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Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: Ouananiche] #6896873
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I generally worked alone, so anytime I had a passenger I got distracted with conversation easy. Well, one day it started snowing those flakes the size of a walnut and I had my supervisor doing a ride along, we were BSing and I backed right into a random pole in a field that I never saw. It didn’t do much damage at all to the bumper and he just laughed, but I sure felt cool...

Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: Turd Furgeson] #6896879
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Taking down a 24’ scaffold pick supported through 3 windows, 3rd floor. Removed one end support and then walked back out onto the pick. Great ride....

Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: Ouananiche] #6896912
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I put the wheels on my boss's truck with an electric impact and didn't check them by hand. The wheels came off while the boss's son was pulling a trailer the next day on a stretch of highway with a sharp 8-10 ft ditch. Fortunately he kept it on the road. Now I check everything by hand no matter what tool put them on.

I was trying to start a cold-blooded diesel piece of equipment in the winter, so I left a jet heater blowing into the grill. I forgot the grill was plastic... melted it. This particular machine was about 30 years old, European and rare to begin with. It never got a new grill.
My first day on my first real construction job when when I was 17, we were demoing some windows. The boss told me to stand outside and catch the window while he cut the foam insulation around it from the inside. I had my hands up on the sides of the window and he stuck his long insulation knife through the crack right into my hand. He felt terrible and we got along great after that.


Originally Posted by Dirt
Originally Posted by Rat Masterson
Boco couldn't catch a cold.

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Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: KenaiKid] #6896954
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Originally Posted by KenaiKid
I put the wheels on my boss's truck with an electric impact and didn't check them by hand. The wheels came off while the boss's son was pulling a trailer the next day on a stretch of highway with a sharp 8-10 ft ditch. Fortunately he kept it on the road. Now I check everything by hand no matter what tool put them on.

I was trying to start a cold-blooded diesel piece of equipment in the winter, so I left a jet heater blowing into the grill. I forgot the grill was plastic... melted it. This particular machine was about 30 years old, European and rare to begin with. It never got a new grill.
My first day on my first real construction job when when I was 17, we were demoing some windows. The boss told me to stand outside and catch the window while he cut the foam insulation around it from the inside. I had my hands up on the sides of the window and he stuck his long insulation knife through the crack right into my hand. He felt terrible and we got along great after that.

I covered my mouth half way through that first paragraph as i read....

Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: Ouananiche] #6897009
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I was using my pocket knife for something and set it down on the seat of the forklift I was operating. Someone called for something on the radio so I jump up in the seat and yeeeow! Jumped down and did a circle like a dog chasing its tail trying to reach what was causing the pain in my backside. Finally got ahold of it and pulled it out. Had it stuck in pretty deep in the old butt cheek.

Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: Ouananiche] #6897042
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Didn't happen at work, but made work tough for awhile because I was limping: Was digging potatoes in the garden. Decided to take a break, so stabbed the potato fork into the ground...except my foot was in the way.

Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: Ouananiche] #6897122
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Too many to remember. Most recent one that comes to mind from last year... 140' long greenhouse with electric roll up sides, wind lashing rope got caught in the pipe as it was rolling up, blew the fuses and it was jammed. Went to cut the rope with my pocket knife without thinking about how much pressure it was under, touched the knife to the rope and the whole thing exploded, pipe hit me square in the forehead like a mule kick. I landed on my back with lights flashing in my vision and blood running into eyes. It's good to think before you act.

The winter before I was making a new bowsprit for a tourist schooner in town with another guy. I was using a slide hammer to pull some stiuck hardware off the old sprit. Straddled it for a better angle, brought it home with everything I had, and caught a huge chunk on the inside of my thigh in the process. Left a blood blister the size of a #4 Victor pan. Took a long time to heal.

Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: HobbieTrapper] #6897152
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Originally Posted by HobbieTrapper
Dumbest thing I did at work was date the women there.

All of them?

Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: Ouananiche] #6897189
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I guided hunts on a ranch in south Texas after college. Took a guy from Bowtech Archery, head of R&D. He shot a buck, hit it far back so we left to give it some time to expire. In the mean time I took him to a feeder in a sendero that always had hogs on it. We stalked in, finally got within range. He smoked one. They all ran, except one. He handed me his bow and said here shoot him! So I drew and BANG POW the bow limb split, string came off the cam. I never drew an arrow! Oh man my heart sank I coulda puked!!!

