Cherry Picker Almost Becomes Catapult

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[@frankmiller8021]

Trying hard not to laugh til you ask him if he is alright😂….let me watch that again

[@davetheflave2570]

I’m sure united rentals loves seeing their equipment treated that way. Lol what a great operator!

[@neapolis6919]

David Anthony: Very correct. I work for United and I don't like running these machines out because of idiots like this. I promise you United could care less, they are here for the BUCK!

[@IsrarKhan-yw7ch]

lßmn bvn. bbnnaabbha . . bb 9

[@oldschoolboxing6048]

Screw united rentals.

[@fullsalvo2483]

As long as they can still rent it when the truck brings it back, that's all that matters.

[@bankiey]

These things get into so super weird conundrums due to their nature, they’re very able to contort and shimmy themselves into some tight situations that are sometimes hard to predict or avoid. Doesn’t make it not annoying, but there it is

[@catgamer7498]

I think the camera guy 100 percent knew what was gonna happen, and that's why started recording

[@MrColdwatercanyon]

$5,000 fine for even being in bucket WITHOUT A SAFTEY HARNESS

[@davidmarjason4222]

Believe it or not but its not in the regulations... its strongly advise to wear a harness though

[@keyboardpatriot]

Incase you haven't realised there is literally a fine for everything that is called tyranny and theft.

[@LSDale]

Cant recall ever wearing a safety harness working near water. Sounds like a good way to drown.

[@janitorizamped]

​@@keyboardpatriotall regulations and taxation are theft, unless you are a reasonable person

[@Jake-w4w9l]

Article 6 section 18.7 "Always wear a harness in the lift"​Wrong again David...@@davidmarjason4222

[@drakeoldenburg2697]

Where's the harness, bud? They put the anchor points in there for a reason..... THIS REASON!

[@Default5ettings]

Fish-Squatch Angling the bucket is too close to the ground, he would still hit the ground even with the harness. But yes, he should be wearing a harness anyway

[@jrm15082]

DefaultSettings tell that to the refinery that I'm working at right now have to tie off at 4 foot

[@miriammejia3401]

DefaultSettings the harness isn't meant to keep him from hitting the ground. It's to prevent him from flying 30ft into the air

[@steveb4748]

Miriam Mejia no the harness is to prevent you from hitting the ground! Of course you are going to go flying when u drop off a 2 foot ledge like that . He’s a moron that has no clue how to operate that machine

[@Adam-js1ue]

Steve B No, the harness is to stop you going flying. You've clearly never done your training as they tell you this.

[@user-ny7tc2vl5f]

That's a great way to fuck up a very expensive machine, and at the same time hurt yourself.

[@markdanielczyk944]

4x4? Challenge accepted! Don't worry, it's a rental!

[@nosuchluck9477]

1:02 The Mutley laugh!

[@johnlucas6683]

Oh yeah. HAHAHAHAHAH What a way to bring that memory back.

[@BobSagot-r7u]

Imagine operating a man lift that casually not even understanding what’s about to happen when you drive it off a ledge 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@tiagodecastro2929]

Lol whenever I've been trained to operate any machine, the training courses always include lessons on the basic physics of what's going on when you use them. That way the operator hopefully has some foresight as to what will happen when you go over a ledge like this 😂

[@-A-c]

Ahhh...the temptation of being the cameraman to just stay quiet when you could have warned the subject of impending doom. "He'll be FIIIINE," You say to yourself. Pfft.

[@TheShadowofevolution]

Sometimes, it's more about idiots not wanting to be told they're wrong and needing to learn the hard way.

[@damonz83]

Mutley finds it so funny but still managed to ask if he was ok 😂

[@ArabianG0ggles]

I love that guy laughing. Hahah im dying

[@robertarispe3586]

Muttley laughing

[@EpilepsyWarning]

Muttley you like asmr nigga?

[@dochvtech22]

Brad A Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

[@dochvtech22]

EpilepsyWarning hi

[@MrArjay123]

It's only funny cuz he's alright 😂😂.

[@Travis-m7r]

I've had some wild experiences in much bigger versions of this piece of equipment myself. but man you are obviously going to get hurt doing that. Some of them drive quite fast when the boom is at just the right angle. If you take a turn too hard you can throw yourself out that way too. I have never been thrown out of one but I've definitely had a few sweaty experiences learning to drive one on very uneven Terrain.

