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More proof that you can't fix STUPID.
The guy trying to drill a hole in the wall and having the bit bounce all over reminds me of something I saw like that about 15 years ago.?ÿ This dude was standing on some scaffolding drilling a hole through a concrete wall about 10 feet off the ground.?ÿ The scaffolding collapsed suddenly but he was able to grip the drill in time so he was hanging there by the drill like Wile E Coyote.
I witnessed another incident where I thought a guy was going to get stabbed to death right in front of me, and it would fit perfectly in one of these videos.?ÿ A construction crew was backfilling a trench where the footing for a CMU wall had been poured.?ÿ There were a few feet of rebar sticking up out of the footing.?ÿ The guy in the skid loader pushed some loose dirt into the trench to make a ramp, loaded up the bucket with dirt, raised it up high enough to get over the rebar and then backed up and down the ramp using the weight of the machine to compact the soil.?ÿ On one of his dives down the ramp he went a bit too far and the weight of the raised bucket tipped the loader over the footing.?ÿ There was a cage around the seat and the driver was a bigger dude so there was nowhere for him to really move in there.?ÿ The rebar came flying right up to his chest and I saw him try to shove into the back of the seat to avoid being stabbed, but lucky for him the bucket happened to smack on the lip of the other side of the trench which stopped it from tipping further.?ÿ The rebar were a few inches from impaling him and if I were him I would have needed new underwear right then and there.
@bstrand About 45 years ago I was staking for a chip screening building in a paper mill.?ÿ Footings were poured with #6 rebars in interior and exterior wall positions about 18 inches apart.?ÿ A fellow fell off a scaffolding down about 12 feet into the footings.?ÿ In those days we didn't wear harnesses for fall protection we wore belts with "D" rings on the sides.?ÿ This fellows' "D" ring hung on top of a rebar and broke his fall BETWEEN the rows of rebar.?ÿ I told him he'd better attend church more regularly because someone was certainly looking after him.
Andy
