Cyprinella

Nationals Park, Washington, D.C., USA

I took the cargo ops class at school but my teacher explained that it doesn't give a certification and I'd only be okay for ship's crane and the school forklifts. she said I could take an online exam and get my cert. I paid 60 bucks.

I'm googling and I'm seeing a lot of resources saying that the online programs cover the classroom part of the exam but not the in person practical aspect.

29 CFR 1910.178 (l)(2)(ii)

@inbabylontheywept

it’s called a Hawser and is the thick cable or rope used for towing/mooring a ship

This is a line designed to hold in place a moving object that can be easily in excess of 10000 tons. AND THEY CAN BREAK FROM THAT TENSION ALONE.

You’ve heard of the term, “Going haywire,” right? Ever spared a thought to why that term exists?

See, time was there was a prototype automatic hay-baler. But this was in that magic period juuust before we really got into standardized sizes. So calibration of the machine was handled manually - a mix of guessing and learning from the results of guessing. If you’ve read Raising Steam by Sir Terry Pratchett you know that many people don’t get to learn from the results of their own guesses, due to being dead.

A poorly calibrated hay-baler had the mechanical strength to smush the hay into a tight bundle, wrap the wire around it, and tie that wire off to maintain the bale’s form. But the pressure of the over-packed hay was a constant outward force. Each bale made by an over-tight baler was potential energy in physical form. We have a word for “potential energy in physical form” and that word is “bomb.”

So sometimes, a man would toss a hay bale and it would land with a twang and the man who’d been reaching down to pick it up where it landed was dead.

But I’m still giggling over this.

Fandom: Due South Characters: Ray Vecchio (PoV), Benton Fraser, Stella Kowalski, Ray Kowalski Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Vecchio/Stella Kowalski/Ray Kowalski, Benton Fraser & Stella Kowalski, Ray Kowalski & Ray Vecchio, other permutations thereof Summary: When Benton Fraser meets his soulmate, Ray Vecchio is determined to make sure his friend gets the happily ever after he deserves - despite such minor roadbumps as her upset current husband and Ray’s own complicated feelings about his best friend. After all, there’s one thing everybody agrees on: when you meet your soulmate, that’s true love.

Everybody, however, doesn’t include Benton Fraser.