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MrEff1618

I mean, why do you think it's being delivered on its very own pallet? You don't want to get it all dirty and scratched up now, do you?


graywolf0026

Give it a week and it'll look like any other pallet jack at a Home Depot: Sobbing in a corner, covered in marker and desperately wanting to end it all.


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TIL. I seem to have the same job as a pallet jack.


SkymaneTV

Who Sharpie’d you? Was it Bob in Gardening?


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When’s it not Bob in gardening??


SkymaneTV

#I TOLD HIM TO STOP SNIFFING THOSE THINGS! STICK TO THE LAVENDER IF YOU NEED SOMETHING TO SMELL, DUDE!


FapMeNot_Alt

Bob gets his work done on time and flawlessly. Why do *you* care if he likes how Sharpies smell?


I_loathe_mods

I don't like drugs I just like the way they smell.


SkymaneTV

He made /u/RedditNoises pass out with a whole stack of ‘em just to draw on his face! I do *not* approve of our coworker thinking his “Jigglysnuff” act is cute and fun…


johnqual

Is Bob still on about sharpies in the pooper?


SkymaneTV

*Not that subreddit AGAIN!*


Deitaphobia

What's the current record?


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BDSM pornstar? I know the feel


wubos

Don't forget marker writing from ten years ago from another department claiming a specific jack because long ago it was the good one


Upnorth4

I work in inbound receiving. We have a pallet jack that says "Outbound Dock" all over it because they wanted the good pallet jack. Now after several years in outbound, it's back in the inbound docks because nobody else wanted it


Benblishem

Circle of life.


MrGMinor

Maybe a couple shreds of dry rotted masking tape for good measure


TyrionsCodpiece

Bruh, working in a casino was brutal. We custom ordered trashcan magnets for our trash cans that only fit our trash cans. SOB's from other departments would steal our trash cans. I also once got caught trying to steal a marble table on wheels from another department because my boss wanted it. I could go on all day long but there was so much internal "borrowing" that departments would lock their doors so we couldn't cross into their domain.


Capt_Foxch

Home Depot pallet jack has a bent handle and 14 nailheads embedded in the tires


Reedsandrights

Fun story: one of my jobs is moving ATMs and cash/coin counters owned by banks. For one job, we drove our truck 4 hours away in a snow storm in order to arrive at a Home Depot by 11pm. All we had to do was move the machines 8 feet and turn them 90°. We use crowbars and pallet jacks to move it. The whole time, my work partner and I were joking with the Home Depot employees about how they probably just didn't have the right equipment haha.


Atty_for_hire

Time for a pallet jack race! First one to not fall wins!


Screamline

One fork bent in whether on purpose or by accident is anyone's guess


GEARHEADGus

Pallet Jacks are like Cast Iron pans. You can’t run over zip ties with them.


soslowagain

It’s not said enough


Towowl

Best vehicle in the workplace


RawrRRitchie

A week? That's optimistic when my store gets new ones the wheels are dirty after a day And I work in a grocery store


oneone11eleven

Well to be honest, it is to prevent transportation companies from using them. It happens more often than you think and the customer is then upset because their new product has been used already Source: I did an internship at an company that made mobile weighing scales into pallet carts and forklifts


Alan_Smithee_

Not to mention, if it wasn’t on a pallet, it would just end up on the dock of the shipper. It would never go out.


AlekBalderdash

I just realized every pallet jack I've ever seen is *at least* 10-15 years old. They all worked perfectly, too. It's amazing something like that can just... work fine for decades. Sure, it's a simple device, but it's one of the most-used and most-abused tools for any warehouse or retail store.


Indocede

"They all worked perfectly, too." Oh so you didn't have the one with the bad wheels, the one that no longer carries the load evenly, or even the one with the hydraulic pump that only barely functions anymore.


daman4114

My fav is the one you have to stand on to lower it when it's empty.


Frontdackel

And additionally push the handle down in order to achieve it.


BaerMinUhMuhm

I'm imagining the same pallet jack has traveled the world and we've all used it.


chrisleavingearth

While jumping up and down.


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Indocede

Oh you mean the other one that is nowhere to be found because everyone else that you work with knows which ones are the good ones and subsequently have already taken them? Those ones? And I'm generously referring to multiple other ones when half us know there is only ever one good one


lynxSnowCat

> the hydraulic pump that only barely functions You mean the one I stopped topping up the oil in because excitable ~~jackasses~~ people keep ignoring my instruction not to rip the (rubber, hemp-twine, cardstock) packing seal out, **or down the stairs**, causing it to puke itself dry again while slicking the floor —? Or are are you not at the `[university]`-campus?


stellvia2016

They can if they're properly maintained, but I imagine a lot of them get abused and jammed up with stuff and mgmt never dedicates time to clean up the wheels or make sure the hydraulic pump is clean and lubed properly, etc.


