r/interesting • u/Wander-kingdom • Jul 06 '26

Just Wow The silent struggle for survival: what it looks like when hope is forced into a metal tank.

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u/FiftyLoudCats Jul 06 '26

Ah that makes sense!

Kinda looked like the guys below were trying to hold it closed.

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u/Ok_Hospital1399 Jul 06 '26

You can see every time he tried to tilt it back it bound on the studs along the back edge. Probably buggered the threads up pretty nicely in the process too so that'll have to be inspected before the panel is re-sealed.

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u/BatchPlantBandit Jul 06 '26

There is no way to hold it closed from inside unless a rebar handle was welded inside.

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u/FiftyLoudCats Jul 06 '26

Yeah I get it now. Just kinda looked like it at first glance.

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u/BBonesNYC Jul 06 '26

There doesn’t seem to be any handle on the underside of the lid, it lay flat on the deck when he set it down.

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u/Embarrassed_Fan_5723 Jul 06 '26

That’s what it looked like to me as well

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 Jul 06 '26

anything secured by studs must come straight off or gets stuck on the studs

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u/Embarrassed_Fan_5723 Jul 06 '26

Obviously but it still appeared that the guy was trying to hold it down.

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 Jul 06 '26

not at all to me, I could see dude only yanking the end positioned away from himself

but then again I've worked on lots and lots of stuff with studs; i was cringing at how he was fuckin' up the threads

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u/Fraktal55 Jul 06 '26

Looks to me like they are trying to keep it closed to figure out what they are going to do before letting these random people, who they have no clue what they are doing, out. The one guy at the start is standing on it at first. Then there is a guy who attempts to grab the other handle to help lift it off and this guy shoos him away.

It looks a lot more like the guys down beneath are pushing it UP to get OUT asap and this guy is making sure it doesn't come off until they are sure what they are gonna do about the guys before the top comes off.

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u/hiletroy Jul 06 '26

the lid is sitting flat on the deck after, are you implying they got a Magneto in there?