Airport Baggage System pushers at an international airport somewhere. How does the pusher know when to push the bag in the center without spinning it? Only those with brains in advanced technology know!
As someone who worked in the Logistics industry i have to say that this is acutally a pretty gentle pusher compared to the possible weight it needs to push. First of all, the speed is needed because those intersection points are pretty narrow, if you go to slow you either miss or worse squish a suitcase, secondly who knows what kind of cargo goes by this thing? It could be a suitcase full of lead ingots or a suitcase filled with pillows. Regardless of what's inside, it needs to be pushed and it needs to be done quickly.
Holy shit! This is the epitome of over-engineering. How about putting a ac-reversible conveyor belt with pistons on each end of a frame per se - to get some sweet tilt, right there between lanes? Well, that's just one. And there are so many systems that wouldn't require IMPULSE force, no matter what the shape, fabric and weight of the luggage! What the actual fuck this is!!!
Aleksandar Milic Um so you are going to implement an expensive ac motor/drive that cannot separate baggage if they are too close together? Yeah that makes sense.
xbox3601194 You cannot possibly imagine what I imagined, just from the words I wrote. And you cannot speculate on the system itself without a mechanical & simulation model, especially regarding the cost/effectiveness. Check the one in Barcelona, reddit has the link. My point being: this is ridiculous, in every aspect. No more, no less.
Aleksandar Milic All you need is a simple bar that flips out diagonally to guide the bags onto the new lane, like a railroad track switch. That's assuming they activate the mechanisms whenever a new flight is being loaded and not for each individual bag.
Aleksandar Milic Sorry honey. You cannot have an ac motor without an ac motor drive. These are expensive. You could have, however, a simple pneumatic cylinder actuated diverter bar. Much more cost effect in initial engineering and routine maintenance. You must still be in school obviously.
I know how this works my dad who worked in an airport had a video of this first the luggage goes through an machine that scans it that machine scans for where the luggage is going then that information goes to the “punching “machine and the luggage gets punched to an place for example if your luggage is going to Canada then the machine will punch it to an line of bags that goes to Canada now in this day there are other machines that do the same but more friendly so that the luggage doesn’t break but there are people that throw your luggage really hard and if your luggage is hard plastic it will break mine broke because an employee grabbed my luggage and smashed it now it has an huge hole in it so be careful apparently you can tell the airline that your luggage broke and they are going to pay for it idk if that’s all the airlines
Jin Kazama I brought it all the way from Canada to India. Total of 20+ hours of travel! I guess I threw a laptop in there too! (I had to bring 2 laptops that time) lol Playing Max Payne 3 now on that PS3!! :P
We called those pushers “kickers” in my day. There were also tilt trays, in-line diverters and probably many other technologies, each had their own +/-‘s.
Luis Matos Are you stupid? 1) You now know how these machines operate and how they may damage your stupid $2,000 luggage. You are the only one to blame if your $2,000 luggage gets fucked up. Go take a private jet next time. if you can afford to spend $2,000 on something that only comes with you during travel that is meant to protect the contents then you can afford a private jet. Simple as that. 2) When you park your car, there is constant variable that can damage said car, unlike the above example where there is a constant variable that may damage your property.
@adamarzo r u stupid!!!! TAKE A PRIVATE JET!!! WTF WHAT ODINARY PERSON HAS A FUCKING PRIVATE JET!!! Also 2,000$ is alot different from probably around 2,000,000 million dollars for the cost of a jet
Luke Smith What ordinary person spends $2,000 on luggage because it has a brand name attached to it? You're so young you don't even understand you can hire private jets. Also, if you can blow $2,000 on luggage you can certainly hire a private jet for your travels.
The speed is probably for high volume times. Holiday seasons, a LOT of bags must come on there. Not fast=no bags for you. Also, it has to push fast because some of those bags are SUPER heavy, 90kilos or more (200+LB)
The tag they attach to your bag. That has to be how the machine knows when to push the bag. Something must read the tag and then trigger the push at the appropriate time and chute.
WDZAjax Don't mark it as fragile. Fragile marks tend to be ignored from time to time, as I think happened to some dudes cello. A rather expensive cello at that, I might add.
any instrment, check it at the gate, that way it will go directly to the aircraft. even regular stuff mark as fragile, still goes through a belt system, just not one that beats luggage like these pushers do.
