Rogues' Gallery.......

[Keith 66]

No picture, but years ago i was given an old double barreled 12 bore hammergun, it was in a dreadful state both locks held in with baler twine & the barrel hinge pin had been replaced with a tapered bicycle cotter pin.
The right hand lock was so worn it could be fired by the faintest touch on the trigger. Pits in the barrels that could have hidden spiders. The amazing thing was that someone had actually fired it in that state.
It bore the name of a celbrate london maker but had belgian proof marks. It ended up on a pub wall thoroughly deactivated.

 

[8ob]

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A company is a good as its worst employee, the one in the clip below is one of the larger outfits. Its accredited, has its H&S in order, the guys are all ticketed to death and they have all the right gear. I would have thought from looking at this that they were told to climb/dismantle this tree but thought they would take a shortcut. Bare in mind this is a street with public walking about, the guys are clueless.

 

[Migmac]

No picture, but years ago i was given an old double barreled 12 bore hammergun, it was in a dreadful state both locks held in with baler twine & the barrel hinge pin had been replaced with a tapered bicycle cotter pin.
The right hand lock was so worn it could be fired by the faintest touch on the trigger. Pits in the barrels that could have hidden spiders. The amazing thing was that someone had actually fired it in that state.
It bore the name of a celbrate london maker but had belgian proof marks. It ended up on a pub wall thoroughly deactivated.

We had a farmers day, a driven day just to say thanks for everything during the year. One old farmer had a hammer gun, it was probably as bad as the one you were given. Pull one trigger both barrels went off. He had to hold the top lever in position with his thumb. Bad mistake, first drive of the day his thumb looked like a peeled banana!

 

[Wallace]

Driveshaft U/J bolts on a customers car I took for Mot were loose and one had an odd size head compared to the other three, turned out to be an M6 bolt in a 1/4" UNF thread.

Nice shiny UNF bolts holding the front brake calipers on the same car and one missing (luckily the top one) with no spring washers as per factory fitment. Washers missing as bolts not long enough and only engaging on three threads maximum.

 

[rtbcomp]

How the headlamp reflectors on my Volvo 240 were held in place.



Found more sealant holding the number plate lamps on and rear light lenses in place.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Bare in mind this is a street with public walking about, the guys are clueless.

How lucky was that pedestrian walking along the pavement!!

 

[KemppiFrog]

Huh! Yer all a bunch of snowflake pussies.
The local village near me got 380 down their 230v lines. Blew just about everthing connected.
Natch, they wanted to compensate on the basis of the original contracts, when fridges were a novelty and nobody had a TV. The had to back down and cough up.
Bit later, I was chasing up a connection for film shoot. Found the bloke, who asked me to come back a bit later, pointing out a figure hanging off a post. Poor sod had caught 11,000 volts when they thought it had been turned off.

 

[pcwizme]

A company is a good as its worst employee, the one in the clip below is one of the larger outfits. Its accredited, has its H&S in order, the guys are all ticketed to death and they have all the right gear. I would have thought from looking at this that they were told to climb/dismantle this tree but thought they would take a shortcut. Bare in mind this is a street with public walking about, the guys are clueless.

Very nearly had the company in lots of hot water, they lost a number of contracts on the back of this and other near hits. I believe that the insurance company they was with refused to pay out for damage caused as it was not done as on the method statment and risk assessment. Oh and a couple of people (chainsaw operator and supervisor ) got a p45 according to my mate who at the time was working for them.

 

[Cuthy246]

How lucky was that pedestrian walking along the pavement!!

Was walking to get a bus in Edinburgh one morning it was quite windy that day. 10m or so in front of me a woman is walking along talking on her phone, then a rusty old satellite dish falls off the three story tenement building next to the pavement and misses her by about 250mm? bounced off the pavement into her legs (no damage done just surprised) very, very lucky lady!

 

[Cuthy246]

Worst bodge I ever came across was in the house. Taking down a partition wall between lounge and kitchen. 3 plug sockets in the wall on the same ring. Pull off a sheet of plasterboard and there is a loose wire with stripped ends hanging in the wall thinking its a scrap I go to pull it out but then think better just check needless to say it was live. Further investigation revealed one of the plugs had 3 wires in it as opposed to just the 2 needed to make the ring. Gave the rest of the wiring in the house the once over after that.