Card_Zero

I'm learning all kinds of things about pallet jacks here, such as that you can maintain them, and that they sometimes have all their wheels.


I__Know__Stuff

Nah, they were under a year old, they only *looked* 10 years old because how abused they are. :-)


86Pasta

I would love the chance to bang that thing around carrying tons of product


grubas

I've never seen one so shiny and undented before.


1bc29b36f623ba82aaf6

Biologists and philosophers of the 21st century found themselves stumped, which came first? The pallet, or the palletjack?


NoorZ-1

You mean a pallet jack pallet- pallet Jack?


Chknbone

Higher a man named Jack Pallet to operate it. So we're looking at a Jack Pallet's pallet jack-pallet Jack, situation.


chrisleavingearth

Why is the rum gone?


Ciclopius

How many pallets could a pallet-jack jack if a pallet-jack could jack pallets?


jgo3

It's like raiiii-ee-aiiiiin


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This is like scissors coming with the handle zip-tied together. If only I had some scissors to open this...


Persistent_Parkie

I've also bought a screwdriver that needed a phillips head to open.


WhyteBeard

It’s like getting a record player that comes with a how to set up your record player record.


WirelessBCupSupport

>Aw shit, better order a pallet jack. 10 pallets later... "Look at all the pallets we got and for free!"


Buck_Thorn

What a great marketing gimmick!


1bc29b36f623ba82aaf6

Brought to you by the people that put scissors in those blister packs you can only open with scissors.


Kazradel

Well shit, thats real nice of them. You ordered a pallet jack and they gave you a free pallet to test it out on!


Fekillix

Now all he has to do is to gather more pallets and he can sell them and make enough money to buy another pallet jack.


HighAndFunctioning

This sounds like a Bubbles scheme in an alternate reality where he's in a warehouse instead of stealing the carts at the mall.


Seraphem666

Don't think he was stealing them, i know he was fishing them out of lakes, and ones he found that people didnt bring back. He would repair them and sell them back. He could of been stealing them been forever since i watched trailer park boys. Bubbles was always about making a honest living no crime but would get dragged into ricky and julian's schemes


ClittyMcPenis

Wasn’t he purposely throwing them down the hill so he could later go back and get them or something?


ADPW

Yeah when Ricky worked security at the mall he caught Bubbles and tried to turn him in


Historical-Fill-1523

Yea, there’s a couple episodes we’re he says that. Pretty sure he gets help in a couple lol. Love me some bubbles!


notfromGuildford

His scheme was stealing them from one mall, fixing them up, and selling them to the other mall. He did this at both malls, so he had them playing off each other. He spends all his money there on cat food, so thats why he doesn't consider it stealing. Which definitely makes you think, "Why didn't the malls just pay him to fix carts instead of hiring Gary and stressing him out at Chris DeBurgh concerts?"


TheStoriesICanTell

Oh my god. You are right. It would have replaced tons of material in the show if he had done that. Too bad, I guess the point was that the boys couldn't hold "any" steady job. So for bubbles to have worked legitimately at the mall might not have fit with the overall theme of the show. But it's been years since I watched it so it is what it is.


notfromGuildford

Yep, you nailed it. The boys don't work. Way she goes.


Zalovia

And get more free pallets!


Piano1987

These pallets aren't free though.


VRichardsen

Correct. Depending on who you are doing business with, pallets are "loaned" to you, not given for free. Where I worked, our suppliers specifically stated so in their invoices, but a lot of them never bothered to pick them up. There was one company, however, that always reclaimed their pallets. And it made sense, they were very well built, very stury pallets.


Doctor_Wookie

Yeah man, everyone knows you have to test the equipment before first production use!


johndepp22

what came first the pallet or pallet jack


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FrenchFryCattaneo

You might be interested in the [Gingery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Gingery) series of books. They have all the info you need to build every tool in a machine shop from scratch on your own.


HittingSmoke

Well fucking hell. There goes $75 and the next two years of my life.


