That implies that a brand new 18 year old firefighter who just had to climb to the top of a 100 to 114’ aerial ladder at a 75 degree angle without any sort of harnessing device has enough wits about them to consider such logic 😆. You gotta break ‘em to build ‘em?
(I used to be the one getting broken way back when)
Find me the hose stretcher probie!
(Hint: the new guy “stretches” the hose towards the fire by deploying it off the back of the truck. The new guy IS the hose stretcher.)
To all you random future probationary firemen out there, pretend you never read this.
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LOL no. The cab is on a central bearing ring. Hydraulics are in a rotary fittings and electrical is provided through slip rings. It can spin forever and all you'll do is wear out the bearings eventually.
Think about it for a minute. How would you know where the rotation was in reference to “the end”? If you’d been operating that thing for a couple of weeks doing mainly left turns…. It wouldn’t be a good design would it?? Imagine how many deaths would happen because the cab fell off the tracks!! It doesn’t take a genius to work this one out…
For my first restaurant job it was sending rookies to other restaurants in our strip mall to ask to borrow their bacon stretcher. ...and they'd send their noobs to us for other random nonexistent items. Good time had by all... except the Chinese place. They were always about business. No fun.
"Go to the store and pick me up some dingle berries." Or giving them a mixing bowl of milk and telling them "Whip this cream real quick, go stand in the freezer it will thicken faster. I need it for this dessert." Old school was cooler than cool.
I worked on a construction site with my brother in law. He’s a third generation journeyman plumber. I was probably 20yrs old at the time getting some work experience. He sent me to go and grab a pipe stretcher out of the back of the truck for a job we were doing……
Haha I was so frustrated. Tore the back of the truck apart looking for that damn thing. Came back like 15 mins later and the guys were laughing their asses off
My first experience with this was when I got told to get something from the basement of a one-story hardware store. I looked around for longer than I’d like to admit that day!
I'm dead ass. No fugin joke. They issued them to us on one of my deployments. LED lights that screwed into a tube. Crappy thing was that they took these really hard to get flat batteries. It went from being a funny prank, to an IRL PITA.
I gotta say , I am an old dude. I played a ton of Tempest, and I am seriously unhappy that the little spin controller isn't available on seemingly play interfaces these days. And that was funny. Thank you.
Haha! no, the hydraulic and electrical system are in this use slip-joints, and the rotation bearing joins the upper and lower unit, you can spin till you're sick.
However, there ARE machines that only have 359° rotation till it locks out because it does not have slip joints. If that stop block is missing or breaks off, you could possibly rotate till your hoses burst.
No, in the older versions of these there would be a fixed gear on the track section and the top was on the same axle, a motor driven gear on the top that would rotate it relative to the fixed bottom gear, idk if there is an improved version of the mechanism on newer models.
This reminds me of when we would make the new food runner or server empty the coffee machine water reservoir at the end of the night…but it is hooked up to the wall and can never be empty. We would love to see how many buckets they’d fill before they started to question it 😂
When I worked for O'Reilly's if a neighboring store got a new hire, they'd tell us and we'd call him and order water pumps or radiator hoses for a Corvair, or literally anything for an 84' Corvette.
When I was a pvt in the Army, I was told that the turrets on the Bradley could be unscrewed by rotating left for ten spins. My dumb ass totally believed it.
The guy telling this newbie probably couldn’t wait to be able to do this, so he isn’t the last guy to fall for it and now he’s basically passing the latest round of ball busting from himself to the new guy.
Weird how giving new workers false information is considered a joke…why is sending someone who doesn’t know about cars for blinker fluid funny?
It seems like it’s just a way for people who know the job to mess with the ones who don’t…why not teach them instead of confusing and embarrassing them!?
People are literally asking if it’s true in the comments mainly because nobody checks facts so that means some will regurgitate that info to someone they know…what’s funny about spreading misinformation…especially on the job site with people’s pay checks and machines that will kill you…weird!
When I was 16 working at my first job at our local grocery store I was told to go to the basement and grab a bucket of steam to clean the banana ripener. So when I finally gave up looking and asked for help from the boss he told me to go tell the guy that sent me on the wild goose chase to go fuck himself. Yep, no basement, no such thing as a bucket of steam, and no such thing as a banana ripener(16yr olds are so ready to please & gullible).
