What are the worst conditions you have worked in?

[1shortcircuit]

You're lucky you get a cage, I either get a pallet on the front of a fork lift or a bucket on a loader!! I'll take some pics this week of the factory we work at.... Only one word for it, but I won;t use it on here!

That's P*** Poor! Are you aware that a forklift has to have had an Inspection within 6 months to even raise a man rider? I would never lift a person without a man rider that was either suspended from a specifically made lifting frame or ratchet strapped to the machine.

Talk about breach of Health and Safety!

 

[roukel01]

That's P*** Poor! Are you aware that a forklift has to have had an Inspection within 6 months to even raise a man rider? I would never lift a person without a man rider that was either suspended from a specifically made lifting frame or ratchet strapped to the machine.

Talk about breach of Health and Safety!

Please tell me you're joking, pallets get you places you could never reach with a cage!

 

[1shortcircuit]

Please tell me you're joking, pallets get you places you could never reach with a cage!

They can also get you deadededededededed if you fell off.

If a cage can't reach then a MEWP or scaffold tower should be used

 

[roukel01]

They can also get you deadededededededed if you fell off.

If a cage can't reach then a MEWP or scaffold tower should be used

I'd be more worried about falling from a scaffold

 

[1shortcircuit]

I'd be more worried about falling from a scaffold

Even with a safety harness? You know that's required by law these days too don't you

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[1shortcircuit]

I'm surprised that there haven't been any haunted house stories yet

When I lost my job, I went and did a job with my brother in law. I was labouring in an old house that was being converted into student accomodation. The house was rather weird, In fact... I've just had a shudder thinking about the bloody place.

The noises that could be heard were spooky to say the least but only when alone. On one occasion the plumber asked how I got into the room that I was working in I said I haven't moved? been in here all morning... He said well somebody just walked straight past me, not good considering it was only the two of us in the house

 

[patricklondon]

as part of a small gang we were on a notorious peabody estate in north london that was having every flat in the estates rads flushed and valves changed etc and me installing programmers to valves. two properties stood out.
poo house and ---- house.
poo house had bare floorboards with cat and dog poo all over the place and on every step of the stair. i was first in but very quickly out again, we all refused entry to that one.
---- house had a real knuckle scraper with his shall we say larger lady girlfriend in a glittery boob tube. they were both sitting on the sofa watching ----. there were a few s & m barbies about and on the drawer unit opposite the bed was a tripod and video camera pointing at the bed.
we were very frightened

 

[gaffer]

Used to a lot of site temps for a large local building contractor,every november I used to get the phone call"Gaffer can you come and put christmas lights on the top of our tower crane".No problem, but the cranes always seemed to be on the coast(wind and rain)and always seemed to be involved in concrete pours(do you know how much cranes move at the top?).
Always seemed to be worse in January when I had to take them all down again though!!!!Bloody COLD!.
Also worked for the local council for a while,did alot of work on sewage pumping stations.One station had had a burst and the chamber containing the five pumps had flooded.A mate and I had to go in and strip the pumps and isolators ,rebuild and make it all work again.Quite litrally a **** job! built up a complete seperate set of tools for jobs like this and disinfect them at the end of everyday.

 

[sparky paul]

Back in my younger years i worked for a maintanence company that had a contract with severn trent water

I remember (vaguely)dangling on the end of my harness above a 30 feet deep well half full of untreated crap,fixing the new transducer in position


Didnt stay with them for long i can tell ya

 

[saveloy]

They can also get you deadededededededed if you fell off.

If a cage can't reach then a MEWP or scaffold tower should be used

Seen it happen!!!Years ago I was a lorry driver. Our main contract was for a cucumber growers (stop sniggering at the back there ). One of the workers was on a pallet on a forklift throwing waste into one of those container skips. Poor bloke slipped between the skip and the pallet on the forks.And got trapped.
I had to ring the ambulance and then jump in the bosses car and wait for it to guide it in.

He died about a week later from internal crush injuries..

 

[kung]

5 hrs in a boiler room in the middle of summer ! had to work 2ft from the main boiler very hot and by the stime id finnished i couldnt hardly swallow my throat was so dry and id left me water bottle in the van dammmmmm ! that was last year but im now doing a long job at a Grundon building its a site that processes clinical infectious waste mainly blood/poo & pee as well as some very nice supprises ! smells very nice but at least its not middle of summer lol
A good tip i got yrs ago by a mortician at R.B.H. was always carry a little pot of vix in your toolbox ! helped me out a few times lol ! one of the worse things is a body from the river thats been there a while after the fish have had a go the sight ent to good and smells a bit !

 

[patricklondon]

5 hrs in a boiler room in the middle of summer ! had to work 2ft from the main boiler very hot and by the stime id finnished i couldnt hardly swallow my throat was so dry and id left me water bottle in the van dammmmmm ! that was last year but im now doing a long job at a Grundon building its a site that processes clinical infectious waste mainly blood/poo & pee as well as some very nice supprises ! smells very nice but at least its not middle of summer lol
A good tip i got yrs ago by a mortician at R.B.H. was always carry a little pot of vix in your toolbox ! helped me out a few times lol ! one of the worse things is a body from the river thats been there a while after the fish have had a go the sight ent to good and smells a bit !


ok you win

 

[Mark.W]

Want a ghost story.......!

Did a periodic at the Courtauld Art Gallery in London a few months ago, lasted about 6 weeks with 87 boards. This place was built in the 1700's. We had to work through the night as the gallery was open to the public during the day.

We were testing one of the galleries at the time, and I went into this one room to take a few Zs reading on the sockets, it was dark and about 1am in the moring and had my head torch on. When I walked into this room I suddenly felt very cold and my shoulders felt like they had pins and needles (the strangest feeling I have ever had). Anyway I didn't believe in ghosts so carried on. Plugged my tester into the first socket and as I plugged it in bang all the lights came on, it was at this point that I actually soiled my pants.......! Managed to get a few readings thinking my gaffer had turned the lights on and it was coincidence. When I saw my gaffer I told him what happened, and he informed the lights were fed from another board and he had not been anywhere near it. Went back up with my gaffer and the lights were off.................!

Not nice!

Mark

 

[1shortcircuit]

This thread has to be worth a bump, look at the date of the last post

 

[dingledong]

on a site years ago and in 1 area the toilets had blocked up and it was traced to a man hole where the expanding bung had been lefrt in the pipe work. well one of the labourers said he'd undo it a nd take it out . i do not know if any one had told him what was gonna happen but i dont think so . anyway ha undid the plug ...then he knew what was going to happen ,he looked up at us and i still remember the look . the er stuff nearlt shot out of the manhole ,just did not reach the top ,the labourer did try to get out but when he did get out he was covered init not a lovely sight and the smell !!!!!