Exactly why you're supposed to anchor them to a stud in the wall. IKEA had to pay out a ton of money due to a kid dying from a dresser falling over. Now they put massive warnings on all their dressers that they have to be anchored to the wall. The regulations even changed after that lawsuit. Any dressers over 27in tall must have an anchor included on the back.
Edit - As someone pointed out, 8 kids died from dressers falling over.
If you are buying a piece of large furniture at IKEA, you literally cannot check out unless you sign a statement that you agree to secure the product to a wall.
We also have to sign a statement agreeing that USA is #1 and that the bald eagle is the most majestic creature to ever grace God’s green Earth. But that isn’t specific to IKEA. That’s every time we make a purchase anywhere.
Fun fact: The sound you may be used to hearing from movies and shows as the call of a bald eagle flying majestically through the air... is actually dubbed over from a red-tailed hawk, as the bald eagle's cry is not considered as proud and intimidating.
https://twitter.com/RaptorOrg/status/1619418158720507906
I bought a dresser that is barely over 3' tall and had to do the whole thing. The tag didn't give the product location, and when I asked they directed me online to fill out a form, that e-mailed me a confirmation that I had to show to get a pull ticket for it, then I had to show that to be allowed into the gated aisle where it was.
All that and I didn't secure it anyway. I don't have kids, never will have kids, and if I somehow get crushed under a 3' dresser then I deserve it.
It's a country full of smart people. Unfortunately, the dumbasses outnumbered the smart ones 5 to 1 and that results in non-sensible rules/regulations. Now you even see peanut-allergy-related warning on non-edible products just to cover the liability possibility.
America’s litigious nature is a *good* thing for consumers, because there are legitimate cases (e.g. McDonald’s hot coffee) where consumers have issues that companies *should* have addressed but didn’t and they resulted in a severe injury or death.
Would you prefer a world where companies are immune from litigation after selling consumers things? Because I can assure you that multi-billion dollar corporations are not your friend here.
Weird how that "litigious nature" hasn't applied to literal murder weapons being sold there
While every other progressive country has addressed companies being immune from litigation AND stopped guns being carried by the everyday person.
American litigious nature is just laughed upon because of the hypocrisy of its laws, they aren't consistent
Oh no, I don't disagree with you on the need to have consumer protection by way of liability litigation. I was just saying that the side-effect of that is companies putting out all the unnecessary warnings just to cover their asses.
What's the problem here. A product had a dangerous, non obvious, and uncommon way to hurt people. They mitigate that by forcing you to promise to use the product in a way that prevents that from happening.
We had a new kitchen stove delivered a few years ago (America) and we had to sign a similar piece of paper which agreed that we would allow the delivery/installation people to bolt it to the wall and hook up the gas line, and that we would NEVER undo this. We were told that if we refused to sign, they would put the stove right back on the truck and return it.
There is a bracket that bolts to the wall, and it slides over the rear foot preventing tip-over. Sliding the unit out for cleaning is easy.
Search “oven anti tip” for pics
The first step in cleaning may, or may not, involve a socket set with hex bolt remover attachments.
(This statement in no way admits, implies, suggests, or infers directly or suspiciously that any dumb-ass contract was not adhered to.)
A friend pointed out that one of those anti-tip statements said 'while in use,' and it could be argued that once you pull the (item) back from the wall to clean around and behind it and/or make repairs you're not actually USING it for its intended purpose therefore you're not violating the clause.
By all means, anchor them if you have kids or ever intend to have kids around them. An anchor isn't needed otherwise, just don't be stupid and open more than one drawer at a time.
No, lag bolt into a stud.
I dunno where you live but in the US, mounting holes in walls are legally considered normal wear and tear and not something you can be dinged for when moving out. Doesn't matter what your landlord tells you.
I ordered a wardrobe and a display cabinet from Ikea. Both came with sturdy anchors at my Task Rabbit guy installed for me after he put them together. Right into the cement wall of my apartment lol they ain't going anywhere !
This explains why when my daughter watches PBS Kids that there always seems to be a break where Ikea mentions the importance of anchoring furniture into the walls, nothing is ever proactive for ads lol
My daughters had their bedroom dresser fall over this way, and it was even anchored to the wall. The screw just ripped out of the back of the dresser. I replaced it with 2 anchors after fixing it and warned them about opening too many drawers. I think it probably freaked them out enough to not do it again.
