r/oddlysatisfying • u/SinjiOnO • Jan 02 '23
Large magnet removes nails from Dutch beach after huge bonfire
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u/Killem2wice Jan 02 '23 edited Jan 03 '23
Nails from the pallets?
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u/SinjiOnO Jan 02 '23
Correct. A (EPAL Euro) pallet has about 78 nails.
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u/_just_a_dude_ Jan 03 '23
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u/Chemesthesis Jan 03 '23
Thanks, but could you direct me to some literature that does consider cats to be legumes?
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u/Chemesthesis Jan 03 '23
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Jan 03 '23
I’d like the one piece that considers them as legumes so I can choose to believe that one.
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u/parttimeninja Jan 03 '23
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u/Rich_Acanthisitta_70 Jan 03 '23
However like pallets, they do have nails.
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Contrary to popular belief, the composition of the average cat contains only negligible nails.
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u/Frame-Spare Jan 03 '23
Do you know a peanut is actually a legume? And not a nut? Huh?
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u/AegorBlake Jan 03 '23
I'm sorry but our service does not provide that option. You will continue to get these on your mobile devices and all email accounts. /s
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u/MikeinAustin Jan 03 '23
EPAL Pallets:
Materials: 11 boards of quality timber, 9 wood- chip or solid wood blocks, and 78 nails
Length : 800mm Width :1,200mm Height : 144 mm Weight : 25 kg Safe working load : 1500 kg
Learn more at EPAL-Pallets.org.
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u/Belazriel Jan 03 '23
Standard pallets are 48"x40" and a trailer will carry 30 pallets side slotted, 28 pinwheeled, 26 straight, or other smaller configurations if weight is an issue.
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u/chimisforbreakfast Jan 03 '23
Wooden Pallets are all soaked in deadly chemicals that are horrific to breathe in or even touch, in order to permanently sterilize them against mold.
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u/Direct_Lifeguard_360 Jan 03 '23
No not necessarily, pallets are either heat treated or coated in methyl bromide to treat them against insects mostly, not against mold.
There are stamps on the side of skids that are meant to be there and you can figure out if they are heat treated or not by looking at them
Honestly you should not make furniture out of them because the wood is super thin and of poor quality to make furniture. Plus you cannot tell what the skids were holding before they got to you.
p.s skids are often re used multiple times even between different companies and there are people who will actually repair skids and re sell them to be re used, so there could very well be very deadly chemicals in the skids you don't know about but that's unintentional rather then intentional
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u/31sualkatnas Jan 03 '23
Wait is this real? Have touched and breathed in many wooden pallets.
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u/Interesting-Swim-300 Jan 03 '23
I heard they gave up on trying to figure it out back in the nineties. I guess science will always have some misteries.
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u/sckego Jan 03 '23
How does the sand look so normal and clean? shouldn’t there be a giant pile of ash and stuff where that pile was?
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u/7of69 Jan 03 '23
Judging from how many nails are bursting from below the sand, I’d guess there’s been a high tide or two since the fire that washed the ash away.
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Jan 03 '23
If only there was some way to obtain burnable wood that does not come with nails in it, almost like something all-natural with no additives, straight from the earth... ah well.
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u/fatalicus Jan 03 '23
If you want to build a large bonfire, then using pallets is the way to go, since you don't have to worry about processing the wood too make it more stable when stacking. It is pre-processed to be flat and stable.
It would be hard to build something like this without pallets.
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Jan 03 '23
If you have the time and money to acquire and stack that many pallets, then you have all the necessary resources to build a large and stable bonfire that wont litter a public area with sharp, bacteria laden pieces of metal.
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u/boli99 Jan 03 '23
bacteria laden
you honestly think that there are many bacteria left on them after they have been through a fire?
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u/bullwinkle8088 Jan 03 '23
I feel the poster was going on what they were told by thier parents: rusty nails cause tetanus.
Only the bacteria lives in the soil and not on the metal. But your skin being broken by something buried in soil where it is present is a great way to get it into your body because of the dirt that was pushed in with it.
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u/fatalicus Jan 03 '23
In the case of slinningsbålet (the image in the tweet), the pallets are donated by nearby companies, and those building only have to pick them up and stack, something they do as voluntary work.
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u/Pikka_Bird Jan 03 '23
I'm not in the "pallets or not" fight, but I don't think that math is right. If you have the resources to do [x] then you don't necessarily have resources to do [x*a]. The same amount of natural, unprocessed wood is considerably more expensive, and stacking it as high takes exponentially more effort.
