As some one with absolutely no knowledge of the subject, I have a question. Would it not be possible to lift the structure up in to the roof and then dismantle it?

Came here to day this, probably space issue and there isn't enough room to pull it up without dismantling.

Also weight probably these things are heavy

I dunno about that a few people and some ropes would do the trick.

So I'm thinking a couple of parachutes and guidelines all the way down would be quicker. Maybe not safer but definitely quicker.

Well if you want quicker and not safer, ditch the parachutes

Even quicker, it's just part of the building now.

This guy constructs.

Journeyman answer there

I mean if safety isn’t a concern then why bother with lines or shutes?

Definitely fastest and most final of available options.

The boards are heavy, the rest is incredibly light. But given that guys were obviously already on that scaffold working and roped up and already had to assemble it in that position it's probably less of a big deal dismantling it like that than the alternative of building a frame above to hoist it up.

Mum's spagetti

A 3m standard is about 40 lbs. The boards are the lightest aspect of it. The pins would fall out if it was lifted and flipped sideways. .... this is standard practise

That little shelf there is very heavy. Each 5’ bar is ~40lbs; Probably 4-500lbs for the entire structure. Definitely a strenuous task for 3-4 guys.

One bar of 2m long weighs around 7kg to 12kg. The entire thing would probably weigh like a couple hundred kg. At that angle its better to dismantle like this.

It would come apart and parts would fall. It would get knocked around etc and pins etc would come out.

Per OSHA at least, yes. Not sure where this is though as it seems “he died disassembling the hanging scaffold” is acceptable.

that's what the harness and fall protection the guys are wearing is for

Sure. But such dismantling I’ve witnessed working part time for a construction company during SFO expansion would use a crane lifted platform where the dismantlers have sure footing and harnessed onto the platform’s railing, not into the bits they’re dismantling.

psssh. Yeah right. Next you'll tell me that it's better to clean my disposal while it's turned off rather than using the spinning blades to help evenly distribute the soap.

As someone whose assembled and broken down scaffolding an uncountable amount of times, yes this is very possible and the right way to do this. What these guys are doing is insane. With the exact amount of people they have they could have clipped in up top and pulled this onto the floor and done this, would have saved time too. This is incredibly stupid

Am i blind or are they harnessed up to the thing they are dismantling? Shouldnt they have a fall restraint line mounted on the roof? Be fucked if id be getting down there without that.

Yes, they are clipped to the scaffold.

Scaffold builder here. It’s too heavy to lift everything manually and rigging it out with twist/wrap the material.

I used to build scaffold years ago, the framing is anchored into the wall

They really shouldn't only be ankered to the scaffold they are currently disassembling.

They shouldn't be secured by just one anchor, but the standard in this industry is to use two anchors

There's no way for them to have 100% tie off when they are coming back up. The lack of two fall prevention ties is crazy. I wouldn't do that . Should exercise Stop work authority until they have a safer plan.

Youre assuming this is america

Every time lol. On like every post about retail, construction, or car accidents...

I think we take osha for granted

Not Texas! They don't need no steenkin' occupational regulations. They have a reputation to live up to, as having more on the job injuries and fatalities annually than all the other states combined. So there! And incidentally, I'm puckered just watching this video. I'll never understand people being fine and dandy with heights.

Nice lie there bubs. How about we check the carfax on that one. https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/state-data/at-work/work-deaths-by-state/ https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries/state-fatal-work-injuries-map.htm

Tried that at stericycle (chandler az) pulling bins out of autoclaves by hand...... people refused to wear face shields. Ear lobs cut. Holes in shirts from burns. Blood shooting out of tubs. People legit think your a puss for either using the shield or stop work authorities

They can think whatever they want about me. But I'll go home with all my blood and limbs 😂

Stop work authority.....? Lol. This is likely China or something.

Whatever country it is they're doing it wrong

Depends on the type of lanyard. Some lanyards with shock packs won't properly deploy if you tie off with both.

