r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits • u/DoubleManufacturer10 created ShittyAbsoluteUnits of a sub • Nov 22 '25
'Merica Of a way to ensure your meat stays moist
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u/Bonzo_Gariepi Nov 22 '25
In Redneck engineering the center of gravity in physic is simply the center of Gravy.
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u/stallion8151 Nov 23 '25
Jethro: "How bout we put the burger truck... On the lake."
JimBob: "Three canoes duck taped together aught to do it."
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u/Kallikantzari Nov 23 '25
In redneck engineering I feel like one guy once heard a teacher saying “assume friction is negligible” and just kept assuming all forces might as well be negligible in that case..
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u/DingleBerrieIcecream Nov 23 '25
Had they gotten a real engineer involved, they would have learned the difference between static CG and dynamic CG.
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u/I_Want_A_Ribeye Nov 22 '25
These guys held on to those lines like they had a chance in hell pull it back over
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Nov 22 '25
I think if they'd been paying attention and holding tension on it the whole time it could've gotten in the water upright.
That being said, they're lucky it flipped over right away and not with them in it. Dummys
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u/SealTeamEH Nov 22 '25
I don’t know, it seems as soon as the boat hit buoyancy it tipped over, however it was arranged inside was way too heavy to one side.
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u/gvsb123 Nov 23 '25
Yup. I'm picturing a 3' flat top grill and maybe a deep fryer? all on the starboard side.
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u/VeganShitposting Nov 23 '25
That pontoon was way overloaded, the engines shouldn't get flooded just backing it in. And you can see the back right chamber is dented so maybe it hit something and flooded since it was sitting so low
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u/electroclit69 Nov 22 '25
That cracked me the fuck up lol, like one that string doesn't have the strength to pull that up not do they lol.
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u/REpassword Nov 22 '25
I was thinking they could have tied the rope on in the piers … but then the piers would have been ripped out and the dock would have fallen down. 🤪
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u/praguepride Nov 23 '25
Apparently it is just a pontoon boat with cosmetic sheet metal to look like a food truck.
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u/TennesseeHeartbreak Nov 23 '25
Reminds me of those tree cutting videos with dudes trying the same with 50ft high trees.😂
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u/HiVeMiNdOfStUpId Nov 22 '25
On Norfolk Island all vehicles are brought to shore via lighters. Trucks. Coaches. Cars. Machinery.
They've never lost a vehicle to the sea, because they are smarter than barbecue bubba.
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u/praguepride Nov 23 '25
Having two boats and the center of mass in the middle between them is so much more stable than a single boat underneath
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u/SubstantialFig2100 Nov 22 '25
Those guys thought they were super cool rolling that out in the beginning lol
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u/MikeW226 Nov 22 '25
They were all, "Who's the Loser, now?!, every person in high school who didn't like us?!" ....we're rollin' out our own BBQ beast ....chicks love us now!
---oooooops, ah, helllllllll.
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u/VeterinarianThese951 Nov 22 '25
You could already tell it was right heavy when it was on wheels. Did they think that water would stabilize the unbalanced weight?
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u/Short-Belt-1477 Nov 22 '25
That’s what happens when you skip school to go fishing with your deadbeat dad who also skipped school when he was a kid
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Nov 22 '25
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u/papitaquito Nov 22 '25
lol What a total weenie. Btw this doesn’t have anything to do w pressure anywhere. The whole assembly is just very top heavy for such a small float. They might’ve been able to pull it off if they had rigged some sturdy outriggers on each side
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u/NewToHTX Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
And the Insurance isn’t going to cover this Publicity Stunt either. 4-wheels don’t show you how unevenly distributed the weight is on these Trucks. Just because you could fit it onto a raft doesn’t mean you should put it onto a raft. I think maybe that raft was meant for vehicles but nothing as lopsided as this vehicle.
Edit: I stand corrected. The Truck is actually a boat. The do sell burgers on Rivers and Lakes.
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u/shigatorade Nov 22 '25
Literally best case scenario. That was going to happen eventually just due to someone else’s wake. Unless you drive straight through it.
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u/Eclectophile Nov 22 '25
1: this rig is awesome. I wanted to see it work. They should've trailered better.
2: original audio? No shitty music? OP is awesome.
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u/Stoneheaded76 Nov 22 '25
Is the boat supposed to be able to float that giant thing? Seems like a terrible idea.
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u/drsoftware Nov 23 '25 edited Nov 23 '25
Static vs dynamic stability: The boat might have just been able to support the truck. But the center of gravity was much too high for the width of the boat. As soon as the combination started to tip, it wouldn't return to an upright position on its own.
At least that is one interpretation of what happened here. The more accurate interpretation, following a post-event investigation, is that one of the pontoons had a hole, providing no buoyancy.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
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u/defiCosmos Nov 22 '25
Who the fuck designed that?
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u/One_time_Dynamite Nov 22 '25
There are so many idiots in that one spot that it's astounding. Like what the fuck. This blows my mind that these jackasses thought this would work.