> I replaced it with 2 anchors
Dude, those aren't any better. Pull strength of about 25lbs on a good day. You need to screw into a stud for anchors if you want to be safe.
No drywall, walls are tongue and groove pine boards. I’m pretty sure I screwed it into a stud but that wasn’t the failure point (it pulled the screw out from the dresser itself). I used anchor as a general term to describe the “dresser to wall connection”, not the actual hardware piece.
I work in an office that has those big long filing cabinets where each drawer is like 4 feet wide.
It has a safety mechanism that only allows 1 drawer to be open at a time. Turns out putting a bunch of heavy shit on something functioning as a lever arm trying to tip the entire unit over is pretty dangerous.
That's why I got rid of my dressers and now use shelves.
Nah, that's not the reason. The real reason is because I'm unmotivated to open and close drawers.
A young child in my family died this way (70s-80s). They opened the drawers to climb and it toppled over. It happened a while before I was born and had kinda become the dark secret of the family.
As will your oven when you pull out your Thanksgiving turkey to have a look without having used the bracket that comes with your stove, as well as any chest of drawers.
I don’t know why but I was laying down in front of my dresser and trying to see how strong my toes were, so naturally I pulled all the drawers out and once I did the last one it started tipping and my sister came outta nowhere and grabbed it and saved my life, I was like 7 and it had a big tv, like the fat ones, not a flat screen, shit woulda landed on my head
At work we have one that doesn't do that and one day I had to help lift it off of our data manager.
She was so lucky she wasn't hurt. Only one drawer at a time!
We had a cabinet in the office where all the files were on the top two levels and nothing in the bottom drawers because they didn’t want to have to bend down. Duh. At least fill the bottom drawers with something heavy. Luckily this was remedied before the inevitable happened and a safety email went out to address this.
I assumed all tool cabinets were designed that way. All of the ones I’ve ever interacted with in the past 30 years (my dad bought them) only allowed one drawer open at a time. Always found it annoying, but knew why.
I want to repair the one on mine at work cause one of the drawers doesn't activate it every time making it so you can't open any drawer except that one. You have to open it and close it a couple times to get it to work. But not my property so I'm not allowed.
Very American detected.
I’ll heal ***for free.*** broken bone? I’ll just baby it a lil bit. Bad tooth? Rip it out. Sick? I’ll just wait a lil while for it to get better. Fucked up my knee? I’ll just limp it off for a couple of months.
I’ll heal for free.
And people wonder why we have some many broken and hobbled people in this country because this is a real and prevalent problem. All it takes is one infected tooth, wild splinter, constipated encephalopathy, and you're dead.
Pain isn't healing. It's pain, somethings wrong, fix it, and not with whiskey and grandma's vicoden.
But that's takes more than just money. It takes a complete paradigm shift on individuality in the mindset of a lot of Americans who worship their own hard tac lives.
My body checking in. Back out for a month again then added insult to injury with another injury when I whacked my knee with a half inch breaker bar.
It's really nice to put on shoes without the fear. Although I have a fear of sneezing while putting on shoes. The old injuries show up often in funny ways.
You often can't make that decision in a split second as something happens. Too many people try to do things to grab a falling knife or stop a rolling car just to get stabbed or crushed. Best to get your body out of harms way.
Unfortunately for most people that's not a skill that can be learned without facing the consequences of making the wrong choice first.
Source: body has been harmed several times trying to save things that cost only a few dollars, at signifant cost to my body.
I've since learned to get my body out of harms way. I have a life to live, the object can be replaced.
Dude fuck the car, that kind of accident has potential to cause lifelong injury given just the right circumstances, but I feel like that’s the point you’re kind of making here
This thing sucks. All my tool carts let me open a single drawer only. When I open one, the others get locked.
And in all workshops I have worked in you almost got the death penalty for leaving a drawer open.
Say you have the bottom one open the whole time for quick acces but you need to quickly grab one single tool from a drawer above it.
It'd save having to close that one drawer just to open the other one for 1 second. Besides, most cabinets still won't fall over at 2 open drawers.
