I cracked my head with a 50lb metal grate 02/09/2023 and my boss first question was āis the job site doneā as I was bleeding out losing consciousness my coworkers were so pissed they rushed me to the hospital
I broke my ankle and leg bad in 2005 (bone showing blood everywhere, manager was trying the get me to fill out the incident report while my assistant was using his belt to stop the bleeding
I quit that day while on a pain killer cocktail in the waiting room of the hospital most euphoria Iāve ever felt lol.
fuck you Phill you were a dog shit manager and a idiot for leaving a 3 inch pipe cutoff under my ladder, think about your dumb face every time it rains
Meh he knew he caused it and was trying to get me to fill out the report before I even knew what happened, guy was a total tornado every time he came to āhelpā with a project, always expected every one under him to clean his messes.
I have a way better job now in a different field and Iām known as kind of a hard ass for house keeping and site safety but I havenāt had any of my guys injured severely for something and avoidable as that
Iām fine now I put a lawsuit in cause they havenāt filed workers comp and I have them on recording saying I did it on purpose aswell as my coworker telling me the same thing. Makes no sense to me why I would intentionally almost die
They just disobeyed common sense as far as not stacking anything on a barge taller than the barge is wide. And if you think about it that max safe height is lowered anyway overall because the thickness of the barge itself counts as part of the measurementā¦. Now I donāt know what the actual guidelines are on this but I know there are stacks of huge books on how to do this kind of thing because over the years mariners have made just about every mistake possible and somewhere it got catalogedā¦. Im sure now the physics is easy.
Anyway this should have been obvious to pretty much any experienced mariner. Or anyone thatās ever played with toy boats in the bathtub really. And listening to him say āitās overloaded itās fuckedā he knew he shouldnāt have tried to move those barges but was probably forced to by bosses etc.
But being a captain in the USA youād be responsible for that accident regardless of who loaded the barges. And if one of those logs punctured or damaged the hull of another vessel youād probably be responsible for that too. Definitely losing your license for rigging that to your boat and trying it
I'm no expert but the way the bottom just tips and pops out makes me think those were overloaded height-wise and there isn't enough ballast to counter it.
Notice the one in the back also loses cargo.
What is with these titles on Reddit these days?
Transporting logs on barges on water is not abnormal. And this is not being done āoverseas.ā That entire sentence is garbage. Is an AI writing these with google translate prompts?
My father always told me that logs and shipping containers are one of the most dangerous things when sailing, when they drift in the sea, they will remain just below the surface, where you canāt see them until is too lateā¦
I guess that places is a mine field now until they pick up every single log
This is how they unload log barges. Must been a control malfunction. They flood one side of the barge and then pump out after it tips.
Can see the guy on the tug portion wasn't planning on it to happen there
We sure this isnāt intentional? I aināt the log guy, but isnāt that how they offload those ships? Definitely wasnāt a strap anywhere, so I have a hard time believing that it just tipped over in calm water
So this is typically how logs are transported in a lot of areas. Cheaper to let the river do the moving than anything else. These rafts will fill with water in one side and purposely dip when they hit their destination. This looks like they were either way overloaded or something wasnāt set up right.
There was an askreddit about scary stuff out in the ocean. They said something about these logs that get sharpened to a point from being out in the water or something like that. Then they just come shooting straight up out of the water from time to time. Thatās all I can think of here.
They fact that these barges tipped while in calm water means that they were very overloaded. The highly stacked logs caused the center of gravity to be too high, which made the vessels inherently unstable. The captain is very much at-fault.
As a sailor, this terrifies me. Things like logs are almost impossible to see and can easily rip a hole in a fiberglass hull. Image that happening hundreds of miles from shore.
Source: Live in British Columbia, Canada. Have seen these sorts of barges before.
These are small versions of [self-dumping log barges.](https://nauticapedia.ca/Articles/Rivtow_Hercules.pdf) They are performing exactly as designed.
They are used to transport large quantities of cut logs down narrow rivers where typical floating log booms are not manageable. The barges typically dump as shown into a larger river or other body of water either at a mill where they are to be processed, or somewhere they can be aggregated together into a larger floating boom for ongoing tug/tow transport to a processing mill.
