Ever since I first watched this I now get that riff in my head before I'm about to do something stupid..... it *usually* stops me! I even grabbed the riff onto my phone and can play it through a Bluetooth speaker at work when I see someone else about to do something stupid, and it usually works, or makes them angry and ask me for a hand, which is still safer I suppose! 🙃
I graduated in '07 and all throughout high school in Shop class when we had downtime we'd get the option to study or watch this and everyone would jump up raving for 'Shake Hands With Danger'. At the time it was funny to us and some would just sleep because the lights would usually be off, but now that I'm 34 and working in these fields I fully appreciate having this safety message etched into my brain being watched a countless number of times as a teenager all 4 years. Good times man.
A friend worked on huge electrically powered drum dryers. He always carried his own keyed locks to lock out the breakers that powered these drums. Other guys doing the same job said he was being "an old lady" to be so careful. A couple of years later one of those guys died when someone turned on a dryer which roasted him alive and tumbled him around inside the 800°F drum. There wasn't much left by the time they found him. And no cremation was necessary.
I operated heavy equipment for years and I can tell all of you who might be giggling at this, that shit can go down in a heartbeat. I got more stories than what was depicted here.
just look at a gore, it is alot of industrial security cams, lots of chinese guys getting crushed to death. a guy in a steel machine and 100 tons of hot steel crush and burn him alive. the most famous one is where a guy reaches over and gets caught in a large lathe before his friend can stop it, his entire body is wrapped around a metal pole, and then is spun fast enough so that his entire body is flung in different pieces across the machine shop. arms, legs, parts of organs, and a squished flat skull. dont screw around with heavy machinery. its a one way trip to the morgue, and a closed casket funeral.
Anyone else feel that this video is just such a perfectly preserved piece of history? lol i'm just happy its been preserved through the powers of the internet
I do, but one thing I don't like is they never blame the person in charge for anything. If someone said to me, "Hey, I don't know how to operate this big ass machine." I wouldn't say, "Oh just back her up and set her down nice and easy." Part of the problem is there are too many idiots in charge as well
Imagine being a construction employee in the 80s being forced to watch this and be miserable the whole time....yet 3 million people have watched this voluntarily
I've had to watch modern versions of these, though not with this type of equipment. More like, spills, cut off electricity and things like that. We got the point but still cracked jokes for some of the dramatizations.
My dads uncle used to work at a power plant in Marietta Ohio and he worked on boilers and he had these huge wrenches and when he died they went down to get his tools and he welded his damm toolbox to a plate of 12 gauge steel and welded that to the bed of his truck and the power company took like an hour to cut it off with a cutting torch
Been climbing in and on dangerous machines my whole life. Even after locking out and verifying its off. My hair still stands up. When you lose fear of what your around is when accidents happen. Never, ever let someone push you to work faster either.
I work in aircraft maintenance and the one taboo phrase to ever say is rushing maintenance. It doesn’t matter how slow you’re doing things, if you’re on the job no one can tell you to do it faster.
@@The_ZeroLine I don't really want to, unless *I'm* the one playing it. I can play it any time, it's a simple but effective riff on the lowest (thickest) 2 strings.
@@bluedemon9985when my dad worked on cars and I helped him, we'd always look at 'how it was going to go wrong' before we started and prepare accordingly- it's all well and good following a process, they're usually right, but taking that moment of awareness helps avoid accidents
The other night I was driving home from work when a text came through, and I was tempted to check my phone and reply, but then I thought, "no, that would be shaking hands with danger." So, thank you, Caterpillar, for reminding us all to be aware.
@@mountainrunner6922 Idiots like you think safety is "Funny" I was a foreman in a shop and owned my own saw guys do many STUPID things that would get them killed,Safety is no joke😡
This song plays in my head automatically whenever I think about(or am...) doing some sketchy shit. Seeing this film won't prevent all risky behavior, but it WILL make you stop and think about what you're about to do, which counts for a lot.
You know. As someone who is a construction worker who has only known modern safety practices I'm actually super thankful for stuff like this and the safety that has been added to the industry. I'm healthy safe and don't have lung conditions or any other long term health problems because of exposure of physical injury.
@@khhnator sure but at least I do know that on renovation jobs I've been on of older buildings there were extensive health safety checks done on the materials and any identified hazards were removed. They also require respirators for dust and other airborne hazards on projects and use methods like wet cutting and drilling to eliminate airborne particles. Equipment safety is also much stricter as well as scaffolding, fall protection, and protection from falling objects is taken far more seriously. All projects i have been on had toe boards on all leading edges to prevent kicked or slid material from falling off edges and hitting someone. People saying pessimistic stuff like "not that you know of" clearly shows you missed the point entirely. The point isn't that construction work isn't dangerous or that there aren't contaminations I've been exposed to. The point is that it is now much safer than it used to be and this is why constantly working on safety practices is so important.
My grandfather was a heavy equipment operator most of his life and to this day he still uses “shake hands with danger” Never knew where it came from till now
@@justforever96 looking up "shake hands with danger" the only valuable yields are about this film. Its very possible this was the start of it, if it is an older term it probably wasn't used on any meaningful scale until after this film.
@@gavinperch9413 I believe it is an old term started after WWII when equipment and machinery became more prevalent during the growth of the USA in the 50's & 60's
the best safety videos are the ones that are truthful and honest about what can happen to you. Be careless for a minute and spend a lifetime singing the blues.
I like how in the 1980s they Admit to the reality that people may “have a hangover,” now they were talk about how you can’t drink etc. which very often just isn’t happening.
The world was less idealistic and more pragmatic in the 80s. CAT makes construction equipment. Construction workers are rough people. They will go to a bar the day before work. They will try to cut corners. CAT knew this, because they hear from the accidents with their machinery. So they decided to drop the pretense of "no one will ever work on our machines intoxicated" and went with "If you do, make double sure that you follow protocoll because we know it will happen some day". It's the same philosophy that leads to ashtrays in aircraft lavatories. Smoking in there is strictly prohibited and will set off a fire alarm. But people will smoke in there and to prevent the toilet tanks from exploding by a cigarette dropped into the toilet and igniting the methane atmosphere, they put ashtrays in them.
