• @[email protected]
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    81 month ago

    I think with the advent of cordless angle grinders, we’ve moved on from bolt cutters, haven’t we?

    Certainly makes my visits to National Trust properties a lot more interesting

    • @[email protected]
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      201 month ago

      But the power tools are locked up and make noise. Bolt cutters are silent and not locked up in store.

          • @[email protected]
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            31 month ago

            Nah, if I want to use a grinder in a situation where it’s not a daily thing I need to have a permit to do that. It doesn’t achieve much, it’s just an insurance thing that says that they know what I’m doing and makes me aware to do things like make sure whatever I’ve worked on cools down safely.

            • @omega_x3
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              41 month ago

              The permit to do work in an electric cabinet without turning off the power used to also be called a hot work permit, mainly because it was the same from.

              Now work near live power more than 24VDC is banned unless the power is keeping someone alive, or the person performing the work is a contractor.

              • @[email protected]
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                21 month ago

                To us hot work is work that creates heat.

                What you call “hot work” we call “working live”. I don’t think that there’s a limit on what you can work on live, I think everyone or most isolate first.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 month ago

              Christ on a bike I’d fucking hate to live in an oppressive regime like that

              Where are you, North Korea or somewhere like that?

    • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please
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      61 month ago

      Bolt cutters are much quieter, and still get the point across. Hell, when I see shit like that it makes me want to pop some locks just to prove a point. Like don’t even steal anything, just crack some shackles and leave Loss Prevention scratching their heads.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 month ago

      When I worked on the ambulance, we once needed after hours access to a small electric company park to land a helicopter (mountainous area, not many flat spaces). That was the night I learned that the fire department keeps a “universal key” (bolt cutters) on hand for just such an occasion.

      • @JcbAzPx
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        41 month ago

        It’s less destructive than taking the gate down with the jaws of life.