Let's lighten things up, and laugh at each other a bit. Share an embarrassing mistake. Something that maybe wasn't funny at the time, but now you can all laugh at it.

examples of mine.
-i once cut my hand for 12 stitches because i used a knife with my unsteady left hand instead of right hand, while reaching, because i was too lazy to move the large piece i was cutting, since it happened to be in an awkward environment.
i think about it often when i go to do something lazy.

Or even things you got away with that you shouldn't have done.
-i once, in winter in northern canada, was standing on the tips (not the top rung, but the tops of each vertical ladder side, fully extended) to run hydro from a pole to a house. i was on my toes up there on each peak/point reaching and making it work...And i did, and it was fine... but jesus..... not today... haha....i'd pass.

Oh i once knelt on a stove to finish installing a cabinet. broke the glass stove top. Those aren't cheap!!! haha that's what i learned there....

there are many....... haha......

When I was a kid building a treehouse, I hit my same thumb with a hammer 5 times...……… IN A ROW! Started to smart after awhile.

I snapped my pinky finger in half. Had the ax stuck in a round. Without thinking I grabbes the aledge to drive it through the ax handle came up with corresponding force and broke my ring finger and snapped my pinky. I finished the job (didnt know the extant of injury). Got home and out my head on the table from pain. My wife was actually scared. Figured it would get better, took some IB profen. Two days later I finally went into urgent care. Nurses were shocked.

Was rolling 1 1/2 steel bars, 12 feet long. My wife was helping me. Naturally I wanted to show her how strong I was (in our 20s) so I twisted and was putting all my force into pushing the 12' rods back through the dies. One rod fell off the rest and stopped dead on the head. With all my 25 year old force I slammed my inner elbow joint into that 1 1/2 rod. Blew up my arm. I was Black and bkue from my wrist to my pecs. Foe the next 6 months (3 months of therapy) I couldnt straighten my right arm.

Finished the job without My wife with one hand. Walked into the office where she was waiting and nearly passed out lol

Too many to count lol. My Dad built bridges for the county, Mom used to say they kept his medical records under the desk at the emergency room to save time..... I got it honest lol. What gets me is when I think " I probably shouldn't be doing this" which is immediately followed by blood, pain, or a combination of the two

Sometimes too much of this....can turn into:

That!

I've left lugnuts loose once, but didn't ever so it again

One time I worked on an F450 dump truck and put the wheels back on with a torque wrench. I noticed that they seemed awful tight all the way down the threads,but didn't think much of it. Two days later it was sitting in the lot with both back wheels fallen off; the lugs weren't tight and the studs sheared off. To make matters worse, it had a full load of dirt, so when I jacked it up, the jack cracked the asphalt pavement right in front of the entrance. Needless to say, the boss was (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman).

I used to have a habit or resting my hand on the tire as the car went up on the lift, until one time I had the car in drive going up so I could listen for a wheel bearing and I stuck my hand into the spinning wheel. It ripped the nail off my trigger finger and smashed it down to about 1/8" thick. Ouch.

7 big hard maple from 1 stump,knew things were goin bad and watched it all unfold seemingly in slow motion from a safe distance.

Lol same here!

i own stock in super glue,ive used so much on myself.

Just recently I cut a 15' butt section off a 35' telephone pole while it was sitting on top of a stack of other poles. Very quickly the cut off section rolled off the stack and landed flush on my left pinky toe. I did the one legged hop while cussing myself out. Within minutes my toe was double in size and three shades of purple/black! Glad I was wearing a cheap pair of tennis shoes because a smart person should never take chances!

Chris

Dumbest thing I did at work was date the women there.

Rookies!! I had drained the oil in a Mack truck engine once. While it was draining, I figured I'd put some grease in some auto-tarper fittings that had been needing greased. I squirted some grease in each side, then figured I'd start the engine and run the tarper back and forth a few times to get the grease spread around. After back and forth a few times, the engine slowed down and seized.....still draining the oil. Engine, injector pump, air compressor, turbo.......30,000 dollars. Still kept my job!!!

One cold november day out on the line,I jumped down onto some floating muskeg(Its like a big sponge,didnt know it was floating).It started going down slowly and I couldn't jump back up on the bank cause it would just give under me.
Down I went slowly into about 8 feet of water with hip boots on.I swam/crawled to the bank and crawled up the bank to the bike.It was freezing weather and I was about 10 miles from the truck.That was the coldest 4 wheeler ride I have ever done.

I may have tried to remove a brake drum from a car with the park brake set once. I beat on that thing for a long time before I remembered. Needless to say, the drum needed turning after that.

Dumbest thing I've ever done at work was show up!

I started to make a list but my computer run out of memory.

About 20 years ago me and my crew were setting up scaffold on a barn restoration. My guys were complaining about the condition of my walker planks. I was standing on top of a three stack (15 feet) and had just set the fourth set. I began jumping up and down on the middle of a plank yelling at my workers to “Look how strong they are you bunch of sissies now get to work!”

The plank broke and I tore up my knee when I hit the ground, it gives me trouble to this day.

There were brand new, OSHA approved planks on the job the next day.

Ha! SMH

Ince I couldnt figure out why my old jalopy wasnt starting. Seoent a whole Saturday trouble shooting. My dad casually strolls in and asksnif it has gas. "Of course it does!" I answer....well...yeah....I forgot to fill her up.

I had a side job doing demo work in an old house when I was about 24.
I was pulling lath and plaster off the walls to prep for drywall.
I had my claw hammer behind about 3 strips of lath trying to pry out the nails when the plaster at the other end have way because those nails had rusted through. The lath snapped back like a bow limb LOL and it had about a 2lb chunk of plaster still attached to the business end. It clubbed me in the temple about as hard as I've ever been hit and knocked me out. I woke up covered in plaster dust and my own blood... but otherwise OK

Last Tuesday I was taking apart some pallet racking by myself. Top rails were 10 feet high. First one came off no problem. Second one I released one end, standing on an 8 foot ladder I held the 40 pound rail up in the middle and smacked the other end of the rail loose with a hammer. Rail came off my hand, smacked me in the mouth and punched my bottom teeth through my lip. Lucky I didn't lose any teeth. If I had gone one step further up the ladder it wouldn't have happened. Can't eat, time to start a diet.