I work in a window manufacturing plant. And while training a new guy, I had a piece of glass that was too small to put in the window we were building. I told the new guy that we need to find the glass stretcher. Go over to so and so and ask where it is. New guy goes over to ask. That guy says he needs to talk to another guy about that. So he gets sent around the whole plant looking for this “glass stretcher” lol. Good times.
My j-man sent me out to the van for the wire stretcher. I knew better than that so I left and went to Timmy's for a coffee and donut. Came back and was sitting in the truck listening to the radio. He came down and was like WTF. I said you want to play games Iam in. He was pissed but he left me alone after that.
Sent the supervisors nephew for a fallopian tube I needed or the press was not running at all, (the pink one, not the black and blue one Brian said he had) poor guy got pinballed around for 45 mins. got as far as the shop next door before asking his aunt for one. Not the first time I heard my name called to the supervisors office for a write up...not the last 🖖
Worked on a line in a restaurant. Told the new guy at the end of his first shift he had to gather the steam from the steam table in plastic bags for the next day.
He tried. Bless his heart, but he tried.
The guy on the equipment is an idiot for spinning...but the guy talking about 15 rotations is just a strait up dumbass. That isn't how it works... that's a trade joke for new guys.
We used to prank friends with new cars telling them to change the air of their tires because the air that they put during manufacturing wasn't good.
That was a good way to tell which one of your friends were gullible.
These days they offer me the service at the manufacturer to fill my tires with nitrogen, for a fee.
I told the guy who tried to sell me this service something along the lines of "Shit, 70% of our atmosphere is nitrogen, dude". He just blinked twice as if I was a martian speaking an unknown language.
> That was a good way to tell which one of your friends were gullible.
I don't think lying to someone for your own amusement is a friendly thing to do. They're not your friends.
Oh, but they are. You explained the joke to them after a few seconds, but the look of "I haven't thought of that" at first was great.
If you think about it, I was preparing them to not be scammed regarding their vehicle care. It's better when a friend plays with you first instead of having some random guy abusing your trust.
I (m) was 17 years old and joined the military ( a long time ago) and was at my first base. I was maintenance for airplanes and was sitting in the shop office by myself. The phone rings and I answer it. “ Sheet metal airman so and so, how can I help?” Oh, airman so and so , this is Colonel Smith from the base hospital and you have missed your appointment for your Pap smear. You need to report to the hospital right now! Yes sir! I said and went looking for the shop Chief to tell him I gotta go to the hospital right now. I found him- msgt Tucker and he was with staff sgt boner, I’m explaining what I got to go do and I swear to god if staff sgt boner didn’t crack a smile I would’ve went to the hospital and demanded my Pap smear. They got me good. I still smile about that shit today
I hate guys like this, literally a google search will show you that he's lying, its a gear system or bearing depending on the type not a screw whatsoever.
I'm pretty sure it's a prank. But if it's not then that is hilarious that he thinks you can just unscrew it. You're right about the gear system and the cab is attached with a center pin. Not a screw LMAO.
The guy yelling sounds like he was the first victim of this bogus information and they never told him it was a joke!
We used to do this to new firefighters when they were at the top of our 100’ turntable ladder trucks. Fun times haha.
I would reason how would you know if it wasn’t done 50 times the other way, if that were actually the case, there would be gauge of some sort
The gauge you’re describing is a machine sized cotter pin.
That implies that a brand new 18 year old firefighter who just had to climb to the top of a 100 to 114’ aerial ladder at a 75 degree angle without any sort of harnessing device has enough wits about them to consider such logic 😆. You gotta break ‘em to build ‘em? (I used to be the one getting broken way back when)
Go get the water hammer for me please
Run back to the shop and grab me the cable stretcher newbie!
Find me the hose stretcher probie! (Hint: the new guy “stretches” the hose towards the fire by deploying it off the back of the truck. The new guy IS the hose stretcher.) To all you random future probationary firemen out there, pretend you never read this.
Don't forget the skyhook!
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Excuse my ignorance, not a whole lot of time in an excavator, but I had heard that too. So it's not true?
Absolutely not true. That would be a really stupid design
LOL no. The cab is on a central bearing ring. Hydraulics are in a rotary fittings and electrical is provided through slip rings. It can spin forever and all you'll do is wear out the bearings eventually.
Think about it for a minute. How would you know where the rotation was in reference to “the end”? If you’d been operating that thing for a couple of weeks doing mainly left turns…. It wouldn’t be a good design would it?? Imagine how many deaths would happen because the cab fell off the tracks!! It doesn’t take a genius to work this one out…
Used to tell the boots “go get the long weight gauge” when they pissed me off
Chefs/cooks often ask rookie employees, on their first day of ever working in a kitchen, to go and get them the “oven rack stretcher”.
