Bonehead Award of the year

[sixdogs]

Tell you "friend", that you can remove a lot of them yourself with a chain and an hydraulic jack.. But I wouldn't really know... I heard it from a "friend".

My friend spent hours trying and then took it to a welding shop. Not much money and 15 minutes later and back on the road and it looked 100% perfect. After you bend it, the indignity of not having it perfect would haunt the perpetrator forever. I wouldn't know but that's what I heard.

 

[EddieWalker]

I really want to win this, so here's another one!

A client hired me to finish off a bathroom remodel that the contractor had started to gut the existing bathroom, then disappeared. Second contractor came in, do a little more demo, then also disappeared.

So I did the job, got it all done, and then ran the shower to see how well it worked. In a few minutes, the drain backed up and began to flood. I took off the cover, checked the trap, and it was all good. I put a snake down the line and hit something solid about 5 or six feet down. I tried cleaning it out without any luck. It was like concrete.

So I crawl under the house, cut out the pipe and put in a new section. It was packed full of demolition debris that had solidified into something like concrete.

That would have been a very simple fix if I had thought to test the drain line. I also didn't realize how long ago the demo had been. I thought they said a few years, but it was 14 years that it took for them to feel comfortable hiring somebody else!!!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Was managing a construction job in TX in the 80's. Hvac guys installed 3 or 4 " copper lines off a chill water loop to ac units. They were starting one up, flooded the place. Forgot to solder a connection, also didnt air test.

Same hvac guys cut through a roof truss, because it was in their way. Had to get an engineered load analysis of the roof done.

 

[dragoneggs]

Good stories but just to be clear... in order to be eligible, the BHM must be your own.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good stories but just to be clear... in order to be eligible, the BHM must be your own.

I was trimming a tree behind my house in Nov, a limb i cut took down my TV antenna, broke it in half.

Then there were the pallet fork tips into my siding.

Sliced a hole in barn garage door clearing snow.

Nope. I ain't done nuttin.

 

[disney]

Good stories but just to be clear... in order to be eligible, the BHM must be your own.

You mean we can't just give it to our "friend"?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Oh yea, that wasnt me, just someone i know.

 

[Citydude]

Ran into the corner of my 5 day old spanking new pole barn with my loader bucket. Fixed that and learned a lesson. Fast forward 3 months, hit the garage door rail with the forks. Fixed that and learned a another lesson. 6 months later, you guessed it, learned another lesson. Make sure the garage door is opened far enough when exiting the barn with a tractor.

 

[dragoneggs]

You mean we can't just give it to our "friend"?

Nope! Gotta fess up.

 

[4570Man]

A welding or fab shop can easily remove the dent. I, ahh, err, have a "friend" that bent his bucket.

Chain both ends of the bucket to a log or other beam that’s heavy enough and put a bottle jack in the middle.