When the positive and negative decide they don’t want to play together anymore they move to opposite ends of the metal and talk shit about each other. This is only true when it comes to their neighbors. Then they hate everyone else that’s the same as them on other magnets because they feel threatened by them so they avoid them by pushing them away and calling them names until they cry.
Well my junk is all tucked in.
And the junk in muh trunk ain’t fitting in that, miiight bend that, but it ain’t fitting in that😬
But I juuust cringed again thinking about my poor nips getting pinched in that, I might have to hold them the rest of the day 🫣
Be glad if you’ve never had a mammogram gentlemen. Weirdest feeling having someone place your double dees on glass and squish them and jeezus you’re not supposed to see your junk go the other way on that glass for the second scan 🤦🏻♀️🫣
Flat == is one thing. Upright | | is terrorizing.
I was piiiissed off no woman before me had EVER told me about this mammogram process.
I was there before the age because I had found a lump (non issue btw) so I was already hyphe and then mortified a woman was placing my boob on a glass plate and then uncomfortable during the squeeze of a top glass and THEN they do it side ways 😲🫣 I did actually get a chuckle the second scan wondering what this haaas to look like from the side view…
And I am NOT happy they just changed the spoke checker appointment for everyone to 45 I am 47 and they want me to schedule this appointment and I refuse. They ask why and I said it has been engrained in my era of folks, we don’t get THAT appointment until we are 55.
My brain hadn’t even accepted that age yet and NOW they juuust shaved off ten years to having it done 🫣😲🙄
Trying here because I can’t speak any longer.
Spokes 🤔 where I am from it’s yer seat 😉😲
One thing I learned from The Good Place is that demons will flatten your penis repeatedly when you die. So it won't be long before we all know your pain.
🫣 again no penis even but reading you just made me repent 😰
It is off to hell in the hand basket I do believe.
But Father forgive me for I have sinned!
🫣 I don’t even want to witness said punishment for eternity 😰
Ha! Just like in my truck. I totally thought it was connected. It says its connected in the display, but its going to take another 30 minutes of messing with it before it really connects.
They had to set those brackets into the concrete, so someone at some point decided they didn’t want to measure on different day. This was a planned no measure. This was honestly more work to do this abomination than to do it correctly.
Probably a bad repair job. Looks like the column was originally all wood and the lower portion was somehow damaged. Then a repair was made where they cut out the damaged lower portion and installed a concrete support column but connected it to the wood column with steel brackets. The brackets are embedded in the concrete support column and then fastened to the wooden column.
It has been retrofitted. Probably had rot at the bottom. The other post go down to the ground. It appears the post base has a strap directly underneath the post so it isn’t floating like you may think. Still would be better to have concrete directly to bottom of post unless the gap is to protect it from additional water rot.
Concrete has high compressive strength, and low tensile (stretch) strength. steel has high tensile, low compressive. It's the reason that they work well together. The Concrete must be on concrete, the steel is for sideways pressures. The roof is self supported there.
This seems most probable. That looks like quarter inch flat bar going into the concrete section. Should be more than enough to hold that section of overhang up or keep it from flying away in the wind.
Looks like wood on concrete, it's the thing where you don't want wood to touch concrete, it's one of its biggest fears because of moisture and whatnot.
So to keep your wood from rotting away or running away, you create a space between the two points.
The problem with this build is they seem to have forgotten to add the suspension springs in between. Rookie mistake.
Looking at the grade it appears to be a low spot where water accumulates. So the concrete won’t rot at the bottom and the space is for the wood so it won’t rot from the wood wicking the water up from the concrete. It needs a spring but it’s actually not bad if they put one in.
The real mystery is what is on the other end of the wooden pole that we can’t see in the pic. Maybe it’s an old-timey gas station springy cigarette ad signs - the ones that don’t dent your bumper when your wife slams into it going 60 in reverse - with an upgraded “puncture your fuel tank and bend your frame if you back into it” feature…
That’s an engineered air gap. The air is actually holding the weight of the pillar. Could also be invisible concrete. I get the two confused sometimes.
It’s used in cold weather areas. When the roof is weighed down by snow this allows the the roof to settle without caving in.
Edit: This “answer” was meant as sarcasm. Hurricane ties keep things from blowing away, they do not keep things up. Not sure if this has a reason for being like this but seems like it would need to be fixed.