Lesson learned, first things first!

John

Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: Ouananiche] #6897261
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For starters, showing up on time...to get nowhere fast.
One time when I first started pulling triples, I left my last two trailers in the yard and didn’t realize til the dispatcher asked if I forgot something. My answer was no by the way.
I’ve pulled out from under a fully loaded trailer with the landing gear up..
worked as a printing press operator when I was a teen. My registration was off and I thought I could just give the paper a tug over and it sucked my fingers into the dies. Thankfully it was a two stamp label so they only got smashed twice.
Worked at a mobile phone call center in my teens....that was a mistake all together.
I worked at a gas station in my early teens back when some still had auto shops. I worked the grave shift, don’t ask. I was told I could work on my truck if I wanted. I ended up doing discount tire repair and used tire sales until someone came back during the day, when the owner was there, looking for the used tire sale. Made good money til I got caught.
Yeah looking back I realize I did a lot of things with little thought. I’m still kickin though. Learned a lot and still have all my fingers....a couple don’t work quite right but they are there.

Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: ] #6897267
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Let’s just say the buck sheep wasn’t pinned up correctly and when I turned around that fence I figured that out pretty quick.

Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: jctunnelrat] #6897276
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Originally Posted by jctunnelrat
Dumbest thing I've ever done at work was show up!

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

Agreed. Same with me, I have never made a dum work mistake., Shot myself with nail gun once, big deal, I don't do them, I don't do dangerous work, they don't pay enough, about the dumbest thing I do now is burn my lungs out on disenfectant cleaning, the dumbest thing, is like u say, since long work job end over 4 yrs back, the dumbest thing is show up an work for cheap jew employers. I had it with it , an like be done with it

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Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: Ouananiche] #6897302
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I didn't fill out the application.
Like Coonman I was looking for the perfect less stressful job.
Two weeks before Thanksgiving I found the help wanted ad I had been dreaming about.
So I went straight to Victoria Secrets in Joliet, Illinois to inquire about the opening for a fitting room assistant.
The lady hiring told me I would have to go to Bismark, North Dakota
I said " oh, do they have an opening there ?"
She said " No, that's where you get in line for an application!"
crazy

Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: Ouananiche] #6897304
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^^^ha ha ha!!!

Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: Ouananiche] #6897310
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loaded a 1980 pound coil of 1/4x 31/8 mild steel on the decoiler and cut the bands without putting the fingers on that holds the coil in place.
i plain out ran it getting out of the cage the decoiler sets in. took two forkllifts to get what ran off in the floor up and scrap it after i cut it off with a portaband


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Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: Ouananiche] #6897312
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Went to tend to my lobster boat one day after a heavy rain. Pulled the plug to drain it and figured I'd check my coyote traps while I waited. Fast forward 12 hours later to 2am when I realized I never put the plug back in. Drove to the boat to find it sitting on the flats after the tide had gone back out. Had to pickle the motor at 3am.

Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: Ouananiche] #6897316
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I have gotten tractors stuck multiple times. Sorry to say- I don't have as exciting workplace drama like some of you.


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Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: Ouananiche] #6897330
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Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: Ouananiche] #6897364
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When I first started working HVAC I installed a pitch pocket upside down and filled it with tar. A pitch pocket is used on a flat roof it’s a metal box that is sealed to the roof and the power wires and refrigerant lines for air conditioning run up through and then you fill the top three inches of the box with tar or roofing sealant to make it weather proof. It sticks up above the roof about a foot. I installed it upside down so it was sticking down into the building a foot and filled it with roofing tar luckily without any pipes or wires in it. My boss really laughed at me and it was easy fix . But I never repeated that mistake.


The bitterness of poor quality last a lot longer than the sweetness of low price
Re: Share some dumb work mistakes you've made [Re: 52Carl] #6897367
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Originally Posted by 52Carl
Originally Posted by HobbieTrapper
Dumbest thing I did at work was date the women there.

All of them?


Too many of them and I’ll leave it at that.


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