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You're only a safety nazi to ignorant people who don't know enough to know when their doing something dangerous, and then let their own ego override your good advise.When you are showing things like that you need to do a better job. There are too many newbies that see that and think there's nothing wrong with it. They don't realize how a gantry can fall over and kill/crush someone. I hate being the safety Nazis but that was a real bad example to anyone.
I had two co workers lifting a 700lbs press bolster, a job I did by myself the day before, tell me to get lost when I critiqued their rigging.
I used two eye bolts and a pipe through them to lift it with a forklift, they insisted using two eye bolts (same size I used) with a choked chain spanning them and lifting with one fork in the center.
I walked away, and a half hour later was holding ones hand while he was screaming and crying with a crushed hand and being loaded into an ambulance.
They put so much side load on those eye bolts that one snapped and nearly killed the one guy. My rigging had the eyebolts in tension vertically and would require 5-6 times the amount of force theirs did to break anything.