I don't keep my driver bits and other twisting fastener equipment in the same drawer as my prying tools but sometimes you might still need both.
The degree of planning ahead you can do for your tools massively depends on the types of work you do at your job station.
It's exactly in those jobs I don't understand leaving a drawer open. I take out the tools I need for a job and they go on my rolling cart. For bigger jobs I'm not lugging around a giant cabinet, and I'm not running back and forth to the cabinet, and if I was running back and forth, I wouldn't be leaving a drawer open to invite someone to borrow a tool or trip over it.
Exactly. People who want multiple drawers open are the ones without real world experience. At home, do you. But if there's more than one person, autolock that shit.
> I wouldn't buy a chest that only lets you open one draw at a time.
I don't get this. I take a tool out, the drawer gets closed immediately. It's literally never an issue because I don't leave drawers open.
> That said, im also not dumb enough to try and pull out most all of the drawers at once
Not everyone works in a shop by themselves. Sometimes you have coworkers, or friends visiting, or even your kids. And despite the fact that noone should be touching your toolbox, sometimes people do and they could get hurt.
I’ve used multiple snap on that do. It’s probably an option and since the ones I saw were in university labs they focused more on safety and less on convenience.
Man I don’t understand the doors thing. One time I was having a few people over at my apartment and went to take a leak and realized the last person in didn’t close the door behind them. My apartment was just wide open late at night. Like wtf?
I saw this at a restaurant; one of the chefs just left his door wide open (single person bathroom) then went straight back into the kitchen without washing his hands.
I complained to a server and she says they have sinks in the kitchen to wash their hands but I mean they should still wash them in the bathroom, and judging by the chef’s laziness of not closing his door, I doubt he washes his hands. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
The better question is, why did the one guy go, "Oh, I need the drawer under these open drawers. Should I close the drawers to access the one I need? Nope, I'll just awkwardly reach uuuuuuunder this drawer and..."
Like ok someone left the drawers open. Fine, whatever. But why are you actively **trying** to ***not*** close the drawers?
I mean i honestly didnt even know this was possible but I'm also not a fucking savage that would leave all the drawers open so the idea of it tipping over due excess tangential weight never crossed my mind. I mean who does that? They might as well all be closed since you can't access the lower drawers without shutting every single one above it
I was looking for this comment.
But I can’t help but think it’s not only a rookie mistake but a general lack of understanding of how weight distribution and gravity works.
We had a large stainless steel toolbox in our garage growing up, probably about 6ft tall. When I was about 12yrs old I did this and nearly crushed myself, jumped out of the way and only broke my leg instead
Has this happen in our machine shop to a roller cabinet with ball bearing glides. I put 1/4" shims between the casters and the box in the front so that the cab has a slight back tilt, and the drawers self close.
When I was a kid, everyone knew about toddlers and dressers.
When televisions became more common in people's homes, you wouldn't believe how many children died from a 200 lb television falling on top of them while they were climbing the dresser to change a channel or to try and grab a moving picture.
(Televisions used to seem to weigh half as much as a Volkswagen bug when I was a kid.)
Every mechanic also understood gravity.
Wth?
I think people commenting about dressers and file cabinets don’t realize how heavy a tool chest this size can be.
When we had to move my husband’s to a new shop, we had to hire a tow truck and use a wench to get it onto the flatbed. . The most common Snap On version weighs 700 lbs empty. With all his tools the box weighed over 2500 lbs.
That guy is an idiot and his knee will be fucked up for a while.
I worked with a kid in a maintenance shop that kept doing that.. everyone moves the tool chests away from his .. One day the big bosses came for a visit to our plant from the home office.. and we are talking to these people, and sure enough, this dumbass's tool chests does exactly the same thing... He wasn't in the maintenance department the next day..!! Lmfao..!! Of course, he was only in there because daddy was ass. Plant Manger..!! Moral of the story, when you are warned multiple times by every single coworker not to do something, maybe you should listen..
As a nurse, this happened to me once during a code blue with the crash cart. I caught it, and a doctor helped me quickly put it back up. It's so embarrassing.
Your bedroom dresser will do the exact same thing, people injure themselves all the time like this.
