Dangerous, yes, but it was a huge improvement over the Humphries Manapult.
@DesertPunks4 жыл бұрын
haha
@ShannonGlenda2 жыл бұрын
Yeah! The launch was okay, but the landing was rough!
@MrWolfTickets Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣
@genechronister70856 ай бұрын
Not by much
@johntracy77958 ай бұрын
As a firefighter, I rode one to the top of the head house on an alfalfa mill fire. It was just on the silos, so no floors in between, just bottom and top, and it wasn't lit in between either. Halfway up and its pitch black. My mouth was so dry by the time I got to the top, you could have struck a match on my tongue.
@stuartback25942 жыл бұрын
I worked in mills all over the country as a Electrical contractor. Used these all the time, easier than taking the stairs all the time. bring them back!!
@migette17 жыл бұрын
Wow!!!! have not seen one of these since childhood days 1950s, my father worked in a flour mill in London and there was 2 of these, he called it a Man Hoist and was told they were used in flour mills. He demonstrated the safety feature by not stepping off at the top floor, a safety switch came on and it stopped The mill has been gone many years, and was owned by Spillers who bought it out as Charles Brown, it was next to the Thames and that site is now a BT office. Both of these firms are out of business not BT who are still there which is in Vauxhall.......Thanks for showing brought back memories........Peter
@Davett532 жыл бұрын
Me too! Saw these in the 50s when I was a boy,..there was a large Coca-cola bottling operation in Cleveland, Ohio where I grew up, they gave tours of the place. We saw men going between floors to reach parts of the equipment that needed constant oiling and adjustments. Back then they still washed the returned bottles, and refilled them.
@yogibeer93194 жыл бұрын
I worked in paper mill in Maryland back in the day and this is how we got to the top to work every day. Hell of a lot better than climbing stairs but when the sign said Get Off Now you’d better do that.
@jacobelder24603 жыл бұрын
I've rode in a lot of manlifts in old elevators. First time riding the belt, I was scared to death by the squeaks and groans. You get used to it lol. It's like a Rollercoaster ride, except you die if you let go lol.
@mikehuntsmells43092 жыл бұрын
No different then a ladder
@girlsdrinkfeck8 ай бұрын
@@mikehuntsmells4309 than
@Julio9743 ай бұрын
@@mikehuntsmells4309So, a hybrid between a paternoster elevator and a ladder?
@natesuhl43225 жыл бұрын
I remember riding these, most have been taken out, but still some in the grain elevators. Kinda freaky when there’s 80ft between floors😳 makes me a little nervous. 160ft belt lifts that slip when you get on them
@MrBROTHERFELDER3 жыл бұрын
My father used to ride one at General Mills in Buffalo. I’ll take the stairs thank you.
@SLAUGHTYBAUDFAUST6 жыл бұрын
Been about 10 years since I seen one of these things in operation. The few places I do see them they are permently locked out.
@JohnSmithKillFeds4 жыл бұрын
There is a pulp and paper mill in Terrace Bay, Ontario. They have 2 still in operation.
@ShannonGlenda2 жыл бұрын
I have worked in a magnet wire plant for thirty seven years. We had one when we started. Installed one about three years later. Installed another about ten years ago. Total of three currently in operation. Franklin, Tennessee.
@ShannonGlenda2 жыл бұрын
@Untraveling at which magnet wire company do you work?
@ShannonGlenda2 жыл бұрын
@Untraveling I work at the one in Franklin, TN. Been there 37 years.
@MrKmoconne6 жыл бұрын
Saw one of these for the fist time in a parking garage that has been open since 1923. All the parking was done by staff and when you picked up your car, you would give them your parking ticket and they would take the manlift up to the floor and bring your car down to you.
@Sonnywitdamoney3 жыл бұрын
Me too! It was a parking garage in Philadelphia.
@MrKmoconne3 жыл бұрын
@@Sonnywitdamoney There is one in Indianapolis called Indiana Parking Garage, on Market street. No pictures of the manveyor system though.
@rayorozco50092 жыл бұрын
@@Sonnywitdamoney what’s it called
@lancealston9588 Жыл бұрын
Just got a job at a garage and they have one of these, I'm so excited to start
@robertmason8341 Жыл бұрын
Indiana Garage, Barry Widdock runs/ran the place! I rode that lift many times
@larcoal2963 Жыл бұрын
Used one in the 90's... tough to override your brain and step on.
@crassirus4 жыл бұрын
This some silent hill ass shit right here.
@Harpertaylor83034 жыл бұрын
I rode one yesterday that’s been operating since the 40s. Went up 12 stories. Sketchy af.
@DoubleAplusJ3 жыл бұрын
What happens if the platform you stand on fails...or if someone passes out, or slips or has loose clothing that gets trapped in the machinery??? And what about the children? Did no one consider their safety at work?!
@Harpertaylor83033 жыл бұрын
@@DoubleAplusJ it’s in a factory, all moving parts are shielded, no children are ever anywhere near it. Chill out lol
@DoubleAplusJ3 жыл бұрын
@@Harpertaylor8303 it was a joke you idiot! At least you edited out the part where you called me a Karen, if you can't read my response to you saying that the thing is sketchy af and recognize that I was making a joke about "children's safety at work" you really should stay away from the internet or you'll end up with some super hurt feelings lol.
@stephenlancaster26732 жыл бұрын
@@DoubleAplusJ What about the cats?
@caspanda552 жыл бұрын
ok Karen
@pauldorobialski8871 Жыл бұрын
I was a caretaker of a closed seed processer for 10 years & there was evidence of manlifts in areas of the 2 buildings. I remember a sign on the wall indicating that the next floor was the last & to prepare to Get Off!
