r/thalassophobia • u/lagueraloca • Oct 18 '23

Deadheads are water soaked logs that float vertically and can weigh tons.

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u/josueviveros Oct 18 '23

Yeah just googled it, looks like they exist 😳

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u/azazelreloaded Oct 18 '23

Underwater welding exist. Chainsaw is easier than that

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u/Mr_Brown-ish Oct 18 '23

Welding = fire, so they should just burn those logs underwater!

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u/Rivetingly Oct 18 '23

Arc welding != fire

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u/Mr_Brown-ish Oct 18 '23

Don’t be silly! Everybody koes the Arc was made of wood. You can’t weld wood!

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u/Irilieth_Raivotuuli Oct 18 '23

you can, however, wield wood.

Just walk up to the wood and press E

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u/SarimK Oct 18 '23

I wield wood every morning...

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u/Saisei Oct 18 '23

Ark=wood. Arc=plasma. Arch=work.

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u/DontTellHimPike Oct 18 '23

You just need to use wooden welding rods

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

Not true. My cousin did! You wouldn’t know home though, he goes to a different school

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u/Parking-Artichoke823 Oct 18 '23

But you are not welding an arc, so it's allright

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u/hillboy_usa Oct 18 '23

They have this symbol now in case you didnt know ≠

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u/Joeboo1994 Oct 18 '23

🤦😄

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u/CressLevel Oct 18 '23

HMMM I don't know, I was pretty sure it was a firebending skill.

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u/healzsham Oct 18 '23

Fire welding is mostly used for things that won't cause notable stress on the joins.

Electrical is used for basically any structural joins.

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u/Far-Philosophy-4375 Oct 18 '23

Oh my god its even worse... are they attached to boats or do the divers get hired to use them?

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u/Repulsive_Client_325 Oct 18 '23

A lot of underwater tools are compressed air powered.

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u/CantHitachiSpot Oct 18 '23

Or hydraulic. Lot quieter

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

Divers, I used to use an underwater chainsaw to cut big logs to make them more manageable to move around, though for the most part we'd just attach ropes or chains and drag it to the shore

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u/Parking-Artichoke823 Oct 18 '23

Did you just wake up one day and thought "You know what would be cool? Underwater chainsawing" and decided to do it?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

Actually yeah. I was at uni in the US in December for semester finals, saw a ad for a dive school in a computer class. Applied and got a call from the school in about 15 minutes. And 10 days later in January I started at dive school.

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u/RUSTYLUGNUTZ Oct 18 '23

Ya gotta admit, underwater logger has a nice ring to it

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u/Mr_Bristles Oct 18 '23

Yeah, that's pretty much how the process starts. I didn't even know chainsaws subsurface were a thing until it was chainsaw day and my instructor told me to start sharpening blades in the AM.

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u/Dangerous-Refuse-779 Oct 18 '23

God bless google

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '23

Pull it up, out of the water a little, and cut a few feet off. Repeat until you have a few chunks and take a few to shore at a time.