[@sodomojo33]

OSHA approved!

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

great shots of the ground

[@YZFR1mart]

That laugh at the end sounded like mutley out of the wacky races 🤣

[@r.b.4611]

Good example of leverage.

[@micahnightwolf]

I love how their first reaction was to laugh.

[@horsestickmpg8400]

looks like he hit his head pretty bad on the control panel lol 0:50

[@justarandomguy3969]

yeah, he definetly hurt himself, but probably didnt need to go to the hospital

[@raisin8051]

​@@justarandomguy3969probably didn't need to for such a minor concussion

[@StephenBrewer89]

No harness. Good job. IF you ever have to do this. (It’s not safe at all) but then your book 90* with your drop. You will experience a small side drop, instead of a long stroke front to back drop. Helps a lot. But this is not recommended.

[@raywright2401]

I've had worse accidents with my hammer. Keep it moving.

[@sisjshjsjs]

this is why cherry pickers are awesome

[@lionsdejudah]

I hope this was done on purpose. Cause if not, he needs a roll of Especial stickers.

[@SprinklerMan1]

Can't fix stupid - sprinklerman

[@joeywilburn8672]

That laugh sounds like a Yorkie with emphysema.

[@philliphartley4939]

It looks like a case of natural selection.

[@8BitZ0mbie]

What did you think was going to happen? You are on the arm of a catapult..

[@kgraves69]

The guy laughing in the background made me laugh wayyy harder 🤣

[@raccoonhuntersc1994]

Kyle Dennis lol i wasn't going to laugh until i heard him laughing

[@mtsilvagt]

The wheezy laughter at the end is the funny part !

[@comcfi]

Watch Tony stands on an egg for the best wheezy laughter

[@adriandavies4012]

There is hours of fun to be had with a Genie lift,,, and as for Sky Jack scissor lifts, well, don't get me started,,, 😂😉😜

[@ridered7262]

United Catapults

[@johngreenwood6162]

At full extension would make him the first man on Mars.

[@georgiemac3662]

One beeper ok, but the multiple beepers going off were an indication that you are about to get fucked!!! Never ignore the beeps man. Never ignore the beeps

[@Divici02623]

The scary part is that you don't know how much you will be launched, so you don't know whether to let go and just land on your feet or hold on for dear life because if not you are getting catapulted

[@Herodollus]

You are supposed to have a safety line attached to the bars on the operating system to prevent human catapult launch

[@rawbacon]

A little movement on that end is a lot of movement on the other.

[@ramalaniz2201]

Not a cherry picker son🤣🤣🤣 It's a man lift or a personnel man basket lift.

[@Metaintelligencia]

Give me a handle long enough and a fulcrum in which to move it and i shall move the world

[@PatrickE-k6e]

I saw a man fly out of a boom lift once. He had gotten the front wheels, (under the platform), onto the concrete slab, and a forklift lifted the rear wheels up sightly above level. When the boom lift went forward it slipped off of the forks and slammed down. The worker flipped through the air like a flapjack and landed flat on the concrete. (No harness) He got back up on his own, but he was no doubt bruised up. Very lucky not to be hurt worse.

[@alpenglow4243]

Looks like he might have hit his head on the control panel.

[@corythomas4427]

It's rented, of course he doesn't know how to operate it safely. Why's anyone surprised?

[@ramblincapuchin9075]

It's not that it's an "oh look at the dummy moment" in fact it's not a matter of inexperience either The operator didn't foresee the reality of what he was doing against physics. Your car has suspension, 4x4 have rear suspension, this has no permutations of that arrangement. It is designed to operate on an even plane, a slope at best What surprises me is that the guy filming probably had a decent idea of what was going to happen, but let the man touch fire and risk a near miss anyway We don't know what kind of arrangement brought them here, but he would have had to really blow them off for there to be not even a suggestion of a makeshift ramp or something. As for what quite literally drove him into that situation, there's no telling either

[@corythomas4427]

@ramblincapuchin9075 Except for the 4x4 only having rear suspension part, I agree with most everything else you said and thought a lot of the same things while watching what was going on. That doesn't change the fact that neither the operator, or the guy filming were qualified to be operating that piece of equipment and I'm not surprised about what happened.

