[juhanima]

The way she goes about it, using power tools without goggles and gloves is just horrifying. It's a lovely concept, showing what can be done with the materials and tools available. But I wouldn't recommend such a cavalier approach to anyone in real life. This seems very staged to me anyway, with the result not matching to the process shown. Also the structural integrity and endurance of those constructs seems a bit questionable.

[shitloadofbooks]

Wearing gloves when using most power tools is so unbelievably dangerous.

If your gloves get caught by anything rotating at several thousand RPM, there's a huge chance that the material of the glove will catch on the working edge/face and continue to pull your hand/arms/whole body deeper and deeper.

You also don't have any sense of proprioception or kinesthesia with the glove itself, so it's even easier to accidentally do this, whilst thinking that you're well clear.

[bruckie]

Yes, please don't wear gloves when working around (most) power tools.

My mom was wearing gloves when using the table saw one day. She nicked a finger in the blade and it caught on the fabric and pulled her hand in, mangling her fingers pretty badly. Plastic surgeon did a pretty good job reassembling her, but one finger (the one that ended up with a severed tendon) still can't bend properly.

[ilyt]

Table saws generally come with whole slew of "just please fucking don't"[1]. My grand-grandpa lost a part of the thumb to it, which is still probably low price for a man working in construction most of his life in now-post-communist country where OSHA-equivalent didn't exist.

Like, preferably don't even use hands at all to push it in the first place

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN_w0OD6oIs

[Animats]

There's a solution - SawStop. Works fine, industry reaction to it was a long, sad tale.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SawStop

[buzzerbetrayed]

Except you don’t want to wear gloves with most power tools as it makes them more dangerous.

[ilyt]

Ah, yes, that belt sander is totally out to get ya if you don't have gloves, and that nail gun is gonna kill you without googles lmao.

> Also the structural integrity and endurance of those constructs seems a bit questionable.

Eh, I've seen shacks built worse in worse climate that are older than me.

Aside from some things being a bit weird (why those protruding concrete blocks for wood beams instead of just digging a hole for concrete + sticking beam deeper ? Humidity maybe ?) I don't really see an issue, it looks like it is in place that won't exactly experience hurricane winds

> This seems very staged to me anyway, with the result not matching to the process shown.

Well, it was probably like a week long build so some things were skipped

[wrycoder]

I wear glasses and consider that to be enough with most portable tools, grinders excepted. She's wearing gloves half the time - it's a personal choice. Gloves don't prevent traumatic injury, just abrasion. You be the judge, if your hands are soft.

These are garden structures in the Japanese idiom. They look fine to me. She's clearly made them before. Why do you say the results don't match the processes?

[VectorLock]

Like those very popular "we built an elaborate swimming pool in the middle of the jungle" videos that were debunked.

[Animats]

Guoer, accused of that, has posted some long videos. Over an hour of Diesel engine overhaul. Start to finish on a motor rewinding job. With this one, though, there was probably some assistance not shown. Somehow, a lot of concrete got up to the top of the mountain. There's no reason she shouldn't have some unskilled laborers lifting and carrying.

While she appears to have started the series herself, it's been covered by Xhihua and promoted by the Party. So it does have propaganda aspects.

Her work has scary aspects. The electrical wiring is unsafe. An uncovered knife switch for 220V? No fuses or circuit breakers? Ordinary wire out in the open, not nonmetallic armored? Generators with no voltage regulation? That's 1980s China, not 2020s China. Wiring accessories are cheap in China; price them on Alibaba.

[ilyt]

Well, the videos are pushing the "genius mountain girl" thingy hard.

But I think showing helpers for target audience might've had reverse problem, people would assume just because some man shows up in the shots that they were the ones doing the hard part, even if they were in the end just "unskilled helpers", which sadly happens in many male-dominated industries where woman is automatically assumed to be less skilled or getting help.

> Generators with no voltage regulation? That's 1980s China, not 2020s China. Wiring accessories are cheap in China; price them on Alibaba.

cheap vs zero coz it was pulled off some junkyard probably

[samplatt]

>That's 1980s China, not 2020s China.

HOOOO, boy. Are you wrong there. Major cities sure, and they're improving as a whole, but SO much of China's heavy-industrial and rural provinces are still run on and over systems that mentally invoke the <internally screaming> meme.

[Animats]

You're probably right, but this is new construction.

Guoer rewinds a lot of motors, most of which have a standard cast iron frame and field windings. She's regularly opening up old motors and finding burned-out windings. Badly burned out windings. Clearly, no motor protection circuit breakers were used.

She does use eye protection when angle grinding. She's a real artist with a angle grinder. She makes parts out of scrap sheet and tube with a angle grinder and a welder. I've seen people do worse with a whole machine shop available.

[1] https://www.aliexpress.us/item/2251832671094843.html

[monkpit]

What about them was debunked? Were they just made with machines?

[function_seven]

Yeah. I can't find anything right now, but there have been many takedowns that show the excavator tracks in the background. Also videos that show the aftermath of these "hand-dug pools", where you see a bunch of them clustered in an area (again, with evidence of earth moving equipment).

Other absurdities are when the pool is filled with thousands of gallons of water, one bucket trip at a time.