 

[rtbcomp]

One of my customer's had a disconnected earth wire in a junction box, it kept touching the live but we didn't notice until we networked two computers in 2 different rooms. The network cable earthed the first room into the 2nd and blew the network cards up. Of course me and the computers I supplied got the blame.

The scary thing was that there was an electric kettle in the first room, which must have been intermittently live.

 

[Gritineye]

Why does nobody shout TIMBER! any more?

Is it incase they frighten a kid, feel stupid, or maybe no one showed them how, not in their job description?

I blame Monty Python....

 

[dobbslc]

Was walking to get a bus in Edinburgh one morning it was quite windy that day. 10m or so in front of me a woman is walking along talking on her phone, then a rusty old satellite dish falls off the three story tenement building next to the pavement and misses her by about 250mm? bounced off the pavement into her legs (no damage done just surprised) very, very lucky lady!

Wife had that a couple of months ago in St Alban's when some toss pot through a Henry vacuum cleaner out of a top floor window. Missed her by inches.
I woke up the other night thinking about it and how I can find the tosser that did it.
Wonder if the waster posted something on fartbook?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Was walking to get a bus in Edinburgh one morning it was quite windy that day. 10m or so in front of me a woman is walking along talking on her phone, then a rusty old satellite dish falls off the three story tenement building next to the pavement and misses her by about 250mm? bounced off the pavement into her legs (no damage done just surprised) very, very lucky lady!

I've always said Edinburgh is a dangerous place.....

 

[skotl]

I've always said Edinburgh is a dangerous place.....

But then, you probably consider Fraserburgh a bustling metropolis

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

A company is a good as its worst employee, the one in the clip below is one of the larger outfits. Its accredited, has its H&S in order, the guys are all ticketed to death and they have all the right gear. I would have thought from looking at this that they were told to climb/dismantle this tree but thought they would take a shortcut. Bare in mind this is a street with public walking about, the guys are clueless.

Whoops.
Surely they shoild have at least lopped some weight off the backside first if there gonna risk felling in one hit.
Tirfor to tension rather than using the van and another rope into the treeline to stop it swinging roadside.

All the tickets in the world doesnt mske you good at your job.

You seen this one.

All that work bringing it down sectionaly then cut corners on the last few drops.

 

[Migmac]

Why does nobody shout TIMBER! any more?

Is it incase they frighten a kid, feel stupid, or maybe no one showed them how, not in their job description?

I blame Monty Python....

They haven’t got time to shout timber, to busy going oh dear. Or words to that effect

 

[keithski122]

Whoever wired our house put the circuit breakers on the neutral side off the circuits, managed to get a belt from changing socket faceplates a few times due to that.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

They haven’t got time to shout timber, to busy going oh dear. Or words to that effect

Hehe.
Was working on a listed building years back.

We had a tirfor on a big ash 40ft from the house and digger driver dug around to pull over.

I'm cross cutting and notice digger driver is now digging around a big oak. 6ft diam.
Leg it over and ask if he wants the winch on it.
No no no. I. Just making a start its not going anywhere.
Held my hands up and walked away.
Ten minutes later I look up to see this tree gracefully tilt over to rest on the new extension with thankfully very little damage.

Spending the afternoon in the rain walking around on scaffold boards on a half finished flat roof cross cutting the oak then getting the stump off and safe was not fun.

 

[Migmac]

Hehe.
Was working on a listed building years back.

We had a tirfor on a big ash 40ft from the house and digger driver dug around to pull over.

I'm cross cutting and notice digger driver is now digging around a big oak. 6ft diam.
Leg it over and ask if he wants the winch on it.
No no no. I. Just making a start its not going anywhere.
Held my hands up and walked away.
Ten minutes later I look up to see this tree gracefully tilt over to rest on the new extension with thankfully very little damage.

Spending the afternoon in the rain walking around on scaffold boards on a half finished flat roof cross cutting the oak then getting the stump off and safe was not fun.

No fun tidying up somebody else’s mistakes, especially when they can be avoided