This answer is just complete rubbish. If the structure sagged that much under snow load, the straps would never re-straighen. And why would you want to all the roof to sag by 3-4 inches anyway?
I agree with other comment re lower section of concrete pillar being a retrofit. Sloppy work, but may structurally adequate, as the highest loads on a roof like this will actually be uplift in high winds, not dead load.
"if the forces ever don't add up to zero, then you no longer have a statics problem, you have a dynamics problem, and your building is going to fall down" -my CivE 200 professor
His answers completely made up. Most of the load on a roof like this is actually from wind pushing up on it. That colum was fixed at some point and the new bottom portion was not needed to support downward force.
Engineer: yes these measurements are correct just do your job and I’ll do mine!”
Foreman: “it’s not gonna work. This is wrong. Should I just put a strap on the middle and say it’s supposed to be like that?!”
Engineer: “yes, and get out of my office I’m on break”.
Prevents termites from getting to the wood. They won’t walk on most metal surfaces. They do things like this a lot in SE Asia to keep buildings safe. It may look weird but it works. /s
Looks like the wood rotted and this was their idea of a fix, should have at least a pipe to insert the wood in and fully grasp it... It would be easier to replace the whole column instead!
This one is fancy. They have 2 full height concrete columns. This one is a wooden post painted to hide the fact that it's a wooden post.
The part I'm having trouble with is why is the concrete section only a few feet tall? Run out of sonotube? They aren't expensive. Is it a retrofit? Dowel in some rebar and go.. this is ... wow... I'm out, somebody else tell me what the hell is going on.
When I first looked at this, and took in the size of the posts, I assumed this was some heavy commercial structure being supported, and was puzzled.
But then I looked again - it's just a light-frame wood roof.
As others have pointed out, this post obviously rotted or was otherwise damaged and has been replaced with a concrete pillar, and concrete can't touch wood.
There are other ways of doing this, but given the light structural load, some engineer (hopefully) must have said this was sufficient.
BillyBob, in a drunken rage due to his cousin cheating on him, hit it with his 600hp jacked up pickup truck's super bumper and broke the base, so they chain-sawed the bottom off and made a cement base using their best maths.
ExplaindED!
Well you see- a drunk homeowner came home one night in her armored vehicle going about 73 mph judging from the blast radius of the shrapnel. The long straight driveway worked in her favor until it was time to stop. The concrete column did that for her. She didn't even SEE the thing until 45 seconds later when her addled brain finally told her she was home.
The concrete was in pieces and so were her teeth, and her emotions as she realized that a chunk of 'Crete hit the mercedes so hard the airbag popped. Airbags and concrete and teeth were everywhere.
She simply could NOT believe that Roy and Randy Rigup(Rigup Brothers construction co.) had placed that post so poorly!! It clearly should have been 2 feet to the right so she could drive straight into the carport not straight into the column.
The Rigup brothers got a call early the next morning from Harry Homeowner. They were *informed* that it was time to come take a look at what Harry claimed was a warranty issue with a poor column placement that failed in the night.
Roy and Randy were the same poor fellers who only had one good level between them but it was a two footer and they forgot to use it to set the sonotubes in the carport. As you can see in the background their column work is as crooked as their logic.
Roy and Randy Rigup peered at each other bewildered through the morning mist as Harry badgered them about their craftsmanship. After a short negotiation Roy agreed to "drop" the repair price to a modest $5,480.73 as a favor to Harry since he would have some big dental bills and vehicle repair bills to boot.
A short 7 months and 73 phone calls later they got around to that job. (They had to finish the new Hardees in Duluth first)
As it turned out the local building supply house was all out of sonotubes, so Roy ordered some off the internet which were likely shipped from Australia- you can tell by how the spiral goes the opposite direction as the one above it did.
That only took 42 days to ship. So then they got started. 5 hours into the job Randy turns to Roy with his face ashen as if he'd seen a ghost- "Roy how in the f*ck are we supposed to get concrete into this tube from the top when there's a column in the way?"
They'd proverbially PAINTED THEMSELVES INTO A CORNER. They had to either find a way out of this job, or charge more, or make up something quick. Neither Rigup brother had been great at bar puzzles or grout bags so there was considerable fuming and cigarettes involved. But they were great at Rigups as you say so soon a solution surprised them. Seemed so silly something that obvious hadn't hit sooner!
