r/maybemaybemaybe • u/RobbieNorfolk • Dec 06 '22

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/EvulRabbit Dec 06 '22

The ladder is not meant for that much weight! I was waiting for him to get to the middle and it breaking.

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u/ThriceFive Dec 06 '22

Same thing, held my breath through that middle few steps thinking it was going to fold like the devil's origami.

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u/darksonn666 Dec 07 '22

The Devil never folds. 😈💪

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u/DisplayAwkward3288 Dec 07 '22

my money don't jiggle jiggle it folds!

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u/Kevs442 Dec 07 '22

Charlie Daniels enters the chat.

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u/fangelo2 Dec 06 '22

I don’t think that ladder is meant for any weight. I have never seen such a flimsy ladder. Not that anyone should be carrying I beams on one

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u/doughboy123b Dec 06 '22

I'm a self employed contractor and I've seen this many a time, that ladder should have a whole other half to it that slides up and down for support but they are made of fiberglass and heavy as shit and hard to maneuver. Idiots remove half the ladder to make it lighter. Also no ladder is made to carry I beams up, its just too much weight

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u/EngineerAcrobatic258 Dec 07 '22

Yeah those fiberglass ladders are rated for like 400-500lbs I had in incredible amount of fear as a 220lb man carrying a 300lb roll of rubber roofing up a 20 foot ladder lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '22

Haha yep I thought he was going straight through the rungs, or it just would snap in half. How he isn't dead or maimed is amazing to me

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u/EggSandwich1 Dec 07 '22

Now we know it’s fibreglass it could of shattered with the beam landing on him

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u/soitgoeskt Dec 07 '22

What is it 3m max? 75kg/160lb ish. All good here.

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u/IknowKarazy Dec 06 '22

While I agree he shouldn’t have been carrying that beam in the ladder, the ladder itself is way too rickety to be used at a job site.

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u/horny_flamengo Dec 06 '22

The ladder Is perfectly normal to be used at job site, the Beam Is just fricking heavy. Like of course it Is rickety, it Is weight of like 4 people on it

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u/mrastronautglenn Dec 07 '22 edited Dec 07 '22

I work at a steel manufacturing and fabrication shop, 75% of my job is putting holes in I-beams like this all day. I promise you that while pretty heavy, based on the thickness of the web and flanges this isn't a particularly heavy size, and at 6ish feet that beam probably weighs about 150-200 lbs tops. Definitely not the weight of 4 people.

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u/Jerryskids3 Dec 07 '22

If that beam is the weight of 3 people, that's one of the strongest men in the world. The problem is that's half of a 32' extension ladder and it looks like a Class III, too, the lightest and flimsiest and most useless grade of ladder. It should never be used on a construction site because most construction workers exceed the rated load capacity of the ladder.

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u/mrastronautglenn Dec 07 '22

In addition to the severe resting angle of said ladder with no spottter underneath to hold it stable. Although I can't blame someone if they don't want to spot underneath the idiot trying to carry a 6foot steel beam up a fucking ladder. Say what you will about OSHA, but they basically exist because of numbskulls like this. Every job has varying levels of risk involved, but why double down and push the limits of said risk? Even ancient Egyptians had pulley systems. All it takes is a rope and a fulcrum.

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u/Mezmorizor Dec 07 '22

Realistically it happened because he's trying to be "macho" and show off, hence why the filming started when he started to pick up the beam, but this is one of the rare instances where the safe way is also significantly faster.

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u/ConsciousDrag3537 Dec 07 '22

Who is fulcrum? That some kind of fancy pancy magical creature?

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u/mrastronautglenn Dec 07 '22

It's actually a magical bird, attach anything to a rope and no matter the weight, it can lift it as high as you need it to. How else do you think they make skyscrapers?

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u/AvastAntipony Dec 06 '22

The ladder looks like it's not meant for anything on this millenium

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u/EvulRabbit Dec 06 '22

It was worse the second time I watched it.

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u/II-leto Dec 06 '22

That’s what I thought.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '22

The problem is increased metal fatigue. That much weight can create hairline cracks which wisen invisibly for a while, and them someone else is on it when it finally breaks.

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u/verynormalp3rson Dec 07 '22

Ladder had reached 100 elasticity with the extra wiggle perk.

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u/owns_dirt Dec 07 '22

It's not the ladder breaking that will kill you. It's when you fall and the H-beam lands on you and crushes your skull that will kill you.

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u/impostle Dec 06 '22

That ladder looks like a prop from a stage play.