crazy/sickest work moments you ever witnessed

[ntsarborist]

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hahaha about 5-6 years ago i had this guy working for me that walked up on the job one day and asked to work. we were short handed so i hired him on the spot(this guy isnt to bright but hes a hell of a groundman). i kept him on the crew for a few years because i lied his work ethic. me and the whole crew use to have fun with this guy because he wasnt to bright(buy him a half pint before he worked o hell good times). we use to take our saws running while he was grinding brush and turn them around and rev them up and hit his back and ass with them scared the #### outta him every time. when i go up climbing or in the bucket i use to drop small twigs down and use to use him for target practice haha he laughed about it every time. many other good fun storys too

 

[B-Edwards]

i can do one better i cut my dads thumb off with a brush cutter , so i picked up the thumb packed it in ice and my brother drove us tothe hospital .they sewed it back on but it doesn't move. now if i disagree with him he gives me the thumbs up and that is my cue to shut the:censored: up

That shouldnt be funny but IT IS!!!!!!!

 

[Raymond]

That shouldnt be funny but IT IS!!!!!!!

Yep! :agree2:

 

[treevet]

hahaha about 5-6 years ago i had this guy working for me that walked up on the job one day and asked to work. we were short handed so i hired him on the spot(this guy isnt to bright but hes a hell of a groundman). i kept him on the crew for a few years because i lied his work ethic. me and the whole crew use to have fun with this guy because he wasnt to bright(buy him a half pint before he worked o hell good times). we use to take our saws running while he was grinding brush and turn them around and rev them up and hit his back and ass with them scared the #### outta him every time. when i go up climbing or in the bucket i use to drop small twigs down and use to use him for target practice haha he laughed about it every time. many other good fun storys too

You bought him a half pint of liquor before work?

 

[Raymond]

:computer: We had a young guy named Hank from California that came to work where I worked years ago. When meeting the crew for the first time, he told us...(With his chest swelled out, in a deeper than normal voice) "They Call Me The California Kid!"

We said OK Hank and had oh so much fun with that kid from that minute on.:hmm3grin2orange:

I miss Hank! :blob4:

 

[ntsarborist]

You bought him a half pint of liquor before work?[/QUOTE

no he bought his own liquor but i never let him use non of the saws when he wanted to drink. he was strickly on loading logs and hauling brush but he never got drunk just buzzed. i had to fire him after a year of working because he got onto cocaine and dope and i dont want none of that nowhere around my equipment. warned him about and and he didnt listen so thats what happens

 

[treeclimber101]

Yep! :agree2:

that happened when i was 15 i'm now 32 i remember the way he looked with such dissapointment, and just shook his head . On the way to the hospital he wouldn't even look at me he just looked forward and hummed the song. we laugh now but it took 10 yrs. lol

 

[Col2y]

MY groundsman yoyo started a saw one time with just the pull cored, he figured the chain brake was on (but never checked) so he puts it in high idle and drops the saw just holding the pull cord, saw revs up and bights into his saw pants on the left leg,, without thinking he grabs the saw by the back and front handle and when he does he also grabed the throttle, the gyro swong the saw around and bit into his right leg, there wasnt a stich of warp nit left in them when it was all said and done, we hung them on our shop wall as a sort of pick me up, when you do something stupid, at least it wasnt that stupid.

i also so another guy try and leg lock a 66, you know how someitmes they will catch and the pull cord wont comeout, well this happened and he pulled the back handle staight into his pouch, started puking he hit himself so hard, was funny for the rest of us

 

[Rickytree]

Why is it that even reading about someone hurting themselves is funny? Except for the serious injuries but man those smaller injuries are fun nay!!

 

[ntsarborist]

started a saw one time with just the pull cored, he figured the chain brake was on

hahaha thats all i needed to read before i knew what was going to happen haha

 

[460magnumMOD]

My former boss had his 68ft. bucket truck maxed out and was standing on the top edge of the bucket to reach a limb on an oak tree to cut it off, no harness either. He didn't fall, but not the smartest thing he could have done.