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u/Devil1925 Jan 03 '23
Most pallets that I came across which weren't supposed to be used for air or see transport are just heat-treated. (at least here in Germany)
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u/KotzubueSailingClub Jan 03 '23
Look at all these pallet experts, gathered here in this particular Reddit post
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u/VALRULEZ2008 Jan 02 '23
Nails from the palettes.
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u/oh_shaw Jan 02 '23
This definitely removes some.
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u/Training_Ad_211 Jan 02 '23
Hah. I was thinking the same thing - some - not all.
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u/ul2006kevinb Jan 03 '23
Why wouldn't it get all, assuming it made multiple passes?
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u/TheDukeofArgyll Jan 03 '23
It’s a massive unwieldy machine and it seems to only pull from the very center, it’s clearly going to miss areas. Even in the video you can see it’s second pass had a gap between the first pass.
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u/Reference-Reef Jan 03 '23
There's a gap because the first pass pulls the ones on the edge towards the first pass, and the second pulls the opposite direction. There's no gap in coverage
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u/97875 Jan 03 '23
No, I'm sure the 14 year old redditor, Grayson from Leadville Missouri is much smarter than the people tasked with removing nails from a public beach.
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u/duckarys Jan 03 '23
Knowing that beach and the people who are involved in the bonfire, yes, we can safely assume any 14 year old Reddit or is smarter.
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u/mrmeatcastle Jan 03 '23
Maybe he just cares a little more. The people tasked with removing nails from the public beach will be civil contractors with a magnet attachment on their JCB - nothing guarantees their environmental conscientiousness, nor should it. How about you just don't litter a beach with self-indulgent detritus in the first place?
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u/FlowersInMyGun Jan 03 '23
Apparently smart enough to not litter the beach with nails in the first place. Maybe.
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u/duckarys Jan 03 '23
Well these fires are done by the assorted dumbest fucks of the country, so you kind of got a point there.
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u/Training_Ad_211 Jan 03 '23
I just don't see it being possible, and I assume they make several passes; there's just no fuckin' way they get ALL the nails, some will be left behind.
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u/OneGratefulDawg Jan 03 '23
Especially all the aluminum ones I pound into palettes just for situations like this. I own a tire business.
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u/OneGratefulDawg Jan 03 '23
Yea I also go after they leave and dump more nails. I own a nail company, so they’re cheap. We sell tires, and nails.
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u/inactiveuser247 Jan 03 '23
If the nails are buried at all there will be limits to how deep they can be before there isn’t enough force to pick them up.
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u/getyourcheftogether Jan 03 '23
Maybe somewhere used with non-magnetic materials? Or would there be some type of effect that rust might have on the metal itself?
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u/usriusclark Jan 03 '23
I bet that one crab who got his nose pierced over spring break really regrets that decision.
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u/melbbear Jan 03 '23
I want to see them rapidly reverse polarity and fire them at Belgium
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u/Zmammoth Jan 03 '23
How about burning wood without nails in it…..
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u/Whale-n-Flowers Jan 03 '23
Was gonna ask: is it cheaper to hire some guys to remove all the nails before the burn or is the giant magnet truly the cheapest option?
Assuming it's more a volunteer effort: Does the giant magnet guy get a kickback for charity on their taxes?
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u/doornroosje Jan 03 '23
If it was up to the city it would be banned, this is really a peoples' bottom up thing. It's what the locals want to do, and they rioted and set the city on fire when the city tried to ban it in 2019. No hiring or tax breaks involved! This is just damage control by the city
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u/DaanTheBuilder Jan 03 '23
Close but not really. In the 70's and 80's there would be fires troughout the city every new years. A lot of police force was needed to control everything. So they agreed on most neighbourhoods having their own bonfires. Duindorp and Scheveningen being the 2 most well known.
After breaking the rules and building too high in Scheveningen the city official still allowed it to be set on fire and with the wind blowing towards Scheveningen it set the neighbourhood on fire. So they are trying too ban the bonfires again, but there will be trouble in the streets again.
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u/doornroosje Jan 03 '23
Sorry I'm not sure where what I said and you said differed, but I appreciate the extra background!
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u/Rugkrabber Jan 03 '23
I think the part that makes it seem locals set the neighborhood on fire lol. I was like ‘wait’. But it was a little too windy.
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u/bikemandan Jan 03 '23
Nail free wood costs money
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u/LeCrushinator Jan 03 '23
So does getting a machine out there to find all the nails, and it’s really expensive if you miss any.
