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  1. Chicken lights

    Rain in Edmonton

    Except the metric system is confusing. You jump from a centimetre right to a metre. I don't find metric to be logical at all Metric is always odd numbers, too. It's always 37,500 kg or 2200 pounds per ton, the metric system, math wise, is weird
  2. Chicken lights

    Rain in Edmonton

    or have them torqued in newton meters
  3. Chicken lights

    Rain in Edmonton

    I thought tenths hundreds and thousandths WAS imperial? And yes that's the Canadian way, mixing and matching, meat sold by the pound, height and weight in imperial, waist size imperial, road signs metric, but we still say miles for distance or just say it's 3 hours away. Then over here you get a...
  4. Chicken lights

    Rain in Edmonton

    Imperial is the superior measuring system ;)
  5. Chicken lights

    Workplace Safety at work and in the home shop

    This might be a little job specific, but county's in southern Ontario have bylaw enforcement for cutting trees. It was fairly common for us to cut a notch in trees but NO back cut. Domino-ing was sending one tree into the next one to force it to fall over. Very illegal and unsafe I had maybe...
  6. Chicken lights

    Workplace Safety at work and in the home shop

    I'll always try to work safe with other people, I'll always try to make sure they have PPE on that's job specific But the safety man can hike right off, they are usually useless and have no real life experience
  7. Chicken lights

    Really ?

    Most people lack situational awareness
  8. Chicken lights

    Really ?

    I'm flinchy and will be the first one to be booking it because of years of this. Yet on the other hand if I've set something up to be safe for me I'm calm and just watching what I've set in motion because I know I've set it up to be safe
  9. Chicken lights

    Really ?

    I've told this story to a couple members- helping a club clean up fire wood and stack it there was a father and son, the son was using a wedge and sledgehammer to split wood. I don't like poking my nose where it doesn't belong but set up a block and grabbed a splitting axe. Showed the son a...
  10. Chicken lights

    Really ?

    Yep. I often think of kayaking in Arizona a few years ago, falling in, and the people around me panicking. I did a quick gear check, the essentials were there, and then responded telling them to calm down. I fell in a river and got wet. Good grief, I'll live. Not exactly "law" related but...
  11. Chicken lights

    Really ?

    Just like seatbelt laws or riding in a pickup bed or the myriad number of inane "laws" that don't need to be "law"
  12. Chicken lights

    Chain wear

    I like Crosby products, they're a USA company only now. The new counter guy couldn't understand why I would order in and pay $25 for one chain hook, when he had off shore ones on the shelf for $8. I said the exact same thing you just said, I'm picking up (at the time) a 56,000 pound telehandler...
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    Chain wear

    I could see that, actually. My argument was (aside from paint damage on freight) I don't generally worry about damaging chains. I'll use corners or padding to protect what I'm hauling, I've never used anything to protect my chains. I guess I could take the chains back to have them tested, I...
  14. Chicken lights

    History (ww2)

    Probably not forum great- Karl Marx wrote his books, then Lenin adopted the theory, then Stalin took over(meaning timeline wise)? But Mao wrote his own ideology in his book and they went their own path? It's very confusing but post- ww2 the soviets under Stalin turned countries like Poland...
  15. Chicken lights

    Chain wear

    Yes, the tire on the axle by said chain. But I think I had ratchet binders to mitigate bouncing. Likely even with ratchet binders there's still some flex due to the tires
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