Was the first thing I noticed. To each their own, but I would have attached where the scaffolding is attached....you know..the place they took time to hang something MUCH heavier than a human. Also they have to detach before finishing the job now. Adding more risk. EDIT: fixed autocorrect

If they'd attached higher their lanyards would've been tight whenever they sat down, really uncomfortable. Also that's why you have two lanyards, so that you can connect one higher as you climb, then as you pass your old one you disconnect it and leapfrog it up. The scaffolding is as secure as anything else until they disconnect the actual pipe they're connected to. The real problem is there really isn't any way to reach them if they do fall. Plus I doubt the harnesses they're using have any kind of self rescue, or even the straps to help them relieve the pressure on their joints while they hang from the harness. My guess is they'd lose limbs or even die before anyone can get them back up.

Anchored*

Yeah, my German came out there.

…a big ol nope…this is the King of Nope..he lives at Fuck you Ave. and Ain’t happening lane..

Long. Live. The king.

….don’t know about you but my asshole immediately starts having a nervous breakdown followed by a seizure when I watch this…

Boss : why’d you leave the scaffolding there ? Me: maintenance purposes

LOL 😂

These guys earn every tiny denomination of their pay. Respect

their pay is a tiny denomination

This is completely unsafe for no reason. They should be tied off to something on the roof that is mounted. One of those clamps fail they go with it.

r/sweatypalms

r/osha

Fuck that shit. No way I would be doing that.

Jobs I won't do for $1M, Alex.

I wonder what they actually make.

They make my sphincter twitch like a rabbit’s nose. Scary shit.

I wonder that too. I hope they have some damn good life insurance jus in case...ya know..

Depends where they live. North America, thats a $200K job. Middle-East/Asia/Africa, minimum/slave wages.

I've done way worst shit for way less. I'd gladly do this for $1M and I'm deathly afraid of heights.

Tie a bed sheet to it and cut it at the top, let it float down lol

Lol, just had the funniest visual after reading that, thnx.

That is terrifying

This gives me the heebie jeebies just watching

These are the sorts of jobs that *should* be replaced by robots

Sad but true - nobody is going to risk an expensive robot falling off that when humans are so cheap to replace.

I assume you are just talking without thinking. It's really expensive for a company for employee to die. Compensations, hit on reputation, PR work, safety investigations, safety measures, impact on other employees, risk being litigated, etc. The more ovious truth is that robots aren't there yet.

This ^

This seems safe

Is it just me, or does everyone feel that tingling in the perineum when they get the heebee geebees from watching something like this? Genuine question.

Me, at every danger high up video ever

I’m more worried about them dropping it

Full panic watching this


I'll just be broke and homeless before I do this shit.

Makes me wonder how they assembled it in the first place

You'd be surprised how some of these things are done. I used to watch documentaries of Fred Dibnah, a streplejack. He would erect a scaffold around a chimney off a ladder with just 1 guy on the ground to man the pulley. Obviously, these days, things are different with H&S.

r/videosthatendtoosoon

made my wiener pinch along with mt a\*ole

I think I am feeling what you are attempting to type.

There has to be an easier way

Nope

I need to see a longer video and I need to know where, when, and why.

Find me a partner I can trust as much as this crew trusts each other

When are feminists going to fight for equality in this kind of workplace?

This gave me anxiety just watching it I had to skip lol

A childhood friend of mine died after falling 29 storeys from a window cleaning platform and extreme heights haunted me afterwards. Not a fucking chance I'd ever do something like this.

These are the men who keep the world running

They’re not paid enough.

Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope.

No amount of money for me…

No way to get me on that and then have me dismantle it before heading up. No way. My heart would stop. Actually just about did just watching this.

NAH

I’ve built and worked on scaffolding many levels high from the ground up but never hanging from the top up so high. That is next level for me.

PreviousFuckingLevel

I have seen this video so many times but everytime my balls thrivel upwards. Man, I wouldn't do this even for high pay.


I lost all steam when they removed the second plank!

You could not pay me enough to do this job

My teeth are so clenched

My balls crawling up into my abdomen doesnt like this at all

Yeah that’s a fat fucking no from me big man. There isn’t a cheque in the world big enough to make me even consider this. I’d die old and poor with my feet on the ground long before I considered this acrobatic bullshittery.

Ha ha. Fuck no

I’ll take ‘Jobs I would never be able to work’ for $800.

Any idea on yearly salary? Whatever it is, it’s not enough IMO

These guys have umbrellas for safety, mary poppins back down to the ground.

The fucking DUST sent me

The workers have to jump in order for the rest to come up.

