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Started by Southside, May 16, 2014, 10:16:10 AM

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Southside

This was taken in Shakopee, MN, points for creative and brave.  Not sure how it all ended though.   

 
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Offthebeatenpath

A picture can be worth 1000 lives... Where'd you find that photo Southside?  Any chance I could get a copy or a link to where you found it?
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Jeff

Quote from: Offthebeatenpath on May 16, 2014, 12:30:29 PM
A picture can be worth 1000 lives... Where'd you find that photo Southside?  Any chance I could get a copy or a link to where you found it?

How about here for one place... ;)

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,75145.0.html
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beenthere

As figured out in the other thread, it didn't happen that way. ;)  A photoshop job, and one source indicated it was in CA and the man on the top ladder was 84 yr old.
But makes for an interesting discussion.
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Southside

Well not sure what to think.  My wife works in the safety and health field and was sent it today by a coworker who claims he was there.  May need to ask a few more questions of the kind chap.  I had not seen the earlier post.
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Riehl Edger
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Enough cows to ensure there is no spare time.
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beenthere

 ;D
And that is how rumors get started, and the internet keeps them going, and growing. ;)

Easy to Google the pic and see it has been around for some time now.  With many additional comments about where it originated tossed in. I saw it before it was posted here on the forum, but it wasn't mine so I didn't post it.
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SliverPicker

Not California.  Looks like white birches in the back ground.
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Bandmill Bandit

Do we nominate him for a Darwin award now or wait till we se the obituary in the paper?

Course if he has already reproduced he wouldn't qualify anyway. 
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WmFritz

I'm not so sure that this photo is not a copycat.
I thought I saw subtle differences from the other picture. Monkey see... monkey doo?  :)
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Firewoodjoe

Takes all kinds whatever the true story is behind it. But I could believe it. Heck look at how Uncle Sam does things. And there suppose to know more then us!

clearcut

Looks like the next season of Ax Men is filming.
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coxy

Quote from: clearcut on May 16, 2014, 11:22:56 PM
Looks like the next season of Ax Men is filming.
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Jeff

I took that photo into photoshop and blew it up to look at different aspects of it, and I gotta say, if it is a photoshop photo, it is pretty masterful work.  There are a lot of wires in that picture that go past that ladder and I can't find any evidence of misalignment via cloning or any other mistakes. If its fake, its really really good.
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WmFritz

I'm by far no expert, I don't even know how to photo shop, but to my eye the ladder in the skid steer bucket looks real. It's the upper ladder that looks off to me. The top ladder looks to have a slight twist to it and I cant see any way the feet could sit on the taper of the sawn limb.

It hardly looks safe if it was sitting on solid ground.   :)
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Jeff

Actually the twist in the ladder at the top made me think even stronger that it could possibly be real. I would suspect it would have been secured at the bottom somehow so it could not move. This would cause the ladder to twist when weight would shift at the opposite end. By where the guy is standing, the flex in the ladder would appear to be in the right direction. I don't think that a photoshopper would have thought to put twist in a ladder, and why would they?
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sandhills

Well it doesn't matter even if it is real, he has enough power lines to break his fall, he shouldn't get hurt.  ::)

GuyInHuntsville

Quote from: clearcut on May 16, 2014, 11:22:56 PM
Looks like the next season of Ax Men is filming.

That was funny!! :D :D :D

Interesting photo...It looks real to me. There are people out there crazy enough to do something like this. :o

Holmes

Okay  how do you stand the second ladder up and then climb it when it's not secure? ???
What is the second skid steer on the ground doing? Waiting to catch whatever falls? Or trying to save the shed?
Cool picture. He's about 35' higher than I would go :)
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Bandmill Bandit

There is a problem with the second bobcat. The loader frame is definitely bobcat but there is no bobcat attached to that frame. There is what looks like green paint and possibly the front tip of a john deer tractor hood in there. Hard to tell.

Never seen a bobcat loader with out it bob cat nor have I ever seen john deer tractor under a bobcat loader.
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Dave Shepard

i can see the cab of the second skid loader. It looks to be complete.
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Firewoodjoe

I see a man with a green high vise coat and white hat reaching out like he's cutting up that limb

Tim L

I can't tell you who it is on that ladder but I can dang sure tell you who it isn't !
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