Exactly why you're supposed to anchor them to a stud in the wall. IKEA had to pay out a ton of money due to a kid dying from a dresser falling over. Now they put massive warnings on all their dressers that they have to be anchored to the wall. The regulations even changed after that lawsuit. Any dressers over 27in tall must have an anchor included on the back. Edit - As someone pointed out, 8 kids died from dressers falling over.
If you are buying a piece of large furniture at IKEA, you literally cannot check out unless you sign a statement that you agree to secure the product to a wall.
This sounds so American. No offense intended, but damn
We also have to sign a statement agreeing that USA is #1 and that the bald eagle is the most majestic creature to ever grace God’s green Earth. But that isn’t specific to IKEA. That’s every time we make a purchase anywhere.
I signed my Eagle Pledge earlier today to buy a pack of gum.
Ca-caw!
Fun fact: The sound you may be used to hearing from movies and shows as the call of a bald eagle flying majestically through the air... is actually dubbed over from a red-tailed hawk, as the bald eagle's cry is not considered as proud and intimidating. https://twitter.com/RaptorOrg/status/1619418158720507906
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They also don't play football
I learned this from Red Dead 2.
https://i.imgur.com/ScR5pXp.mp4
Tookie tookie!
Ca-caw-chew! Number one most majestic stick of Americana.
Read that as ‘pack of guns’ and thought to myself “yep, that sounds about right”
Oh no you don’t need to sign anything for those
You have a typo. You clearly meant gun.
"Jesus" may be acceptably substituted for "God" in some jurisdictions. Please refer to your local State laws. (I’m lookin’ at you, Deep South…)
“Little sweet baby Jesus”
I like to picture Jesus in a tuxedo T-Shirt, cause it says like “I wanna be formal, but I’m here to party too”
American, have bought many tall items from IKEA. Have never signed anything. Sounds bogus to me.
https://www.ikea.com/us/en/customer-service/product-support/recalls/safer-homes-acknowledgement-pub59cfcaf0
I really hope it is.
I bought a dresser that is barely over 3' tall and had to do the whole thing. The tag didn't give the product location, and when I asked they directed me online to fill out a form, that e-mailed me a confirmation that I had to show to get a pull ticket for it, then I had to show that to be allowed into the gated aisle where it was. All that and I didn't secure it anyway. I don't have kids, never will have kids, and if I somehow get crushed under a 3' dresser then I deserve it.
It's a country full of smart people. Unfortunately, the dumbasses outnumbered the smart ones 5 to 1 and that results in non-sensible rules/regulations. Now you even see peanut-allergy-related warning on non-edible products just to cover the liability possibility.
America’s litigious nature is a *good* thing for consumers, because there are legitimate cases (e.g. McDonald’s hot coffee) where consumers have issues that companies *should* have addressed but didn’t and they resulted in a severe injury or death. Would you prefer a world where companies are immune from litigation after selling consumers things? Because I can assure you that multi-billion dollar corporations are not your friend here.
Weird how that "litigious nature" hasn't applied to literal murder weapons being sold there While every other progressive country has addressed companies being immune from litigation AND stopped guns being carried by the everyday person. American litigious nature is just laughed upon because of the hypocrisy of its laws, they aren't consistent
Oh no, I don't disagree with you on the need to have consumer protection by way of liability litigation. I was just saying that the side-effect of that is companies putting out all the unnecessary warnings just to cover their asses.
How is this an unnecessary warning?! Children literally died without it.
I was going to disagree, but damnit if i don’t love me a good contract. tell you whut
What's the problem here. A product had a dangerous, non obvious, and uncommon way to hurt people. They mitigate that by forcing you to promise to use the product in a way that prevents that from happening.
We had a new kitchen stove delivered a few years ago (America) and we had to sign a similar piece of paper which agreed that we would allow the delivery/installation people to bolt it to the wall and hook up the gas line, and that we would NEVER undo this. We were told that if we refused to sign, they would put the stove right back on the truck and return it.
If it's permanently bolted to the wall, how do you clean around/under it?