@CaliforniaBoomer3 жыл бұрын
It's how we got up and down the grain elevators, early '70s.
@taboosaboo5 жыл бұрын
This is the craziest most dangerous lift I've ever seen.! Apparently Humphrey was a psycho.
@MattsMadnessOfficial4 жыл бұрын
I've rode worse at my old job in terre haute lol thats a nice lift
@Advancedtileandgrout Жыл бұрын
I had a dream about something like this in some type of machine shop or factory. It freaked me out enough to remember the dream even years later. I didn't know that they were a real thing or even existed in real life. You could not ever pay me enough to get anywhere near one, and I have ridden man lifts offshore from oil platforms to ocean vessels no problem.
@stephenwiddick4934 Жыл бұрын
We had one in general foods England but it was shut down after an accident in Germany. Always on it, loved it.
@harlyquin10 ай бұрын
wonder if anyone has tried to do a full lap without getting off
@lait39672 жыл бұрын
I would *NOT* trust that sketchy ass lift to go down! Bout to have my fat ass falling a couple stories to my doom 😂
@xSenwar6 жыл бұрын
First saw one of these in Blighttown, Lordran, during the Age of Fire.
@ryangladish12126 жыл бұрын
Weird, that's where I saw my first.
@BertieBoi4 жыл бұрын
Aye siwmae!
@ryanhogge83 жыл бұрын
A plant that I work in the most (by virtue of it being from the 1960s) has one of these and I've never seen it move. Which is a shame, because I have a deep primal urge to ride it.
@ryanhogge83 жыл бұрын
Update: the corporate chucklefucks came down and freaked out that more than two masked people were being allowed to ride the elevator at the same time. Left a written suggestion to re-open the manlift. It was not taken seriously.
@sherk32862 жыл бұрын
@@ryanhogge8 heavens do you know how many times a day it'd have to be stopped and sanitized?
@lancealston9588 Жыл бұрын
@@sherk3286 I ride one in ohio, as a valet driver, we keep it running 24/7. No need to clean and sanitize only yearly services
@griffinphilemon50834 жыл бұрын
I'm getting trained in the next week to use these at my mill we have two.
@JohnSmithKillFeds4 жыл бұрын
Av terrace bay.
@coshiro13 жыл бұрын
This is something you'd see in a Portal game lol
@greyman86954 жыл бұрын
We still have a operational one at my place of work.
@deltyree552 жыл бұрын
Just seen one of these in Reno Nevada at the silver legacy parking garage. I was like WTF is that!
@MrWolfTickets Жыл бұрын
Awesome! I've only seen one in the opening of the movie The Driver.
@jussivalter4 жыл бұрын
Very safe in every possible ways!
@cameron200204 жыл бұрын
**stares in WHS committee**
@willbill7250 Жыл бұрын
Co-op Rice mill in Sacramento has these
@yukisohma193 жыл бұрын
yeah only in overalls and tankboots are you joking me wtf is this monstrosity, it looks like a silent hill contraption
@caylebsrandomvideos37498 ай бұрын
I call that a vertical escalator.
@emo197619762 жыл бұрын
I rode one of those for a while when I worked at Malteurope in Winnipeg Manitoba
@CapablePimento3 жыл бұрын
Does the name of this place rhyme with GSL by chance?
@wakekrawler3 жыл бұрын
No, this one was in eastern Ontario, and since ripped out
@CapablePimento3 жыл бұрын
I rode one in Utah as recently as 7 years ago but i dont know if its still there.
@dylanhoyt48255 жыл бұрын
Just used one of these for the first time today and man is it sketchy
@tomwilson39695 жыл бұрын
I didn’t think places still had these operational. I have seen a couple in abandoned places and really old buildings but they have all been completely locked out for safety reasons. How did you get the chance to ride one?
@nizzlebiatch4 жыл бұрын
@@tomwilson3969 There are a few left in feed plants for major chicken manufacturers. I cant say the locations unfortunately. All will be replaced within the year though.
@karinmandigo47404 жыл бұрын
I had to ride one in a parking garage a few years ago. Was working with hotel security and had to write an incident report on a car being damaged. Absolute worst fucking experience when you already are afraid of heights.
@Jgleason239 ай бұрын
Nothing like cobwebs all over the mechanizations of the elevator which could easily kill you
@ixsilentghost4 жыл бұрын
If you fall from the top youd definitely break a toe
@SejLifts2 жыл бұрын
Wow!
@ronaldpiper48124 жыл бұрын
Pabst griss mill Peoria,il Doing rounds. Wow
@cmerton2 жыл бұрын
grist. duh.
@kevinfathman420511 ай бұрын
Used them in power plants in Ohio what fun
@RonHamill8184 жыл бұрын
I was with a friend parking my car in a parking garage in San Francisco. After we parked we couldn't find the stairs but there was one of these operating near the wall. We walked over looked at it working, looked at each other and said what the hell. He jumped on and I took the next one about 2 or three stories to the ground floor. On the way back to the car we took the lift belt back up. Later we told someone about it and they said it was forbidden for parking customers to use them. It was just for the valet parking people. Oh well. It was really fun though.
@grummbe4 жыл бұрын
It has been there since at least 1970 but probably dates to when the building opened in 1929. From the ages of 5 to 10 I desperately wanted to ride that, now I don't think I would.
@Slowrollinlow1962 Жыл бұрын
GO work at AEP in the power house
@ComradeTiki5 жыл бұрын
My last sighting of one was at a coal plant, c.a. 2000