I’ve mentioned a few times in the Funny/SFW thread that I ought to create a separate thread for “interesting” images that speak to my inner risk management professional.
I’m finally doing it.
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Lol. It’s not 30 seconds. The video is out there and it’s probably more like 2 or 3 seconds between these pictures.
I’d have loved to see how he successfully did that strip on the edge of the roof. And how he got the blower up there. Despite the dumbness and totally expectable result, he shows talent.
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I could see the strip going up the roof being ok, as long as you have traction. It’s when you go across that you risk losing balance and falling sideways.
I have a slope that runs between my house and is similar to the pitch of that roof. Going up and turning (rear propelled mower) is never an issue. Turning to head back down the slope is awkward and dangerous. I will either work back and forth from the bottom up, or just continue around the front of the house and repeat the circle inward.
If your roof isn’t pitched too steeply, you can get away with it. Then it’s the people who misjudge the edge of the roof / forget to account for “center of gravity of the snowblower” and go off, along with all the people who forget the gutters are not weight-bearing and go off.
The better question is “why would you want to do it in the first place” and I can’t begin to answer that.
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Folks these days haven’t seen Christmas Vacation, tsk tsk.
that’s some good AI right there.
I watched it three times and I didn’t see any real tells, what makes you think it’s AI? Granted, I’m just now on my second cup of coffee so I’m not fully alert.
That roof looks like a 12 on 12 (45 degrees). I can’t walk on that in dry weather. Maybe the ice/snowpack gives some traction, but no way I’d walk on it to blow leaves off. I used to do that on my folks’ top roof, which i think was 7 on 12.
- No ladder or ramp to get him up to the lowest edge of the roof to start.
- Why are there no icicles along with a perfectly straight snow edge for the first 6 feet from the lower left corner?
- Starting at 0:03, you can see the bucket of the blower and the blades, they’re not digging in to the snow. That’s not how snowblowers work.
- After the fall starts, if you look where his feet were before the start of the fall, there should be footprints. There aren’t.
- The bucket of the blower gets wildly out of alignment with the wheels as it falls.
- Snow like that wouldn’t puff up like that if someone landed on it. It’s hard-packed from plowing.
- But there’s no plowed street.
- The big thing that I noticed first is the air exhaust pipe. What happened to the exhaust pipe? If he hit it and it sheared off, it should be falling too. Which isn’t how those pipes work; they’re a lot stronger than you think. If it actually existed, he would have wrapped around it and stayed on the roof while the machine fell.
- He’s sliding out of control, the machine is sliding out of control, why are there only two perfect tracks in the snow after they’re done?
- Doesn’t affect any of the icicles directly under the path?
watch it at 0.25 speed.
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Also, when he steps into the deep snow, it looks like his foot disappears.
I watched it first on my phone and I thought I saw it fall, but it also seems to just vanish without a trace.
He really shouldn’t take two steps at a time. Pretty dangerous.
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Jenga puzzle?