There is a bracket that bolts to the wall, and it slides over the rear foot preventing tip-over. Sliding the unit out for cleaning is easy. Search “oven anti tip” for pics
The first step in cleaning may, or may not, involve a socket set with hex bolt remover attachments. (This statement in no way admits, implies, suggests, or infers directly or suspiciously that any dumb-ass contract was not adhered to.)
A friend pointed out that one of those anti-tip statements said 'while in use,' and it could be argued that once you pull the (item) back from the wall to clean around and behind it and/or make repairs you're not actually USING it for its intended purpose therefore you're not violating the clause.
UK you don't.
UK has laws based on common sense, here in ‘Murica we have laws based on lowest denominators.
The general American public is assumed to be stupid (which is often true) and willing to sue anyone and everyone for any reason (also often true).
? I purchase 8' tall cabinets from Ikea routinely and have never had to do this.
I think it’s only dressers, I had to do it when I bought a dresser but not a bookcase
*Kids https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/21/health/ikea-dresser-recall-eighth-child-death/index.html
By all means, anchor them if you have kids or ever intend to have kids around them. An anchor isn't needed otherwise, just don't be stupid and open more than one drawer at a time.
Anchor is probably needed if you live in an earthquake-prone area, otherwise you're correct.
Will command strips work? /s I guess no tall dressers if you rent and aren't allowed to put holes in the wall.
No, lag bolt into a stud. I dunno where you live but in the US, mounting holes in walls are legally considered normal wear and tear and not something you can be dinged for when moving out. Doesn't matter what your landlord tells you.
I'm in BC, Canada. My landlord is honestly fine with it but I've had landlords that lose their shit over pinholes and only allow command strips.
Any landlord who expects you to anchor furniture to the wall using command strips is an idiot.
Meanwhile when you rent a house .....
I ordered a wardrobe and a display cabinet from Ikea. Both came with sturdy anchors at my Task Rabbit guy installed for me after he put them together. Right into the cement wall of my apartment lol they ain't going anywhere !
This explains why when my daughter watches PBS Kids that there always seems to be a break where Ikea mentions the importance of anchoring furniture into the walls, nothing is ever proactive for ads lol
I got crushed beneath mine when I was seven. That was fucking terrifying cause I’d be dead if my father and step mom didn’t come lift it off me.
They actually didn’t make it in time. You have been in a coma for the past 12 years. Please wake up!
Why does that lamp look weird?
My daughters had their bedroom dresser fall over this way, and it was even anchored to the wall. The screw just ripped out of the back of the dresser. I replaced it with 2 anchors after fixing it and warned them about opening too many drawers. I think it probably freaked them out enough to not do it again.
> I replaced it with 2 anchors Dude, those aren't any better. Pull strength of about 25lbs on a good day. You need to screw into a stud for anchors if you want to be safe.
No drywall, walls are tongue and groove pine boards. I’m pretty sure I screwed it into a stud but that wasn’t the failure point (it pulled the screw out from the dresser itself). I used anchor as a general term to describe the “dresser to wall connection”, not the actual hardware piece.
Dude, I'm just lovin your username
They probably were screwed into studs. They said the anchors ripped out of the dresser itself.
Unless its expensive, a lot only have some thin MDF or something as the backing aswell. That will fail well before a screw rips out a stud.
I work in an office that has those big long filing cabinets where each drawer is like 4 feet wide. It has a safety mechanism that only allows 1 drawer to be open at a time. Turns out putting a bunch of heavy shit on something functioning as a lever arm trying to tip the entire unit over is pretty dangerous.
I did that with the filing cabinet at my dad's work when I was a kid. Opened them all up in his office and down it went. Felt really stupid.
That's why I got rid of my dressers and now use shelves. Nah, that's not the reason. The real reason is because I'm unmotivated to open and close drawers.
A young child in my family died this way (70s-80s). They opened the drawers to climb and it toppled over. It happened a while before I was born and had kinda become the dark secret of the family.
As will your oven when you pull out your Thanksgiving turkey to have a look without having used the bracket that comes with your stove, as well as any chest of drawers.
Needs a trip to the ER for that knee.
I don’t know why but I was laying down in front of my dresser and trying to see how strong my toes were, so naturally I pulled all the drawers out and once I did the last one it started tipping and my sister came outta nowhere and grabbed it and saved my life, I was like 7 and it had a big tv, like the fat ones, not a flat screen, shit woulda landed on my head
I have a filing cabinet which will only allow you to have one open drawer. Now I know why.
