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Here's a topic for a certain type of story of which i have had more than my fair share over the years,that is accidents-which make for good telling afterwards,for example-
Working down south in the summer of 89 I had the task of showing a bunch of boy scouts round the site giving a little talk,after a short while i got sick and tired of them clowining about-so i gathered them up and told them this is not a playground and that with tools lying around,holes in the ground and grid pins they were an accident waiting to happen so "just look what your doing and where you put your feet" i snapped at them,and as i turned round i promptly stood on the end of a hoe and whacked myself in the face with the handle-great big OUCH!:face-confused:
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I'll be brave now!
I was on a site in a city with xxxx letters :face-huh: back in the 80s
the shored test pit was around 5 meters deep You try doing levels at the bottom of that!
Anyway... it was time to pull the shoring out.. and I climbed in to attach the chains to pull out the steel shoring sheets... job done, the JCB pulled, and as I hung on one handed to the trench side, the shoring sheet came flying across the narrow trench... aaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiii!!! I flattened myself against the side and there was a terrible sound of ripping.......
Fortunately for me, it was the entire back of my trowsers being ripped off! For others.. it was not pleasant .. as my bare buttocks were now neatly framed! I think that taught me a lesson.... don't be a smart ar## as you will end up sliced in two... now where is my H&S manual.
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu
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Talking of H&S manual...one t-break many,many years ago i positioned my chair about a metre from the trench edge,and as you do i leant back on the two back legs-started to lose my balance but caught myself just in time!and with famous last words said "bloody hell,that was lucky" whereupon the two back legs went straight down into the ground pushing the section into the trench taking me and the chair with it!
I landed on my head on the roman road (luckily i had my hard hat on) and as I lay there moaning and a groaning someone said "thanks Dave-i've just cleaned that for a photo"!
So much for sympathy!but as a wise man once said -sympathy can be found in the dictionary,half way between **** and syphillis!!
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Was it Dr Pete who once told me a tale of missing the stop block with a dumper and losing it over the edge of a quarry??
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The first time I was showed how to drive a dumper someone told me the first and reverse wrong so i reversed straight into an old ladies gate![:I]
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A comment this morning reminded me of an incidence back in the mid 90s whilst trying to plan on a hot summers day,down on the fens of south lincs it felt like we were being eaten alive by horseflies so they were automatically under sentence of death,kneeling down I heard a voice from behind say "don't move Dave you have a horsefly on you" so i asked the young lady to get rid of it which she did by rapping me on the back of my hard hat with a hand shovel!![xx(]