It looks worse than it really is... I've seen these up close, and it's basically a swing motion with a roller on the end of it. It doesn't just push it to the next belt, the roller guides it over using an arc motion. If you are sitting on the belt yourself, it'll push you over to the next belt with little to no bruising, and considering we're just bags of meat that's pretty good.
Sigh!!! I've spent many a night shift rebuilding Bae Pushers the same as those ones. and for those who want to know how they push at the right time I will explain in simple terms but only if requested cause I might bore everyone ;-) by the way they are still used all over the world even heathrow but are slowly being phased out for new less complicated and faster hitting designs.Incase you are wondering about your bags being hit hard.
I've always carried on. I don't understand the insane packing most people do. A small backpack, properly packed can easily sort you out for 2 weeks. Don't pack toiletries, that will save a ton of space for a start. Get one of the travel towels which compress to nothing. Beyond that just pick stuff you know that you will wear. Also consider whether it's worth taking certain things, such as flip flops when you can usually pick up some cheap ones when you get there.
bustaphatty Most hotels supply them and if you're in the ultra budget places then when you land the airports sell them on the way out. Packing them is a waste of space.
Laughing Achilles Well most airports don't allow you to put many items into the carry on. Razors for shaving, liquids like sun screen and so on. Also you'll probably have more stuff with you on your way back if you want to shop, unless you're planning to buy a travel bag on every holiday.
Laughing Achilles I don't think you interpreted my comment correctly. I'm saying if you're only gonna bring a carry on there are lots of things they won't allow you to pack that you might need. More importantly most people will carry more stuff with them on their way home from a holiday due to shopping and such which would be hard to fit into a carry on. You could buy a bag during your trip but it'd be a waste to do that for every holiday.
if y'all know how a baggage room works, you would see this is the only way for it to work effluence. if you don't want stuff to break, don't check it, take it in carry one. If you have to check it, check it at the gate, or put it as fragile.
Please can someone re-edit this to have either JCVD or the old spice guy Hadouken the bags, would be funny as hell lol. Unfortunately I don't have the skill or software to do it myself
it missed one of the cases. or was it 'selecting' cases based on reading the bar-code? but if so, how could it read the bar-code on every case if its not the correct way up? or was the 'missed' case destined to be 'lost luggage' ?
Late reply...they have things called "ATRs" or automatic tag readers. They have usually 10-18 or so scan heads all around the conveyor that pick up the tag no matter which way it faces. Then the bag is tracked via photo eyes (light break sensors) attached to the conveyors and communicating with the PLCs, so it knows where they are and can push the right bag to the right spot at the right time.
In the description it says 'how does the machine know when to hit the bag at the right time' and honestly I don't think it's that difficult, I mean wouldn't u just need a motion sensor to tell the machine when something is infront of it
More like Airport Baggage *Puncher* I came back from Russia and got home to find that all 12 of the Faberge eggs I stole were smashed to shit. TO SHIT!
They couldn't design it to push, pull, or angle your luggage. They have to (word of the day) suggilate the hell out of it with robotic Muhammad Ali? Such a recumbentibus to our precious belongings! My gold edition Apple Watch was it that bag.
I just thought my stuff would be.. handled with more care. I travel a lot and store my youngest in the suitcase so its worry-some he's being treated to brutally by "baggage system pushers"
"The future is going to be wonderful once machines start doing manual labor for us. They don't get tired. They don't get upset. They won't take out their frustration on your luggage because they've had a bad day." Fast forward 20 years. "FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.............."
Holy crap, why don't they just make it so it bashes the thing through the air, clear to the final conveyor a few hundred yards away....why so freakin' rough? Micheal, that thing could break bones. One more reason to just drive.
We need these at stores for when people take too long at the register.
BinkieMcFartnuggets No, we need them for the people who stand too close in line at the register when someone is paying for the goods.
BinkieMcFartnuggets It's you again. We also need them on the front of our cars for when people won't gtfo the way.
What an interesting solution in the age of fragile technology~
As someone who worked in the Logistics industry i have to say that this is acutally a pretty gentle pusher compared to the possible weight it needs to push. First of all, the speed is needed because those intersection points are pretty narrow, if you go to slow you either miss or worse squish a suitcase, secondly who knows what kind of cargo goes by this thing? It could be a suitcase full of lead ingots or a suitcase filled with pillows. Regardless of what's inside, it needs to be pushed and it needs to be done quickly.
that machine doesn't seem to be happy with his job
Holy shit! This is the epitome of over-engineering.
