How stupid can they get??

[Wood Butcher]

Found this while browsing another site today


Wonder how long till someone loses a finger??

[Shedhand]

looks like one of those narrow gauge train clubs. For pseudo engineers they do some dumb things.

[Waldo]

G'day Wood Butcher,

A lot stupider.

A bloke I know was once planing a 60mm sq. parquetry tile with an electric planer as he held onto it with the other hand.

We were all waiting for the invitable to happen, to his shear luck it didn't. Dopey bugger.

[rrich]

Please forgive the references to imperial measure.

I was having a room addition built on the home. Everything had been framed and a carpenter is standing on the roof rafters. He needed a 1" x 6" piece of material to use for the edge of the roof prior to putting the plywood sheeting on.

Again, standing on the rafters! The carpenter picks up a 1" x 8" by 10 feet piece of timber. He then procedes to rip the 1" x 8" to the desired width with a circular saw. He balances the 1" x 8" on his right knee, holding the circular saw in his right hand and uses his left hand to pull the 1" x 8" through the saw.

After he was about three feet into the rip cut, I stopped watching. I still shudder when I think about that cut.

[normanjr]

some people are just asking for trouble...for the sake of avoiding a couple of extra steps to get the job done...they'll risk their fingers - or worse.

I suppose the above picture is a good enough reason to keep the idiot pictures at the front of every power tool manual.

[Felder]

The carpenter picks up a 1" x 8" by 10 feet piece of timber. He then procedes to rip the 1" x 8" to the desired width with a circular saw. He balances the 1" x 8" on his right knee, holding the circular saw in his right hand and uses his left hand to pull the 1" x 8" through the saw.

[Bluegum]

As they say it takes all kinds to make the world go round. I remember watching my ex brother in law rest logs on his foot to cut them for fire wood. He thought that after a few beers he could he do anything including cut timber.

[joe greiner]

We had a stubborn old cabinetmaker who thought push sticks were for sissies; couldn't be persuaded to use one on a table saw. Sure enough, one day he sailed his hand right on through. I don't know if they ever found his thumb.

Joe

[michael74]

cant teach the old folk....there way or the hiway

[Cabbie]

I am the safety officer at my work and a lot of the safety laws are pretty bloody ######## but yeh bein out and about I have seen some incredibly stupid stuff. I still don't understand why people can't just take a lttle more time and do things properly leaving guardsin place. It reall pisses me off then they cry foul when they stuff up n hurt themselves bt they have only themselves to blame. That is seriously stupid up there how dumb can ya be??

[Harry72]

I laugh at the idiots at work who walk under a crane load... even when the crane driver is beeping frantically at them before they've walked under it, what can you do... nothing they've been warned by induction courses and bloody great signs everywhere(plus the deafening crane sirens), lucky their wearing a hard hat aye.
Its not funny if its a dross tub(skip) thats dripping molten lead, they get a very rude shock...

[joe greiner]

Moving a bridge crane with the empty hook low can be fun to watch, until . . . We welded handles to the hooks; pendant controller box in one hand, hook handle in other. Much safer that way.

Joe

[soundman]

This is one of those pictures you could use for a " Spot the hasard" competition.



There's the obvious circular saw problem.
Name 3 body parts this circular saw could easily remove?

The cables laying around one of which the operator is standing on.
the extension cord is almost all still on the roll.
the operator will probaly stand up and scrag his back on the woden rail.

Where is this dude...... I want to know so I can stay away.

cheers

[Wood Butcher]

Unless you have any plans of travelling to the UK you will be pretty safe Soundman

[Harry72]

Moving a bridge crane with the empty hook low can be fun to watch, until . . . We welded handles to the hooks; pendant controller box in one hand, hook handle in other. Much safer that way.

Joe

Wouldnt pass the rules here... no welding allowed on lifting equipment unless its done during its manufacturing process, but you are allowed to weld lifting lugs onto a load(by an approved boiler maker)
Even if we could be no good to us... you'd need very long arms as our tools carried by the crane are huge!

Those pendant controllers are IMHO dangerous, its very easy to get too close to the load. Ours are fully remote controlled or driven by the cabin, the cranes I drive are about 100' across and traverse the shed about 400' have 2 hooks a 25T and a 6T aux.