Be careful handling computer racks

[Curt @ Atari Museum]

Oh jeeez..... I did a lot of installs while at Exodus Communications for 
EMC gear, I remember doing a massive storage upgrade for Fortune City 
and it was 4 massive cabinets, fully populated... man if one those had 
ever tipped, it would crush a person like a bug on a windshield!!!!


Curt


Michael Lee wrote:
> I have seen and felt, from one floor below, an fully populated EMC 
> Symmetrix cabinet fall on it's side.  Someone, who shouldn't have 
> been, decided it needed to be moved, and rolled a wheel into a cutout 
> in the raised flooring, and down it went.  Luckily the guy moving it 
> fell off to the side through an open tile, and the cabinet came down 
> on it's side breaking several floor tiles and dislodging/shattering 
> all the drop ceiling tiles nearby on the floor below.  Had he fallen 
> under it, that would probably been the end of him.
>
> I also had an arcade cabinet fall on me before, not fun.  First time 
> was trying to get one out of a Uhaul by myself, I was lowering it down 
> and the top heavy monitor just went tumbling over.  Wasn't too bad, I 
> decided to just let go and get out of the way, and machine came to a 
> rest on it's front unharmed, and second was lowering it down a set of 
> stairs by myself, and it decided to just slide down the whole way 
> pushing me down the rest of the stairs along with it.
>
>
>
> On 1/12/2010 1:16 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
>> Sridhar and I were moving a DEC cabinet up some stairs behind my 
>> house a few years back and we all lost grip of it and it nearly took 
>> out Sridhar, yeah --- cab's are big and heavy!!!   I also had an 
>> Asteroids upright arcade come down on my chest while loading it into 
>> a u-haul back in 2001, not fun I can tell you, hurt like h*ll
>>
>>
>>
>> Curt
>>
>>
>>
>> Simon Fryer wrote:
>>> Man crushed to death by computer gear
>>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/12/2790875.htm
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
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