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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I get that it looks risky, but I don't really see a problem here. The platform is in undisturbed water, no waves, no sudden changes. If the platform is strong enough, which it seems to be to me, it will not easily tip over.

I've worked on a few lifts like that, and if you manage to tip one over I can only say that you were either really stupid or you were trying to do it. All the weight is at the bottom. They are very stable.

The only way to make them fall over is if your floor is not level while driving. Driving is out of the question in this picture, and as long as both guys stay in the fork lift the center of gravity will not change much.

So the platform will not move, the lift will not move, basically they are fine.

If something was to happen you're fucked though.

And different solutions are available. I've personally been in a different lift that had an arm so the lift would be a the side of the pool and the part where I was standing was elevated above the water. That probably would be a better solution, if you have enough space to get one of those lifts in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Make sure you have all your PPE.

Hard hat ✔️ Safety glasses ✔️ Swimmies ✔️

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

If it works, it's not hybris, is it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

If it's stupid and it works, it's not stupid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

It's the thought that counts.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Trust them. They're engineers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Lol, they're wearing hard hats correctly. No, there are no engineers in this image.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

If they had a short pole underwater in the middle of the belly of floating platform then it would be more stable than my 95 yo granny at 3 am on her way to the toilet

No idea how it works exactly but the sailing boats have it so to not capsize easily or at all. It actually takes great deal effort to crash the sailing boat on its side, these fuckers can go 90 degrees under heavy wind and still come back like a spring though no promise the people will be still onboard.

It’s kind of fun actually to sail almost 90 degrees on the side but scary.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

those sailing boat keels are lead-filled (at least at the bottom) and hydrodynamic so that the force of the running water pushes it back to center. it's a lot easier to capsize a boat like that when it's not moving.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Maybe so but a boat isn’t submerged flatly like the square span of this floaty thing on the picture. If it also had some pole thingy underwater we can’t see then I wouldn’t be surprised people felt ok climbing this machinery

Additionally if it’s like filled with air, empty inside, then it would be really hard to capsize this thing at all because of how it refuses to sink from any corner or side

It’s not as dramatic as it looks is my point, looks funny but actually it’s probably pretty safe because we under appreciate the lifting force of floaty shit filled with air. Boats need to be hydrodynamic so they are naturally more prone to shenanigans like a barrel on the water would be but this square thing is dedicated to sole task of not capsizing with great resistance to being submerged at any point of itself

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

There are centreboards (not lead-filled) that use the movement of the boat to counteract leeward drift and there are are lead-filled keels that in addition to that also act as a counterweight to reduce rolling. If it's lead-filled it'll be hard to capsize, if it's just a centreboard you can easily capsize it if it's not moving (and use the centreboard as a lever to recover it afterwards).

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