mountain view
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Help out a newbie and give everyone a laugh. Let's hear about everyone's bloopers. The more I know, the less likely I am to screw up......yeah, right.
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Intown Paintr
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how about not checking to make sure the nozzle is completely clicked in before pulling the trigger and sending the steel nozzle through someone's siding
Aplus
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How about having a portable powerwasher fall into a built in pool. I had my back to the machine washing an over-head arbor, when suddenly I hear what I think is the motor stalling out. I'm thinking it must have ran out of gas, and when I turn around, the machine is gone! It takes a second or two before I realize it's sitting on the bottom of the pool in four feet of water.
mountain view
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I'm freakin crying!!!!! My stomach hurts!!!
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Uhh, here's one.
I am washing this white vinyl fencing around a horse corral and I thought that the woman understood that I needed her to put the horses away. Anyway I drive into the corral and shut the gate. After starting my machine, out comes three horses walking over to me. As I'm washing they start chewing on my trailer tailgate and my hoses! I'm yelling at them and then one goes to the front of my truck and proceeds to start scratching my hood with his stupid bridle! I load up my stuff and then can't figure out how to get out the gate without letting the horses out. I have to chase them all the way to the corner of the corral and then run back to the truck, open the gate, jump in and drive out then jump out and shut the gate before they figure what's going on. After three trys and a mild coronary, I did it. What a nightmare! [horse]
I am washing this white vinyl fencing around a horse corral and I thought that the woman understood that I needed her to put the horses away. Anyway I drive into the corral and shut the gate. After starting my machine, out comes three horses walking over to me. As I'm washing they start chewing on my trailer tailgate and my hoses! I'm yelling at them and then one goes to the front of my truck and proceeds to start scratching my hood with his stupid bridle! I load up my stuff and then can't figure out how to get out the gate without letting the horses out. I have to chase them all the way to the corner of the corral and then run back to the truck, open the gate, jump in and drive out then jump out and shut the gate before they figure what's going on. After three trys and a mild coronary, I did it. What a nightmare! [horse]
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Yeah, it's funny now, but I nearly freaked when it happened. I was in that pool in a heartbeat, and somehow, superhuman strength took over because I dead weight lifted the machine right out an onto the concrete ribbon. I was afraid of fluids leaking out and contaminating the whole pool, which I'd have been responsible for.
Nothing bad happened, and know one even saw what happened. I just squirreled the machine into my trailer and pulled out a spare unit, and finished the job.
And yes the machine worked fine after I flushed it out a couple times.
Nothing bad happened, and know one even saw what happened. I just squirreled the machine into my trailer and pulled out a spare unit, and finished the job.
And yes the machine worked fine after I flushed it out a couple times.
CaroliProWash
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How about climbing a ladder up to a third story balcony and not being able to get back down??? If that homeowner had not been home to let me come through her porch door, I'd still be up there! 911 was going to be the next call if she hadn't been home because I was NOT coming back down that ladder. [wsmile]
Celeste
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PressureForce
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Funny ones. Don't know if I can compete with those but just last week I was up on a 9ft ladder, lost my grip on the nozzle end and the wand spun around my trigger hand - smacked me in the head and knocked me off the dang ladder. While I didn't think it was funny at the time looking back it was pretty comical. My brother who was with me at the time sure seems to think so.
This wasn't while PWing but close.
I was cleaning gutters (I do it the old fashioned way, getting in them and rinsing out with a hose) up on a roof when my hose knocked over my ladder. No one was home, and there was no one in sight, so I thought I might have to jump off the lowest point I could find which was still about 12 ft.
Then I looked at my hose with the spray nozzel and suddenly it looked like a fish hook! I skillfully dangled the hose over the edge and hooked the ladder with my nozzle trigger and hoisted the ladder up to me!
It not only saved my a** but my ego as well!
I was cleaning gutters (I do it the old fashioned way, getting in them and rinsing out with a hose) up on a roof when my hose knocked over my ladder. No one was home, and there was no one in sight, so I thought I might have to jump off the lowest point I could find which was still about 12 ft.
Then I looked at my hose with the spray nozzel and suddenly it looked like a fish hook! I skillfully dangled the hose over the edge and hooked the ladder with my nozzle trigger and hoisted the ladder up to me!
It not only saved my a** but my ego as well!
Douglas Hicks
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I lost my ladder while doing exhaust systems:
1. Jumped into a juniper bush
2. looped the pressure hose around a vent pipe, and rappelled down the wall. I knew that my Search and Rescue training would pay off.
3. Snow and ice on ground, did not tie off the ladder. Part way up the ladder slipped. I thought " This is gonna hurt". I rode it almost to the ground and jumped off.
4. Snow and ice on wooden side walk. I thought about backing up the van so the ladder would not slip. As I went down, I thought " I could break a leg and how long would I lay there before someone came to open the resturant". I pulled my leg out of the rung just before I hit the sidewalk. Then I backed up the van to steady hte ladder. Isn't hindsite great?
5. Last week I was cleaning a fan on a metal roof. I was taking great care, being carefull. Then I fell, on a standing seam. My ribs are still sore.
6. A helper was not paying attention at the back of the van. My PW had a horizontal burner. I told him several times, fire comes out of that thing, don't stand so close. He would nod his head and ignore me. I opened the gun. Fire came out of that thing, singed him just a bit. I looked at him and said, "Fire comes out of that thing" That time he really nodded his head, but the light inside did come on!
Douglas Hicks
General Fire Equipment Co of Eastern Oregon, Inc
1. Jumped into a juniper bush
2. looped the pressure hose around a vent pipe, and rappelled down the wall. I knew that my Search and Rescue training would pay off.
3. Snow and ice on ground, did not tie off the ladder. Part way up the ladder slipped. I thought " This is gonna hurt". I rode it almost to the ground and jumped off.
4. Snow and ice on wooden side walk. I thought about backing up the van so the ladder would not slip. As I went down, I thought " I could break a leg and how long would I lay there before someone came to open the resturant". I pulled my leg out of the rung just before I hit the sidewalk. Then I backed up the van to steady hte ladder. Isn't hindsite great?
5. Last week I was cleaning a fan on a metal roof. I was taking great care, being carefull. Then I fell, on a standing seam. My ribs are still sore.
6. A helper was not paying attention at the back of the van. My PW had a horizontal burner. I told him several times, fire comes out of that thing, don't stand so close. He would nod his head and ignore me. I opened the gun. Fire came out of that thing, singed him just a bit. I looked at him and said, "Fire comes out of that thing" That time he really nodded his head, but the light inside did come on!
Douglas Hicks
General Fire Equipment Co of Eastern Oregon, Inc
north coast
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Your lucky to be alive, I would hate to see your workers compensation bill.
Henry Bockman
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While repairing a slate roof from my 40' ladder a customer backed out of their garage knocking the ladder out from underneath of me. I grabbed ahold of the gutter and it tore away from the house swinging me like tarzan until I landed in a holly tree.
The client paid for all damages to the car and house.. It was her fault!
Notice I said HER..
The client paid for all damages to the car and house.. It was her fault!
Notice I said HER..