Before safety was invented...

A 1930s Barco BR-5 Rammer compacts the ground in the most ridiculous way possible. It's powered by a zero-rotation 2-stroke motor.

#shorts

[riverboss]

This guy is a professional upstairs neighbor

[hatsRcool]

A device that can smash your toes and nose at the same time,
just what every job site needs.

[skidunskie]

"Phil, your never gonna believe this fucking pogo stick."

[Scarlett]

The “i” in Pixar has a whole new enemy.

[Theyltimatetnt]

Boutta summon a sandworm with this one

[pattas]

"OMG was that an earthquake?!! Phew no.. it's just next door hammering the shit out of his lawn"

[SniperGuy]

Pixar is calling, they want their lamp back.

[williamshafer]

When I was 18, I had a boss tell me, "Let me show you how to use one of those, so you dont break your foot!" He then proceeded to break his own foot. It was the first job I ever had.

[MrPendell]

As some others who have commented, I used a relative of this tool in the 1980s, a later descendant of this particular design, I believe. We still called them jumping jacks in the 80s, but what’s shown here is using the explosive force from the combustion chamber to directly drive the compaction hammer- the ones in use by the late 20th century had a few more moving parts- an internal combustion engine with a rotational output shaft and a drive mechanism like a monster reciprocating saw, which turned rotational energy into much more rapidly cycling piston strokes with lower rebound than this machine. Those accomplished the same amount of compaction as these (in narrow trenches and the like) through applying many more strikes per minute with slightly lower force, and might have been a bit safer in terms of crushed feet because of lower bounces and better controllability in some situations, but all the same, my 60 something year old body is now reminding me more strongly every day of some of the repetitive strain and vibration injuries I sustained and just worked through in my 20s and 30s, and some of the stories my wrists and elbows tell me these days definitely harken back to days spent hanging onto jumping jacks and pneumatic hammers.

[heavytrooper]

"yes sir, the doohickey is performing at peak efficiency "

[shmehfleh]

That there's the Barco Rammer. The finest in midcentury gas-powered foot-smashing, jaw-breaking power tools.

[BoliceOccifer]

Advanced trolling here. Dude is summoning a sand worm to destroy someone's house.

[peterhansen]

Everyone should have a 300lb gas powered pogo stick.

[wilhelmbetz]

The neighbours at 6 am on a saturday for literally no reason

[dededetheboi]

“Everyone come up with a creative mascot!”

Dominoes:

[djsnackcakes]

That isn't the smell of gasoline; that's the smell of an OSHA handbook going up in flames

[saulgoodman]

The doodads are working at maximum efficiency sir

[hotdogplaysisdogwateratgam]

Bro made pogo sticks 100x harder to ride

[JosephCowen-fzvj]

It's such a cool idea ! If you look up the internals, it's a two stroke engine were they have replaced the crankshaft and connected the rod to the bottom " foot", when it fires in pushes on the ground and a spring returns the piston to cycle again, so simple !

[chrisadcock]

As a downstairs neighbor I can confirm this what they be doing upstairs at 3am