Using bucket as work platform.

[Soundguy]

I like cashew and almond butter.. publix will custom make it!!

Soundguy

 

[jeffinsgf]

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Second, are you really saying that those of us who have stood in a bucket are any dumber or more dangerous than someone who has stood on pallet using an FEL? Come on now, that just doesn't make a ton of sense. My FEL goes about 10 feet up in the air. I can jump down. The fall and the footing aren't the real issue. The issue is sudden loss of hydraulic pressure. And those pallet forks will crush you just as effectively as a bucket. So by my calculations anyone who stands on a pallet on a raised FEL is just as dumb and dangerous as someone standing in a bucket..

As someone who has done both, let me add that my personal opinion is that the bucket is substantially safer than a pallet on forks.

With a pallet on forks, there's always a temptation to put one foot past the edge of the forks to get just a little more reach. Though the bottom runners of the pallet will stop the pallet, it may be after you've lost your balance. Also, The spacing on a lot of pallets seems to pretty closely match my boot heels. I'll take the solid welded bucket any day over a pallet.

Timbers under the bucket is a good idea. Climbing into the bucket from a ladder instead of riding it up is another. I'll try to incorporate those into my work in the future.

 

[SkyPup]

Reminds me of a lable I saw on a jar of peanut butter " Warning, product may contain peanuts or other tree nuts ; Processed on shared equipment '

I thought to myself.. -gosh.. I hope it contains some peanuts!!-

Soundguy

That was there to warn the millions of people that are hyperallergic to peanuts NOT to touch that jar or they would immediately go into anaphylactic shock and die in minutes.....

 

[N80]

That was there to warn the millions of people that are hyperallergic to peanuts NOT to touch that jar or they would immediately go into anaphylactic shock and die in minutes.....

Then the sign should really be on the front of the store.

 

[rback33]

I don't want to show how macho dumb I am so I won't share how I ran out to my shed and fired up my Stihl MS290 w/ 20" bar in my flip-flops after a six pack just so I could get that hunk of Mulberry into my woodstove... all the while thinkin I should NOT be doin this home alone while drunk in flip-flops.. Those two pieces left some good coals for the morning though.... oops.. did I share that out loud.... You shoulda seen the "scaffolding" used to paint above my stairway 5 yrs ago....

 

[patrick_g]

I believe the basic desire to do "dumb things" and brag about them is strong and the interest in seing others do these things is also strong. In recent times there were a couple feature length movies about doing dumb things.

I recently channel surfed past "America's Funniest Videos" when they were showing a video shot my a young man's mother of him wearing a bark correcting shock collar with 7 levels of power. He barked on-camera taking the collar up through all levels. Toward the high end he was getting hit pretty hard but hung in there. He would probably have cut off a finger on-camera if it payed well enough.

I would bet that at a carnival or similar venue folks would line up to pay $5 to enter their dumbest and most dangerous exploits into competition for America's DUMBEST and MOST DANGEROUS.

If Guiness had a category for dumbest and most dangerous act a whole lot more Darwin Awards could be given out.

Pat

 

[rback33]

I believe the basic desire to do "dumb things" and brag about them is strong and the interest in seing others do these things is also strong. In recent times there were a couple feature length movies about doing dumb things.

I recently channel surfed past "America's Funniest Videos" when they were showing a video shot my a young man's mother of him wearing a bark correcting shock collar with 7 levels of power. He barked on-camera taking the collar up through all levels. Toward the high end he was getting hit pretty hard but hung in there. He would probably have cut off a finger on-camera if it payed well enough.

I would bet that at a carnival or similar venue folks would line up to pay $5 to enter their dumbest and most dangerous exploits into competition for America's DUMBEST and MOST DANGEROUS.

If Guiness had a category for dumbest and most dangerous act a whole lot more Darwin Awards could be given out.

Pat

LMAO u could not be more right

 

[JRobyn]

Still one of my favorite forum threads is "dumb things not to do in your garage" on the Ford Truck Enthusiast forum that was up to something like 140 pages last time I checked it.

Things Not to Do In Your Garage........... - Ford Truck Enthusiasts Forums

 

[N80]

You have to wonder if some of this macho-dumb fad is a reaction to the sterile, risk free, OSHA watched, tort driven, psycho-safety, everyone is a victim world we live in.

 

[TomKioti]

Just wondering,

What is the mortality rate? Some folks must have died doing this. I'd be very interested to know why and how. You guys seem pretty flippant about the subject but where there are safety warnings there are fellow tractor owners no longer among us. I think this thread desrves a little more careful commentary and a WHOLE lot more reflection IMHO.

TomK