***Fail***

[Sluggy]

It's a jeep thing.

Should of dropped the pressure a bit there...

 

[SomeGuyFromOlympia]

Here's some liberal news coverage. A patriot would bleep over this-

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/06/22/rep_alexandria_ocasio-cortez_at_bronx_rally_i_am_ready_to_fight_are_you_ready_to_win_this_country_back.html

she dropped a 'y'all' right out of the Hillary Clinton playbook
it also didn't work for Clinton either

sorry that was the one word that I could understand out of all that gibberish

 

[subybaja]

Here's some liberal news coverage. A patriot would bleep over this-

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/06/22/rep_alexandria_ocasio-cortez_at_bronx_rally_i_am_ready_to_fight_are_you_ready_to_win_this_country_back.html

Hmm, where's that Jan 6th speech...?

 

[SLOWPOKE693]

Should of dropped the pressure a bit there...

I don't know man, it climbed the side of that house pretty good so I probably wouldn't fuck with lowering it.

 

[clodhopper]

Here's some liberal news coverage. A patriot would bleep over this-

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/06/22/rep_alexandria_ocasio-cortez_at_bronx_rally_i_am_ready_to_fight_are_you_ready_to_win_this_country_back.html

Who is it the country needs to "be won back from"? Last I checked Dems had a pretty commanding control over things.

Community organizers and protestors only know one trick, and it sounds superbly stupid when used from a position of power.

 

[subybaja]

Who is it the country needs to "be won back from"? Last I checked Dems had a pretty commanding control over things.

Community organizers and protestors only know one trick, and it sounds superbly stupid when used from a position of power.

It surprised me to learn from my Redditor liberal friend- they literally think the same thing. They think the NRA, and big pharma, and the defense industry control everything, and the left are the scrappy rebellion getting their message out through flyers.

Retarded, I know, but something to keep in mind.

Everyone now wants victim status, on both sides. Ask a Christian, within 1/4 mile of 12 churches, if he's an oppressed minority.

 

[lilpigzuk]

Contractor removed all nuts from 3 of the 4 base plates to carry out sandblasting, power out to 100,000 when pylon toppled over....

That's nuts: Northlanders demand compensation after cause of power crisis revealed

It took four days to confirm the truth.

www.newshub.co.nz

On Monday, Transpower's CEO didn't hesitate to throw maintenance contractor Omexom under the bus.

Alison Andrew said it's "unprecedented and inconceivable that so many nuts were removed at once".

The failure to follow procedure during a routine cleaning resulted in a major power outage to 100,000 customers - an admission that's taken four days to come.

"Basically, what our people have done on-site has caused this to happen," Omexom New Zealand managing director Mornez Green said.

Pictures from the scene suggest at least 24 nuts were removed. Transpower said all nuts on the three baseplates were removed, when the usual protocol is to remove one nut at a time on one leg, before replacing it and moving to the next.

It took four days to confirm this because Transpower said the priority was to secure the site after what could have easily been a fatal accident.

The next priority was to restore power and only then, Transpower said, to establish the cause - even though Newshub cameras on Thursday appeared to identify the problem from hundreds of metres away.

"I think as you say from the pictures, people would make up their own minds. It's very important for us to understand what had caused that - was there a saboteur involved, was there corrosion issues with the tower," Andrew said.

Green stands by the competency of the crew - one of whom needed to be a qualified transmission line mechanic. The other two would have undergone a grid skills in-house training programme.

All three have been stood down while all base plate work across the country is suspended.

 

[Stuck]

“Professional “

Would have been better if he hadnt looked back at the end.

 

[bdkw1]

Contractor removed all nuts from 3 of the 4 base plates to carry out sandblasting, power out to 100,000 when pylon toppled over....

That's nuts: Northlanders demand compensation after cause of power crisis revealed

It took four days to confirm the truth.

www.newshub.co.nz

On Monday, Transpower's CEO didn't hesitate to throw maintenance contractor Omexom under the bus.

Alison Andrew said it's "unprecedented and inconceivable that so many nuts were removed at once".

The failure to follow procedure during a routine cleaning resulted in a major power outage to 100,000 customers - an admission that's taken four days to come.

"Basically, what our people have done on-site has caused this to happen," Omexom New Zealand managing director Mornez Green said.

Pictures from the scene suggest at least 24 nuts were removed. Transpower said all nuts on the three baseplates were removed, when the usual protocol is to remove one nut at a time on one leg, before replacing it and moving to the next.

It took four days to confirm this because Transpower said the priority was to secure the site after what could have easily been a fatal accident.