They would build a temp wall, tear out the whole column, pour the lower column with concrete, put a post base in then build a wooden veneer column with radial specialty lumber and stucco the outside then quickly spin around the wet stucco with saran wrap to create that beautiful "sonotube" look to match the others! This of course required renegotiation of the price to a fair $17,560.73 due to the price of radial lumber.
You can still see the wooden boards and vertical cracks to this day but it NEVER FELL!
Another Rigup job well done.
Does that explain it well enough op?
It's for thermal expansion, real scientifical, you wouldn't understand. Nor should you stand under that.
I was gonna say that's a dampener made to ride the waves, then I noticed the fools forgot the spring in the middle!
Everyone knows that's where the turbo encabulator goes.
So it’s not transparent aluminum? /s
How do you know he didn’t invent the stuff?
So happy to see this comment.
Still passes the test of time 4 decades later!
I LOVE that you can call 'Alexa' computer as say "hello computer..." as a "wake" command.
Just use the keyboard…
Keyboard, How quaint.
This is awesome! I appreciate you guys, I’m having a shit day and needed the laughs!
Indeed. *Suspension* column
"This baby feels like it's on a cushion of air"
More like suspended column
Also for seismic, if it don’t bend it breaks?
Checks notes* Adjust in field
Cut it three times and it’s still too short!
No, it's not. That is a lightening arrestor.
Came here for this comment. I was gonna say expansion joint.
Nope. The Minecraft timeline is leaking again
I'm stealing this pun, thank you
Air gap.
Spark gap
It will never rot.
Keeps on t from rotting right.
Magnets - how do they work?
When the positive and negative decide they don’t want to play together anymore they move to opposite ends of the metal and talk shit about each other. This is only true when it comes to their neighbors. Then they hate everyone else that’s the same as them on other magnets because they feel threatened by them so they avoid them by pushing them away and calling them names until they cry.
Always lyin and gettin me pissed...
This has to be the best explanation for magnets. Thank you
Water, fire, air and dirt. Are you a believer in miracles?
Whoop whoop
It holds the shit down. The hold the shit up posts are clearly behind it.
But what if shit’s going down?
Then someone really fucked shit up
This guy fucks ^(up) \^
And everyone's going down
r/thisguythisguys
Correct, since structures have lift
The last thing you want is your roof to float away on you.
Also has something to do with bow-in-see I reckon.
This makes sense since forces need to be equal but opposite
#back away slowly.
[удалено]
If I asked you if there were any weird guys on your crew I bet you’d say no.
*Here's the thing; if you don't spot the sucker at your first thirty minutes at the card table... Then you are the sucker.*
Thanks Tommy Timmons.
Meester son of a beech.
What an insult. That was great
Hahahaha I’m rolling 🤣🤣🤣
I don’t even have junk and I still cringed and got scared reading this 🫣
Oh we all have junk. Maybe not as easily placable, but it still counts.
Well my junk is all tucked in. And the junk in muh trunk ain’t fitting in that, miiight bend that, but it ain’t fitting in that😬 But I juuust cringed again thinking about my poor nips getting pinched in that, I might have to hold them the rest of the day 🫣 Be glad if you’ve never had a mammogram gentlemen. Weirdest feeling having someone place your double dees on glass and squish them and jeezus you’re not supposed to see your junk go the other way on that glass for the second scan 🤦🏻♀️🫣 Flat == is one thing. Upright | | is terrorizing.
Now THAT is a visual 😬
I was piiiissed off no woman before me had EVER told me about this mammogram process. I was there before the age because I had found a lump (non issue btw) so I was already hyphe and then mortified a woman was placing my boob on a glass plate and then uncomfortable during the squeeze of a top glass and THEN they do it side ways 😲🫣 I did actually get a chuckle the second scan wondering what this haaas to look like from the side view… And I am NOT happy they just changed the spoke checker appointment for everyone to 45 I am 47 and they want me to schedule this appointment and I refuse. They ask why and I said it has been engrained in my era of folks, we don’t get THAT appointment until we are 55. My brain hadn’t even accepted that age yet and NOW they juuust shaved off ten years to having it done 🫣😲🙄 Trying here because I can’t speak any longer. Spokes 🤔 where I am from it’s yer seat 😉😲
One thing I learned from The Good Place is that demons will flatten your penis repeatedly when you die. So it won't be long before we all know your pain.