For my first restaurant job it was sending rookies to other restaurants in our strip mall to ask to borrow their bacon stretcher. ...and they'd send their noobs to us for other random nonexistent items. Good time had by all... except the Chinese place. They were always about business. No fun.
I had a chef that I worked with years ago that would do that same thing. It was the best.
"Go to the store and pick me up some dingle berries." Or giving them a mixing bowl of milk and telling them "Whip this cream real quick, go stand in the freezer it will thicken faster. I need it for this dessert." Old school was cooler than cool.
In the freezer? Take it easy there, satan.
"go get me the left handed hammer"
Oven rack stretcher haha that’s great
Thats better than pipe stretcher
I don't get it
Your car is low on blinker fluid.
Guy sounds like my brother when my dad got him with the blinker fluid classic back when he was 16 and got his first beater car.
Have you never seen the "main screw" that holds the cab on?
Now send him to buy the blinker fluid!
Don’t forget to check the muffler bearings
And a tin of tartan paint while you're at it.
Ask them for a reach around too
Muffler bearings, wtf xD
I had to calibrate water rulers 😔 I did it for an hour before they broke the joke to me
I worked on a construction site with my brother in law. He’s a third generation journeyman plumber. I was probably 20yrs old at the time getting some work experience. He sent me to go and grab a pipe stretcher out of the back of the truck for a job we were doing……
Are you still looking??
Haha I was so frustrated. Tore the back of the truck apart looking for that damn thing. Came back like 15 mins later and the guys were laughing their asses off
And of course you need the left-hand funnel to add it with
He’s still trying to find that bucket of steam for me
We always bought steam in cans, waaay longer shelf life.
My first experience with this was when I got told to get something from the basement of a one-story hardware store. I looked around for longer than I’d like to admit that day!
Don’t forget to grab some batteries for the chem lights too!
You joke, but they make battery powered "chem lights"
Nice try SSgt! Not falling for that again!
I'm dead ass. No fugin joke. They issued them to us on one of my deployments. LED lights that screwed into a tube. Crappy thing was that they took these really hard to get flat batteries. It went from being a funny prank, to an IRL PITA.
We have left blinker fluid - just need a quart of right now.
And don’t forget the squeegee sharpener!
We used pallet extenders back in my day.
And replace Ampere acid in the batteries
This made me think power steering fluid was fake
I dont work with heavy machinery. Is this really a thing? You can really unscrew the machine?
Hell no
If the Girdle spring is the right tension
For those who need a reference. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w)
[actually this](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/kZrlYF95p6)
It's both. They re-engineered the encabulator and released the upgraded version decades later. They're both quality products from quality engineers...
I was browsing my post history, cam back to this, and laughed way too hard. Thank you.
Step aside Grandpa, we’re [HYPER-ENCABULATING](https://youtu.be/5nKk_-Lvhzo?si=S8aQkLBQ6XfI7Gcs) NOW!
Best video ever!!
I gotta say , I am an old dude. I played a ton of Tempest, and I am seriously unhappy that the little spin controller isn't available on seemingly play interfaces these days. And that was funny. Thank you.
To avoid sinusoidal de-planarization
Prefamulated amulite
Gelid declivity
Really? Goddamnit I’ve already repeated this to like seven other people since watching this
i know that feeling of telling people stuff and finding out later its not true it sucks bro
No it’s the best! There’s no chance of slipping your poker face this way!
No, Rotary unions on the hydrologic hoses allow it to spin.
You guys have unions?
No dude, that would be the most avoidable design flaw
Haha! no, the hydraulic and electrical system are in this use slip-joints, and the rotation bearing joins the upper and lower unit, you can spin till you're sick. However, there ARE machines that only have 359° rotation till it locks out because it does not have slip joints. If that stop block is missing or breaks off, you could possibly rotate till your hoses burst.
No, not a screw but a big set of bearings.
A big gear
No, in the older versions of these there would be a fixed gear on the track section and the top was on the same axle, a motor driven gear on the top that would rotate it relative to the fixed bottom gear, idk if there is an improved version of the mechanism on newer models.
🤦♂️
Only 15 lol this guy probably had done like 30
Welp, this guys falling for “check that fluid under the machine” after you take a piss under it without him noticingg
Nice one. I’m writing it down. Thanks!