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u/AllTooHumeMan Jan 03 '23
Wow, I don't usually find these magnet videos so attractive, but this one nails it perfectly.
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u/TotheWest_ Jan 02 '23
I know it’s a strong magnet but I hope they dig the sand, do it a couple more times and leave
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u/oohkt Jan 03 '23
Why in the actual fuck wouldn't you use wood that's not littered with nails? On a beach, of all places. This isn't satisfying me at all because it is so stupid!
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u/Reference-Reef Jan 03 '23
Why in the actual fuck wouldn't you use wood that's not littered with nails?
Well it's because 1. Pallets are cheap and they need a lot of wood 2. They can pick up the nails thoroughly afterwards.
Or 3. They've been doing it for decades but nobody with your expertise ever explained why they shouldn't
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u/belonii Jan 03 '23
also pallets are stable when stacked, alot of height for not much wood, so if you gonna build a BIG bonfire, you use pallets
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u/DragonSlayer19827 Jan 03 '23
My guess is that these are all the broken pallets that they had no other use for. Better to burn used wood than destroy the new stuff
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u/pointless234 Jan 03 '23
Pallet bonfires are a new years tradition in parts on the Netherland. Some light fireworks, others burn pallets (or leftover Christmas trees), and then there's those who fill milk canisters with carbide and a football, and then light it to create a makeshift cannon.
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u/Sheeple3 Jan 03 '23
Or lay down a layer of tin, metal, or sidewalk blocks underneath to just catch all the nails? There’s got to be 1,000 better ways to do this.
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u/blizzardspider Jan 03 '23
This stuff (cleaning with a magnet) works well though, they've been building these bonfires every year for a pretty long time now. Even if all the nails were to fall on some hard surface they'd still need to be cleaned off before you remove those sheets/blocks from the beach again since else there's a chance the nails roll off onto the sand during removal anyway. Whatever the surface may be, the easiest way to clean them off is a large magnet - you'll even have all the metal separated to go straight to recycling.
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u/zorbat5 Jan 03 '23
The problen is the tides. The wash the nails off the dheets so it's easier to clean when the nails fall in the sand and stay there.
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u/caretaker81 Jan 03 '23
The whole country can be considered a beach, so there you go. Also, salt water breaks it down.
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u/SnoopDing0 Jan 03 '23
Keep "Prince Albert" a safe distance from that thing, a very safe distance.
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u/brainvomit444 Jan 03 '23
Wow I’m more impressed that the state was so organized to pick them up. If this was in Florida, there would be a tetanus clinic set up inconspicuously close by
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u/kay_bizzle Jan 03 '23
Seems like a bad idea to have that fire in a place where everybody is barefoot. No way they'll get every single nail
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u/doornroosje Jan 03 '23
Still safer than in the park or in the middle of town! In 2018 the wind turned and rained fire all over the city even from the beach. Plus it's a fisherman's town so the beach has a high symbolic value.
https://twitter.com/omroepwest/status/1079912534092771328?t=H9YlLT0itJFKdRqI1tkjAQ&s=19
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u/Dr_VidyaGeam Jan 03 '23
Part of the reasons the 2018 bonfire went out of control was because it was stacked way to high making it more susceptible to the winds. I think it was 45 meters of pallets. After that they set a maximum height on them.
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u/PhD_Pwnology Jan 03 '23
How long ago was this? This song was a banger like.....years ago.
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u/dulfrg Jan 03 '23
Dutch people are known to cherish rave and eurodance bangers no matter how old they are
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u/nderperforminMessiah Jan 03 '23
4 days ago, they expected heavy winds on NYE so they decided to light the fire a day early
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u/AaronBurrIsInnocent Jan 03 '23
They have a long history of cleaning metal off of beaches. God bless them.
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u/rdandrea Jan 03 '23
I wish the roofers used this instead of relying on my car tires to find all of the nails.
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u/Eyeous Jan 03 '23
Dutch happy hardcore is so hilarious. Frequently catch skinheads listening to chipmunk music
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u/phantom_eight Jan 03 '23
If there is a longer video of the magnet running it would be a perfect Wednesday post on /r/powerwashingporn/
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u/Comprehensive-Ad-618 Jan 03 '23
Makes me never want to walk barefoot at beach. I bet there's a sub for that!
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u/Extra_Weather6287 Jan 03 '23
I have stepped in a red hot nail that went through my shoe and foot. Could feel my foot boiling inside.
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u/ConfusionAccurate Jan 03 '23
Ermm why not put something under the pallets to catch the nails :(. TIL be careful bare foot on Dutch beach.