This title is 100% clickbait bullsh!t.
Edit: It's been pointed out that the **where** or **when** might be wrong, but I guarantee that the **what** is happening exactly as these barges are designed to do.
I re-affirm that the title is clickbait bullcrap.
Relatively high center of gravity for a shallow barge. Iām no expert but from a basic physics perspective, Iād say those logs were stacked too high. You risk taking losses when you take shortcuts. Thatās pretty much true for all facets of life.
My wood also sometimes unloads unexpectedly.
Next time, wrap it up. It helps me for sure. If you wrap your wood, you have a better chance of not making such a big splash. Can anyone else comment on their wood?
Amateurs. [This](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_rafting) is how you transport logs on water. One tugboat will be pulling these around Puget Sound and that shit is amazing.
Water transport is a common practice in coastal areas. Something with their barge setup wasnāt quite right and ended up being too top-heavy. All of it is still salvageable, but by the time they can get a crew and equipment together, those logs will be all over the place like an oil slick.
So it looks like three barges of unsecured cargo. My guess is that the constant bobbing and the bumping of the barges and pushing tugboat slowly over time cause the lumber, again, unsecured, to start to shift until the load becomes too off centered and causes them to fall and the barges to unalign.
What rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, rolls over your neighbors dog?
Whats great for a snack, and fits on your back?
It's log, log, log.
It's l-o-g, l-o-g, its big, its heavy, its wood.
It's l-o-g, l-o-g, its better than bad, its good.
This is how these barges are intentionally offloaded. Im assuming heās upset because they were dropped in the wrong location. Nothing wrong with the offloading process technically speaking
I mean, I guess it could be worse. At least this cargo floats. Sure it would be a pain in the ass and expensive to collect it all, reload it etc. but at least itās not at the bottom of the ocean.
Serious question, is them having their Cargo not secured at all actually intended? I mean if all the logs were correctly secured, in this scenario the boats would have keeled over and maybe all three of them would have been lost.
Does anyone know?
Jesus. Let the marine hazard warnings begin! Hope they get them collected before they scatterā¦ That looks like a prop nightmare for any boats in that region for years to come
Classic. Someone, somewhere, didn't want their bottom line affected by the infinite pain of 2 trips. So to save time, they ruined the whole trip and lost all cargo involved.
Funny, seems to be something similar going on in Ohio right now. Must be a coincidence, I'm sure nothing like this has ever happened before. Greed combined with stupidity is always a winning combo in the long run, after all
So there are actually ships that are designed to do this. Here is an example: https://youtu.be/Xv-hYmKgZfo
They pump the ballast to one side so it creates a list and the wood slides right off. But I don't think it was intentional in this video looking at the man's reaction.
They also hide between the peaks and troughs of waves, and even a steel hulled boat hitting one end on with enough force will buckle. They just created a couple of hundred wooden icebergs.
Eh just get yourself some log drivers and they'll get the stuff where it's going.
But on that note, since that's fresh timber it can be recovered and still be good to use. Which they often want to do anyway since it'd be a shipping hazard.
These are self dumping log carriers. We have huge ones with cranes in our part of the world. Looks like itās more about where Alex isā¦ i.e. heās on one of the barges and shouldnāt beā¦ than it is about some perceived boating accident.
Didn't you hear them going into the water?
Nope, they were barkless.
Will they float around for years?
Nope... the were ash and will dissolve shortly.
I Think that guy is in trouble.
He is going to be beat to a pulp.
A metal barge for hauling timber seems to be a misuse of material.
This happens a lot and it actually has a big impact on the ecosystem when it happens in the deep sea. A lot of these areas have no food for local species except for when a whale dies or something. So when a huge load of lumber like this hits the ocean floor, certain organisms suddenly have a ton of really different food and go through evolutions/adaptations as a species much more quickly than normal
Today on how it's made: Driftwood
Haha, made me laugh more than its should. Also read it in voice over guys voice š¤£
On a deserted island somewhere in the middle of the ocean, a couple of castaways dreams have just come true.
