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AlastorAugustus t1_ixzg9fp wrote

Haha all the comments about this thing being too good are so accurate. It’s super nice to bring up to the ski hill and pour out some cups of spiked cider or something like that at the end of a nice day on the hill, but yea even after a day on the mountain I wouldn’t want to drink straight from the thermos. Pouring it into a cup and letting it cool down is pretty much the only way to use this magical piece of kit.

Mine is super beat up from using it underground when I worked graveyard shifts mining. Having a piping hot cup of coffee 6 hours into a 12 hour shift in a dark whole is a luxury unto itself.

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home_cheese OP t1_ixzgoj5 wrote

MSHA approved.

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AlastorAugustus t1_ixzhr7d wrote

Haha more like S&S burn risk. The amount of ridiculous things I’ve seen MSHA citations for in my 11 years underground, I wouldn’t put it past them to cite a thermos lmao.

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home_cheese OP t1_ixzjvey wrote

Those guys are something else. Whenever they rolled into the quarry I worked at all work stopped. You went back to the office and didn't talk to them. Some guys were pretty chill, in and out in a couple hours. Others would absolutely scrutinize everything. Find the dumbest shit to write you up for. That hook and winch you've been using for the last 20 years to pull and move rocks stuck in the jaw crusher? Been good all those years but now? Getting a write-up now!

The place I work for now used to be paired with a quarry but split into two different companies 6 months ago. No more MSHA!

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AlastorAugustus t1_ixzkhyc wrote

Haha yea it’s pretty much the same underground. Most of the actual safest ways to do things are complete MSHA violations so any time an inspector is around is a great time to ‘take 5’ lol

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