That is pretty funny.

Ed Finnerty: I still don't understand the logic behind the tarp. It's not an animal.

If you managed to hold on to it, it would let you slow down the rotation.

Judging by the bucket of water I assume there is no power cord which would've been super easy and a lot less funny. This is pretty excellent and one of my favorite reasons for the internet.

I'd like to see the dumbasses narrating and shooting the video put in a day of actual labor.

RoyBatty: I'd like to see the dumbasses narrating and shooting the video put in a day of actual labor.

They likely did, back in school...unlike the rodeo clowns they were making fun of.

/at first I thought they were a little mean about the whole thing but once someone tried to throw a bucket of water on it...and even missed? Game on.

When I was brought up I was told those things were referred to as 'Italian Helicopters'.

"We have now angered the machine".

That was pretty funny commentary, apart from the fart gag

redkingca: It's gas driven and very powerful, you could easily break an arm or leg trying to stop it. The idiot who wired the safety clutch closed should be the one who has to go after it, along with the guy who let go of the handle in the first place.

Yeah, if my lawnmower has a dead-man switch then it's asinine that something like that doesn't.

I don't even know why you'd want to bypass something like that. Maybe the switch broke and the boss didn't want to pay for a new one?

The commentary did make it funnier.
I find it ironic that they were talking about the people down there, while they were standing at the window, also doing nothing.

Ed Finnerty: I still don't understand the logic behind the tarp. It's not an animal.

My guess is he wanted it to wrap around the base (non moving) and the top to stall it. It would have been spinning faster if it wasn't on idle. Also, it looks as if those guy's just "standing around" poured a fair bit of concrete before this happened.

it is now blinded AND mad...

/average friday night?

BumpInTheNight: RoyBatty: I'd like to see the dumbasses narrating and shooting the video put in a day of actual labor.

They likely did, back in school...unlike the rodeo clowns they were making fun of.

/at first I thought they were a little mean about the whole thing but once someone tried to throw a bucket of water on it...and even missed? Game on.

the bucket of water was thrown to the side to make the fresh concrete more slick. the stick was not to stop it, but rather to push it out in open.
machine was fetched up against some foundation works.
out in open machine would be easier to stop and spinning would be with the blades on bottom, not handle on top.
happened a few times when i did construction in college.

as for the tarp, it was good idea. easier and safer than trying to grab a heavy spinning piece of metal.

dont make fun of workers, if you have no idea what is going on.

know how i know you have never worked a job like this?

commentary from Waldorf and Statler sold it. would have been a bit 'meh' if they hadn't provided their play-by-play.

drsmith: When I was brought up I was told those things were referred to as 'Italian Helicopters'.

How about the gas-powered barrows: "Guinea Cadillacs", right?

smurfnazi: BumpInTheNight: RoyBatty: I'd like to see the dumbasses narrating and shooting the video put in a day of actual labor.

They likely did, back in school...unlike the rodeo clowns they were making fun of.

/at first I thought they were a little mean about the whole thing but once someone tried to throw a bucket of water on it...and even missed? Game on.

the bucket of water was thrown to the side to make the fresh concrete more slick. the stick was not to stop it, but rather to push it out in open.
machine was fetched up against some foundation works.
out in open machine would be easier to stop and spinning would be with the blades on bottom, not handle on top.
happened a few times when i did construction in college.

as for the tarp, it was good idea. easier and safer than trying to grab a heavy spinning piece of metal.

dont make fun of workers, if you have no idea what is going on.

know how i know you have never worked a job like this?

Damn, Lighten up dude.

This is no different than making fun of sports figures when they screw up. Nobody said they didn't, weren't going to be wokring hard.
But you can still have a laugh.

Gough: drsmith: When I was brought up I was told those things were referred to as 'Italian Helicopters'.

How about the gas-powered barrows: "Guinea Cadillacs", right?

Shovel = Irish banjo.

Worked in a steel mill right out of high school.

RoyBatty: I'd like to see the dumbasses narrating and shooting the video put in a day of actual labor.

Somehow this was one of my first thoughts as well. It's amusing to be sure, but smug superiority
is not a likeable attribute.

smurfnazi:
dont make fun of workers, if you have no idea what is going on.

know how i know you have never worked a job like this?

