/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1706961
The succ is strong, though the escalator is surprisingly flimsy
I'm not an escalator mechanic but the ones I've seen are some really solid, not messing around lumps of metal on their stairs. Big chunks of steel that probably weigh 40-50kg by themselves.
But at least the escalator lives rent free now in people's minds

>>1707373
Lot of the older structures had boomer-tier safety standards of 'don't be a pussy son' and 'get in there I don't care what you smell'
Bridges used to have dudes meat-bombing off them all the time due to people saying that ropes and tie-offs are "slowing down work" and I have seen this in 3rdy world countries during tower installations where some skinny mad cunts wearing flip flops has told me "if we fall, we fall and its the will of god"
You can basically insert angry white man screaming at this point telling the shitheads to wear their harness and tie off or I'll be the guy who sends them to god.
>soon as I go... just fucking know they're not tying off on the tower again

Tunnels are surprisingly lethal things too, old railway tunnels used to have body counts by the dozen due to the mix of idiots, unskilled labourers and explosives. Because old heads always figure that anything worth blowing up with 6 sticks can be done twice as gooderer with 12.