How about putting a ac-reversible conveyor belt with pistons on each end of a frame per se - to get some sweet tilt, right there between lanes?
Well, that's just one. And there are so many systems that wouldn't require IMPULSE force, no matter what the shape, fabric and weight of the luggage!
What the actual fuck this is!!!
Aleksandar Milic Um so you are going to implement an expensive ac motor/drive that cannot separate baggage if they are too close together? Yeah that makes sense.
xbox3601194 You cannot possibly imagine what I imagined, just from the words I wrote. And you cannot speculate on the system itself without a mechanical & simulation model, especially regarding the cost/effectiveness. Check the one in Barcelona, reddit has the link.
My point being: this is ridiculous, in every aspect. No more, no less.
Aleksandar Milic All you need is a simple bar that flips out diagonally to guide the bags onto the new lane, like a railroad track switch.
That's assuming they activate the mechanisms whenever a new flight is being loaded and not for each individual bag.
Hmm yes because youtube comment section is the best place to spread your new innovative ideas.
Aleksandar Milic Sorry honey. You cannot have an ac motor without an ac motor drive. These are expensive. You could have, however, a simple pneumatic cylinder actuated diverter bar. Much more cost effect in initial engineering and routine maintenance. You must still be in school obviously.
So that explains all the broken mail order brides
No wonder all my turtles died. :(
Alexander Hirt what?! you have turtles in a suitcase?!
Savvy Jones lol.. illegal pets. Don't you get it?
Alexander Hirt At least your Turtles were Happy Together
Reio Kimura turtles are not illegal pets. this is murica
You just made my day
I know how this works my dad who worked in an airport had a video of this first the luggage goes through an machine that scans it that machine scans for where the luggage is going then that information goes to the “punching “machine and the luggage gets punched to an place for example if your luggage is going to Canada then the machine will punch it to an line of bags that goes to Canada now in this day there are other machines that do the same but more friendly so that the luggage doesn’t break but there are people that throw your luggage really hard and if your luggage is hard plastic it will break mine broke because an employee grabbed my luggage and smashed it now it has an huge hole in it so be careful apparently you can tell the airline that your luggage broke and they are going to pay for it idk if that’s all the airlines
"Okay, today I will control my destructive robotic impulses and be nice to the bags."
*Bags pass by machine*
"Get the... FUCK OUTTA HERE"
Excuse me Mr. airline baggage pusher machine I think you're being a little too rough with my bag.
I don't blame that machine if I was programmed to push luggage for the rest of my life instead of making food I'd be pissed to
I loaded a monitor and a ps3 in my luggage before. So relieved it didn't break. O_O
Jin Kazama same here!
Prashanth Akunuri Gamer High Five!
Bunghole lovers. Lolz. XD
Jin Kazama I brought it all the way from Canada to India. Total of 20+ hours of travel! I guess I threw a laptop in there too! (I had to bring 2 laptops that time) lol
Playing Max Payne 3 now on that PS3!! :P
Hieu Pham So you're saying that It's ok to call you a stupid idiot. Right?
Don know why i cant stop laughing
Lol I just pictured u laughing at luggage being violently pushed around.
Thumbs up if a certain giraffe/penguin/bare-ass bear brought you here.
Or Robbie
I dare someone to hop on the conveyor and get smashed by that mechanism.
Michael "Gentle Giant" Brown nice display picture per say m'good sir, gg
vvvortic It's perfect for this post
Michael "Gentle Giant" Brown challenge accepted! ..... where is it? ';. \
Michael "Gentle Giant" Brown Steve-O will do it if you cheer for him
You'll do it in a bag of applejacks and
turkey.
0:30 That lucky bastard.
A boxer couldn't punch that hard with brass knuckles on. This machine makes Ace Ventura look like a damn good delivery man!
@aidanhancock1 yes. yes it is. i think newer systems have "diverters" which are arms that just shift the bag over.
But. But. This wasn't how it was in Toy Story ;-;
We called those pushers “kickers” in my day. There were also tilt trays, in-line diverters and probably many other technologies, each had their own +/-‘s.
You’ve sent me down a rabbit hole of airport luggage handling technology
Luggage is to protect the contents. Think of that next time you unload on the baggage counter lady because your 400 dollar gucci bag got a scratch.
Just like a car is there just to get you from point A to point B, think of that next time someone scratch the paint all the way.
Luis Matos Are you stupid?