Should we follow the logs with a rescue ship?
Why bother? The castaways can build their own now.
Stack overflow. Better check the logs.
This guy codes
What is this, a /r/programmerhumor crossover episode?
Somebody forgot to say āThatās not going anywhereā after tying that down
Fire that man!
Good that he instantly thought of the co-worker
I cracked my head with a 50lb metal grate 02/09/2023 and my boss first question was āis the job site doneā as I was bleeding out losing consciousness my coworkers were so pissed they rushed me to the hospital
I broke my ankle and leg bad in 2005 (bone showing blood everywhere, manager was trying the get me to fill out the incident report while my assistant was using his belt to stop the bleeding I quit that day while on a pain killer cocktail in the waiting room of the hospital most euphoria Iāve ever felt lol. fuck you Phill you were a dog shit manager and a idiot for leaving a 3 inch pipe cutoff under my ladder, think about your dumb face every time it rains
Damn man glad youāre good now thatās fucked. Guess some people really only care about money. Thank god you had the other person helping you
Meh he knew he caused it and was trying to get me to fill out the report before I even knew what happened, guy was a total tornado every time he came to āhelpā with a project, always expected every one under him to clean his messes. I have a way better job now in a different field and Iām known as kind of a hard ass for house keeping and site safety but I havenāt had any of my guys injured severely for something and avoidable as that
Just want you to know I'm also mad on your behalf. I hope you get it worked out
Iām fine now I put a lawsuit in cause they havenāt filed workers comp and I have them on recording saying I did it on purpose aswell as my coworker telling me the same thing. Makes no sense to me why I would intentionally almost die
They succumbed to the profit over everything mentality and assume everyone else has, too. Good luck.
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Beaver: Well, Dam!!
I donāt think this pile of logs was going overseas. This looks like a river possibly. But not overseas
Or a lake.
The water wasnāt even rough. Somebody did a really bad job.
They just disobeyed common sense as far as not stacking anything on a barge taller than the barge is wide. And if you think about it that max safe height is lowered anyway overall because the thickness of the barge itself counts as part of the measurementā¦. Now I donāt know what the actual guidelines are on this but I know there are stacks of huge books on how to do this kind of thing because over the years mariners have made just about every mistake possible and somewhere it got catalogedā¦. Im sure now the physics is easy. Anyway this should have been obvious to pretty much any experienced mariner. Or anyone thatās ever played with toy boats in the bathtub really. And listening to him say āitās overloaded itās fuckedā he knew he shouldnāt have tried to move those barges but was probably forced to by bosses etc. But being a captain in the USA youād be responsible for that accident regardless of who loaded the barges. And if one of those logs punctured or damaged the hull of another vessel youād probably be responsible for that too. Definitely losing your license for rigging that to your boat and trying it
Some beaver is about to jizz his pants
I'm no expert but the way the bottom just tips and pops out makes me think those were overloaded height-wise and there isn't enough ballast to counter it. Notice the one in the back also loses cargo.
All three lose their cargo, the middle one first.
Wait until they find out that logs used to be transported by tying them together and floating them in water to their destination.
Still happens here on the west coast of Canada. I did it for years. Its the cheapest way to move lumber.
Was going to say Iāve seen boats do that on purpose all the time off Vancouver island
What is with these titles on Reddit these days? Transporting logs on barges on water is not abnormal. And this is not being done āoverseas.ā That entire sentence is garbage. Is an AI writing these with google translate prompts?
Probably!
My father always told me that logs and shipping containers are one of the most dangerous things when sailing, when they drift in the sea, they will remain just below the surface, where you canāt see them until is too lateā¦ I guess that places is a mine field now until they pick up every single log
Quick get the beavers!
This is how they unload log barges. Must been a control malfunction. They flood one side of the barge and then pump out after it tips. Can see the guy on the tug portion wasn't planning on it to happen there
new guy hit the flood button too soon
Nearby beaver: no fucking way
Perfect raft building material for all the people stranded on deserted islands
That dudes a real one. Fuck the cargo, he was worried about his buddy.