The next priority was to restore power and only then, Transpower said, to establish the cause - even though Newshub cameras on Thursday appeared to identify the problem from hundreds of metres away.

"I think as you say from the pictures, people would make up their own minds. It's very important for us to understand what had caused that - was there a saboteur involved, was there corrosion issues with the tower," Andrew said.

Green stands by the competency of the crew - one of whom needed to be a qualified transmission line mechanic. The other two would have undergone a grid skills in-house training programme.

All three have been stood down while all base plate work across the country is suspended.

Diversity hires.

 

[Firstram]

Diversity hires.

Nah, low IQ helpers being more efficient than the guy in charge

 

[arse_sidewards]

Contractor removed all nuts from 3 of the 4 base plates to carry out sandblasting, power out to 100,000 when pylon toppled over....

So you're saying I can cause serious mayhem with a CO2 tank, regulator, hose and 1" impact?

 

[Firstram]

So you're saying I can cause serious mayhem with a CO2 tank, regulator, hose and 1" impact?

Only in very sunny weather, that tank will freeze up running a 1” impact unless it’s warm

 

[Ebs]

So you're saying I can cause serious mayhem with a CO2 tank, regulator, hose and 1" impact?

Do you even Milwaukee bro?

 

[Ranchtruck]

Nothing, and I'm not sure how. The auger had to be clearing the poles by mere inches. Looked to my right to check shoulder clearance and there's the auger I don't know how I didn't see it when checking traffic on the road. One of those times I felt like someone was watching over me, don't really believe in luck.

I forgot to put the prop pole under the service drop to the barn at the start of hay season. Drove the stack cruiser out to the hayfield and remembered when I got there. Figured it would be a clusterfuck of torn wires when I got back, but everything looked fine. The wires must have somehow rolled over the top bar which is all edges and corners. Got lucky!

 

[Void_of_Light]

Nah, low IQ helpers being more efficient than the guy in charge

They probably have been doing it like that for years with zero consequences. They got bit this time.

 

[Stingray]

They probably have been doing it like that for years with zero consequences. They got bit this time.

Someone bid the job at... lets say 24 hrs, but some bright guy talked his buddies into " hustling" so we do 12 hrs work and get paid for 24 and we go drinking mate...

probably not the first time they have pulled something like this.

 

[Wades_76_cj7]

They probably have been doing it like that for years with zero consequences. They got bit this time.

until a gust of wind hit and toppled the tower..

 

[Void_of_Light]

until a gust of wind hit and toppled the tower..

I’m actually surprised anything short of a major storm would topple it, even with all the bolts removed from the feet. That’s a ton of weight, plus the weight of the cables holding it down.

 

[SLOWPOKE693]

So you're saying I can cause serious mayhem with a CO2 tank, regulator, hose and 1" impact?

Figures your cheap ass wouldn't spring for a Milwaukee 1/2" impact to keep things simple and light while creating mayhem.

 

[arse_sidewards]

I’m actually surprised anything short of a major storm would topple it, even with all the bolts removed from the feet. That’s a ton of weight, plus the weight of the cables holding it down.

I'm not. Unless the tower is dead center in the middle of a straight run there's gonna be some load from the cables pulling on it fore-aft or side to side.

Figures your cheap ass wouldn't spring for a Milwaukee 1/2" impact to keep things simple and light while creating mayhem.

I don't think a 1/2" anvil is gonna stand up to what it takes to loosen a 1" or 1.25 fastener that's been galling together for years and the 1" gun is absurdly expensive.

 

[Mikel]

Attempting a pit maneuver while surrounded by traffic?

 

[arse_sidewards]

Attempting a pit maneuver while surrounded by traffic?

There's never any consequences for being a dumb POS so why wouldn't they?

 

[total newb]

until a gust of wind hit and toppled the tower..

I don't think a 1/2" anvil is gonna stand up to what it takes to loosen a 1" or 1.25 fastener that's been galling together for years and the 1" gun is absurdly expensive.

Oh but its soooooooo worth it.

 

[animator]

Should of

English fail.

 

[Arps]

 

[clodhopper]

 

[Thumping]

Attempting a pit maneuver while surrounded by traffic?

Probably the same type of dumbass cop that would start shooting at nothing over some acorns.

 

[FlatLander]

Attempting a pit maneuver while surrounded by traffic?

Did they wReck?

 

[Johnny Longrifle]

I dont know whats worse, dumbass trying to load all that in the grocery getter, or the fact that he probably paid money for all that crooked lumber.

 

[Benny]

I dont know whats worse, dumbass trying to load all that in the grocery getter, or the fact that he probably paid money for all that crooked lumber.

Wearing a mask, alone and all by himself.