1) You now know how these machines operate and how they may damage your stupid $2,000 luggage. You are the only one to blame if your $2,000 luggage gets fucked up. Go take a private jet next time. if you can afford to spend $2,000 on something that only comes with you during travel that is meant to protect the contents then you can afford a private jet. Simple as that.
2) When you park your car, there is constant variable that can damage said car, unlike the above example where there is a constant variable that may damage your property.
@adamarzo r u stupid!!!! TAKE A PRIVATE JET!!! WTF WHAT ODINARY PERSON HAS A FUCKING PRIVATE JET!!! Also 2,000$ is alot different from probably around 2,000,000 million dollars for the cost of a jet
Luke Smith What ordinary person spends $2,000 on luggage because it has a brand name attached to it?
You're so young you don't even understand you can hire private jets. Also, if you can blow $2,000 on luggage you can certainly hire a private jet for your travels.
The speed is probably for high volume times. Holiday seasons, a LOT of bags must come on there. Not fast=no bags for you.
Also, it has to push fast because some of those bags are SUPER heavy, 90kilos or more (200+LB)
I'm going to pack an airbag on my next trip, that will be fun.
The tag they attach to your bag. That has to be how the machine knows when to push the bag. Something must read the tag and then trigger the push at the appropriate time and chute.
Who here from reddit conveyor kid?
me (4 years later)
Ya
meh
Some LV bags got scratches/punches!! Dayum!
This is old (mid 90's) BAE technology, photoeyes and shaft encoders make this all possible.
Was thinking of packing my PC components in a suitcase...
Thank you for uploading this, Bowfin.
Thank you for posting this!
This is the beginning of skynet I can see this machine working as a guard and pushing people from the entrance
I hate it when they break my socks.
I work at an airport as a luggage handler and my airport has someting like this aswell but waay kinder for the bags, this seems extreme
WELL GEE THERE GOES MY RED EPIC CAMERA DASHED TO PIECES!!!
Dammit, you killed my cat!!
What if there are fragile items inside, like glassware and wafers? What if the bag was a luxury one? So thankful for this video... Now we know.
Buenomars mark stuff as fragile, gate check, or carry on. dont put breakable stuff in normal luggage.
WDZAjax Don't mark it as fragile. Fragile marks tend to be ignored from time to time, as I think happened to some dudes cello. A rather expensive cello at that, I might add.
any instrment, check it at the gate, that way it will go directly to the aircraft. even regular stuff mark as fragile, still goes through a belt system, just not one that beats luggage like these pushers do.
It looks worse than it really is... I've seen these up close, and it's basically a swing motion with a roller on the end of it. It doesn't just push it to the next belt, the roller guides it over using an arc motion. If you are sitting on the belt yourself, it'll push you over to the next belt with little to no bruising, and considering we're just bags of meat that's pretty good.
That explains my broken iPhone
Sigh!!! I've spent many a night shift rebuilding Bae Pushers the same as those ones. and for those who want to know how they push at the right time I will explain in simple terms but only if requested cause I might bore everyone ;-)
by the way they are still used all over the world even heathrow but are slowly being phased out for new less complicated and faster hitting designs.Incase you are wondering about your bags being hit hard.
I've always carried on. I don't understand the insane packing most people do. A small backpack, properly packed can easily sort you out for 2 weeks.
Don't pack toiletries, that will save a ton of space for a start. Get one of the travel towels which compress to nothing. Beyond that just pick stuff you know that you will wear. Also consider whether it's worth taking certain things, such as flip flops when you can usually pick up some cheap ones when you get there.
Laughing Achilles how do you toilet with no toiletries?
bustaphatty
Most hotels supply them and if you're in the ultra budget places then when you land the airports sell them on the way out. Packing them is a waste of space.
Laughing Achilles Well most airports don't allow you to put many items into the carry on. Razors for shaving, liquids like sun screen and so on. Also you'll probably have more stuff with you on your way back if you want to shop, unless you're planning to buy a travel bag on every holiday.
2dreamy
Yeah that just reinforces my point.
Laughing Achilles I don't think you interpreted my comment correctly. I'm saying if you're only gonna bring a carry on there are lots of things they won't allow you to pack that you might need. More importantly most people will carry more stuff with them on their way home from a holiday due to shopping and such which would be hard to fit into a carry on. You could buy a bag during your trip but it'd be a waste to do that for every holiday.
Well that explains a lot.
How do we stage a raid to do battle with this demon?
if y'all know how a baggage room works, you would see this is the only way for it to work effluence. if you don't want stuff to break, don't check it, take it in carry one. If you have to check it, check it at the gate, or put it as fragile.