Everything was more relaxed in the 1980's. Instead of yelling at and further demoralizing people that did drugs, they could actually talk about is as if they actually cared about the user rather than the fact the user broke a law or whatever. Drinking wasn't a taboo outside of parties and each to their own. You could believe what you wanted to believe and you could do whatever you wanted to do as long as it didn't affect others. Nowadays, if you so much as think a thought that doesn't agree with the norm, you are shunned for all eternity.
@@GermanTopGameTV so my understanding is that one time a guy discarded his lit cigarette into the lavatory trashcan which promptly started a fire and filled the cabin with deadly smoke. I had never heard of the septic tank explosion possibility, nor do I believe there is any danger there as the toilets flush with water. I could be wrong though.
@@mortson978 the toilet is dry until the flush itself unlike a normal household toilet, if the cigarette floats on its filter through the piping and makes it to the tank where you know what is stored, it can happen they didn't put an ashtray there to stop it from happening, they put it there because it has happened. edit: even dry ice can make a lavatory explode askthepilot.com/essaysandstories/the-exploding-toilet/
I wish modern safety films could be brutally honest, and to the point, like this one is. I'm going to hear that damned guitar riff in my head every time I think about, or see somebody doing something stupid now.
I think the song is available as a standalone on TH-cam. It's the difference between "Wear your hard hat or you might get hurt!" and "Keep three points of contact or you might be Three-Limbed-Joe"
So true lol. We always have to update working at heights and blah blah but nothing beats the attempt to make it easier to watch than the stuff from the eighties. Now it’s some boring dude talking and crappy pictures for an hour or so
My automotive teacher in high school made us watch this is class one day. A decade later I still find myself coming back and watching it from time to time
My wife doesn't know it yet, she has a safety meeting with 35 people in 10 minutes and this guitar riff is set as her ring tone. Imma gonna give her a call.
I was in a room full of younger personnel at a Cat dealership just last week where this was shown. As old and cheesy as it is, it’s still 100% effectual in getting the message across.
Old doesnt mean invalid. I teach at a vocational school and I use a video from 1937 on how differentials work simply because I havn't found it explained better anywhere else.
I'm a high voltage EE. Fatal accidents are a very real possibility. I watched many safety videos and this is one of the few I remember. There's no room for ego's. It takes more courage to do what's right than to do what's wrong.
@Donovan Piko changing implements at night is a HELL NO eyesight and brain not working the same. That is how mistakes happen and limbs are damaged or lost.
As somebody who has drunkenly tried to take apart the spring on a strut without knowing that it could literally kill me, i think this video needs to be show in every single high school trade class, whether it be auto, woodshop, welding, or whatever, the lessons translate
Ya those are no joke….. Glad I spent the money on a proper spring compressor after thinking I could just use ratchet straps installing lowering springs
@@Lilpresh42069 that one specifically was really well done to make you think- he wasnt an idiot, or normally careless,or even someone poorly/incompletely trained like a lot of the others, but distracted by something that we can see happening to any of our families lead him to just..not think...
Liability culture. This video gives reasonable safe workarounds. However if somebody were to still get hurt using the safe way the company would still be liable. So now they just tell you "stop working and contact a supervisor" literally anytime something goes wrong.
@@EuropeanQoheleth Nope. People who want to tell us how to speak and who cancel those that won't obey, will be treated accordingly. Again and again and again. 😘 Greetings from Europe
@Rex Jolles I think thats what makes it stick with people. Seeing a dude lose his hand instead of assuming he may have got hurt is a huge difference in my little mind. Safety videos of today should be more like this one.
Make jokes ladies and gentlemen. People die, kids grow up without parents because they're in a hurry or don't heed these warnings and teachings from elder workers. Laugh now, you'll learn later... my condolences.
4:38 It's the subtle touches, like the rattlesnake sound and the subsequent low-level hum to signify danger, that elevate this safety film to iconic status. The quality of the performances, camerawork, and direction set it apart.
This video doesn't just apply to heavy equipment or sharp tools but every day life decisions I always come back to this video cause its so good, but when ever I do anything potently dangerous in my everyday life always think back to this video and ask myself if there's a safer way to do whatever I'm doing.
I drove my uncles new tractor about a week after I watched this the first time and the riff was the only sound I could hear except the motor and I just stared off into the sky and he asked me what was going on and I pulled out my phone and showed him
Does anybody else think that was the most manly safety video ever? I mean, for God sake, that guitar riff alone was more manly than half of anything I've seen or heard in the past 10 years.
This is kind of fake. If you ever work at such a job, it is rather routine for fingers, toes, hands, an eye, and sometimes an arm to be lost. But few of them ever die. There was a guy that had lost four toes, two fingers in one hand, half the other hand, one eye, and had to use a colostomy bag, because of different accidents he had at different times but he never died. He retired recently and still had both his arms and half of one of his leg. The dangers are greatly exaggerated.
Though they are not mentioned, we do see how Three Finger Joe’s friends and band members received their injuries. First up is Five Toes Beau who lost the other five after the blade of a bulldozer fell on his foot due to improper blocking of the push arms. Next up is One Hand Stan who lost his other hand when he used it to grease a hole while changing the bucket on a front loader. And then there is Broken Rib Jib who struck a flakey piece of metal while trying to get a pin out and got struck in the chest. The names of Ernie, Glen Greenwood, and Bill Myers were used to protect their privacy in the video as they did not want their real names mentioned.
You'd be surprised what kind of mental loops supervisors can twist a situation into when they set their mind to it. Best thing mine back at my internship ever told me: "If i tell you to do something stupid, tell me to go fuck myself.". :D
In auto repair (At least in the USA) don't know how to properly operate a manual transmission car. Some people try to do it anyway, but something bad happens. Either they stall out, or they slip the clutch excessively. Naturally, that makes the customer try to get their car back, then get it repaired somewhere else.
I brought it up at the school when I was there. We watched part of it but not the whole thing which sucks. Higher production quality than any of the stupid army safety videos
We were shown this video 30 years ago when I was in college for mechanics. We laughed the whole time but I never forgot the the video and the lessons it taught. I am a safer person simply because this video taught me something important.
Love how they say "most people come to work with worries or hangovers" as if it was perfectly acceptable back then to get drunk the night before. Love this time!
My dad is 70, still operating. He must have been in his prime around this time. According to him the quality of men working in the field has plummeted.
