Dufas Moment...

[JethroB]

As office manager I decided to keep our visiting IT guy company late into the evening. (It’s always good to keep the Tech people happy.) So we run a very very long length of twinax cable through a drop ceiling to replace one that kept giving us issues. When finished and being the thoughtful and tidy types we decide it best to remove the original faulty cable to eliminate clutter and future confusion up there . Yep,,, yanked down the new cable . Time to go home.

 

[Rockbadchild]

As office manager I decided to keep our visiting IT guy company late into the evening. (It’s always good to keep the Tech people happy.) So we run a very very long length of twinax cable through a drop ceiling to replace one that kept giving us issues. When finished and being the thoughtful and tidy types we decide it best to remove the original faulty cable to eliminate clutter and future confusion up there . Yep,,, yanked down the new cable . Time to go home.

that's some funny sh@t right there... well for me, I am sure you don't think so

 

[Jstpssng]

When I did a stint for a landscaping business, the youngest two of my coworkers were sent out of town for a few days. They were given enough cash for meals, lodging, and truck fuel and what was left was theirs to keep. Their vehicle was a 4 door ton truck with a newly rebuilt 305. By the end of the week it was low on oil, so they found a gallon jug of 10-30 between the seats... not noticing that someone had written "Roundup" in very small letters on the jug. By the time they got back the engine needed all new gaskets.

To his credit the owner didn't get mad at them, he just had the engine rebuilt again.
When it came back though, he did tell them "if you put Roundup in my engine again I'll put you in it!!"

 

[oosik]

My first experience really using the bucket on my first tractor. Followed the owners manual instructions carefully and got a really heaping load of sand in the bucket.

My surprise. Rather than the bucket full of sand raising - it was the rear tires that lifted off the ground. Lever forward immediately. Rear tires hit the ground like a hot potato.

Ah, ha - time to be more careful and get a rear blade.

 

[Rockbadchild]

When I did a stint for a landscaping business, the youngest two of my coworkers were sent out of town for a few days. They were given enough cash for meals, lodging, and truck fuel and what was left was theirs to keep. Their vehicle was a 4 door ton truck with a newly rebuilt 305. By the end of the week it was low on oil, so they found a gallon jug of 10-30 between the seats... not noticing that someone had written "Roundup" in very small letters on the jug. By the time they got back the engine needed all new gaskets.

To his credit the owner didn't get mad at them, he just had the engine rebuilt again.
When it came back though, he did tell them "if you put Roundup in my engine again I'll put you in it!!"

ouch ehn that’s a good boss … sorry my french but what is roundup ?

 

[Rockbadchild]

I was driving a mid articulated Volvo on super swamper tires once and I was lifting my box to dump my load in the trench and the excavator operator radio me and told me “hey not there” so I lowered the box quickly without thinking about it and ouch the whiplash I must’ve got a concussion, i lost my hard hat and the floor dust smoke the whole cab… lesson learn on that one.

 

[Eagle1]

ouch ehn that’s a good boss … sorry my french but what is roundup ?

Weed killer.... a brand name for Glyphosate

 

[Jstpssng]

Weed killer.... a brand name for Glyphosate

Exactly. To be more specific, that's the trade name for the company which developed it.
Side note; this is one reason why you aren't supposed to repackage pesticides without proper labeling.

 

[ponytug]

Many moons ago, a coworker got an old AllisChalmers row tractor into a tight spot on the edge of a stream and came to get me to get it out. I had driven it perhaps once or twice, but the tractor was right on the edge of a four foot drop into a creek, and was needed elsewhere.

So I climbed up, stepped on the clutch and brakes, and started it up, put in gear and feathered the clutch and released the brakes. Yup. Started to power backwards. Wrong gear. I stood on the brakes, and shifted to the other "H-shift" pattern and got the tractor out. My memory is that the other tractors on the farm had a different shift pattern...

In hindsight, I was probably closer to killing myself than anything I had ever done before or since.

Never been a big fan of geared tractors on slopes since then for some reason.

All the best,

Peter

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

I was really into the RC airplanes. Had purchased a used nitro engine at a swap meet, the engine was all gummed up from sitting with fuel in it for years.

Easy fix, just remove the glowplug, pour a bit of fresh fuel in the hole, let it sit overnight.....

Next morning, it was freed up, but still stiff to turn the prop. OK, more fuel down the hole. That afternoon, decided to use the electric starter motor to turn over the engine quickly and for longer....

Put some more fuel down the hole. Then, while looking down the same hole, touched the electric starter to the prop....

PPPSSHHOOOOO! That fuel I just put in the hole came out directly into my face and eyes! HOLY *@/t! ---- I have been in training courses when you get sprayed with pepper spray.... I will do that all day long compared to nitro fuel!

Oh, don't forget about the castor oil component in the fuel too. I must have rinsed my eyes for an hour! Good thing was no damage. Won't do that again......