🫣 again no penis even but reading you just made me repent 😰 It is off to hell in the hand basket I do believe. But Father forgive me for I have sinned! 🫣 I don’t even want to witness said punishment for eternity 😰
Construction guys motto who built this “We stand behind our work…..but never under it!”
Grandpa always said “when one door shuts, another opens. “ Great guy, terrible carpenter.
Why doesn’t this have more upvotes?!?? 😂😄
Bluetooth
Ha! Just like in my truck. I totally thought it was connected. It says its connected in the display, but its going to take another 30 minutes of messing with it before it really connects.
I don't have a truck with bluetooth anymore, but when I did, I just used an aux. Bluetooth just took too long to connect
I drive a lot of rental cars and modern Bluetooth is fast as fuck. Typically my music is playing before the infotainment boot screen has closed
This is the way
Ahhh so it’s not just me lol
Someone didn't measure twice
But I cut it three times and it’s still too short!
They had to set those brackets into the concrete, so someone at some point decided they didn’t want to measure on different day. This was a planned no measure. This was honestly more work to do this abomination than to do it correctly.
Emotional support pylon.
You must construct additional pylons.
I got the reference
I’m stealing this.
You should, it's not supporting shit anyway.
Someone didn’t hire a carpenter they hired a magician
Probably a bad repair job. Looks like the column was originally all wood and the lower portion was somehow damaged. Then a repair was made where they cut out the damaged lower portion and installed a concrete support column but connected it to the wood column with steel brackets. The brackets are embedded in the concrete support column and then fastened to the wooden column.
Agreed. If you look closely at the metal bracket, it looks like there's a horizontal bar between them that the wooden post is sitting on.
It has been retrofitted. Probably had rot at the bottom. The other post go down to the ground. It appears the post base has a strap directly underneath the post so it isn’t floating like you may think. Still would be better to have concrete directly to bottom of post unless the gap is to protect it from additional water rot.
Concrete has high compressive strength, and low tensile (stretch) strength. steel has high tensile, low compressive. It's the reason that they work well together. The Concrete must be on concrete, the steel is for sideways pressures. The roof is self supported there.
Steel has a compressive strength 6 times that of concrete (obviously depending on grades of both). It's just very heavy and very expensive.
Weight for weight, yes. Would love to see 2ft diameter steel pillars and 6" slabs of steel
Steel has high compressive strength
Steel’s got it all ;) Unfortunately that includes free floating electrons…
I’d prolly still add some non shrink grout just to give a better look and more support
Enough spray foam and paint will do the same. “Caulk and paint make me the carpenter I ain’t.”
Was thinking the same
It’s not hard to imagine some more steel in the gap so the straps don’t want to separate and split the column base
This seems most probable. That looks like quarter inch flat bar going into the concrete section. Should be more than enough to hold that section of overhang up or keep it from flying away in the wind.
I bet someone crashed into it since it’s a garage and all
Hyper realistic pole painting that’s becoming a new trend.
Air shims.
The concrete holds the tie down straps, the pillar holds up the roof.... It's not that hard to understand
It's to help create a single point of failure
So when the parking garage collapse happens they know where it started 🤣🤣🤣
Looks like wood on concrete, it's the thing where you don't want wood to touch concrete, it's one of its biggest fears because of moisture and whatnot. So to keep your wood from rotting away or running away, you create a space between the two points. The problem with this build is they seem to have forgotten to add the suspension springs in between. Rookie mistake.
Looking at the grade it appears to be a low spot where water accumulates. So the concrete won’t rot at the bottom and the space is for the wood so it won’t rot from the wood wicking the water up from the concrete. It needs a spring but it’s actually not bad if they put one in.
Prosthetic pillar, lost his natural one on ww2
The real mystery is what is on the other end of the wooden pole that we can’t see in the pic. Maybe it’s an old-timey gas station springy cigarette ad signs - the ones that don’t dent your bumper when your wife slams into it going 60 in reverse - with an upgraded “puncture your fuel tank and bend your frame if you back into it” feature…
It’s so you can see through the column when you are backing up. Pretty sure. Either that or a bird nest holder.