Back then, those who werent quality either got fired, or got injured. Today, the incompetent are protected from getting fired, while the safety redundancies prevent many of them from getting injured. The compentent and good workers tend to get frustrated with working with idiots and move on to other things.
@new Leaf wrong place to call out people for being mindless sheep, afterall if he just learned what a guitar riff is, good for him, that doesn't make him a sheep though, a good example of a sheep is those guys spamming Bommer, Pog, simp and other random stuff they've seen around but don't even know what it means or just try to seem cool by copying others. but what do I know.🤷
great production-still gets the message across clearly and effectively. the burn scene with the indifferent old-timer, and the one with hot oil each made me flinch. great acting.
Lol, nice. My dad worked at a Cat dealership in the 70s and 80s, he brought this video home with him one night and let me watch it. Brought back a lot of memories. Kinda cool to hear that it's still being used..
Great video even 42 years on ...I don't work with heavy machinery like this but lots of mowing equipment and cleaning equipment ..We are taught to watch out for hidden issues all the time but complacency or inattention still happens ..Surprising how often an incident report has to be done ..Never blame the machine ..it ALWAYS comes down to operator error..
I’ve had to sit through countless hours of safety meetings all completely useless. This video by CAT, given how old it is is completely priceless! Excellent
@@BlastinRope you don't need hollywood narcissists to teach you anything. if hollywood is seriously this upsetting to you, I'd say you're a huge pansy already, and not the phony kind.
He got a wooden leg , and didn’t get a termite contract and the termites ate it all up!!!! He’s got only one leg...take a guess where he got a job????? “I HOP” 🤣🤣🤣
I wish a guitar riff would play everytime I was about to do something stupid
That would help with stupid decisions
when i do something stupid i hear the riff in my head
If it happened my whole life would be a concert
Ever since I first watched this I now get that riff in my head before I'm about to do something stupid..... it *usually* stops me!
I even grabbed the riff onto my phone and can play it through a Bluetooth speaker at work when I see someone else about to do something stupid, and it usually works, or makes them angry and ask me for a hand, which is still safer I suppose! 🙃
windows lolol
"I bought this jack stand at Harbor Freight"
*guitar riff*
Lmao
my jack stands are doing just fine... i also buy the biggest and heaviest ones because i dont trust little ones
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Has it broke yet?
@@cardinalsausage8486 nope! Was just there today buying the big press and a air bottle jack for doing bearings 😁
Everyone was harmed in the making of this video.
Hahahah
Even the singer.......it most definitely killed his career. He’d never top this bad ass video and it’s soundtrack
🚜🔩⚙️⛓️🛠️🚜🔩⚙️⛓️🛠️
Now That's fuckin Funny!!!
🛠️⛓️⚙️🔩🚜🛠️⛓️⚙️🔩🚜
I think the tracks for this dozer are a little too long 😂. 11:55
@@Robmancan1987 It's 2 sets. they were trying to roll it into the new ones
I graduated in '07 and all throughout high school in Shop class when we had downtime we'd get the option to study or watch this and everyone would jump up raving for 'Shake Hands With Danger'. At the time it was funny to us and some would just sleep because the lights would usually be off, but now that I'm 34 and working in these fields I fully appreciate having this safety message etched into my brain being watched a countless number of times as a teenager all 4 years. Good times man.
We can be friends.
Had a couple beers, looked at my car and started having twisted thoughts, but then... The guitar riff brought me back on the right path
du du dududu duuuu
Excellent post.......
Checking in. Laughing. Out. Loudddd. 🤣
Damn this video just reminded of the importance of safety on the job site.
May I know what kind of twisted thoughts you had?
I'm gonna hear that f**king guitar riff whenever I do something stupid. Damn it.
Now I hear it everytime me or someone else does something anti-quarantine
Mr_ E54 ya ever hear of censoring yourself because some people are religious and also for triggers different people have different triggers ya f*ck
@@exoticcar5482 forgets mask
*guitar riff*
I have these over-the-top Final Destination scenarios play out in my head when I use power tools and now there's a soundtrack to go with it!🤣
Someone help, the bow bow bow won't stop twanging!
RIP to all those actors who had to die to make this amazing safety video your sacrifices will not be forgotten
Rip dead one's...
Hahahahhaha good one🤣🤣🤣
@@dwaynedawe930 🧐wym good one
Lets have a moment of silence
*plays guitar riff*
A friend worked on huge electrically powered drum dryers. He always carried his own keyed locks to lock out the breakers that powered these drums. Other guys doing the same job said he was being "an old lady" to be so careful. A couple of years later one of those guys died when someone turned on a dryer which roasted him alive and tumbled him around inside the 800°F drum. There wasn't much left by the time they found him. And no cremation was necessary.
A man who is afraid about possible dangers and takes the safety seriously, doesn't makes his wife,kids and loved ones who is waiting him at home cry
@@recephalil5123 or "timidi mater non flet"
Yep, I'd rather be an old lady than a dead one.
I've seen images of those. What the heck are those massive dryers used for? Drying an entire town's worth of clothes?
😢
Wife: "Do you think that woman is attractive?"
*guitar riff*
Lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Underrated
best comment^^
He was more worried about his girlfriend saying something to her. Cutting a house in half could overt the certain crisis.
Hahaha freaking comment man
NASA: "those o-rings should be fine"
*guitar riff*
Safety procedures: Never under any circumstance ignore a guitar riff if you hear one while making decision.
Too soon
r/blursedcomments
First thing I thought of as well.
I wish I could like this twice
Comment of the year
I operated heavy equipment for years and I can tell all of you who might be giggling at this, that shit can go down in a heartbeat. I got more stories than what was depicted here.
Tell us one
Do tell.
Let's hear one bro
You can't just gather the whole squad around the camp fire like that and not let one out
just look at a gore, it is alot of industrial security cams, lots of chinese guys getting crushed to death. a guy in a steel machine and 100 tons of hot steel crush and burn him alive. the most famous one is where a guy reaches over and gets caught in a large lathe before his friend can stop it, his entire body is wrapped around a metal pole, and then is spun fast enough so that his entire body is flung in different pieces across the machine shop. arms, legs, parts of organs, and a squished flat skull.
dont screw around with heavy machinery. its a one way trip to the morgue, and a closed casket funeral.