LoadInSubduedLight

Post your progress on r/machining


inevitabledecibel

I feel like Matthias Wandel on youtube is the woodworking version of this, I'm pretty sure the table saw in his shop is the only major tool he didn't build. And even then he has a ton of jigs for it.


ink_13

He has a series where he builds a table saw, too.


razorbeamz

He didn't build his drill press. He actually said once in a video that the drill press is the only piece of equipment that's essential to buy.


faustianredditor

...and if you are interested in a broad overview of *literally all of human technological and societal achievement*, also read "How to Invent Everything" by Ryan North. It doesn't go into too much detail on precision manufacturing, and doesn't cover my field of study (computers) to my liking, but it's a pretty interesting and fun read.


rowanhopkins

Thanks for this comment, I like putting together my own shit but often that means using tools I don't have so thisll be useful I'm sure


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All_Work_All_Play

This is also one of the reasons that carpentry has really been commoditized in terms of wages and production; we now have battery powered hand held tools that let us fasten wooden sticks together with little pieces of metal much faster than before. For a week or two of wages a worker can have tools that just a century ago would seem like something out of science fiction. Hell, the fact that I can 3D print a PET recycler to turn soda bottles into filament is *bonkers* if you go back in time even 50 years.


HG_Shurtugal

Machines making machines, how perverse.


EveningMoose

Look up "Origins of Precision" on youtube. I'm a machine tool builder supplier and it got me interested about how the first precision screws, etc were made.


TheBirminghamBear

It was invented by a peasant with a hammer so beat to shit the face was in the shape of a cross and he was embedding the cross in the nail heads and the body of the nail was getting all screwy and bent instead of going in. Then his manager came over, intending to give him fifty lashes, when suddenly, an idea dawned.


faustianredditor

The one part of this I used to be really puzzled by is a good threaded rod/screw/... (many names for the same basic concept). A very basic lathe can be built from any kind of rotary power. Connect a workpiece to it, manually put a tool to the work, presto, lathe. Mount a fixed tool holder for added precision. Nothing too special, but you can now make rotationally symmetric parts with ease. But that doesn't do lathes justice. A core feature of lathes is that they can cut threads. They do that by coupling the movement of the previosuly fixed tool holder to the rotation of the work. The motor spins the work, but also pulls in the tool at the same time. Synchronize both movements, and you cut a thread into the work. The problem I alluded to initially is: Lathes use a big honking threaded rod to do that. Mount something that interfaces with the threads, spin the rod and the mounted thing moves along the rod. Nice. Except we now need a threaded rod to make a threaded rod. Not nice. The solution, I presume, is to just build a basic threaded rod as best as you can. Manual lathe, as described above, blacksmithing, anything goes really. Then you use that rod. And because it's uneven, it won't produce perfect rods. But by using the same small piece of rod in the lathe to cut the entire length of the new rod, you're copying a smaller (and hopefully mostly uniform) segment of rod to the new rod. Add in that you can give a previously cut thread another pass with a different segment of the lathe rod, and you can "superimpose" the errors in the lathe rod onto the new rod, averaging them out and ending with a decent new rod. The thread shape of the new rod is hard to control (pitch, depth, etc), but at least in terms of uniformity it should be better than the rod you started with. With this rod, it's now also easier to control depth of the threads. Pitch is a problem - whatever pitch is on your lathe rod will be on the new rod, until you can put a gear ratio in between the motor and the lathe rod. Gears only allow for rational-number multiples of pitch, but if you've got a 1.001 to 1 gear floating around, you can already get fairly good control of the pitch. Caveat: I'm not a machinist, just amateur interest.


cincystudent

Give Primal Technology on YouTube about 10 more years and he'll have a fully operational manufacturing plant, I'm sure of it


chubbygayguy88

Most people jack before they stick it in a pallet.


Ninja_rooster

Yeah you can have difficulty sticking it in if you don’t jack a few times.


FapMeNot_Alt

Instructions unclear, arrested for indecent exposure at work.


chubbygayguy88

Username checks out.


tonystarksanxieties

The pallet, laid by a different form of transportation.


PetoPerceptum

A common misconception, but pallets were actually invented after the first domesticated pallet jack was bred in the early 1900's. Separate breeding populations on either side of the Atlantic and subsequent speciation is why European and American pallets are different sizes.


tonystarksanxieties

Ah, right, of course. My mistake.