I try to avoid jobsites where the workers disable safety equipment. It's shiat like this that gets people sent to hospitals, or morgues.

Union workers.

// for once, the recorded commentary adds the the humor.

that was fun to watch.. I'd like to see the smug assholes shooting the video try to stop it though, probably be even funnier..

smurfnazi:
dont make fun of workers, if you have no idea what is going on.

know how i know you have never worked a job like this?

I've been working with construction/installation workers for years, and a large majority of them would have been cracking up watching this, especially at the commentary. Half the guys in the video were probably doing their own smartass commentary.

Teh funnay! Yeah, I would have been laughing my ass off, even though they did actually do the sensible course of action despite the commentary.

If I were the GC I'd have some hard questions as to why the dead-man switch wasn't working though.

My favorite "construction equipment gone berzerk" CSB was when I was helping to pull some heavy feeders into a switchgear room. To do that you drill some concrete anchors and bolt a 60-70lb electric winch to the floor to put a few tons of tension on your pull rope. Everything was going fine until the winch ripped loose from the floor all at once and this big chunk of steel and rope went careening around bouncing off the steel switchgear cabinets like a demented pinball. KABANG-KABANG-KABANG-KABANG!!!!

You know that scene in Pulp Fiction where a guy unloads a gun point blank at the two gangsters and they just stand there astonished that they were untouched? That was how I and the mechanic I was working with looked. "How the fark did it miss us?"

The vid, Concrete Buffer Gone Wild, is from Aug 27, 2009.

HairBolus: The vid, Concrete Buffer Gone Wild, is from Aug 27, 2009.

Annnnnnd your point is besides being a kiljoy?

We had an electric floor buffer break once, with the switch stuck on - and the guy running it found that out only after he let go. It was in a narrow hallway, and the handle bounced off of the walls a few times before someone pulled the power cord. Knocked a hole in one wall too (cinder block - yeah, those things can hit pretty hard).

/never let go of one until it's really stopped
//it was an evil machine in the first place - ended up catching fire a few weeks later

This is funny, but would have been funnier without the annoying wheezing laughter of the onlookers.

cirby: We had an electric floor buffer break once, with the switch stuck on - and the guy running it found that out only after he let go. It was in a narrow hallway, and the handle bounced off of the walls a few times before someone pulled the power cord. Knocked a hole in one wall too (cinder block - yeah, those things can hit pretty hard).

/never let go of one until it's really stopped
//it was an evil machine in the first place - ended up catching fire a few weeks later

Yep! got one in the brewery that we slap big ole scotch bright pads to. We use it for ever ongoing battle of the mildew on the Quarry tile floors. Our little pet name for it is "the big electric mother farker" It is a monster to dance with. as far as I can tell, I'm the only one that dares ask it to dance. The Hot side brewer with the fancy education and what not tried to use it once... it was rather entertaining. as soon as he pulled the throttle, it was out of his hands spinning and out of control for that half second the motor had juice. He's stuck to the deck brushes ever since... if we can ever get him to pick one up.

There's a whole lotta butthurt here from peoples who sound angry that they have to sweat for a living.

/industrial tradesman
//vid was funny as shiat and the commentary added to it

I'm sincerely glad none of them got hurt. Otherwise I would feel guilty for laughing so hard.

I also wouldn't begrudge anyone laughing at me when I fark up on a job, although it's usually less spectacular than that.

attention span of a retarded fruit fly: HairBolus: The vid, Concrete Buffer Gone Wild, is from Aug 27, 2009.

Annnnnnd your point is besides being a kiljoy?

Y U Mad?

Good vid. But from whence comes your butthurt that you have to call me out for having seen it before other than you being the subby and/or a shill for Liveleak rehosting old YouTube vids?

It's a gasoline powered engine, the bucket of water was to kill the engine, had some of it actually made it into the carburetor it would have worked.

As for the morons recording and narrating the video, I'm sure they would have been scared shiatless to try and stop it themselves.

If this happened in my home town (Dallas) they would have just shot it.

Speaking of gas powered, and butthurt..Anyone hear the ripper at the 1:33 mark ?

Yakety Sax makes this the greatest video ever.

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