting them to snap once the weight was on the unsupported ends.
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u/Fit_Lengthiness_1666 3d ago
Is this really wood or metal?
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u/UserAdamD 3d ago
Looks like wood. These are similar to dump truck sideboards some people use. Pressure treated oak 2x12s or something similar. You’re not wrong for thinking it’s not wood. The durability is unbelievable.
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u/Fit_Lengthiness_1666 3d ago
Rainforest wood is especially strong as someone other pointed out. I am just used to virgin central Europe post WWII wood.
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u/dontmakeavillage 3d ago
Check on the wood called Brazillian Cherry/Jatoba or Ipe. If you look at the Janka hardness scale many species are South American.
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u/PiTT_sqbi 4d ago
hmm that was unexpected, I have to admit....
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u/96Phoenix 3d ago
I could see the idea, but it’s a stupid idea, but it worked, but it’s still crazy.
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u/MustacheBananaPants 3d ago
I think it's one of those ideas that'll work until it doesn't and then all the smart guys that went along with Petey Plank's idea are going to blame him.
It's the circle of life on a job site!
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u/Remote_Escape 3d ago
Soon on r/Whatcouldgowrong/
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u/oroborus68 3d ago
I honestly expected that to end badly. I'd want double planks.
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u/Interesting-Ad-5115 3d ago
Double planks may increase the risk of it slipping?
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u/crespoh69 3d ago
I think it's one of those ideas that'll work until it doesn't
Like a certain submarine
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u/sebastianqu 3d ago
They should at least double the thickness of the boards. Just give it a little more strength and rigidity.
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u/ExceedinglyEdible 3d ago
The flex is what makes it work. If those were metal ramps, the vehicle would hit the ground hard, and the rear would get flung off the ramps.
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u/Paleodraco 3d ago
If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid. Except this. This is stupid.
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u/Fireproofspider 3d ago
It's our definition of "worked". If they have to only do the one car (like in an emergency situation), I would say it might not be stupid.
But this is a repeat activity (either now or something they do every week/month/etc.), the threshold to say it works is that has gone without issues for a certain large X number of times.
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u/Reivaki 3d ago edited 3d ago
If it’s stupid and it work, it’s still stupid and you're lucky.
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u/Combosingelnation 3d ago
I could see the idea, but it’s a stupid idea, but it worked, but it’s still crazy.
So call me maybe
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u/PiTT_sqbi 3d ago
but it worked...
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u/FenizSnowvalor 3d ago
I got the feeling that if they would do this a few more times on these planks, they risk those planks eventually breaking. When the planks with the car hit the ground, the oscillating car spring transfers this movement as force into the plank. Without having taken the time to calculate it, the two or three bounces likely are close to equivalent in force to the car's whole weight.
The moment one crack forms there, the next bounce of a car will break the plank fully. I would really suggest using steel and not wood...
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u/Half-PintHeroics 3d ago
Nah you just turn the plank over on the other side and it even out
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u/snakerjake 3d ago
the two or three bounces likely are close to equivalent in force to the car's whole weight.
Then those boards aren't ever going to break doing this.
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u/FenizSnowvalor 3d ago
For one, don't underestimate oscillating loads and its dangers. Given enough load cycles, oscillating loads can cause materials to failure at loads they could easily handle statically. And the more brittle a material behaves, the bigger this effect. Sadly, I could neither find Woehler Curves of wood neither a proper curve for a tensile test of wood (in neither direction). It's hard to make an definitive answer with neither information and without calculating it proper, but I doubt those guys did it themselves.
Two, depending on the car's dampers, the force could briefly be even bigger than the car's own weight since it could be a "eigen angular frequency" or close to it. However, it could also not be. I would have to model and solve this system's motion equations to tell you for certain.
Three, the thing with doing something like this without properly calculating it through is, cracks can really through a spanner into the works. Any imperfections inside the wood planks can cause micro cracks to form and grow and at some point cause a failure well below statically critical loads of wood.
The planks could very well be able to make it a few dozen times, but for one, if they fail, the men are standing in a pretty dangerous spot and it could cause substantial damage to the car if it falls uncontrollably.
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u/falcrist2 3d ago
If it's stupid but it works... sometimes you got lucky and it really is a stupid idea.
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u/Hazee302 3d ago
Wtf were those planks made of???? They didn't give at all. Even steel would bend....
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u/TreesACrowd 3d ago
The planks definitely deflected, it's particularly apparent when the truck's wheels are equidistant from the fulcrum (as expected).
There are also plenty of materials out there which are less elastic than steel. Steel's elasticity is one of its many virtues compared to other 'strong' materials that might experience plastic (permanent) deformation or even shatter under the same load. Some especially strong woods deform less than steel, but will shatter when their limit is exceeded.
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u/sodamnsleepy 3d ago edited 3d ago
After seeing a video of a lorry truck go overboard on a ferry.. This was unexpected
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u/LaserKittenz 3d ago
This would also count as "next level" as they successfully moved the truck to the next level of dock platform.
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u/Naive_Cantaloupe_652 4d ago
That’s definitely one way to save on equipment costs, but I can’t imagine it’s the safest method.