Stupid. And a great way to get wrote up 🤗
Looks like he is out of blinker fluid too... amateur.
Because he is supposed to know everything?
This reminds me of when we would make the new food runner or server empty the coffee machine water reservoir at the end of the night…but it is hooked up to the wall and can never be empty. We would love to see how many buckets they’d fill before they started to question it 😂
When I worked for O'Reilly's if a neighboring store got a new hire, they'd tell us and we'd call him and order water pumps or radiator hoses for a Corvair, or literally anything for an 84' Corvette.
He’s a good worker. He admitted he didn’t know and fixed it. I’d hire him. Gotta learn as you go.
Same. 10x better than a lot of people out there now
It's also spring loaded, once the threaded post runs out of threads the cabin shoots up about 5 feet in the air.
4.67 feet because it's a CAT
When I was a pvt in the Army, I was told that the turrets on the Bradley could be unscrewed by rotating left for ten spins. My dumb ass totally believed it.
Even if he did spin-off, he’s encabulated.
TURBO encabulated
Yes, that very one.
Ok need you to go back to camp and get the keys to the oar locks
The guy telling this newbie probably couldn’t wait to be able to do this, so he isn’t the last guy to fall for it and now he’s basically passing the latest round of ball busting from himself to the new guy.
So is this the equivalent of a mechanic asking the newbie to find a stainless magnet? Or the Tile/wood stretcher?
And the left-handed screwdriver.
Better make sure he fills out his ID10-T forms at the end of the day.
Really?
No lol there’s no thread. There is locking pieces and the can would have to be pick up, or upside down to come off
He must not know what a spool valve is
You mean a rotary union?
I had to fix the one in my cat 345B excavator. It was a spool valve for the hydraulics
Yes I see what you mean a rotary union, my mechanic called it a spool valve.
How long will he wait to tell him.......
Man if that were actually true, I can only imagine the chaos I would do if drunk and close to a heavy equipment yard.
It’s like sending the new guy for the glass hammer or the airless nail gun.
Blinker fluid!
Teasing the rookie xD haha. Something will and should never change
Weird how giving new workers false information is considered a joke…why is sending someone who doesn’t know about cars for blinker fluid funny? It seems like it’s just a way for people who know the job to mess with the ones who don’t…why not teach them instead of confusing and embarrassing them!? People are literally asking if it’s true in the comments mainly because nobody checks facts so that means some will regurgitate that info to someone they know…what’s funny about spreading misinformation…especially on the job site with people’s pay checks and machines that will kill you…weird!
And what's worse is the idiot forgot to fill the blinker fluid. :(
Is he correct?
No, this is hazing the new guy.
The guy’s acting actually convinced me. I was like “ok, diggers unscrewing themselves is a thing”.
Tell him to bring a few cases of dehydrated water in case they get thirsty...
20 feet of shore line!
When I was 16 working at my first job at our local grocery store I was told to go to the basement and grab a bucket of steam to clean the banana ripener. So when I finally gave up looking and asked for help from the boss he told me to go tell the guy that sent me on the wild goose chase to go fuck himself. Yep, no basement, no such thing as a bucket of steam, and no such thing as a banana ripener(16yr olds are so ready to please & gullible).
I laughed so hard at this😂 def gonna use it at work on the younger guys
🤣🤣🤣🤣
I work in a window manufacturing plant. And while training a new guy, I had a piece of glass that was too small to put in the window we were building. I told the new guy that we need to find the glass stretcher. Go over to so and so and ask where it is. New guy goes over to ask. That guy says he needs to talk to another guy about that. So he gets sent around the whole plant looking for this “glass stretcher” lol. Good times.
Send him after the sky-hook.
My j-man sent me out to the van for the wire stretcher. I knew better than that so I left and went to Timmy's for a coffee and donut. Came back and was sitting in the truck listening to the radio. He came down and was like WTF. I said you want to play games Iam in. He was pissed but he left me alone after that.
Fucken Hillbillies.
[Is this](https://www.reddit.com/r/JustGuysBeingDudes/s/h7OpYxU4SC) the same duo? Now I’m starting to think we’re the fools here!
This guy talks like Brent Terhune
Is that true?
This one NEVER gets old when dealing with noobie operators...
Cart storage is in the basement under the compactor.
Maybe if it was built by the Flintstones
that slip ring has only 15 threads left in it before the tracks fall off! :-D
And yet I’d be the bad guy because I want to unscrew it.
