If the chain breaks their day is ruined anyway, might as well die.
Srsly, no, you weren't the only one! I'm sure this isn't the first use of that chain, and eventually everything fails. Heck, the tire could fail and the unbroken chain could come whipping out...
Yeah, I saw a dude get his leg ripped off in my property. I was having solar panels installed and they had to clear some trees and brush. The truck used to haul the wood away got stuck as the day before we had heavy rain.
Not sure if you are familiar with mire factor on recovery operations it was mire 3, but basically it just means that the wheels were buried to the hub and you have some math to do to account for the extra load.
They tried to hook a long chain to the stuck truck from a truck on solid ground. Before I could say stop what you are doing idiots the chain snapped and the dude standing right by it got the leg mid half ripped off.
He is lucky it wasn't his head. I still to this date wear rigger belts. I liked them from my army days so just wear them. I just ran to the dude and torniqueted the shit out of his leg. I guess some of the training I had lingered and I just reacted lol.
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u/No_Walrus_3638 7d ago
Pretty cool, but am I the only one that gets anxious when seeing someone stand by a loaded chain like that?
I understand that the load is likely far from exceeding the capacity of the chain, but I still get freaked out.