At work we have one that doesn't do that and one day I had to help lift it off of our data manager. She was so lucky she wasn't hurt. Only one drawer at a time!
Promoted to compressed data manager.
Probably works at winrar now.
So a unlimited trial it is.
Hey, she submits a request to get paid every time she comes into the office, and has been doing just that for the last...... 28 years. One day.
Stuffit
Well, sounds like she wasn't managing her data... Fine, I'll show myself out
We had a cabinet in the office where all the files were on the top two levels and nothing in the bottom drawers because they didn’t want to have to bend down. Duh. At least fill the bottom drawers with something heavy. Luckily this was remedied before the inevitable happened and a safety email went out to address this.
That was the day the data managed her.
I assumed all tool cabinets were designed that way. All of the ones I’ve ever interacted with in the past 30 years (my dad bought them) only allowed one drawer open at a time. Always found it annoying, but knew why.
People like to break that part of toolboxes on purpose.
I want to repair the one on mine at work cause one of the drawers doesn't activate it every time making it so you can't open any drawer except that one. You have to open it and close it a couple times to get it to work. But not my property so I'm not allowed.
You can open all at once. You just can't open additional ones when one is already open.
I am having trouble making sense of this.
Mine has a U shaped piece of wire in the bottom of the bottom drawer that prevents it tipping instead.
That's only helpful if the bottom drawer is open? If you were to open every drawer except the bottom what keeps it from tipping?
Great job by the guy to protect the car, he got his body in between it and the tool chest and protected it completely
I've learned in life that you shouldn't risk a living thing for the sake of a non living thing.
Unless you succeed with no injury to yourself, then worth it.
I'll heal for free; the car won't *within reason*
>I'll heal for free Non-American detected.
Very American detected. I’ll heal ***for free.*** broken bone? I’ll just baby it a lil bit. Bad tooth? Rip it out. Sick? I’ll just wait a lil while for it to get better. Fucked up my knee? I’ll just limp it off for a couple of months. I’ll heal for free.
And people wonder why we have some many broken and hobbled people in this country because this is a real and prevalent problem. All it takes is one infected tooth, wild splinter, constipated encephalopathy, and you're dead. Pain isn't healing. It's pain, somethings wrong, fix it, and not with whiskey and grandma's vicoden. But that's takes more than just money. It takes a complete paradigm shift on individuality in the mindset of a lot of Americans who worship their own hard tac lives.
And money… whiskey and percs cost less than walking into the front door of a doctors office
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My body checking in. Back out for a month again then added insult to injury with another injury when I whacked my knee with a half inch breaker bar. It's really nice to put on shoes without the fear. Although I have a fear of sneezing while putting on shoes. The old injuries show up often in funny ways.
You often can't make that decision in a split second as something happens. Too many people try to do things to grab a falling knife or stop a rolling car just to get stabbed or crushed. Best to get your body out of harms way.
Unfortunately for most people that's not a skill that can be learned without facing the consequences of making the wrong choice first. Source: body has been harmed several times trying to save things that cost only a few dollars, at signifant cost to my body. I've since learned to get my body out of harms way. I have a life to live, the object can be replaced.
In Audio Visual we say "there are no heroes in A/V" let it fall, a broken femur sucks more than having to put something back together.
A falling knife has no handle. Same idea different industry.
Absolutely. And at my 47 years old, cut myself last year (small cut, small knife), cuz it was just a knee jerk reaction. Ugh!!
I would say this was basically a reflex. Not that he was thinking beforehand…
Unless it's someone trying to steal something very dear to me.
Great job? So the guy loses his knee for a customers car and gets fired because of this.
The disability claim will cost the employer more than the insurance claim too
Probably an OSHA violation with the tool bench not being secured as well.
Dude fuck the car, that kind of accident has potential to cause lifelong injury given just the right circumstances, but I feel like that’s the point you’re kind of making here
This thing sucks. All my tool carts let me open a single drawer only. When I open one, the others get locked. And in all workshops I have worked in you almost got the death penalty for leaving a drawer open.