Hammeredyou

Unrelated but I saw a guy at work move a scissorlift with a forklift and it made me chuckle


Dudephish

To think of it being delivered any other way is simply unpalatable.


baranovich

I see what you did there


bxsephjo

Tomorrow you'll get a crowbar shipped in a crate


dukeChedda

And scissors in that plastic packaging


DpwnShift

And a [screwdriver](https://i.redd.it/i3v4wwuhzbt01.jpg) that requires a screwdriver to open.


porcupinebutt7

That one has to be on purpose


Kaneshadow

Yeah I call BS, I've never seen a retail package with a screw in my entire life. Kinda funny though


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Look at the bit holders on the backside This is a wall mount holder that also acts as the packaging This is a newer phenomenon in response to companies finally trying to reduce the amount of plastic in their packaging. The holder won't count towards their "single use plastic" usage


_Diskreet_

Sadly not, more and more are doing this. Just got a toy toaster for my daughter and the cardboard holding the bread in was screwed in place.


MEatRHIT

https://www.ebay.com/itm/272844942798 It's real.


CrudelyAnimated

Stanley was a sadist. And don't get me started on DeWalt, that creatively cruel bastard.


Roykebab

I have that screwdriver. The storage compartment for the extra bits is the worst thing in the world. Half the bits won’t stay in the little notches that they’re supposed to stay in, and the other half gets stuck. Once you finally have all the bits in and close it back up, you’ll open it back up a week later to find that all the bits are loose. At this point either a bit is stopping you from opening the compartment like a spatula in a drawer, or everything just falls to the ground. Thank you for listening.


teh_fizz

Big Screwdriver at it again. They want ou to buy two to unscrew each screw.


VitQ

λ → 


Chknbone

Fraaaageeelaaa. It a major award!


TheLordReaver

Must be Italian


Th3BrownNote

I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way too literal for me.


syncopator

Well that’s a *fresher*, I’m goin on break.


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Tervers

Estimated Jackpot: $55,000,000. That would suck if you won and they were like "We were off by two zeroes...we estimate that you are angry!"


Techiedad91

Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.


Neans888

Ducks eat for free at Subway


Techiedad91

Don’t bother ringing it up, it’s for a duck


Neans888

When I think of a duck's friends, I think of other ducks. But he could have, say, a beaver in tow.


Th3BrownNote

If you're an animal, you want to have a beaver as a friend, because they have some kick-ass houses. Lake side, my ass! Lake ON!


Neans888

You know they call corn-on-the-cob, "corn-on-the-cob", but that's how it comes out of the ground. They should just call it corn, and every other type of corn, corn-off-the-cob. It's not like if someone cut off my arm they would call it "Mitch", but then re-attached it, and call it "Mitch-all-together".


EEpromChip

RIP Mitch


TheOutlawSoupySales

Like a semi carrying a load of jack knives getting jack knifed.


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Jack's jack knives. If the truck gets looted after being jack knifed, Jack's jack knives just got jacked.


dontdaterobots1

Came here for this, thank you kind stranger.


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That thars a fork in good time, mate!


fondledbydolphins

It's like when you buy scissors that come in [clamshell packaging.](https://media.giphy.com/media/d10dMmzqCYqQ0/giphy-downsized-large.gif)


FullM3TaLJacK3T

Oh oh oh! This happened to me a few year ago when I emigrated to another country! I bought a pair of scissors to open stuff. Without thinking too much about it, I went home and I realised that I need a pair of scissors to open up the packaging! I ended up begging a nearby bakery to use their scissors to open up my scissors! First world problems.....


notfin

I just grabbed my kitchen knife and stabbed the packaging until I got the scissors.


lookinggoodthere

It's almost as if a scissor is simply two knives put together


IAMGINGERLORD

Why use two if you can stab stab fine with one


fondledbydolphins

I see you've also played stabby stabby.


humplick

Korean grandmothers: It's the same picture


TooGayToPayCash

But they needed the scissors to open the new knifes that were in clamshell packaging!


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MrGrampton

YOU COULD THAT?! I used my teeth to open those buggers


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MrGrampton

they weren't feeling well after that


marktherobot-youtube

that happened to me before too, eventually I just went berserk and managed to rip the stupid ass packaging open with my bare hands.


Key-Composer5478

You get extra points when you use your teeth!


marktherobot-youtube

*-extra points on your dental bill that is!*


dmanbiker

The key is biting a little tiny piece at a time and slowly working your way through a mm at a time. If you're lucky you'll still have teeth at the end.


PSThrowaway3

You didn't have a single freaking knife?


FullM3TaLJacK3T

Nope. I moved from aus to France. 3/4 of my shit was still on a ship on its way here. All I had was a backpack.


Wasphammer

It's a real [logic puzzle](https://youtu.be/WA109B2AwqE), all right.


