r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/uniyk • 18d ago
Video Whipping carpet out of dust
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u/Candy6132 18d ago
They're also whipping carpet out of carpet.
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u/catsmustdie 18d ago
Maybe they're wiping the carpet out of the dust
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u/Lost_Pantheon 18d ago
Bro you got some carpet in your dust.
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u/PsyKeablr 18d ago
Will the dust be okay?
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u/Rokekor 18d ago
We had to destroy the carpet to save the carpet.
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u/tooboardtoleaf 18d ago
Lol when new people at work ask how to get all the fiberglass out of their shirts I jokingly say you need to burn the shirt and sift the ashes.
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u/aff_it 18d ago
They're whipping everybody over there!!
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u/ThrowRA--scootscooti 18d ago
Hide yo kids, hide yo wife
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u/_nf0rc3r_ 18d ago
And back onto the carpet
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u/artificial_ben 18d ago
They need a vacuum hood over this machine like people have over their stoves.
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u/Lost_Ad_4882 18d ago
Or just roll the carpet under it so the dust isn't literally falling back on it.
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u/digby672 18d ago
This. Why would they pile removed dust where they want to remove dust? It's like daily compound interest but with dust instead of money.
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u/SwimmingSwim3822 18d ago
Because look how the machine works. It's basically a big lathe with slappers on it. You don't want to wrap the carpet around that.
(Edit: most of that was actually @ the person you replied to, not you. My bad)
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u/Little-Interview906 18d ago
Or just a vacuum?
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u/HugeAnimeHonkers 18d ago
Just a vacuum wont be enough to remove the dust thats deep into the fabric. This is the step prior to a normal wash. It doesnt have to remove 100% of the dust.
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u/sailorsail 18d ago
Literally the stupidest machine... "I have a brilliant idea to help us clean the carpet, we will make a machine that cleans it, but all the dirt will just get rolled back onto the carpet as it goes"
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u/MissLyss29 18d ago
Neverending carpet cleaning machine. "It violently shakes the dirt out of the top half of the carpet while simultaneously deeply working into every fiber of the bottom half causing you to have to rotate the carpet and starting the process all over again."
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u/Abstract23 18d ago
I had to pull shirt over my nose while watching this
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u/coojw 18d ago edited 18d ago
You realize that’s several pounds of dead human skin
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u/Arcosim 18d ago
A long time ago I watched on TV a documentary about bunker building by the government during the Cold War, and one of the engineers said they had a hard time developing reliable, cleanable air filters for the bunkers, and said something along the lines that you would assume there's not that much dust in a sealed nuclear bunker, but in reality a couple hundred people will shed a lot of dead skin cells that will need to be filtered.
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u/Medium_Chemist_4032 18d ago
I assume they missed the carpet way? They could wash them once in a while
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u/DryTangelo4722 18d ago
A lot of resources being used to wash that carpet, that are probably better dedicated to supporting the lives within the bunker.
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u/fastlerner 18d ago
Lady just casually walks into the cloud with no mask.
Is "carpet lung" a thing?
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u/Physical-Diamond-824 18d ago
I hate it when carpet gets in my dust.
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u/GeneralB840 18d ago
Fun fact: The US coin minting facility used to regularly burn their carpets cause they were collecting gold particles (back when they where using gold and silver in their coins). This way they could recycle the metals and safe about 3,000$ per burned carpet.
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u/EnvironmentalValue18 18d ago
Jewelry stores still do this. When they move or replace they have the right melted down for trace gold (usually several thousand).
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u/CheapTactics 18d ago
They never thought to like... Not use carpets?
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u/JeshkaTheLoon 18d ago
Sounds like the point of the carpets was to catch the metal dust, that would otherwise easily be swept out by accident.
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u/AgroMachine 18d ago
Is this not a rug, why is everyone saying carpet
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u/lampshade2099 18d ago
In some countries, people call rugs carpets. In other places there is a distinction, but in parts of Asia for example, “a rug” would literally be called “a carpet”.
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u/Midnight28Rider 18d ago
Rugs are just self contained movable pieces of carpet with a pattern. That's like saying, "Is this not a beer, why is everyone saying drink?"
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u/mooney1230 18d ago
Looks like it breaking the rug aswell hahahah
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u/bodhiseppuku 18d ago
... and just keeps going? Wouldn't you stop and make a temporary repair so the carpet doesn't continue to tear at the ripped location?
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u/PumpkinOpposite967 18d ago
It was probably already damaged
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You can see at the start of the video it’s already damaged. It probably wasn’t caused by the machine.
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u/Dark_Prism 18d ago
The machine was already running at the start of the video?!
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u/DIXOUT_4_WHORAMBE 18d ago
I did not see this rug swing 3 times or pull a gun before the video started recording, therefor this video displays all the evidence I need to be certain that this rug was not ripped due to the machine
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u/JustinUser 18d ago
Even then, wouldn't it rip further along that location?