This plays in my head every time I lift my truck up with sketchy split wood blocks and chuck an old rotor as a wheel chock.
Did that til I saw a truck fall on my dad's friend, split his foot into pieces and scalp on the toolbox.
@@dirtpounderwell fuck now I got a new fear
update from then: I use the old wheel bearing assembly from same truck as a spacer to lift truck higher. I did buy wheel chocks at least
@@CREMATORY.it’ll keep you alive, tho
Anyone else feel that this video is just such a perfectly preserved piece of history? lol i'm just happy its been preserved through the powers of the internet
And completely right
Shut up
I do, but one thing I don't like is they never blame the person in charge for anything. If someone said to me, "Hey, I don't know how to operate this big ass machine." I wouldn't say, "Oh just back her up and set her down nice and easy." Part of the problem is there are too many idiots in charge as well
@@dailydoseofrips8482 you shut up
@@dailydoseofrips8482 you’re cringe
Idk why companies don’t make this a standard safety video to watch during a safety meeting. This is probably the best safety video I’ve ever seen.
cult classic not safety classic
Work office job, watch video anyways
A whole crew sitting around for 24 minutes 😂 That’s not the construction way bro
Ye, this video is decent but nothing compared to the GOAT "Staplerfahrer Klaus". That video instructs properly.
@@thilotherz9300 just watched it and I gotta say, your right that video definitely takes home the 🏆
Halfway through the training video I decided no amount of money could get me to work with this crew.
Not without propane
Just make sure someone has a guitar so you know when to leave.
THE FUCK ARE YOU
Hey You ain't Henry "Hank" Hill Jr
Your tellen me hank, these guys are stupidly dumb, i tell you what if you ever see boby do anything like this tell him to know it off
“You weren’t kidding when you said you didn’t know how to run that thing” what a hilarious saying
well yeah hes on the job and literally said "i dont know how to run this thing" da fuck you think will happen lmao.
Imagine being a construction employee in the 80s being forced to watch this and be miserable the whole time....yet 3 million people have watched this voluntarily
Who would be miserable watching this masterpiece of a safety video.
Imagine being a plant worker and being forced to sit through "What Is A Turnaround"
th-cam.com/video/2gCk9yBBOUo/w-d-xo.html
better be miserable now than die later
I've had to watch modern versions of these, though not with this type of equipment. More like, spills, cut off electricity and things like that. We got the point but still cracked jokes for some of the dramatizations.
@@cojones8518 I wouldn't have heard a word after about 15 seconds and just been staring at those sweater melons
I like how we now have our own little guitar riff meme that no one will ever understand unless they’ve seen this
Sad but true
@@engineerisengihere44 why sad
@@brodylockley3141 because next time im in the auto shop and see someone doing something stupid if I sing this guitar riff nobody will get it.
@@engineerisengihere44 well if there you mates just show them the video or send it then next time you see em thay will get it
Well there's your problem
The guy's arm getting cut off by the wheel loader cylinder was worthy of any horror movie.
Christian Visan it was goddamn greasy is what it was lmao
Why don’t you guys nowadays have the decency to add the Timestamp?
16:20
@Carter Bohrer (Student) That's what I was thinking. I learned that all the way back in kindergarten and it was my first thought.
Yoooo soooo gnarly bro XD
This is better than 90% of the movies coming out of Hollywood these days. 👍👍👍
When I die and flatline on the heart rate monitor I want that guitar riff to play
Same
Lol....me too....#meme
I want it to sing shake hands with danger!
Do dooo do dooo SHAKE HANDS WITH DANGER
My dads uncle used to work at a power plant in Marietta Ohio and he worked on boilers and he had these huge wrenches and when he died they went down to get his tools and he welded his damm toolbox to a plate of 12 gauge steel and welded that to the bed of his truck and the power company took like an hour to cut it off with a cutting torch
“Son, why do you have a 1.6TB “homework” folder?”
*guitar riff*
Shaking the hand on something
@@francescodacunzo9102 lmao
That's alot of hentai
"homewack"
@@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917 streaming is downloading too
"Not only will these machines kill you, it'll hurt the whole time that you are dying..."
Wow that’s deep
Bro was straight cold
We have that sign at the mill
800th like
Dying is still part of life. I hope my demise will be either spectacular to look at, educational or just plain hilarious to the people around me.
Been climbing in and on dangerous machines my whole life. Even after locking out and verifying its off. My hair still stands up. When you lose fear of what your around is when accidents happen. Never, ever let someone push you to work faster either.
But you don’t get to hear that awesome guitar riff.
I work in aircraft maintenance and the one taboo phrase to ever say is rushing maintenance. It doesn’t matter how slow you’re doing things, if you’re on the job no one can tell you to do it faster.
@@The_ZeroLine I don't really want to, unless *I'm* the one playing it. I can play it any time, it's a simple but effective riff on the lowest (thickest) 2 strings.
@@bluedemon9985when my dad worked on cars and I helped him, we'd always look at 'how it was going to go wrong' before we started and prepare accordingly- it's all well and good following a process, they're usually right, but taking that moment of awareness helps avoid accidents
I'm not the only one being randomly recommended this right? Also this video is quite a hidden gem.
No, I was too. Maybe the universe is sending us a signal (guitar riff)
Lol I got a random recommendation for this also. It's awesome tho I'm glad it popped up. Don't be like old 3 finger Joe. Lmao
I watched this in diesel mechanics class. It is one of the better safety videos of the 80s.
Hidden no longer!
I LIKE TOYOTAS TOO
The other night I was driving home from work when a text came through, and I was tempted to check my phone and reply, but then I thought, "no, that would be shaking hands with danger." So, thank you, Caterpillar, for reminding us all to be aware.
That decision probably saved your life Good idea
LMAO !
*glances at phone while driving*
*guitar riff*
*s h a k e h a n d s w i t h d a n g e r*
@@mountainrunner6922 Idiots like you think safety is "Funny" I was a foreman in a shop and owned my own saw guys do many STUPID things that would get them killed,Safety is no joke😡
This is one of the most wholesome comments I've ever read on YT.
"hey i know tim just died, but we still need that O-ring changed, maybe pull up a truck to stand on or something"
*guitar riff*
I thought that looked unsafe to be the method recommended in the safety video. Why not a ladder? Or use a fall rope?