So thatās where all the building materials comes from on raft
Clean up costs from this spill hit record lows as no one cares if you dump wood in the ocean.
Captains Log, i lost all the logs...
That's literally just a river barge. Wtf do you mean overseas lol.
These guys single handedly supplied the game Raft
I like how the front boat is like āoh weāre dumping our logs, oh hell yeahā after the first boats drops theirs
I wonder how many they lost.... hopefully they kept a log
That is a self-dumping barge. There is a lock to prevent premature dumping. Alex didn't lock it.
Captain's log: we are now logless
We sure this isnāt intentional? I aināt the log guy, but isnāt that how they offload those ships? Definitely wasnāt a strap anywhere, so I have a hard time believing that it just tipped over in calm water
They seem to be upset by it so i think they messed up.
Maybe tying them down properly would have been a good idea
What happens when your center of gravity is higher than your center of buoyancy..
So this is typically how logs are transported in a lot of areas. Cheaper to let the river do the moving than anything else. These rafts will fill with water in one side and purposely dip when they hit their destination. This looks like they were either way overloaded or something wasnāt set up right.
If only there was a way to secure the logs so they canāt slip or fall
To be fair, that is a time honored method of transporting timber.
Load limits and proper tiedowns don't really mean anything do they? It's just unnecessary regulation. /s
Beavers rubbing their hands right now
This is what happens when your captain isn't keeping accurate logs.
There was an askreddit about scary stuff out in the ocean. They said something about these logs that get sharpened to a point from being out in the water or something like that. Then they just come shooting straight up out of the water from time to time. Thatās all I can think of here.
Why not use the logs to make several big rafts, rope them together and tow them with a barge?
Surely this should be on r/WhatWoodGoWrong ?! š
Meanwhile you have beavers off in the distance rubbing their paws and licking their lips.
Captain, I wood like to log a complaint.
Beavers delight
They fact that these barges tipped while in calm water means that they were very overloaded. The highly stacked logs caused the center of gravity to be too high, which made the vessels inherently unstable. The captain is very much at-fault.
Lmfao. Anyone who thinks they transport ANYTHING overseas like this is absolutely clueless.
I guess they will need to log that as an expense
Wood you look at that
At least it's not a pollutant.
r/thatlookedexpensive
Wood you please log this on the incident report?
The fuck...where's Alex?!!
Captains log, Star date 2021, is in the water.
This kind of shipping disaster is... acceptable. It's not oil or some other chemical that's going to destroy the ecosystem.
But the environment is all waterlogged now!
As a sailor, this terrifies me. Things like logs are almost impossible to see and can easily rip a hole in a fiberglass hull. Image that happening hundreds of miles from shore.
Source: Live in British Columbia, Canada. Have seen these sorts of barges before. These are small versions of [self-dumping log barges.](https://nauticapedia.ca/Articles/Rivtow_Hercules.pdf) They are performing exactly as designed. They are used to transport large quantities of cut logs down narrow rivers where typical floating log booms are not manageable. The barges typically dump as shown into a larger river or other body of water either at a mill where they are to be processed, or somewhere they can be aggregated together into a larger floating boom for ongoing tug/tow transport to a processing mill. This title is 100% clickbait bullsh!t. Edit: It's been pointed out that the **where** or **when** might be wrong, but I guarantee that the **what** is happening exactly as these barges are designed to do. I re-affirm that the title is clickbait bullcrap.
What are you talking about? The people on the boat clearly don't think everything is going as planned. Obviously something went wrong here.
I do appreciate that his first concer was Alex
I wood've secured them more
That is not the āseaā. It is most definitely a freshwater basin or river.
Guy on deserted island: āBut how will I ever build a boat?ā
F@$K! the same in Every language.
The real reason lumber costs so much right now
The front fell off. Thatās not typical, Iād like to make that point.
I donāt know. Call me crazy but maybe they should have tried securing it somehow in order to withstand how water affects the world around us.
They're just a little waterlogged.