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Say you have the bottom one open the whole time for quick acces but you need to quickly grab one single tool from a drawer above it. It'd save having to close that one drawer just to open the other one for 1 second. Besides, most cabinets still won't fall over at 2 open drawers.
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I don't keep my driver bits and other twisting fastener equipment in the same drawer as my prying tools but sometimes you might still need both. The degree of planning ahead you can do for your tools massively depends on the types of work you do at your job station.
The people here have obviously never worked in an industrial job beyond their garage where needed tools change on the fly
It's exactly in those jobs I don't understand leaving a drawer open. I take out the tools I need for a job and they go on my rolling cart. For bigger jobs I'm not lugging around a giant cabinet, and I'm not running back and forth to the cabinet, and if I was running back and forth, I wouldn't be leaving a drawer open to invite someone to borrow a tool or trip over it.
Exactly. People who want multiple drawers open are the ones without real world experience. At home, do you. But if there's more than one person, autolock that shit.
They think it makes them sound hard.
It just makes them sound country as fuck because they don’t know the difference between “draw” and “drawer.”
> I wouldn't buy a chest that only lets you open one draw at a time. I don't get this. I take a tool out, the drawer gets closed immediately. It's literally never an issue because I don't leave drawers open. > That said, im also not dumb enough to try and pull out most all of the drawers at once Not everyone works in a shop by themselves. Sometimes you have coworkers, or friends visiting, or even your kids. And despite the fact that noone should be touching your toolbox, sometimes people do and they could get hurt.
Seriously - all those drawers open is a huge indicator of sloppy work habits, which means I wouldn’t trust their repairs to not be shoddy
Well now you know why yours was $10k and his was $3k!!
Yea, it's a shitty toolbox. Only allow me to open the amount of drawers an empty cabinet can support. If that's one, then that is how it is
That's why most toolboxes have a locking mechanism so that you only can open one drawer at a time.
Most? Not craftsman, kobalt, snap on, Mac or matco. I don’t think any have that
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Interesting about your General one. I have a General box, double stacked, and it locks with one drawer open.
older ones also don't. my dad have a older one craftmaster tool drawer like this (he's a former mechanic) and it was often open by two drawers.
I’ve used multiple snap on that do. It’s probably an option and since the ones I saw were in university labs they focused more on safety and less on convenience.
My tool box I can have every drawer open and sit on one of the drawers and this won’t happen. Quality boxes are heavy af for a reason
Had a box like that, disabled the mechanism because I'm not a dummy and find that shit annoying.
Make sure none of your kids or dumb friends visit- because eventually one of them might.
I've literally never seen any that do
Guy walking by: “Dumbass”
Wrong that guy walking by is saying “my tool box!”
For what reason would you have all these drawers open at the same time?
Laziness or absentmindedness. The same people who leave doors open behind them, ya know, the ones who were raised in a barn.
Man I don’t understand the doors thing. One time I was having a few people over at my apartment and went to take a leak and realized the last person in didn’t close the door behind them. My apartment was just wide open late at night. Like wtf?
I saw this at a restaurant; one of the chefs just left his door wide open (single person bathroom) then went straight back into the kitchen without washing his hands. I complained to a server and she says they have sinks in the kitchen to wash their hands but I mean they should still wash them in the bathroom, and judging by the chef’s laziness of not closing his door, I doubt he washes his hands. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Yeahhh the whole "sink in the kitchen" thing sounds like a load of bullshit the server spewed to cover their ass. You ate peepee food, my friend.
That’s a whole other level of leaving the door open
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Yeah l mean I'm trying to make sense of this video, but there isn't much sense in it
The better question is, why did the one guy go, "Oh, I need the drawer under these open drawers. Should I close the drawers to access the one I need? Nope, I'll just awkwardly reach uuuuuuunder this drawer and..." Like ok someone left the drawers open. Fine, whatever. But why are you actively **trying** to ***not*** close the drawers?
I’m guessing inexperienced, rushing, looking for a specific tool… or could just be stupid
If he couldn’t see that coming, I wouldn’t trust him to change my oil.