😂 falls off the truck guitar riff
🤣 🤟
Better put chocks under those wheels! 😅😂
As the camera zooms in on the oil spot on top of the truck’s toolbox that the soon-to-be victim #2 is standing in.
This song plays in my head automatically whenever I think about(or am...) doing some sketchy shit. Seeing this film won't prevent all risky behavior, but it WILL make you stop and think about what you're about to do, which counts for a lot.
For a 70s safety vid, it seems more realistic than the stuff they show you in OSHA cert classes.
Yeah those animated videos are terrible
Caterpillar don't f around.
For sure
Except for maybe 11:30
@@kodakgreen6047 yeah the dude had a stroke from something falling next to him
You know your safety video is good when me and 3 million other random people unironically come watch it for no reason.
I saw the RiffTrax version.
This _is_ good. Making safety videos that are entertaining and informative is difficult.
If they’d make shit like this for power houses and steel mills I might stay awake through the whole video.
And all the way through too.
At least I did.
after 40 years, dont forget that
I'll watch my safety videos while I'm asleep at the wheel on my 10 hour break, ok goddammit.
Most of these guys are 70 80 years old today. It's amazing how fast time flys, enjoy every day. Time is precious.
*would be. Had they not all been pulverized on site.
@@turdburglar2587 if only they never shook hands with danger
That's why I shake hands with danger, to save a minute.
You can't enjoy every day if you're broke as a joke.
I have come to learn dying young is the best outcome
You know. As someone who is a construction worker who has only known modern safety practices I'm actually super thankful for stuff like this and the safety that has been added to the industry. I'm healthy safe and don't have lung conditions or any other long term health problems because of exposure of physical injury.
not that you know of
@@khhnator sure but at least I do know that on renovation jobs I've been on of older buildings there were extensive health safety checks done on the materials and any identified hazards were removed. They also require respirators for dust and other airborne hazards on projects and use methods like wet cutting and drilling to eliminate airborne particles. Equipment safety is also much stricter as well as scaffolding, fall protection, and protection from falling objects is taken far more seriously. All projects i have been on had toe boards on all leading edges to prevent kicked or slid material from falling off edges and hitting someone. People saying pessimistic stuff like "not that you know of" clearly shows you missed the point entirely. The point isn't that construction work isn't dangerous or that there aren't contaminations I've been exposed to. The point is that it is now much safer than it used to be and this is why constantly working on safety practices is so important.
@@Reegareth i'm just joking
I'd give this a thumbs up, but lost them both
😂
*guitar riff plays*
Midnight Trumptrain underrated
Coming from a guy that works for Cat, this film is truly a national treasure😂some of these comments have me rolling
@@georgewashington6225
I want this guitar riff played at my funeral
My grandfather was a heavy equipment operator most of his life and to this day he still uses “shake hands with danger”
Never knew where it came from till now
Or the people who made this film got it from the same place he did. I suspect it is an older term.
Your Grandpa was a Stud!!! 👍
@@justforever96 looking up "shake hands with danger" the only valuable yields are about this film. Its very possible this was the start of it, if it is an older term it probably wasn't used on any meaningful scale until after this film.
@@gavinperch9413 I believe it is an old term started after WWII when equipment and machinery became more prevalent during the growth of the USA in the 50's & 60's
Wife: "do these pants make my butt look big"
**guitar riff**
There’s shaking hands with danger, then there’s having a death wish.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
No, your butt makes your butt look big!
"DAAAAAYUM, girl! Bring that big booty over here!"
*Proceeds to eat said booty*
@@doriangreen3231 she looks back at you and sees you used your tongue as her toilet paper.
the best safety videos are the ones that are truthful and honest about what can happen to you. Be careless for a minute and spend a lifetime singing the blues.
I like how in the 1980s they Admit to the reality that people may “have a hangover,” now they were talk about how you can’t drink etc. which very often just isn’t happening.
The world was less idealistic and more pragmatic in the 80s. CAT makes construction equipment. Construction workers are rough people. They will go to a bar the day before work. They will try to cut corners. CAT knew this, because they hear from the accidents with their machinery. So they decided to drop the pretense of "no one will ever work on our machines intoxicated" and went with "If you do, make double sure that you follow protocoll because we know it will happen some day".
It's the same philosophy that leads to ashtrays in aircraft lavatories. Smoking in there is strictly prohibited and will set off a fire alarm. But people will smoke in there and to prevent the toilet tanks from exploding by a cigarette dropped into the toilet and igniting the methane atmosphere, they put ashtrays in them.
Everything was more relaxed in the 1980's. Instead of yelling at and further demoralizing people that did drugs, they could actually talk about is as if they actually cared about the user rather than the fact the user broke a law or whatever.
Drinking wasn't a taboo outside of parties and each to their own. You could believe what you wanted to believe and you could do whatever you wanted to do as long as it didn't affect others.
Nowadays, if you so much as think a thought that doesn't agree with the norm, you are shunned for all eternity.
Now days, you gotta
"Pee for employment, not for enjoyment" !!
@@GermanTopGameTV so my understanding is that one time a guy discarded his lit cigarette into the lavatory trashcan which promptly started a fire and filled the cabin with deadly smoke. I had never heard of the septic tank explosion possibility, nor do I believe there is any danger there as the toilets flush with water. I could be wrong though.
@@mortson978 the toilet is dry until the flush itself unlike a normal household toilet, if the cigarette floats on its filter through the piping and makes it to the tank where you know what is stored, it can happen
they didn't put an ashtray there to stop it from happening, they put it there because it has happened. edit: even dry ice can make a lavatory explode askthepilot.com/essaysandstories/the-exploding-toilet/
I wish modern safety films could be brutally honest, and to the point, like this one is.
I'm going to hear that damned guitar riff in my head every time I think about, or see somebody doing something stupid now.
I think the song is available as a standalone on TH-cam. It's the difference between "Wear your hard hat or you might get hurt!" and "Keep three points of contact or you might be Three-Limbed-Joe"
Right! The world is so soft. This video shows reality. Not just "hey dont do this cause of this" show the reason. That's what hits home
ok man-you want it, you get it... check out the german "Staplerfahrer Klaus"
I didn't think of it at first...but shit, that's probably why they put that riff in there. So you remember.