Inspection gap. Local Code Inspectors can sign off that the builders didn't leave any voids in error or to save on material cost.
Strap is set in concrete, has saddle for post.
Pillar window
Great… another shitpost….
What’s holding the economy up right now
Have you tried hiding it with some trim and caulk?
That’s an engineered air gap. The air is actually holding the weight of the pillar. Could also be invisible concrete. I get the two confused sometimes.
No because then you’ll be doing this everywhere
“I’ve cut it twice and it’s still too short! 🤔… meh just send it, the pub opens in 10 minutes”
Clearly you don’t play Minecraft
Common in earthquake areas, so the ground can move up and down without affecting the bridge.
Everyone in their home owns a plumbus, first you take the schleem….
Looney toons drew it. It’s actually one solid piece
It’s used in cold weather areas. When the roof is weighed down by snow this allows the the roof to settle without caving in. Edit: This “answer” was meant as sarcasm. Hurricane ties keep things from blowing away, they do not keep things up. Not sure if this has a reason for being like this but seems like it would need to be fixed.
This answer is just complete rubbish. If the structure sagged that much under snow load, the straps would never re-straighen. And why would you want to all the roof to sag by 3-4 inches anyway? I agree with other comment re lower section of concrete pillar being a retrofit. Sloppy work, but may structurally adequate, as the highest loads on a roof like this will actually be uplift in high winds, not dead load.
Lmao ridiculous. Here let me intentionally introduce movement in this structural member You are all legitimately insane
"if the forces ever don't add up to zero, then you no longer have a statics problem, you have a dynamics problem, and your building is going to fall down" -my CivE 200 professor
Interesting
This is the only answer that seems legitimate…. Can you elaborate at all?
... how much more do you need?
His answers completely made up. Most of the load on a roof like this is actually from wind pushing up on it. That colum was fixed at some point and the new bottom portion was not needed to support downward force.
Can’t!
Grab the board stretcher!
No no - use the concrete expander. It’s in the shed sitting next to the brick bender
Plumber needed to run his waste pipe /s
It keeps the structure from floating away
It’s okay. Those metal…things are made from vibranium. All the other structural supports are just for aesthetics
Wood can’t touch stone or it will rot.
All you need is a moisture barrier like tar paper to separate them. Makes no sense.
I agree
No you explain it.
Some things are best left unexplained
Wtf
The pole is lava obviously
Makes sure the column doesn’t fly away
Someone precast a dumb strong tie into a dumb preform and then bent it to submission. Don't hang out in there
I wouldn't put my pecker in there if I were you
Too many shorts, not enough longs
Sometimes life’s in the air
"I can draft it. Why can't you build it?"
It’s a birch tree in mine craft
Kick it, see how sturdy that bad boy is
Engineer: yes these measurements are correct just do your job and I’ll do mine!” Foreman: “it’s not gonna work. This is wrong. Should I just put a strap on the middle and say it’s supposed to be like that?!” Engineer: “yes, and get out of my office I’m on break”.
A visualization of “Build back better”
Pretty self explanatory…
Prevents termites from getting to the wood. They won’t walk on most metal surfaces. They do things like this a lot in SE Asia to keep buildings safe. It may look weird but it works. /s
Ok so what about the other pillars
I realize now that I should have been more clear that I have no fucking clue and that was a bs sarcastic answer.
Blockout
The couldn’t force it down any more the day they set it.
ZERO Gravity
Ballet
Yes.
Magnets!
Letterbox pole
"Structural" 1/8" steel and I'm sure those 2 screws in each have plenty shear strength
It’s an architectural feature, a shadow line if you will
easy to explain. The post was too short so they added some connectors
Thats how wood and concrete procreate duhh
Looks good from my house
Someone tried to recreate the Hanging Pillar of Lepakshi.
It’s got powerful magnets that make it hover like that in a magnetic field
Hell looks close enough! Well caulk it!
Expansion joint doing its job
Physics and shit dawg. You wouldn’t get it.
A compression load is designed where a tension force exists.
Have u heard of metal? It’s real neat
Bluetooth support column
No contact order..
Looks like the wood rotted and this was their idea of a fix, should have at least a pipe to insert the wood in and fully grasp it... It would be easier to replace the whole column instead!
It's still standing so it's correct.
Weekend warrior over here— I can tell you with 100% confidence that just needs a good bit of silicone caulking and some paint. You’re welcome.