So this is 5 years old, imagine how much technology was ruined between then and now.
idk why I find this funny lol.
So that's why my ipad, laptop, and pretty much everything else in my bag was broken
Sucker punches for luggages!
so this is how you take care of my bag.. hmm. can't trust that airport alrdy...haha
That ain't no machine, that's Chuck Norris fist
Please can someone re-edit this to have either JCVD or the old spice guy Hadouken the bags, would be funny as hell lol. Unfortunately I don't have the skill or software to do it myself
And I am here ... wondering how those bags can survive :(
it missed one of the cases.
or was it 'selecting' cases based on reading the bar-code?
but if so, how could it read the bar-code on every case if its not the correct way up?
or was the 'missed' case destined to be 'lost luggage' ?
Late reply...they have things called "ATRs" or automatic tag readers. They have usually 10-18 or so scan heads all around the conveyor that pick up the tag no matter which way it faces. Then the bag is tracked via photo eyes (light break sensors) attached to the conveyors and communicating with the PLCs, so it knows where they are and can push the right bag to the right spot at the right time.
Their goes that expensive duty free camera.
No wonder my guitar came back cracked.
Whats even worse is that the machine actually missed a bag.
I can imagine what a thousand dollar laptop inside a bag!! 😱
No worries, they steal every valuable goodies before this comes...
this is why your luggage should only consist of CLOTHING, and your carry-on should only be electronics
In the description it says 'how does the machine know when to hit the bag at the right time' and honestly I don't think it's that difficult, I mean wouldn't u just need a motion sensor to tell the machine when something is infront of it
Imagine how those toy story guys felt.......
Do we put pets on that
This is a way of detecting bombs.
I believe it's that shitty where I live.
...and people complain when baggage handlers are rough with their bags!
Makes me want to ship a big bag of flour...
thats why my suitcase always gets damaged
IT FREAKS ME OUT AT THE BEGINNING
0:30 Now we know why some bags get "lost".
Y esto, sólo en una pequeña parte del recorrido. Luego algunos se preguntarán porqué las maletas llegan como llegan: destrozadas.
My favourite Sonic level
and people think that handlers are the only ones that break bags 😂 like trust me the machines do much worse
That machines' rapid is at 100%. Lower to 25%
Why is a video from 9/11/10 about airport baggage systems going viral on 4/17/15
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that's why you carry your electronics.
More like Airport Baggage *Puncher*
I came back from Russia and got home to find that all 12 of the Faberge eggs I stole were smashed to shit. TO SHIT!
Oh no! My cabbages!!
Wow! Last time I ever check a bag. No wonder stuff breaks! This is an outrage!
Hulk...SMASH!
Wtf lol they most definitely could have thought this through a lot more.
Why not, oh I don't know, curve the road of where the luggage is going?
Yep, that's an overly engineered machine.
KA-BLAM!
Where is this at
They couldn't design it to push, pull, or angle your luggage. They have to (word of the day) suggilate the hell out of it with robotic Muhammad Ali? Such a recumbentibus to our precious belongings! My gold edition Apple Watch was it that bag.
***** It was on my arm, it's a prosthetic that I keep in my luggage, the watch was on that.
Hmm. So that's why my 400mm f2.8 was broken!
This isn't about the luggage is it, pusher? Who hurt you?
So violent.
Exactly what happens to all your boxes labeled "Fragile" in the back of all USPS, FexEX, and UPS stores.
That's messed up, what if there is a bomb in there, that thing could break it... Smh
I just thought my stuff would be.. handled with more care. I travel a lot and store my youngest in the suitcase so its worry-some he's being treated to brutally by "baggage system pushers"
アームのパワー強すぎやろ。
hope none of the souvenirs were made out of glass or ceramics
My Nutella!
You missed one.
It's like it is being punched by Optimus Prime ;)
What if its fragile????????
"The future is going to be wonderful once machines start doing manual labor for us. They don't get tired. They don't get upset. They won't take out their frustration on your luggage because they've had a bad day."
Fast forward 20 years.
"FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.............."
Holy crap, why don't they just make it so it bashes the thing through the air, clear to the final conveyor a few hundred yards away....why so freakin' rough? Micheal, that thing could break bones. One more reason to just drive.
*Suddenly hear glass breaking noises*....
They got this from Japan. Only Japan uses it on humans for entertainment. Go figure.