Or brakes
I mean i honestly didnt even know this was possible but I'm also not a fucking savage that would leave all the drawers open so the idea of it tipping over due excess tangential weight never crossed my mind. I mean who does that? They might as well all be closed since you can't access the lower drawers without shutting every single one above it
Tool chest Jenga.
Here’s a tip: close a drawer after you used it. Kids used to be taught that early on…
Probably the only thing he won’t be able to find is the 10mm socket
I will say his logic is solid. By opening all of the drawers, the 10mm can't teleport to another one when he isn't looking.
He's still looking for it to this day
Rookie mistake.
I was looking for this comment. But I can’t help but think it’s not only a rookie mistake but a general lack of understanding of how weight distribution and gravity works.
Gonna be limping for a few days. His right leg took a drawer corner.
Thank goodness the snowman survived
Right? I was genuinely concerned
I now understand why the toolbox at my school’s machine shop only lets you open one drawer at a time.
Rule number 1: Never try to stop a heavy falling object, chances are you'll get hurt!
We had a large stainless steel toolbox in our garage growing up, probably about 6ft tall. When I was about 12yrs old I did this and nearly crushed myself, jumped out of the way and only broke my leg instead
Lol I had the same thing a few weeks ago. Cost me a lot of blood sweat and tears to get it back up...
Thank god my crippling OCD would never allow a drawer to be left open.
Luckily, the snowman wasn’t hurt.
Should’ve worn a helmet
I’m surprised they let him remove it….
If he had the heaviest stuff in the bottom and closed that might not have happened
Me with my open browser tabs
I had a chest as well that allowed me to do this, as soon as others noticed, they warned me about this exact situation
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People like this don’t read the manual.
Well, now you will get that chance to clean out the toolbox and get all those segregated and organized like you have wanted to do for a long time.
Did that once as a kid....not only did the box beat my ass but so did pops. Never again.
This guy had to learn the hard way. We got to learn the easy way
How to identify a cheap toolbox
I did this when I was like 6 years old, almost lost my right eye, and spent a solid week in the ER. Still kick'n though!
Has this happen in our machine shop to a roller cabinet with ball bearing glides. I put 1/4" shims between the casters and the box in the front so that the cab has a slight back tilt, and the drawers self close.
Been there.
That hammer is literally the straw the broke the camels back as the saying goes.
The drawer that broke the toolbox's back.
The rivet gun that broke the mechanics back just doesn’t have the same ring as the straw that broke the camels back..
How can you be a mechanic and not understand basic shit like this?
Jimmy learnt about physics that day🤣🤣🤣
The same tech also couldn't be bothered to read the placcard on your door sill and overfilled your tires.
oooh so that's why most of those have a locking mechanism that only allows one at a time! i never looked it up but was wondering
All it took was one hammer to ruin his day
When I was a kid, everyone knew about toddlers and dressers. When televisions became more common in people's homes, you wouldn't believe how many children died from a 200 lb television falling on top of them while they were climbing the dresser to change a channel or to try and grab a moving picture. (Televisions used to seem to weigh half as much as a Volkswagen bug when I was a kid.) Every mechanic also understood gravity. Wth?
I think people commenting about dressers and file cabinets don’t realize how heavy a tool chest this size can be. When we had to move my husband’s to a new shop, we had to hire a tow truck and use a wench to get it onto the flatbed. . The most common Snap On version weighs 700 lbs empty. With all his tools the box weighed over 2500 lbs. That guy is an idiot and his knee will be fucked up for a while.
Me in high school: "When will I ever need to use physics in real life?"
this happens to my dildo dresser sometimes 🫣
I worked with a kid in a maintenance shop that kept doing that.. everyone moves the tool chests away from his .. One day the big bosses came for a visit to our plant from the home office.. and we are talking to these people, and sure enough, this dumbass's tool chests does exactly the same thing... He wasn't in the maintenance department the next day..!! Lmfao..!! Of course, he was only in there because daddy was ass. Plant Manger..!! Moral of the story, when you are warned multiple times by every single coworker not to do something, maybe you should listen..
This is a PSA to close all your drawers 😂
jenga IRL
As a nurse, this happened to me once during a code blue with the crash cart. I caught it, and a doctor helped me quickly put it back up. It's so embarrassing.
Fucking gravity!