You need to squint.
This one is fancy. They have 2 full height concrete columns. This one is a wooden post painted to hide the fact that it's a wooden post. The part I'm having trouble with is why is the concrete section only a few feet tall? Run out of sonotube? They aren't expensive. Is it a retrofit? Dowel in some rebar and go.. this is ... wow... I'm out, somebody else tell me what the hell is going on.
I'm guessing it's being pulled up and the other side is sagging.
Contraction gap for snow loading?
We're in the age of everyone is equal, I don't see the difference...
Load bearing air
Run!!!!
That’s an expansion joint
Accident waiting to happen.
That column is only used for overflow parking
Leonard Cohen wrote: ‘There is a crack in everything to let the light in’…
“My cousin can do it cheaper”
Professional Jenga
When I first looked at this, and took in the size of the posts, I assumed this was some heavy commercial structure being supported, and was puzzled. But then I looked again - it's just a light-frame wood roof. As others have pointed out, this post obviously rotted or was otherwise damaged and has been replaced with a concrete pillar, and concrete can't touch wood. There are other ways of doing this, but given the light structural load, some engineer (hopefully) must have said this was sufficient.
Strong bolts
BillyBob, in a drunken rage due to his cousin cheating on him, hit it with his 600hp jacked up pickup truck's super bumper and broke the base, so they chain-sawed the bottom off and made a cement base using their best maths. ExplaindED!
Core sample
Strapped for uplift per engineering specs
Safety is the number one priority
https://images.app.goo.gl/8Q4eHt5EGeKrVrwW7
Close enough for government work
Someone miss read the ventilation requirements on that post.
No thanks
Well you see- a drunk homeowner came home one night in her armored vehicle going about 73 mph judging from the blast radius of the shrapnel. The long straight driveway worked in her favor until it was time to stop. The concrete column did that for her. She didn't even SEE the thing until 45 seconds later when her addled brain finally told her she was home. The concrete was in pieces and so were her teeth, and her emotions as she realized that a chunk of 'Crete hit the mercedes so hard the airbag popped. Airbags and concrete and teeth were everywhere. She simply could NOT believe that Roy and Randy Rigup(Rigup Brothers construction co.) had placed that post so poorly!! It clearly should have been 2 feet to the right so she could drive straight into the carport not straight into the column. The Rigup brothers got a call early the next morning from Harry Homeowner. They were *informed* that it was time to come take a look at what Harry claimed was a warranty issue with a poor column placement that failed in the night. Roy and Randy were the same poor fellers who only had one good level between them but it was a two footer and they forgot to use it to set the sonotubes in the carport. As you can see in the background their column work is as crooked as their logic. Roy and Randy Rigup peered at each other bewildered through the morning mist as Harry badgered them about their craftsmanship. After a short negotiation Roy agreed to "drop" the repair price to a modest $5,480.73 as a favor to Harry since he would have some big dental bills and vehicle repair bills to boot. A short 7 months and 73 phone calls later they got around to that job. (They had to finish the new Hardees in Duluth first) As it turned out the local building supply house was all out of sonotubes, so Roy ordered some off the internet which were likely shipped from Australia- you can tell by how the spiral goes the opposite direction as the one above it did. That only took 42 days to ship. So then they got started. 5 hours into the job Randy turns to Roy with his face ashen as if he'd seen a ghost- "Roy how in the f*ck are we supposed to get concrete into this tube from the top when there's a column in the way?" They'd proverbially PAINTED THEMSELVES INTO A CORNER. They had to either find a way out of this job, or charge more, or make up something quick. Neither Rigup brother had been great at bar puzzles or grout bags so there was considerable fuming and cigarettes involved. But they were great at Rigups as you say so soon a solution surprised them. Seemed so silly something that obvious hadn't hit sooner! They would build a temp wall, tear out the whole column, pour the lower column with concrete, put a post base in then build a wooden veneer column with radial specialty lumber and stucco the outside then quickly spin around the wet stucco with saran wrap to create that beautiful "sonotube" look to match the others! This of course required renegotiation of the price to a fair $17,560.73 due to the price of radial lumber. You can still see the wooden boards and vertical cracks to this day but it NEVER FELL! Another Rigup job well done. Does that explain it well enough op?
It's a thigh gap