 

[Raymond]

My former boss had his 68ft. bucket truck maxed out and was standing on the top edge of the bucket to reach a limb on an oak tree to cut it off, no harness either. He didn't fall, but not the smartest thing he could have done.

Dude that's nuts! But you knew that.

 

[Rickytree]

How about takin down a 120 -130 ft tree with a crane with 100ft of stick? See pic's in picture section titled "Large Poplar"

 

[SLlandscape]

i also so another guy try and leg lock a 66, you know how someitmes they will catch and the pull cord wont comeout, well this happened and he pulled the back handle staight into his pouch, started puking he hit himself so hard, was funny for the rest of us

Been there.... still do that.... occasionally.

 

[wiltzzy]

craziest

I hired on to a municipal tree crew and it was my first extensive experience with mechanized tree removal, bucket trucks and knuckle booms etc.. The crew leader goes up @ 35' in his bucket and puts a face cut in A 24" Hack berry branch [sling on the knuckle boom is 10' above his cut]. proceeds with what is obviously a too generous back cut [the weight is against him and towards a house] and then ask the boom operator to pull it over. I was standing next to the boom operator when this beautiful 45' boom snapped and boom branch and all fell on the house. I actually stayed with that crew for almost a year.
Artistree

 

[Col2y]

i heard the all time best one the other day, my instructor told me this, he calls the story, the house that ##### built, dont be jumping ahead of me now, i dont want to divulge the location of this shop but i will tell you that the company starts with a D and ends with an avey

it goes something like this, its was about mid jan the family of this house was in florida for a month, and they were taking down a great big american beach (Fagur grandifolia) and they were down to flopping the 25000 lb peg so the forman puts a notch in the front , where theres a big rams horn, he looks to my instructor and gives him the thumbs up, my instructor said it was probably the worst notch hes ever seen but he gave him the thumbs up anyway because hes the boss, so the forman starts cutting and blows right through the hinge on the far side, so the tree starts to come over, and once it got to the apex it took a hard right, landing on the house. Crushing the top 2 floors and breaking a water main about 4 inches in diam. the water poors into this house for about 3 days before they can get it shut off, creating what he reffered to as a skating rink. the family comes home later that week and sues davey for 750 000 dollars and gets a brand new house

now the story is better when its being told in person but you guys get the idea.

 

[Rickytree]

Col2y Thanks for sharing that. Always good to hear about those unprofessional mishaps from a supposedly professional company.

 

[Rftreeman]

i heard the all time best one the other day, my instructor told me this, he calls the story, the house that ##### built, dont be jumping ahead of me now, i dont want to divulge the location of this shop but i will tell you that the company starts with a D and ends with an avey

it goes something like this, its was about mid jan the family of this house was in florida for a month, and they were taking down a great big american beach (Fagur grandifolia) and they were down to flopping the 25000 lb peg so the forman puts a notch in the front , where theres a big rams horn, he looks to my instructor and gives him the thumbs up, my instructor said it was probably the worst notch hes ever seen but he gave him the thumbs up anyway because hes the boss, so the forman starts cutting and blows right through the hinge on the far side, so the tree starts to come over, and once it got to the apex it took a hard right, landing on the house. Crushing the top 2 floors and breaking a water main about 4 inches in diam. the water poors into this house for about 3 days before they can get it shut off, creating what he reffered to as a skating rink. the family comes home later that week and sues davey for 750 000 dollars and gets a brand new house

now the story is better when its being told in person but you guys get the idea.

that's what happens when you got a sorry excuse for an instructor & foreman, if the instructor didn't think it was right he should have stopped the "boss" from making the cut.

That would have never happened on my watch, the worst thing I've every broke was a $5 flower pot and an $8 chain link fence top rail, well I did blow the power off to the local airport here.