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u/midnightrambler108 Jan 03 '23
As someone who burns pallets in a small fire pit, there is no way they got them all.
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u/volatileuprising72 Jan 03 '23
Magnetic attraction is truly fascinating. Metals literally know and are coded to recognize north and south magnetic fields.
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u/thewarehouse Jan 03 '23
Are they waving the magnet up in the air just for the video?
Wouldn't it be far more effective if they dragged it through the sand, disrupting and moving to access more?
I wouldn't walk over that soon afterward, thinking "gosh that got 'em all!"
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u/HoodieJ-shmizzle Jan 03 '23
This looks like it would take a LONG time to positively get every nail 😵💫
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u/shaundisbuddyguy Jan 03 '23
Some places would just put a team out with rakes ,not the Dutch though. They make sure every nail is out of there.
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u/TurkishTerrarian Jan 03 '23
Everybody gangsta till it pulls up a body.
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u/Troub313 Jan 03 '23
I'm not sure you understand how magnets work or for that matter, bodies.
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u/lNomNomlNZ Jan 03 '23
I still wouldn't go to that beach because I don't think all the nails would have been picked up.
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u/mrmeatcastle Jan 03 '23
All this does is highlight how stupid and self indulgent beach bonfires are. If those didn't end up in the foot of a child they'll end up in the throat of a fish, and you can bet this magnet didn't get anything close to all of them.
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u/puddlemagnet Jan 03 '23
I agree with your point regarding these selfish assholes but I don’t think you need to worry about the fish, the nails will sink to the bottom of the sea
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u/nixielover Jan 03 '23
Well in the past they would riot, burn cars, and christmas trees in the streets and cause a thousand times as much damage.
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"Huge bonfire"
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u/ackarthur Jan 03 '23
They used to make them waaaaaayyyyyy larger, but last time (just before covid) that went horribly and sparks and embers were spread all over the neighbouring city due to the wind. Made the government put a limit on the height to what you see here. (This is 10m tall, it was 46 when it went wrong)
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u/FamiliarRaspberry805 Jan 03 '23
The Dutch are good at everything.
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u/cyril0 Jan 03 '23
I used to live in Africa, I disagree.
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u/Kit_3000 Jan 03 '23
We haven't been in Africa for 200 years, warranty has expired.
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The Brits took over our one outpost in Africa over 300 years ago.
The Netherlands was not involved in the Scramble for Africa either.
The Dutch had surprisingly little involvement in Africa.
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u/Ghost_Elite Jan 03 '23
Originally the bonfires were to get people out of the city because they would burn a car and stuff on every corner. These days it escalated a bit too much with a competition and everything. But tbh, in the big picture, I think it has been better for the environment than if you had them burn whatever the fuck they wanted every year during New Years.. Also, europallets are heat treaded and I never heard anyone complain about to many remaining nails in the beach, so I guess they get them out pretty well..
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u/officialSusq Jan 03 '23
omg i hope those EPALs were no longer usable otherwise it hurts so much seeing all this money burn down xD
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u/Cryogenic_Monster Jan 03 '23
New fear unlocked, nails on a beach.
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To make it worse, there are plenty of sea shells, plastic and glass shards that can cut you open as well and those aren't pulled out of the sand with a magnet.
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u/bonk921 Jan 03 '23
how stupid they are? they could just make an fireproof platform or a big towel thingy and put the big boi on it then after its all done they can just grab the platform/big towel and sweep the nails...
or just get a solid place to do it but not in the sand duh...
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u/supermanmjm Jan 03 '23
r/wildlyinfuriating for burning pallets that leave nails on any beach in the first place. F those guys, magnets or not.
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u/TNTspaz Jan 03 '23 edited Jan 03 '23
You are getting down voted but the people who do this are truly vile. It has become a tradition for these people to see how much shit they can fuck up with the fire every year. Literally burned the town down in 2018 because they started the fire while it was super windy out. It has gotten so bad that all the local council can do at this point is contain them in this area and do damage control after
Since they tried to cancel it in 2019 since you know, the whole burning down the town thing. However, the people who participated in this tradition rioted to get it back
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u/XilenceBF Jan 03 '23
The last one was was 5 times as high and caused cinder rain over my town. No reports of large amount of nail pierced feet that time. I think they know what they’re doing.
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u/highheeledhepkitten Jan 02 '23
Moving that magnet around has got to be one of the most satisfying jobs on the planet.
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u/ul2006kevinb Jan 03 '23
Would that magnet erase a hard drive in an evidence locker though?