Bonehead Award of the year

[EddieWalker]

So I built this second kitchen for my wife to do her gardening in and make dog food, along with whatever else she needed a second kitchen for. It's off the side of our garage and we wanted to have fun with it, and do some things we've never done before. One of those things was putting a pot filler faucet in over the range. This was a first for me, so after a lot of looking online, reading the instructions, and then determining where the best place to put it on the wall was. After installing the water lines, and checking it to make sure it was at a good height to turn it on and off, I did the backsplash. I think there is about a dozen different colored tiles in it. I just broke them up with a hammer on the floor, mixed them up with a flat shovel, then loaded them into a bucket and used whatever one I picked out of the bucket. It's a slow process that starts out fun, but quickly becomes painful. Once I was done, we tested it again with a bucket on the ground the catch the water. Everything was perfect until we actually bought the range. The range was too tall and the water faucet wouldn't hit the top of it!!! After a lot of hoping and wishing for a solution, I tore it all apart, raised it two inches, and then did it all over again.

 

[CincyFlyer]

I must admit that I was a bit PO'd at the Mustang owner, who did park shockingly close to my van; it if hadn't had sliding doors, I woudn't have been able to open a regular door. But I did confess, as I wanted to salvage the kitty litter! He didn't make me vacuum his car, at least.

 

[KYErik]

There is a nice clean slice through the metal corner trim about 10' high on my dad's pole barn. That's what happened when the marker blade of a corn planter hit it last spring. I got a little too close as I rounded the corner...

Thankfully my dad wasn't angry and the planter marker blade just needed to be re-aligned. I know he understood as there are a few rips in the metal siding high on another corner from where he got a little too close with the folding disk about 35 years ago.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

 

[300UGUY]

The best thread on here, IMHO!!

 

[MOTractor]

Ouch, and I thought drilling a hole through my kitchen table got me in hot water

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

I put this somewhere else but it really belongs here:

I went to use my big plunge router the other day with a big 1inch spiral bit. Used the dust shroud and big shop vac to control the chips cause I was right at eye level on a ladder...

Only problem was I accidentally attached the vacuum hose to the outlet (blow side) not the inlet (vacuum side) of the shop vac. It was like a saw dust bomb went off in my face!

 

[SedonaDave]

And on a sad note, this happend to a guy I knew a few days ago.....RIP friend

Man dies after being struck by bucket of a backhoe | The Verde Independent | Cottonwood, AZ

 

[not2old]

I had to learn the hard way, but then I discovered a better way. When I was drilling from the exterior of my home through the Hardiplank and sill plate, I knew there were electrical wires tacked along its length. I grabbed myself a ceramic tile from the previous owner and placed it behind the wires on the interior surface. When my drill bit punched through, it hit the tile with a tink and I knew to stop. No cuts and no chafing. From that point foward, I try to always use a hard backer when drilling through mostly blind surfaces. It also saves your finger from becoming the drill stop.

I have a deformed finger because it didn't stop the drill.

 

[MossRoad]

And on a sad note, this happend to a guy I knew a few days ago.....RIP friend

Man dies after being struck by bucket of a backhoe | The Verde Independent | Cottonwood, AZ

Sorry for your loss. The story said it was the outrigger that pinned his abdomen against the wall when the bucket was pushing the backhoe around. Just awful.

When I was a kid, my best friend's brother-in-law was killed in a skid steer accident. He was a big golf fan, had his pro card, and was building his own golf course. He was doing something with a skid steer and dirt pile. He got out of the skid steer to look at something, and somehow the skid steer came forward and pinned his abdomen against the dirt pile with the bucket. He died in the helicopter on the way to the hospital. Left a wife and 4 very young kids behind.

Be careful out there.... it only takes a blink.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

And on a sad note, this happend to a guy I knew a few days ago.....RIP friend

Man dies after being struck by bucket of a backhoe | The Verde Independent | Cottonwood, AZ

Wife is from Cottonwood. Her dad is in the construction business. I'll have to ask him what caused the slide.