Posted on 03/06/2019 6:56:40 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder
I couldn't resist posting this.
That was an interesting look, and he took his eyes off the work for some length of time!
Good thread, thanks!
PPE? We don’t need no stinkin’ PPE!
That’s good!
Nice!
No hearing protection, no eye protection, wearing neck ties around spinning machinery. The good old days.
First thing I thought, too. No eye protection, no hearing protection, open belts, no finger/hand guards on the forging presses, loose sleeves...Yikes! How many did they lose in those shops.
And what mind-numbing work. I would go mad before lunch on my first day.
Those were Stamping presses, not forging, and yes, a lot of lost fingers in those days. I have pictures in my office of our ladies assembling 20,30 & 50 round Thompson sub mags, just like in the video with the ladies assembling the Browning mags.
I watched several WW I era videos in a row. I guess it was in the others that they showed the forging hammers.
Yes, I saw the stamping machines folding the metal into “U” shape.
People get so used to putting parts and taking parts out it becomes routine and accidents happen. I lost a small bit of the tip of a finger 45 years ago when I used it to jiggle a stuck pneumatic valve. Bad idea. Then ignitor went in and pinched my finger. If I’d been 100 milliseconds slower pulling my hand out...yuck. I was taking cold medicine at the time, the stuff that says “Do not take while operating machinery.”
Numerous flat belt driven machines in those days.
Yeah, and no long-hairs.
Yes, back in the day when they fired you for being unsafe on the job.
The lack of factory safety equipment and personal protection is glaring compared to today’s standards. Wow.
Thanks for making the gif. What program. I used to use Corel but it has been years.
Well we didn't have a great deal of need for "Remove before driving." messages on windshield sun blockers.
And hardly any of them wearing eye protection.
My grandmother was a nurse at the Armory in Springfield during the war. Lots of fingers and eyes ended up on the floor.
However...and totally off-topic, but I cannot understand how YouTube makes money.
I have absolutely no advertising on my YouTube feed, I pay nothing to access it, there is nothing commercial whatsoever.
So what is this "demonetize" thing I hear about, and how does any one make money on it?
Anybody got a short tutorial on this?
Without a doubt, the lack of safety equip is downright alarming.
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