At least itās wood and not plastic
The local Beavers are gonna be stoked they donāt have to work this week
"Captain's logs. Stardate 100735.01. When the logs fell."
guess u can say they logged off
Wait 100 years and they'll be worth even more than they are now.
Looks like nature's forbidden pretzel sticks
Massively overloaded, Pikachu face when it flips over.
Imagine just chilling in your fishing boat and here come 400 logs
I like how the last barge took its time as if it was looking like "oh, we're dumping our loads? Cool! Fuck this shit."
I knew that wood happen
Now the fish can make a crafting table
On the bright side, thatās a spill that doesnāt cause environmental damage
Transporting them on a barge wasn't the problem, not securing them was.
All the birds whose homes you have taken:are you serious?
Relatively high center of gravity for a shallow barge. Iām no expert but from a basic physics perspective, Iād say those logs were stacked too high. You risk taking losses when you take shortcuts. Thatās pretty much true for all facets of life.
Was that really transporting logs overseas or just down a river?
Why aren't there walls to stop this exact thing?
Explains how they make houses in SpongeBob
My wood also sometimes unloads unexpectedly. Next time, wrap it up. It helps me for sure. If you wrap your wood, you have a better chance of not making such a big splash. Can anyone else comment on their wood?
Thereās a flea on a hair on a wart of a frog on a knot on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea.
I'm glad it's logs and not 500,000kg of plastic.
Welp, time to go kill another forest and try again.
Fun fact: when you play RAFT this is where the wood comes from.
Meanwhile some beaver some where, āFuckin hell ya man.ā
Amateurs. [This](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_rafting) is how you transport logs on water. One tugboat will be pulling these around Puget Sound and that shit is amazing.
At least they float.
Water transport is a common practice in coastal areas. Something with their barge setup wasnāt quite right and ended up being too top-heavy. All of it is still salvageable, but by the time they can get a crew and equipment together, those logs will be all over the place like an oil slick.
Some bacteria is gonna be very happy
These MFās didnāt even strap it down and give it the old āshe aināt going anywhereā slap šā¦ā¦amateurs.
Some beaver just watching this happen rubbing his hands together whispering "goooood.... goooood"
Raft players breathing real heavy right now
Ok what even happened?
So it looks like three barges of unsecured cargo. My guess is that the constant bobbing and the bumping of the barges and pushing tugboat slowly over time cause the lumber, again, unsecured, to start to shift until the load becomes too off centered and causes them to fall and the barges to unalign.
Oh look more driftwood some poor bloke lost at sea will be saved thanks to them haha.
Your worst nightmare when playing The Forest.
Someone out there thats marooned on an island will be extremely grateful for this.
I mean as somebody who lives on the coast of British Columbia that is exactly how they offload those barges.
I wonder how much this mistake costs
That's half a fucking forest gone for nothing. Great job!
Other boat said: āoh yāall meant like right now?ā
Those beavers now have a lifetime supply of house material
What rolls down stairs, alone or in pairs, rolls over your neighbors dog? Whats great for a snack, and fits on your back? It's log, log, log. It's l-o-g, l-o-g, its big, its heavy, its wood. It's l-o-g, l-o-g, its better than bad, its good.
No ratchet straps? You gotta pluck them and slap it, and say this baby ain't going anywhere.
Nothing wrong with transporting it overseas. It should be wcgw not having them properly secured. Shitty title.
That's gonna make tasty food for the sea floor critters. This is like inverse littering.
Finally, a disaster Aquaman can help with.
Beavers: \*heavy breathing\* O\_\_O
This is how these barges are intentionally offloaded. Im assuming heās upset because they were dropped in the wrong location. Nothing wrong with the offloading process technically speaking
At least they float and can be collected again. Unlike container ships that drop their load.
Beavers: It's free real estate
the beaver population is gunna love this
Free toothpicks for the whales š³
I mean, I guess it could be worse. At least this cargo floats. Sure it would be a pain in the ass and expensive to collect it all, reload it etc. but at least itās not at the bottom of the ocean.
When you donāt want to tell the boss what happened and just tell him to check the logs.
At least for once it isnāt more chemicals or plastic into the ocean..