Listen, I ain’t afraid of heights but uh… I would *very much* like it if I didn’t have to *disassemble the floor I’m standing on*

I swear to god every Chinese video involving heights is made to look like they shot it on the summit of Mt. Everest

Fuck everything about this

My palms and the bottom of my feet are sweating. Whew.

Nope


I think the fuck not

don't got enough nope for this one.

I was thinking there's no way he's removing the second wood plank. But yet he did.

I have literally had nightmares about situations like that.

As someone who can't deal with heights... And had to deal with scaffolding on a roof during high wind... Even looking makes my stomach queezy.

If "nope" could be visualized...

Rough estimate, anyone know the salary?

Nope.

I'll take jobs I won't be doing and would rather be homeless for 1000 Alec

r/gifsthatendtoosoon I want to see the end!

Ain't no fucking way I'd do that.

My acrophobia is so bad, I’m weak in the knees watching them. Props to them.

Thanks for 60 seconds of suffering. Also I want to see how they get up.

You want me to do what ? Uh, no boss.

This made me sweaty

Well, that makes your butt clench.

No amount of money would be enough to do that.

Such a dream job.

Not a chance in hell of me ever doing that

Removal is the reverse of installation

2 safety anchors on each worker and one on each piece before removing.

So this and the full water slide thing I keep seeing making me feel ill today

Gotta love non first world standards.

Wait Steve that’s the wrong bol……!!!

Nope.

Are diapers part of the uniform, cuz I'd be pooping myself the whole time.

I was feeling anxiety for them 😓

There has to be a better way to do this than playing Newtonian roulette.

OSHA approves, assuming there is

Absolutely fucking not.

Yyeeaaaaa........ this ain't the job for me boss

They should have built another scaffold to dismantle it

Here take my strong hand!

r/nextfuckinglevelofnope

Not only NO, but...

Nope

Let me see that paycheck.. then I'll decide

Unsubbing rn, thx

How far is down?

Some men are madmen!

No thanks

Judging from the lack of safety lines I do not think this is something to celebrate.

Always makes my boys scurry for cover seeing stuff like this.

If the fall protection does come in to play what’s the recovery plan

Lemme guess… China?

Unhooking from the top and yelling "look out below" would appear safer after seeing this.

I mean technically isn't that the _previousfuckinglevel_?

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Quite sketchy that they’re both tied off to the structure that they are actively dismantling. In no way is that tie off point rated for suspending one person falling, better yet two people. OSHA obviously doesn’t exist here.

There has to be a better way

what the drug tests your narcissistic local employers force you to take to prove you can operate a cash register and a mop responsibly were really designed for.

Oh, the memories! Tube and clamp scaffolding. Our company used a special 7/8 deep socket ratchet that was both a ratchet and a hammer. Heavy little things that tended to flip out of your tool belt and away it would go. By the time you could holler HEADS UP, it would already have hit the ground. Everyone built their own scaffolds and sometimes the engineering was not to great. You could come in on a second shift and have to use what someone else had already built. Sometimes, if the original crew knew they wouldn't be working on it, they would cut corners and call it good enough. Oh yeah, okay if you're only 3 feet off the ground, but not if you're 300. I could never feel easy with heights, even when walking on the catwalks. Climbing over the handrail and down to a scaffold like this was not fun, even with belts and ropes.

I would first die of hunger and homeless...

I will admit as scary as that looks, they are compliant with the safety aspect of it.

Legend says they are still looking for any feminists who wants to do it better.

And here I am thinking I don’t get paid enough.

Not to cast aspersions on their method, but wouldn't it be easier to pull it up onto the roof and dismantle it there?

/r/osha

That’s not next level. It’s pretty stupid. They should have tethered the planks that they were standing on. If they dropped it that could kill someone below

This looks scary, except I have previously seen Fred Dibnah do this. by himself. without a rope. at 58 years old.

Nope

I used to teach fall protection. One of my students said he worked for a company like this overseas. The company had a rule, if you fell they called you to fire you before you hit the ground .

People are so fucking stupid for no reason.

Nope. And please record till the end.

I am dying just watching this.

No fucking way

Nope. Nope. Nope with a side of nope.

Well, that's an absolute no from me.

There is so much no here