Errrrr disgusting!!!!!! Nasty side of electrical work!

Nice.:tounge_smile:

rewiring a old house in the sticks near mine, moving the insulation in the attic to be able to wire the lights and smoke in and I thought I saw something move. Went back down to change the battery on my head touch. As I put my hand on the joist to pick get myself back into the attic, their was a loud squeal and something furry under my hand. It was a rat the size of a rabbit!!! I was nearly sick

stef said:

Nice.:tounge_smile:

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After I put it in the fryer, it really was!!!! Mmmmmmmmm


Jay

While an apprentice we got a rewire of a house overlooking a beautiful park, he was a councillor she was a college lecturer or vice versa but either way supposedly intelligent people. She was heavily pregnant too.
Anyway, we kept finding these cotton wool balls with some sort of residue of something on them, notknowing what it was we just swept them out of our way. Midday of day 2 in storms my mentor blue with rage and screams at me to pack the tools and get out. Now I'm thinking I've screwed up big time and am in for a clout.
When I got in the van he showed me a leaflet. Turns out she had some sort of infection down there and the leaflet told her how to apply some cream and it was this that was the residue on the cotton wool balls.
That's the worst I've ever found apart from a rat that bit me

trev said:

While an apprentice we got a rewire of a house overlooking a beautiful park, he was a councillor she was a college lecturer or vice versa but either way supposedly intelligent people. She was heavily pregnant too.
Anyway, we kept finding these cotton wool balls with some sort of residue of something on them, notknowing what it was we just swept them out of our way. Midday of day 2 in storms my mentor blue with rage and screams at me to pack the tools and get out. Now I'm thinking I've screwed up big time and am in for a clout.
When I got in the van he showed me a leaflet. Turns out she had some sort of infection down there and the leaflet told her how to apply some cream and it was this that was the residue on the cotton wool balls.
That's the worst I've ever found apart from a rat that bit me

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Did you not have a sniff of one of these cotton balls???? That would of been a clue.lol

About 20 years ago, and not long out of my apprenticeship, I got a job as the sole maintenance electrician in an ancient animal feeds factory. It was more of a massive warehouse tbh with machinery and only about 6 people scattered about the site.
Anyway, whenever a floor auger stopped working I was sent to investigate. One particular night, around 9.45 and just before my shift was due to finish (as is usually the case), I was called to such a job. As I descended the wooden stairs to have a look with only my head torch for light, dozens (felt like hundreds at the time) of mice ran up the steps, up the handrails and all over me as they exited the chamber... Absolutely terrifying....
The only positive thing to come out of that was the knowledge that where there were mice, there were no rats.....

Jay Sparks said:

After I put it in the fryer, it really was!!!! Mmmmmmmmm


Jay

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Is that a clue to who you are talking about

Anyone remember "Bunny Burners"?
For the uninitiated they are / were sanitary towel electric burning devices. Got a call to a school because one had gone faulty. It must have been faulty for over a week, the girls had been stuffing more and more in to it.
I had to get long nose pliers to pull about 50 used "jam rags" out before i could start working on it! Nice!

ian.settle1 said:

Is that a clue to who you are talking about

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Put it this way, I didnt have my useuall fish super tonight!!!!!lol

Top Cat said:

Anyone remember "Bunny Burners"?
For the uninitiated they are / were sanitary towel electric burning devices. Got a call to a school because one had gone faulty. It must have been faulty for over a week, the girls had been stuffing more and more in to it.
I had to get long nose pliers to pull about 50 used "jam rags" out before i could start working on it! Nice!

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could you smell fish is that why you were messing in there lol

in an old db noticed an old dirty unsheathed earth cable curled up as i thought, so in goes the long nose pliers mmmm this is not moving oh i hear a crackkk!!! as i pull out the pliers ive got a skeleton mouse on the end.

Not sparky related but lifted up an ISO container (yes, I'm that strong) in Afghanistan and about 200 camel spiders ran out, not normally worried about them but it was an excessive amount. One hardened squaddie screamed like a girl and ran off, went for a smoke whilst they all ran off to find shade.

For those who don't know what a camel spider is:

Several things spring to mind here;
1, Few years back i was doing some repair work on a feed hopper on a dairy farm. Ancient bit of kit and i was up an old pole ladder fault finding this as it was tripping the rcd. Found something wedged onto one of the microswitches ( protective covers had long gone missing). Pulled it out and damn near fell of the ladder with shock. It turned out to be a mouse that had crawled in there, power came back on at milking time and fried the little bugger. All the fur had gone down its back and the skin over the spine had cooked off. Real nice.

All this on a day when the van was in for repairs and my wife took me to the job, it being a saturday and her having nothing else to do. amused her no end, reckons i screamed like a girl when i realised just what i had in my hand.

After tidying up, just down in the 'mains room' and the farmers dog found a nest of young mice behind some boxes and proceeded to eat the lot. Entrails hanging from its mouth. Just about finished the day off quite nicely.

2, And another, not electrical this, but had to pay a visit to a house regarding a mains change and move. Upstairs in the bathroom (above the mains) figuring out how the hell i was going to do this, and a window fitter working there said look at this and reaching into the bath with a screwdriver demonstrated that the pair of sh**ty knickers thrown into the bath by the very attractive young lady who owned the house had actually dried on.
She came into the bathroom two minutes later, reached in and pealed them off the bottom of the bath. I kid you not when i say that there was a sound very similiar to velcro being pulled apart. Left a skid mark in the bath. She didn't seem quite so attractive after that!

Strima said:

Not sparky related but lifted up an ISO container (yes, I'm that strong) in Afghanistan and about 200 camel spiders ran out, not normally worried about them but it was an excessive amount. One hardened squaddie screamed like a girl and ran off, went for a smoke whilst they all ran off to find shade.

For those who don't know what a camel spider is:

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That's got a striking resemblance to you strima! Family?