I think this is the same guy who drove the BMW SUV over the parked cars in last weeks video. That said, there’ve been a lot of these collapsing warehouse shelf videos. You’d think there would be some sort of engineering to prevent these row-of-dominoes events, as forklifts are always going to smack into things from time to time.
Erich – you would think that, and that it would be obvious, but…..
I worked in the stock room of an electronics company. Not a large one, but the stock room had 20-30 double rows of shelving, most accessed by hand. In theory, if you needed something from a top shelf, you were to find a ladder. Great theory.
Prior to my starting, somebody decided they needed a box from the top shelf, so climbed the shelving unit. At that time, the shelving units were not tied together and to the walls. The Domino Theory worked…. the unit he climbed tipped into the next, which tipped into the next…. Millions of capacitors, resistors, etc. spilled. Weeks to clean up and re-sort.
Now, some of the guys who worked in the stock room were older and had real-world experience, but never did anything about the freestanding shelves. Well, at least not until they toppled. So I guess this will keep happening until it happens to everybody at least once.
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I think this is the same guy who drove the BMW SUV over the parked cars in last weeks video. That said, there’ve been a lot of these collapsing warehouse shelf videos. You’d think there would be some sort of engineering to prevent these row-of-dominoes events, as forklifts are always going to smack into things from time to time.
Erich – you would think that, and that it would be obvious, but…..
I worked in the stock room of an electronics company. Not a large one, but the stock room had 20-30 double rows of shelving, most accessed by hand. In theory, if you needed something from a top shelf, you were to find a ladder. Great theory.
Prior to my starting, somebody decided they needed a box from the top shelf, so climbed the shelving unit. At that time, the shelving units were not tied together and to the walls. The Domino Theory worked…. the unit he climbed tipped into the next, which tipped into the next…. Millions of capacitors, resistors, etc. spilled. Weeks to clean up and re-sort.
Now, some of the guys who worked in the stock room were older and had real-world experience, but never did anything about the freestanding shelves. Well, at least not until they toppled. So I guess this will keep happening until it happens to everybody at least once.
Thats what happens when you build your warehouse out of old Erector set pieces.
clean up on aisle number 5. clean up on aisle number 5.
“Not going anywhere for a while? Have a snickers!”
This is the reason why Costco scares the crap out of me.
It was like that when I got here.
Maya project of the year.