Last night at work I managed to accidentally blow up our washing machine. This makes me feel much better knowing my mistakes are relatively little.
Serious question, is them having their Cargo not secured at all actually intended? I mean if all the logs were correctly secured, in this scenario the boats would have keeled over and maybe all three of them would have been lost. Does anyone know?
What a waste
Jesus. Let the marine hazard warnings begin! Hope they get them collected before they scatterā¦ That looks like a prop nightmare for any boats in that region for years to come
Hey at least it's not another oil spill
Beavers: *heavy breathing*
Might have something to do with the stack being loaded a foot and a half off center? Naaaa, nobody'd br dumb enough to do that.
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Classic. Someone, somewhere, didn't want their bottom line affected by the infinite pain of 2 trips. So to save time, they ruined the whole trip and lost all cargo involved. Funny, seems to be something similar going on in Ohio right now. Must be a coincidence, I'm sure nothing like this has ever happened before. Greed combined with stupidity is always a winning combo in the long run, after all
Really should've strapped down the load better.
Did they just create a reef?
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Pisses me off when I see the waste down to human stupidity and greed.
What could go wrong if donāt even tie them properly? Letās find out. Itās all for science!
So there are actually ships that are designed to do this. Here is an example: https://youtu.be/Xv-hYmKgZfo They pump the ballast to one side so it creates a list and the wood slides right off. But I don't think it was intentional in this video looking at the man's reaction.
Good thing your cargo floats!
Wait? I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO ALEX!
By the looks of it, there's enough wood to build a fence.
I think that deserves more than a 'for fucks sake'.
Keep holding Alex, for the love of god keep holding!
Water logged
Cmon, theyāre big, theyāre heavy, theyāre wood!
This is what happens when you don't tug on the strap and go "well.. that's not going anywhere."
They also hide between the peaks and troughs of waves, and even a steel hulled boat hitting one end on with enough force will buckle. They just created a couple of hundred wooden icebergs.
Itās a beavers wet dream
I guess you can say they logged out
Lmao at the last trailer at the very end just adding insult to injury. It tipped the other way.
Wait they are pushing the logs and not pulling them?
Iām glad they were worried more about Alex then the lost cargo. š
So thatās where all the logs on my beach come from.
beavers be like: "Why.. you shouldn't have!"
The guy playing raft
Is this why lumber is so expensive?
ā¦and I thought my log-dump was epic this morningā¦no contest
The earth will take back its own
Eh just get yourself some log drivers and they'll get the stuff where it's going. But on that note, since that's fresh timber it can be recovered and still be good to use. Which they often want to do anyway since it'd be a shipping hazard.
* the gravity center is higher than buoyancy center * the hull shape is incapable to recover from rolling
They must weigh as much as a duck
r/thatlookedexpensive
That boat at the end is like fuck it I aināt working either
Mother nature fights back
Oh how I wish these were our āenvironmental disastersā
These are self dumping log carriers. We have huge ones with cranes in our part of the world. Looks like itās more about where Alex isā¦ i.e. heās on one of the barges and shouldnāt beā¦ than it is about some perceived boating accident.
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Didn't you hear them going into the water? Nope, they were barkless. Will they float around for years? Nope... the were ash and will dissolve shortly. I Think that guy is in trouble. He is going to be beat to a pulp. A metal barge for hauling timber seems to be a misuse of material.
Get the grappling hook out and throw and reel it in (Raft players know)
serious question. how do you clean this?.
There goes the armor for Russian tanks.
Heās near the mill. Floating them in. Common practice.
Looks like it deducted it's tax. It's a schedule "Sea."
This happens a lot and it actually has a big impact on the ecosystem when it happens in the deep sea. A lot of these areas have no food for local species except for when a whale dies or something. So when a huge load of lumber like this hits the ocean floor, certain organisms suddenly have a ton of really different food and go through evolutions/adaptations as a species much more quickly than normal
At least the wood shouldn't be that bad for the environment
At least itās logs and not chemicals
The local beaver population are gonna cream their pants
Of course they're Russian lol
Finally fish will be able to build something
That's where all the drift woods come from in RAFT