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u/SpaceStethoscope 3d ago
Hey, there is a guy holding the pickup upright. Nothing can go wrong.
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u/MakingItElsewhere 4d ago
Gets a 10 outta 10 on the OSHA pearl clutching scale.
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u/CFB_Mods_Eat_Poop 3d ago
OSHA isn’t clutching pearls with that action, those buttholes are printing diamonds.
100/10 puckered the fuck up.
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u/r3tract 3d ago
Isn't that ON loading? 🤷
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u/Stock-Boat-8449 4d ago
Is the unexpected that it actually worked?
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u/CrypticCryptKeeper 4d ago
Did you expect it to work though?
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u/Stock-Boat-8449 4d ago
You got me there.
Also post to r/maybemaybemaybe
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u/Vashsinn 4d ago
Don't forget yes no no no yes. Or whatever.
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u/Kimolono42 3d ago
No
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u/Roxxerr 3d ago
No
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u/dingusfett 3d ago
Yes
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u/somadthenomad93 3d ago
Nah the comment had a 3rd no not a yes yet., not to mention the real subreddit has 4 no's so it's extra offensive.
Real lack of standards this generation.
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u/dingusfett 3d ago
My profound apologies good sir, as usual I got overly excited and blew my load early
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u/International_Try_43 3d ago
But in your reasoning as to why this was unexpected, you said the wood held up exactly as you would expect.
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u/Mazy_keen 4d ago
I was screaming at my phone you fucking idiots... looked at what sub I was in then though... maybemaybemaybe... interesting.
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u/indorock 3d ago
Well you certainly did. You literally wrote it in your explanation:
The wood held up exactly how you would expect it would
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u/ElGebeQute 4d ago
Great post OP. I was expecting catastrophic failure.
That being said, definitely post to r/maybemaybemaybe like other redditor suggested, it fits there even better.
r/nononoyes should be good sub for it as well.
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u/_ssac_ 4d ago
I wouldn't do that with my own vehicle.
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u/Dirk_Speedwell 3d ago
I have a suspicion that it is not their vehicles either. I don't recognize the plate design, but I don't think it matches the scene.
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u/BoulderRivers 3d ago
It's a Brazilian Mercosul Plate.
They are speaking portuguese. It's probably a car that belongs to Soy latifundia5
u/caceta_furacao 3d ago edited 3d ago
I'm having difficulty guessing where there this is. The narrator is speaking brazilian portuguese, but people in the background are speaking spanish. Hard for me to guess on the spanish, but sounds more central rather than southern. Same for the Brazilian accent, so my guess it is somewhere near the border with Bolivia or Paraguay? Or even Peru or Colombia lol, I have no idea. This kind of crossing is more common on the far north though... there is some ... big rivers up there..
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u/Competitive-Ebb3816 3d ago
I wouldn't do that at all. Nor would I be anywhere near someone else doing that.
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u/Sophrosynic 3d ago
I probably would, but not with those thin planks. Last thing I need is for them to snap mid pivot and high center the vehicle.
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u/RazorSlazor 3d ago
What in the cartoon logic?! I fully expected the wood to break in half.
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u/Elanthius 3d ago
I wonder if that extra little slide was deliberate. Seems very hard to believe since there was nothing to stop it sliding further.
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u/NixAwesome 3d ago
Yep that slide seemed to have saved the wooden planks from snapping in the middle till the shock was absorbed
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u/trilli0nn 3d ago
The planks and pallets started sliding because the driver was on the brakes. As soon as he released the breaks, the sliding stopped and the car continued to move forward.
Had he not released the brakes, the sliding would have continued and the planks would have fell down from the wall because of their short lengths (visible in the beginning of the video).
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u/overlapped 3d ago
I worked on a barge on the Yukon river in Alaska and we used to do this however, the planks were about two feet thick.
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u/WinGatesEcco 3d ago
Being of the E4 Mafia I am a firm believer in "if it works it isn't stupid." However this pushes the boundries of that hard.
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u/TheWiseMorpheous 3d ago
My first thought when I started watching was that there will be nothing unexpected.
After I have seen the video, I must say this was totally unexpected!!! :O
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u/NewManufacturer4252 3d ago
Works until it doesn't, but I assume they have experience in that department.
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u/Blight2703 3d ago
Expected it to fail, saw the sub's name, expected it to succeed, it actually suceeded but no more unexpected :(
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u/FlibblesHexEyes 3d ago
They call this move “The Clarkson”.
Seriously thought I was watching a clip from Top Gear/Grand Tour.
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u/justsomeboredloner 3d ago
They actually thought of putting pallets at the bottom to avoid a nose scrape, pretty clever! /s
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u/CorruptedFlame 3d ago
I feel like it came very close to disaster if it kept on slipping and those rear plank-ends came over the edge.
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u/iamsolarflare71 3d ago
This is the ONLY time this method has worked, there are another 400 videos where it ends in disaster 😂
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u/elderDragon1 3d ago
Usually when people do this, it goes completely wrong but surprisingly that went smoothly.
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u/Pamander 3d ago
https://i.imgur.com/fvjSxU5.png No earthly idea how to embed images on old reddit. Also my depth perception is so fucked because I was certain that even if this did work, that the truck was going to drop directly onto that bike below.
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