[@C9H0S]

Risk management was not used that day that's for sure...Lol...heavy machine is no fun and games. but after hearing the camera man laugh, I couldn't help it by laughing to. :D

[@dochvtech22]

Shubby Nyall got a minute?

[@ML-dk7bf]

He should have used an auxiliary control unit, (Unless it got stolen like most of the units on my job site.) or at least had a harness on.

[@Saeed89]

I'm sure he regretted it and that mini heart attack would've left him in a state of PTSD afterwards 😭😆

[@Pops-i4o]

I refused to run one of those once because I had no training on that model and the guy they got to do it killed himself and the guy he was taking up high plus destroyed the lift. My feet have never left the ground since then

[@sminkycorp]

Gutted ! I was hoping it was going to trebuchet him into the pond!

[@Captleemo]

Where was his safety harness. And that is not a cherry picker.

[@jameshunter5899]

Lee Mullen it is a cherrypicker mate

[@marcobrasilgv]

I would never come down that far inside the boom, use your brains and control the boom from the bottom.

[@lilliampumpernickel9916]

uh, there designed so you can control from the top, so why not there

[@Default5ettings]

Marco Teixeira pretty sure you cant drive the lift from the bottom, you can only control the boom

[@jrm15082]

DefaultSettings you're right you can't drive from the bottom controls only from the basket

[@jeeprenegade1985]

Should of had a harness and lanyard on and had a ramp to drive down.

[@michaeledwards8058]

Marco Teixeira or use ramps to come down incline.should not have been operating boom if not licensed or experienced

[@Tecnotrucker80]

Dont be gentle, its a Rental!

[@HighSideHustlerr81]

Oh trust me, I worked with them befor and it’s absolutely pretty much expected as is for rental cars in a way. We had guys come rent equipment they already own for sketchy jobs that could maybe cause damage but don’t want too risk there equipment and rent stuff too do those things and get the good insurance when renting also for those deal . Happens a lot more then people think lol

[@lovelyhurlin6494]

You are move likely to need a harness traversing at ground level than you would extended in the air!😂

[@sailingspark9748]

Yep, keep the basket over the wheels that are dropping. He was ok for the first two, but should have swung the basket around to the barge side to drop the rear wheels.

[@PhilbyFavourites]

Camera work by “Mutley”. Cherry Picker driven by “Dick Dastardly”

[@chehystpewpur4754]

dan is that you

[@davidcooke8005]

I was working indoors on a jobsite and siders were just outside the 2nd floor window on a cherry picker. Dunno how or why, but without warning the entire wheel fell off the machine and it tipped. I could see the bucket with the dude in it as it whipped back and forth getting tossed like a ragdoll. He stayed in the bucket though. But the machine was so tipped it refused to move the bucket so the guy could lower himself down. Had to bring a second cherry picker over to get the guy safely down to the ground. But I saw the wheel after the fact, it came right off, hub and all. Yikes!

[@markk3652]

😂not a cherry picker, it's an articulating boom lift.

[@hdavis01]

Reminds me of a classic MythBusters episode called "Boom Lift Catapult".😆

[@Ry_dolla]

Someone didn’t pay attention in physics

[@drfrenchfrythe3rd]

The laugh was the best part

[@tommooe4524]

My lift has a pendulum hanging in the center of a small circle and if the base is on too great of a slope it makes contact and shuts down…this operator should never be allowed to even get near another one without training

[@Jadxn503]

What was he thinking was going to happen. I got down tiny bumps and I get lifted a little lmao

[@andrewironman1]

We know all hes gona want for Christmas now

[@planethedgehog2427]

If you forget to rotate your camera to skinny portrait mode, at least be sure to clearly record video of the ground if anything important happens.

[@budgethitman2212]

Physics is still undefeated

[@minimalischminimalisxh9668]

lol, that Muttley laugh...😂

[@jodiehighroller9820]

I can tell dude wanted to just laugh luke hell..lmao

[@paulstecker5693]

😢😮😅 looks like he's coming off a barge from the water. There should be a little ramp there and that wouldn't have happened. That wasn't a good idea to have that come off a thing like that. People got to think of machine safety when they operate a machine. Boy he could have really got hurt if he went up higher and came down hard thank you.