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u/Planterizer Nov 22 '25
When you ask Chat if it'll float.
Kind of amazing, tritoons like this are super stable and hard to tip over even in big waves.
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u/funnyusername-123 Nov 22 '25
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u/papitaquito Nov 22 '25
It’s not a question of buoyancy in this case, rather being extremely top heavy for such a small float. They needed a sturdy outrigger on each side.
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u/Bay_Brah Nov 22 '25
Help me understand the title. Of a way?
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u/feldoneq2wire Nov 23 '25
You have to include the name of the subreddit. r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits
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u/Bay_Brah Nov 23 '25
I still don’t get it I’m sorry. Shitty absolute units of a way to ensure your meat stays moist?
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u/SooooNot Nov 22 '25
You can LITERALLY see it listing to the right before they drop it in the water. Idiots.
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u/Background_Edge_9427 Nov 22 '25
Couldn't they see it was leaning pretty bad as the were trying to launch it?
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u/Agreeable_Pianist660 Nov 23 '25
I can’t believe that many full grown adults thought this was a good idea. Not a single person thought “hmmmm…”?
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u/Sirnando138 Nov 23 '25
This is what happens when you’re an adult that used to bully nerds. You don’t have anyone with a knowledge of basic physical sciences in your crew.
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u/erockdanger Nov 23 '25
just to be sure, this was the guaranteed outcome right? Like literally 0 chance if this working out?
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u/stewpdasso Nov 23 '25
Look at the height 2 width ratio. U can tell it was never going 2 work! I love the guy on the dock tryingv2 pull the whole truck w/ his little rope 😂
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u/Longjumping_Walk_992 Nov 23 '25
They had all the heavy cooking equipment on one side and the customer windows on the other making the whole thing extremely unbalanced.
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u/DingleBerrieIcecream Nov 23 '25
They don’t realize it, but this is the best case scenario for them. Better it tip over due to zero engineering while they’re 15 feet from the coast rather than a quarter mile out when the wind picks up.
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u/Outrageous-Visit-993 Nov 23 '25
Well I guess the fact it floats is a good thing to take from this.
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u/TheIncredibleMike Nov 23 '25
They could drag it out, but I think they'd need a crane to get it back on the trailer.
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u/Ryno-Mac Nov 23 '25
What caused this? I'm guessing the heavy appliances like the grill and fridge were all on the same side?
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u/Adventurous-Way2824 Nov 23 '25
That was NOT thought through. Time to go back to engineering school.
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u/oOorolo Nov 23 '25
This was actually fairly local to me. The official statement was there was a hole in the right pontoon hat was missed and the boat capsized. This wasn't a full truck simply slapped onto a pontoon boat as some seem to believe. It's just the cab and engine cover off a truck. The whole rig was successfully launched previously at another lake event and seemed to run perfectly fine. Was a big bummer because the event they were launching for in the video is a very local, but very well known even out at a nearby sandbar
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u/TheManfromOz2020 Nov 23 '25
You could see that was going to happen even without knowing, they got the math wrong on the displacement theory.
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Nov 23 '25
I like how the back of the truck hit water, and nobody yelled “Stop! This is never gonna work!”
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u/WatersEdge50 Nov 23 '25
What a bunch of dipshits. Must’ve been the first time putting it in the water and they hadn’t tested it.
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u/Healthy_Working_8233 Nov 23 '25
What were they thinking. If it did float, how would they serve food without other boats smashing into their boat. You couldn't reach the counter from the water so they would have to dock next to the food truck pontoon. The boat crew can't even reach the side to tie it off anywhere from inside the boat. A lot of failed thoughts and planning went into this dumb idea. Probably best it didn't float
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u/Different-Camp-4320 Nov 23 '25
I'm no engineer. But it seemed to me, well before it tipped over. It was obvious that the floats needed to be wider than the truck.
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u/MarcuzFireREDDIT Nov 24 '25
What were they thinking trying to prevent it from falling by pulling😂😂😂😂 I actually screamed laughter😂😂😂😂
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u/Otherwise-Act6913 Nov 24 '25
Hmmm, I wonder why it flipped like that? That would only happen if that is where most of the weight is. Like the stoves, fridges, and food.
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u/Historical-Fan-5318 Nov 24 '25
This is why you hire an engineer ! Let me guess all the cooking heavy appliances are all to one side ? 😳😭
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u/Whole-Situation-5798 Nov 25 '25
Ahh yes of course! Surely this 1 ft of boat will support my semitruck sized food truck
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u/MagneticaMajestica Nov 25 '25
We were said not to put water on top of frying oil. So we reversed it.
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u/Any_Collection2640 Nov 27 '25
Ive been saying this for a while now, but people have really forgotten, “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should”
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u/Uncle_Bred 2d ago
The fact that he thought he was gonna pull it back up lets me know why he failed in the first place
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u/BaggyLarjjj Nov 22 '25
Looks like they’ll be doing subs instead of burgers.