DinkleDigeroo yikes where’d ya see that the deep web lmao
I dread safety training at work, yet watch these videos on my free time. I don’t get it.
Same here, Logan. Hated Toolbox talk on Wednesday morning, yet watch this stuff...LOL.
We watched this for training back in tech school,,,goin on 20+ yrs ago and it's still corny as ever.
The message is important though.
So true lol. We always have to update working at heights and blah blah but nothing beats the attempt to make it easier to watch than the stuff from the eighties. Now it’s some boring dude talking and crappy pictures for an hour or so
I know right lol
So they need to give us some entertaining safety training
My automotive teacher in high school made us watch this is class one day. A decade later I still find myself coming back and watching it from time to time
Mom: did you do the dishes like I asked?
***guitar riff***
Shake hands with danger...
bob, what the f*ck did you do to arnold?
@@ihavewaited90daystochangem51 He gave Arnold a big Va JJ.
@@SongWhisperer a big what
Your profile picture is fucking cursed
WTF 😂😂😂
This whole thing is BS. I worked for Caterpillar back in the 80's and we never lost more than four or five guy a week.
wait what
Robert Wiersema lol
Haha that was funny
lol
Yeah
The Shake Hands with Danger Theme should have been a hit country song lol.
It isnt already?
it is.
It is with every safety training department. They make them sing this song to get hired
Sounds like an old western.
it’s in a denzel curry song
My wife doesn't know it yet, she has a safety meeting with 35 people in 10 minutes and this guitar riff is set as her ring tone.
Imma gonna give her a call.
"2022 is gonna be a great year"
* guitar riff *
ill just give this bat soup a taste
* guitar riff *
@@ville7762 lab safety protocols are for squares
* guitar riff *
420th like!
@@Mango-vd1nn was gonna like, but decided to leave it🔥
2020*
“It’s okay, I’m on birth control.”
****Guitar Riff****
Knockin boots with danger
Lmfao
Lmfao hats off to you for that one
bahahahhahahahahp
Only way I roll.
Chris J knocking boots. Tsss tsss what happened did you step in snow or something? Tssss tsss
I was in a room full of younger personnel at a Cat dealership just last week where this was shown. As old and cheesy as it is, it’s still 100% effectual in getting the message across.
My nephew actually works for Caterpillar and he makes pretty decent money. He even gotten a promotion and raise recently too.
Is it actually effectual?
@@DontDefuse it very much is.
Old doesnt mean invalid. I teach at a vocational school and I use a video from 1937 on how differentials work simply because I havn't found it explained better anywhere else.
@@LurifaxDK I’ve seen that old differential video, it’s the best explanation of how a diff works I’ve ever seen.
This gives me big King of the Hill vibes. This feels like something Hank would force the guys in the alley to watch before working on a project
Remember the episode with Hal and Bill and Dale basics bury their own backhoe😂
Can just imagine Dale cutting Bill's arm off with the loader while swatting a wasp as Bill changes buckets!
Yeah, it has Hank's concerns written all over it.
This was a heavy equipment operator training video when I started my apprenticeship in the fall of 1989.
I still remember the words to the song.
What's the name of the first machine
I'm a high voltage EE. Fatal accidents are a very real possibility. I watched many safety videos and this is one of the few I remember. There's no room for ego's. It takes more courage to do what's right than to do what's wrong.
True in Soller Agricultural school they are still playing the same video 😂😂
@Donovan Piko changing implements at night is a HELL NO eyesight and brain not working the same. That is how mistakes happen and limbs are damaged or lost.
What were the words again?
I'm not going to watch this!
*23 minutes later*
Deamn this was so much fun to look at!
Alec C my life
Alec C just watched a 23 minute video that felt like 5 minutes.
Ha! did the exact same.
It is
EXACTLY
Can we all appreciate that the guitar player has only 3 fingers
Maybe its just the pick hand
So it was the old timer on the grinder playing the guitar
@@igostupidfast3 😂😂😂
If he had all 10 he'd shred like Eddie van halen.
@@kdrapertrucker Shreddie Van Halen 🤘rip
As somebody who has drunkenly tried to take apart the spring on a strut without knowing that it could literally kill me, i think this video needs to be show in every single high school trade class, whether it be auto, woodshop, welding, or whatever, the lessons translate
Ya those are no joke….. Glad I spent the money on a proper spring compressor after thinking I could just use ratchet straps installing lowering springs
Those ain't shit compared to brake chambers like in the video. I've seen a spring blowout of a rusted chamber and make a hole in a car
Legend has it that they are still trying to get that construction project done to this day, but can't stop f-ing up long enough to do so.
It must be the same crew doing our interstate I-4 project here in Orlando.
It must be the same people from the 80 s working there that haven’t died yet yet is the key word
Hahahaha
Hell they can’t keep their staff alive long enough to even finish tearing down an old farm house
That's how you keep the government money (and bonuses for getting contracts) flowing.
"I use engine oil from the dollar store"
guitar riff
I love how in-depth they go into the stories of these guys
Harry’s son is having surgery on a football injury
Makes it easier to relate to the dumb young guys who watch these videos.
@@Lilpresh42069 that one specifically was really well done to make you think-
he wasnt an idiot, or normally careless,or even someone poorly/incompletely trained like a lot of the others,
but distracted by something that we can see happening to any of our families lead him to just..not think...
These old timey narrators make anything 1000% more entertaining and informative for some reason.
Actually more informative than 90% of the certification videos I've watched in the last decade.
"Certification videos" these day are all just propaganda for the company
"Always remember our company values and remember that we care about you"
well, at least they've taught you how to use gender pronouns correctly. ;)
Liability culture. This video gives reasonable safe workarounds. However if somebody were to still get hurt using the safe way the company would still be liable. So now they just tell you "stop working and contact a supervisor" literally anytime something goes wrong.
@@moserfugger6363 *Rolls eyes Would people stop bringing ''sjws'' into everything?
@@EuropeanQoheleth
Nope. People who want to tell us how to speak and who cancel those that won't obey, will be treated accordingly. Again and again and again. 😘
Greetings from Europe
This may be from 1980 but it's a very good safety video!
Gets the point across, despite being dated.