[@sawman209]

1 Why wasn't the guy wearing a harness? I hope this man is alright. 2 He should have worn a harness and 3 he should have put some ramps under the machine. If the lift over turned, he would be thrown out, possibly crushed and definitely severely injured excluding the other people who could have been hurt.

[@dvader3000]

Only an idiot does that,and unfortunately there is an abundance of them

[@peterfitswell535]

How was the leveler safety off? Shouldn't be able to lift the basket on an uneven surface. It goes into limp mode.

[@mryang3644]

Made my day. Thnx

[@DavidBlaske]

Ok guys stand clear. Watch this.

[@kchull9793]

eVER TAKE IT OFF ANY SWEET JUMPS?

[@ALouieLouPena]

This isn't a cherry picker. It's a man lift or a articulating boom lift.

[@chovihano]

Otherwise known as a Cherry picker 🙄

[@hibuddywuzsup571]

Plot twist: that was the plan.

[@lilwariokart5709]

I used to know a guy that would do stupid shit like this all the time, hes still alive somehow

[@darrenhill9931]

teach him the laws of physics someone lmao

[@wackywolven6192]

The guys body went like something out of gmod

[@romeog97]

I almost did this once except I was in a harness and locked in

[@rob6255-j4t]

Thats why you have to harness up in a cherry picker. R

[@leebakewell9703]

Why are they not wearing a harness that you would clip on the cradle

[@davidm9214]

This is why rental equipment is junk 😂

[@Weasel_NM575]

Cherry picker?! Pretty sure that’s a man lift 💀💀

[@PLmzaqtgV]

“Pffft we don’t need a ramp”

[@joblogs542]

You alright but not realy arssed haha love it when ye boss thinks he knows it all ha

[@egreenie3819]

Love that laugh!!😂

[@sumitomoO0O]

Nice colleagues...laughing so hard at the intern

[@GSW-Syd25w]

No Safety Harness. Fail.😂

[@lukea136]

Operating it better than the camera man...

[@embrj1453]

Mumbly is that you? lmao

[@Cymatic7]

Did you mean to do that?? “Yeah….” 😐

[@AndyCaley]

I'm not sure if these guys had tickets for that ( I doubt it) baffles me how anyone can go hire a ton and a half 360 with no qualifications. They are easy to tip - even just going over a brick uphill.(Obviously you can hire bigger - but let's face it. If you tip a 15 tonne or above - YOU HAVE REALLY F. ED UP!🤣🤣)

[@hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156]

HIRESAFE **beep**beep**bwoing** **guffaw**"YOU ALLRIGHT"**guffaw** HIRESAFE

[@amadorleon1483]

Him learned of the hard way

[@lancelotgood3745]

a man was killed doing this in west australia 20 years ago its not a joke

[@leevahal900]

Jake stepped on his foot

[@dachopup8495]

😆 almost sent his ass into orbit

[@sonofadutchman9315]

Who didn’t see that coming?

[@curtisallen4049]

That Beep beep means stop and think about whats going on....you just cant fix stupid

[@brandonholdeman6739]

Definitely not someone I would want on my jobsite. I’m sure there will be plenty of critics on this, but yes. None of these lifts were made to operate like this guy did. However, as someone already wrote, there should have been ramps. Even just a dirt ramp. Option B, if you ABSOLUTELY MUST drive over something like this(not sure how that would ever be the case, but anyway)he should have used the override switch, so that he could have still driven while hanging 90 degrees straight out the side. The action would have been almost none in comparison, when the tires dropped down. And last, worst option, that still would have been better than what he did, would have been to swivel 180 degrees, instead of 90. Then when the tires dropped, as long as he had the boom high enough to not smash into the ground, it would have been the opposite action as the ‘catapult’ effect he experienced. But hey, you can’t fix stupid.

[@scooterparsons7221]

That's pretty good advice, if I ended up in this situation idk that I would have thought of ground controls. I'll try to keep that in the back of my mind. But hopefully I never need to do something this unsafe.

[@Silver-Ellipsis]

No visible PPE either.