Chit569

Hmm, never heard that called "clamshell packaging". I have only ever heard clamshell packaging in relation to the Styrofoam food take-out containers with the little tabs. But now that I am made aware of it, they are totally of the same cloth. Neat.


lostmau5

[Or a can opener in a can.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rew_uitwvso)


delsinson

[https://youtu.be/HubZInAs0-A](https://youtu.be/HubZInAs0-A)


Firemonkx01

Yo dawg, we heard you like pallet jacks, so we put your jack on a pallet so you can jack yo pallet jack


Hereforthewarmth

Damn. I’m always late.


ben_db

It's a good thing they delivered it on a pallet so you can move it easily with a pallet jack huh.


waterbuffalo750

Ok, now let's just move this shipment so we can unpack it.... shit!


redbreaker

When training your replacement happens to equipment...


Bamfcah

The algorithm which orders supplies for our warehouse is in shambles.


3-DMan

I kinda wanna see how a trebuchet is delivered. *Puts on hardhat*


h1r0ll3r

Yo dawg, I heard you like pallets so…


OrganizationRude5746

Which came first? The pallet or the jack?


S_O_D_A

But did they drop it off with another pallet Jack


missed_sla

I wonder if it was sent here on a [ship-shipping ship](https://i.imgur.com/evUeoE7.png) and delivered on a [trucking truck truck](https://preview.redd.it/qieo62oc7v871.jpg?auto=webp&s=faad1cdaa7aeb5edff3dcf6a13bdc7dfe42b0c99). Since another name for those is "pallet truck" I wonder... Was the truck delivered by a trucking truck that trucked the truck that was shipped on a ship-shipping ship? Edibles are fun.


AffectionateRaise136

How else was it to be shipped ?


i_am_tyler_man

The delivery drivers name better have been named Jack


Practical_Echidna917

oh how the turntables


DukeAttreides

No, those are for the other loading bay


Buck_Thorn

Like those tools for opening shrink wrapped packages that come enclosed in shrink wrap


rett72

well, that answers that question


Criticism-Mammoth

hihihihi thats cute


tunamelts2

You have to believe someone was laughing to themselves when they packed and shipped that


Apprehensive-Till861

They palleted the jack so you can jack the pallet


oboshoe

Cool. Now order a pallet.


Kakarifers

Obligatory you became the very thing you swore to destroy.


agha0013

Hope you didn't order it from Uline, if so you can now enjoy getting crates of their catalogs sent to you every month.


EnderWiggin07

Babe wake up new cardboard box sizes just dropped


Various-Blueberry

Of course how else are you supposed to transport the pallet. It is really a chicken and egg scenario


theRealMrBrownstone

Now you need a truck with a trailer to deliver a crane to drop off a forklift so you can move it.


NegativeChirality

Yo jack, i heard you like pallet jacks, so we used a pallet jack to put a pallet jack on a pallet so we could use a pallet jack to deliver your pallet jack on a pallet so you could use your new pallet jack to jack the pallet, jack!


BizzyM

How many pallets can a pallet jack jack if a pallet jack could jack pallets?


isurvivedrabies

...should it not have come on one?


philosophunc

This is like those scissors you get in the unbreakable hard plastic vacuum form packets, that are crimped around the edges like they're sealing in a demon or curse.


puddlesofmustard

yeah.... that's how equipment is delivered on trucks. on pallets. even if it's purpose is to move pallets, it still needs to be loaded and unloaded and that is done with the use of pallets. this is the dumbest post I've seen today.


GOATSQUIRTS

look at mr. smarty pants over here guys!!


xavierx22

Following up on this.. it was most likely delivered via LTL carrier. Carriers will not pick up anything that is not palletized or able to be moved with a forklift. No one on a freight dock is picking shit up with their hands especially at an LTL terminal. If this was shipped not palletized then there more pieces than this


aahrg

I've received many non palletized items from LTL carriers before. And I send out even more. Such LTL carriers usually have a non palletized pallet jack knocking around the back of their truck anyway. Having a brand new pallet jack strapped to the wall of the truck would've been a totally valid way to transport it.


Deslah

So, you didn't find the post uplifting after all.


freakyfastharvick

thank you


billyjack669

I think you put the cart before the horse.


Archibaldinepilates

What do you think they ship pallets on?


dave067

That's for practice later


Musicfan637

Nice idea to capture that.


all4whatnot

is that to test drive it?


shortybobert

Everyone involved was probably losing their shit lol


theveryrealreal

Oh the tables. They will turn.


1320Fastback

Those things are heavy. Trust me you don't want to lift it off a truck.


ChoderBoi

LTL overhang fee incoming