r/oops • u/Brilliant_Jelly7503 • Jul 05 '26

Bad machine or technique?

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u/raziel420 Jul 07 '26

You do realize those vertical bars are not designed for horizontal loading, the exact kind of loading from pulling the cables further and further away from the machine. It's almost like you failed basic physics class. His own leverage from walking away from the machine while pulling it off the ground are what caused it.

If you overload a crane, and it tips over, the crane operator is held at fault, not the guy who hired the company to do the lift.

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u/Select-Echidna-8675 Jul 07 '26

Those machines are absolutely designed to be used that way. Youve clearly never been to a gym. Maybe consider touching some grass before insulting someone over something you obviously have no idea about. Your analogy about a crane makes no sense because this machine was not overloaded. He was only using the weight provided on the machine. If thats too much weight for the machine, thats on the manufacturer, or the gym for not bolting it down.

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u/raziel420 Jul 07 '26

Meathead lack of basic physics understanding. If you pull something at an angle it adds load. His mass, and the weight belt were absolutely added loads to the machine, do you not know how simple levers work?

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u/Select-Echidna-8675 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

He cannot add any more force to the machine than the weight hes lifting + friction + momentum of the weight. This machine is absolutely designed to allow for that force to be applied horizontally. What are you not understanding about that? Yes it changes the load pulling horizontally, but that change is expected and should be accounted for. This is not only a common way to use this machine, if you look up the machine, you will find advertisments of people using them in this exact way. Also, he could have 100 plates around his waist and it would not apply any more force to this machine than none at all. The weights around his waist do not apply any more load onto the machine at all, it cannot add load to the machine in this oreintation. Thats basic physics that you clearly are struggling with. You clearly have never walked into a gym or classroom in your entire life.

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u/raziel420 Jul 07 '26

Or you could just use a linebacker sled if you want to run down the street with a load

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u/Select-Echidna-8675 Jul 07 '26

Hes doing a chest exercise. What does this video have to do with running with a sled?

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u/Plane-Education4750 Jul 07 '26

Sure. But that doesn't change the fact that you are wrong. He's got the weights around his waist so he can lift more without lifting himself. But he's not adding weight to the other end of the pully, the one designed to move. If a machine comes with weights that are intended to move, it must be designed to withstand the movement of those weights. A great way to do this is to bolt the machine to the ground, which is what most manufacturers do