It covers a lot of good stuff, but still yet a bunch still doesn’t meet today’s standards, it’s crazy how much stuff has changed over the years
What’s great is the danger they put themselves in to do the scenarios, and back then everything they do is live😂😂😂😂
@Rex Jolles I think thats what makes it stick with people. Seeing a dude lose his hand instead of assuming he may have got hurt is a huge difference in my little mind. Safety videos of today should be more like this one.
not sure how its dated. heavy machinery isn't much different nor are the issues surrounding working around them.
Now I know why there aren't many Bob's and Bill's around anymore.
Oi, I'm around, y'know!
The 80s took them away from us rest their souls
Darn you 80’s!
Cliff's too
Oh they still around. Could be any of us.
"The whole is Dry, the pin won't slide in"
Yeah know how that feels
Shake hands with danger,
Hurry up and get it done,
It takes two men to move this thing,
But I'll make do with one.
All safety officers need to be issued guitars from here on out.
👆underrated comment👆
instead of saying don't put your balls in the gears... just do a *guitar riff*
Da dum di di doo dum
E-G, C-A G, A.
E-G, C-A G, A.
(Those are the musical notes played for the riff.)
Make jokes ladies and gentlemen. People die, kids grow up without parents because they're in a hurry or don't heed these warnings and teachings from elder workers. Laugh now, you'll learn later... my condolences.
4:38 It's the subtle touches, like the rattlesnake sound and the subsequent low-level hum to signify danger, that elevate this safety film to iconic status. The quality of the performances, camerawork, and direction set it apart.
I hope Harry's son's surgery went well...
*Guitar riff*
Yeah his sex change surgery went well
He's probably an older man with bad knees today
@@mcj5390 ROFL
@@johnfoltz8183 haha yeah poor Harry probs didn't even get compensation since he didn't follow procedure :(
This video doesn't just apply to heavy equipment or sharp tools but every day life decisions I always come back to this video cause its so good, but when ever I do anything potently dangerous in my everyday life always think back to this video and ask myself if there's a safer way to do whatever I'm doing.
I operate a loader and now every time I catch myself taking shortcuts I am going to hear that damn guitar in my head
Then the riff has done its job sir
Hopefully you're not shaking hands with danger.
Just pretend you catch yourself and pass a dollar from a hand to the other the look away like nothing happened
I drove my uncles new tractor about a week after I watched this the first time and the riff was the only sound I could hear except the motor and I just stared off into the sky and he asked me what was going on and I pulled out my phone and showed him
Track loader??
Does anybody else think that was the most manly safety video ever? I mean, for God sake, that guitar riff alone was more manly than half of anything I've seen or heard in the past 10 years.
Yup, the power of the 5 chord. Lol
5:17
*drops ratchet*
*jumps after it*
I saw that too, it seems he really wanted to get that wrench; and quickly
It’s a snap on, do you know how long I’ve been paying on that thing?!?!
Looked like he was leaning onto the tool, and when the tool slipped he fell with it.
"I really fell on my keys".
I laughed so hard at that 😂
big THX to all construction workers out there, who do hard work in dangerous situations! you are the real MVP !
"Honey, do these jeans make me look fat?"
SHAKE HANDS WITH DANGER!
The answer should always be "yes."
Now that's funny 🤣
Nah, honey,its not the jeans, its your MASSIVE ASS!!!
Nah, your face does
Lmao this comment section is gold
Seems there should be a lot of jobs opening at this construction site.
F-that! I wouldn’t want to work there! LOL
N o p e
This is kind of fake. If you ever work at such a job, it is rather routine for fingers, toes, hands, an eye, and sometimes an arm to be lost. But few of them ever die. There was a guy that had lost four toes, two fingers in one hand, half the other hand, one eye, and had to use a colostomy bag, because of different accidents he had at different times but he never died. He retired recently and still had both his arms and half of one of his leg. The dangers are greatly exaggerated.
Tambo...It's none of the above if you want to get technical...it's a fictional site to stage these accidents to make a training video.
No experience necessary.
"No need for a condom, I'm on the pill"
*Guitar riff*
One of best comments
🤣🤣🤣🤘🤘🤘
Lmao
Hits too close to home 🤧🥲
Lmao
Though they are not mentioned, we do see how Three Finger Joe’s friends and band members received their injuries. First up is Five Toes Beau who lost the other five after the blade of a bulldozer fell on his foot due to improper blocking of the push arms. Next up is One Hand Stan who lost his other hand when he used it to grease a hole while changing the bucket on a front loader. And then there is Broken Rib Jib who struck a flakey piece of metal while trying to get a pin out and got struck in the chest.
The names of Ernie, Glen Greenwood, and Bill Myers were used to protect their privacy in the video as they did not want their real names mentioned.
"You weren't kidding when you said you didn't know how to run that thing."
You'd be surprised what kind of mental loops supervisors can twist a situation into when they set their mind to it.
Best thing mine back at my internship ever told me: "If i tell you to do something stupid, tell me to go fuck myself.". :D
I ran a 977 once. I did NOT like it.
“You weren’t kiddin when you said you had herpes”
In auto repair (At least in the USA) don't know how to properly operate a manual transmission car. Some people try to do it anyway, but something bad happens. Either they stall out, or they slip the clutch excessively. Naturally, that makes the customer try to get their car back, then get it repaired somewhere else.
🙄🗿💨💨
This video is legendary in the Canadian army. I really hope they're still showing it to the new vehicle technicians.
Showing it to us miners in the usa
I brought it up at the school when I was there. We watched part of it but not the whole thing which sucks. Higher production quality than any of the stupid army safety videos
All Marine heavy equipment mechs watch this video too.
Just watched this for a safety class. coal mines West Virginia
My cousin watched this years ago, likely while taking truck driving classes.
14:57 - I miss the good old days when they didn't mind lighting a stunt man or two on fire to make a proper construction safety video
Stunt man? We didn't hire a stunt man.
@@ChadDidNothingWrong yeah that was Eddy, he said he do it for 20$ and a case of beer
That's nothing to sneer at!
@@wingzero7X haha don't forget the deck of Marlboro Blue's
Bruh i just had to comment
We were shown this video 30 years ago when I was in college for mechanics. We laughed the whole time but I never forgot the the video and the lessons it taught. I am a safer person simply because this video taught me something important.
