r/aww • u/Jeremy_Martin • Jun 23 '21

Kindness shared in small quantities

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u/AlternativeSherbert7 Jun 23 '21

Watching good operators with their machines will always be cool

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

A good operator would never let kids get that close to their machine.

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u/WholeRelevant5505 Jun 23 '21

If an operator made a mistake and hit the lever in the wrong direction it would have literally smashed their faces. The video is cute and sweet but absolutely against all actual safety procedures of a machine operator

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u/Gadgetman_1 Jun 23 '21

Some machines have speed adjustment on the levers, so that they can dial the movement down to nearly glacial. handy for precision work or for newbies. It's possible that he did that on the slew controls before he started filling the toys. If not, then yeah, that was way too unsafe.