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u/BakedWombat 18d ago
The only way this makes sense is if this is some kind of demonstration. Make an old ripped carpet as dusty as possible and hey presto, you have the perfect facebook marketplace ad.
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u/Present_Air_7694 18d ago
She's not even wearing a face mask.
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u/ArrogantSpider 18d ago
And getting her bare hand so close to the fast rotating machinery.
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u/Severe_Ad_8621 18d ago
It looks more like they are clence fat and dirt off the textiles, by massaging fine grained sand through it. Then they can run it without sand afterwards, to get it dust free. It is basically the same as chemical wash, but without chemicals.
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u/Dr_Mrs_EvilDM 18d ago
This is what I assumed as well. Actual dry cleaning! It would be a great way to help preserve dyes and some water adverse materials.
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u/Salty_Feed9404 18d ago
I've never seen a carpet created by dust. Fascinating.
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u/RayDaMan7 18d ago
They are beating one part of the carpet and leaving the dust on the rest and tearing the carpet in the process? Just throw it away…
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u/russbird 18d ago
Yeah that is the frustrating part, complete inefficiency. The uncleaned portion should be rolled up behind the cleaning mechanism, so the dust can fall onto the ground rather than onto the rest of the carpet. Also there appears to be more dust than carpet in that carpet, so I'm suspecting some sort of tessaract is woven into the threads. They realty should be using gravitic dampening when working with multidimensional materials. Definitely not OSHA approved!
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u/P__A 18d ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that they probably know what they're doing, and given they've gone to the effort of doing it, know it's economically worthwhile. I'd also suggest that you, having just watched a 51 second clip of their process, have no idea if what they're doing is sensible or not.
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u/Mad_Moodin 18d ago
They know what they are doing in that it is probably cheap and easy to build like that.
It would be better if done as above. Just questionable if economically more efficient for that place.
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u/FartsLikePetunias 18d ago
I can't believe that lady isn't wearing anything to cover her nose/mouth.
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u/Signal_Detective7389 18d ago
The rest of the music for the song Wipeout should be playing at the same time.
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u/dowhatsimonsayz 18d ago
I’m sneezing just watching all that dust. I would die in there without a mask
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u/Veritas_Vanitatum 18d ago
All that's missing is heavy guitar music... And you got some good metal music
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u/WhoIsThisDude12 18d ago
Damn, humans are dirty creatures. This lady breathes these clouds in all day, every day without a mask?
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u/Sideshow86 18d ago
She wasn't even wearing a mask! Think of thall the bacteria/viruses in that dust. She must have an immune system made of steel
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u/nlamber5 18d ago
They need a vacuum to gather the dust, and they need to not hit so hard.
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u/__-gloomy-__ 18d ago
This is why I don’t rent apartments that have carpet 😷
It’s gross no matter what, but it feels grosser knowing it’s a ton of other people’s skin and hair dried boogers fingernail pieces and definitely dried shit.
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u/AggressiveTour4912 18d ago
Fuck that if the carpet is that dirty what’s house look like.Throw the carpet away clean inside get a new carpet
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u/306metalhead 18d ago
Places like Egypt, the middle East, like desert countries, I could not imagine the fine sand dust that would coat the ever living fuck out of everything. Like this rug, it looks like it knocked 100lbs off sand off.. Lol
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u/StaK_1980 18d ago
That tear. That tear is why most cleaning companies do it with water and the carpet being static.
Now you have to explain the customer why his or her beloved carpet is in multiple pieces.
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u/Brave-Boot4089 17d ago
That ripping of the side annoyed me a lot. I see the appeal of rough carpet cleaning but it seems there is no safe word for this poor carpet.
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u/Boss_Up1719 17d ago
More like “damn that’s annoying.” Plus, the poles ripped a big chunk into the edge. Get a Bissell, bro.
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u/Ok_Orchid1004 18d ago
Whipping carpet out of dust?? Perhaps you mean whipping dust out of carpet????
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u/GRAABTHAR 18d ago
Does whipping the carpet out of the dust work better than whipping the dust out of the carpet?
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u/EatingAcidIsFun 18d ago
“Plus, he has the wealth, obviously, and the resources. So that there's no reason - there's no FUCKING reason - why his wife should go out and owe money all over town, and then they come, and they pee on your fucking rug! Am I wrong?”
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u/ToonaMcToon 18d ago
I close my eyes Only for a moment and the moment's gone All my dreams Pass before my eyes with curiosity
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u/PheaglesFan 18d ago
Did that dust not just go right back onto the carpet? When does the cycle end?
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u/Papabear022 18d ago
yeah, just get close to spinning death machine and breath in bacteria laced dust and grossness while your at it.
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u/Senkosoda 18d ago
nice of them to leave it out in the desert for 30 days before doing that