Love how they say "most people come to work with worries or hangovers" as if it was perfectly acceptable back then to get drunk the night before. Love this time!
and how everyone is smoking and there are no women on site. Interesting times
*guitar riff plays*
@@charlotte-mg9wj same thing today
That’s pretty much how it is now
@@paxhumana2015 lol fuck you dont tell me how to live my life
“Did you do the backside of the homework?”
“What back side?”
*guitar riff*
I hear this guitar riff everytime I try to hold in a shit while taking a piss.
911shotJFK excuse me, but WHAT
Hahaha
best comment.
lol
LMAO
My dad is 70, still operating. He must have been in his prime around this time. According to him the quality of men working in the field has plummeted.
Must be because Glen retired. 🤷
I wonder, based what he's witnessed, how many of the men themselves have plummeted.
Back then, those who werent quality either got fired, or got injured. Today, the incompetent are protected from getting fired, while the safety redundancies prevent many of them from getting injured. The compentent and good workers tend to get frustrated with working with idiots and move on to other things.
Disclaimer: No actors survived during the filming of this video.
No animals were hurt during the filming of this CNN FAKE NEWS video...
😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Actors? This is real life bud
The bench grinder and the burn on the vice looks pretty real
"dont worry, my Impreza won't blow a gasket from one pull" *guitar riff*
Lmao dope 32 pfp
This one hurts
This one hurts
PAIN haha
Lol
Girlfriend: "so who's Sarah?"
𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐟
"Shake hands with danger"
🤔🗿💨💨
GB06 Chomp Chomp Guess that’s better than 3 finger joe.
Or is it?????
Hahaha
@new Leaf troll
@new Leaf wrong place to call out people for being mindless sheep, afterall if he just learned what a guitar riff is, good for him, that doesn't make him a sheep though, a good example of a sheep is those guys spamming Bommer, Pog, simp and other random stuff they've seen around but don't even know what it means or just try to seem cool by copying others. but what do I know.🤷
great production-still gets the message across clearly and effectively.
the burn scene with the indifferent old-timer, and the one with hot oil each made me flinch. great acting.
Secret service : Mr. President are you sure it’s safe to ride in an open top vehicle?
*guitar riff*
Stalin’s advisor: sir are you sure it’s good to purge all your good doctors?
*guitar riff*
you bitch. That isn't even dark humor, you just made a joke out of a presidents head being blown up in 1961.
Lmao
@@artdecotimes2942 what is 60 years too soon?
@@thecentralintelligenceagen9963 Tragedy's have an endless reel before they aren't denoted and turned into a laughing matter.
"You weren't kiddin me when you said you didn't know how to run that thing."
Roasted
And my Grandma would say he sent a boy to mill.
I mean, joke's on him for letting the untrained guy do it anway :P - It's not like he wasn't warned.
Kinda roast was that
5:21 Man literally falls to his death
Band: just starts jamming out in celebration
I feel the algorithm is bringing this back as covid unemployment ends and people end up going back to work
To me, I wouldn’t say he was dead, but rather unconscious with several head wounds
@@NoNo-rj2hl No he literally died
@@NoNo-rj2hl good indicator of death is blood coming out of his mouth, most of the time when that happens you're dead.
@@arcadymorel7565 😭🤚
This video is over 40 years old and still holds up to this day.
Legend has it that guitar riff is playing some where the whole year of 2020.
Anytime I'm doing something mildly dangerous at work I hear the riff in my head
It's intended that way.
Do you have lock out tage chock blocks
Are you known as three fingers Ross now?
C R you’re killin me man 😂😂
@C R LOL
I worked for a CAT dealership in the early 2000’s an we still watched this at our safety meetings! 👍
Lol, nice. My dad worked at a Cat dealership in the 70s and 80s, he brought this video home with him one night and let me watch it. Brought back a lot of memories. Kinda cool to hear that it's still being used..
Im in diesel technician classes and we still watch this video every term
it may be old but it still applies to everything today simple safety never changea
Do you laugh and cheer at at the gore?
damn 399th like
Great video even 42 years on ...I don't work with heavy machinery like this but lots of mowing equipment and cleaning equipment ..We are taught to watch out for hidden issues all the time but complacency or inattention still happens ..Surprising how often an incident report has to be done ..Never blame the machine ..it ALWAYS comes down to operator error..
Netflix should really make a 6 season series based on this.
Starting Bryan Cranston as Danger.
Just as long as Disney doesn't buy the franchise an ruin it like they did with Star Wars.
Dusty Nesmith true
God fucking no, the only series of this I'd watch would have to be made by Mel Gibson
So a show of nothing but work place accidents? Lol
@@HadzabadZa mel gibson is a excellent choice
Why don't they just stop what they're doing when they hear that riff?
Because they are probably following some safety procedures and have ear protection in.
Haha...where do you guys come up with these??
Engine running was probably too loud to hear it😅
mute8s 🤣🤣🤣🤣
NuclearQuantumLasersPewPewPew 🤣🤣🤣
I’ve had to sit through countless hours of safety meetings all completely useless. This video by CAT, given how old it is is completely priceless! Excellent
I love these old videos. The nostalgia makes me feel like I was born too late.
8:40 "most people have days where they come into work with hangovers"
80s
Now we pretend otherwise.
@@jasonwarren9279 we let the narcissists in hollywood teach us all how to be phony pansies
Ain't shit changed but the bottle we sip from
How much time have you spent in trades? There are lots of people still doing this shit.
@@BlastinRope you don't need hollywood narcissists to teach you anything. if hollywood is seriously this upsetting to you, I'd say you're a huge pansy already, and not the phony kind.
I shook hands with the Chernobyl reactor...
Now I'm 7 finger joe
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭
This comments so underrated 😂😂
Hahahahahahahahaha
ye
*soviet guitar riff*
I wonder how Harry's son got on with his knee operation?
Johnny Solipsis ... LMAO 😂🤣!
Can he still play football?
At least Mr. Nolte wasn’t home at the time of the accident, although his floor bed was pretty much destroyed by the wayward tractor
No insurance dad got fired
He got a wooden leg , and didn’t get a termite contract and the termites ate it all up!!!! He’s got only one leg...take a guess where he got a job????? “I HOP” 🤣🤣🤣
I like to watch this every once in awhile just to remind myself to be more vigilant than I already am when it comes to safety and being cautious.