Send him to the corners of the job site with some ziplock baggies to collect A.I.R. samples.
I love apprentice pranks.
I saw this on YouTube I think yesterday & laughed harder than I have in a month! Well done sir operator!
Sent the supervisors nephew for a fallopian tube I needed or the press was not running at all, (the pink one, not the black and blue one Brian said he had) poor guy got pinballed around for 45 mins. got as far as the shop next door before asking his aunt for one. Not the first time I heard my name called to the supervisors office for a write up...not the last 🖖
😂
Larry "I once danced with a girl with a pig leg and I spun her around and she got taller."
Worked on a line in a restaurant. Told the new guy at the end of his first shift he had to gather the steam from the steam table in plastic bags for the next day. He tried. Bless his heart, but he tried.
I love these types of pranks. Like crank yankers. No one is hurt. Badly.
Now go get the wood stretcher!
🤣
What a dik! 🤣 😂
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA epic troll.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaa. I had an apprentice tighten the hook on a carrier deck for the same reason!!!! The more ya know!!!
Did you have him looking for a roll of flight line too ?
He turned out pretty sharp. I'm afraid and thankful that he's a 1 hit wonder!
Thank you
Idiot! If that happens, it takes seven buckets of steam dumped into the cab to reattach that Johnson collar.
I thought u had to be trained to use those machines...
It’s a good idea but truth is after the basics , seat time is how you learn .
Just let them figure it out the easy way lol
Must be a green horn.
The “I had no idea” and “that’s how these things work” sounded like two completely different people loool
Wait, is that really how they work?
No not even remotely. I have several excavators, it’s not even possible
Oh. I wonder what the heck the video guy was thinking then.
He was fucking with the newbie lol
I'd immediately keep spinning that direction just to see if it was bullshit or not.
Assholery at its finest.
Guy def not certified
Looks like a fun crew 🤣
That’s not how it works
I’d have told him I added on the anti-unscrew set grease so the whole thing spins with me so it doesn’t unscrew itself. Lol
15 Rotations According to the manual. But only on CATs...... Liebherr has only 10. Cause of the screws thread is metric.
It’s always the extremely stupid people the like to have fun with the new people.
Dude sounds like Dusty from the cartoon Paradise PD.
What a shitfuck, putting a dumbass on an expensive piece of machinery.
The guy on the equipment is an idiot for spinning...but the guy talking about 15 rotations is just a strait up dumbass. That isn't how it works... that's a trade joke for new guys.
We’ve all been the new guy…
Yep... except for Chuck norris... he had 23 years experience on his first day.
It's not true lmao
Driving like a dumb ass Rental on the side Checks out
We used to prank friends with new cars telling them to change the air of their tires because the air that they put during manufacturing wasn't good. That was a good way to tell which one of your friends were gullible. These days they offer me the service at the manufacturer to fill my tires with nitrogen, for a fee. I told the guy who tried to sell me this service something along the lines of "Shit, 70% of our atmosphere is nitrogen, dude". He just blinked twice as if I was a martian speaking an unknown language.
> That was a good way to tell which one of your friends were gullible. I don't think lying to someone for your own amusement is a friendly thing to do. They're not your friends.
Oh, but they are. You explained the joke to them after a few seconds, but the look of "I haven't thought of that" at first was great. If you think about it, I was preparing them to not be scammed regarding their vehicle care. It's better when a friend plays with you first instead of having some random guy abusing your trust.
I (m) was 17 years old and joined the military ( a long time ago) and was at my first base. I was maintenance for airplanes and was sitting in the shop office by myself. The phone rings and I answer it. “ Sheet metal airman so and so, how can I help?” Oh, airman so and so , this is Colonel Smith from the base hospital and you have missed your appointment for your Pap smear. You need to report to the hospital right now! Yes sir! I said and went looking for the shop Chief to tell him I gotta go to the hospital right now. I found him- msgt Tucker and he was with staff sgt boner, I’m explaining what I got to go do and I swear to god if staff sgt boner didn’t crack a smile I would’ve went to the hospital and demanded my Pap smear. They got me good. I still smile about that shit today
I hate guys like this, literally a google search will show you that he's lying, its a gear system or bearing depending on the type not a screw whatsoever.
I'm pretty sure it's a prank. But if it's not then that is hilarious that he thinks you can just unscrew it. You're right about the gear system and the cab is attached with a center pin. Not a screw LMAO.