Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted August 18, 2020 Site Supporter Share Posted August 18, 2020 Put a tiny pebble through an old dear's window this afternoon. Usually feel it when the strimmer flicks a stone, but not this time, must have been tiny. Heard a big bang but thought something had happened behind me, couldn't see anything. Then looked in front and an entire window panel completely crazed with a tiny hole clean through it. What a bastard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peelyfeet Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Twat. I once worked as a waiter in the Coppull moor restaurant. The guy who owned it asked me to go in the loft to get some boxes, tripped up whilst in there and put my leg through the ceiling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted August 18, 2020 Author Site Supporter Share Posted August 18, 2020 Just now, peelyfeet said: Twat. I once worked as a waiter in the Coppull moor restaurant. The guy who owned it asked me to go in the loft to get some boxes, tripped up whilst in there and put my leg through the ceiling. Croutons in the soup? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamiwhite Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 5 minutes ago, peelyfeet said: Twat. I once worked as a waiter in the Coppull moor restaurant. The guy who owned it asked me to go in the loft to get some boxes, tripped up whilst in there and put my leg through the ceiling. Haha, you sound like Frank Spencer 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudy Posted August 18, 2020 Members Share Posted August 18, 2020 Moved a goalpost with another lad and a gust of wind came out of nowhere , knocked a trainee on the head and knocked him out cold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escobarp Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 16 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: Put a tiny pebble through an old dear's window this afternoon. Usually feel it when the strimmer flicks a stone, but not this time, must have been tiny. Heard a big bang but thought something had happened behind me, couldn't see anything. Then looked in front and an entire window panel completely crazed with a tiny hole clean through it. What a bastard. Bit of luck she won’t notice it pal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted August 18, 2020 Author Site Supporter Share Posted August 18, 2020 1 minute ago, Escobarp said: Bit of luck she won’t notice it pal. She didn't at first! Said she'd heard a bang but didn't check, but once I'd seen it, had to own up. Could hear the glass still cracking, lad recorded it! The number of gardeners I see not wearing eye protection makes me wince. Can lose an eye in an instant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamiwhite Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 3 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: She didn't at first! Said she'd heard a bang but didn't check, but once I'd seen it, had to own up. Could hear the glass still cracking, lad recorded it! The number of gardeners I see not wearing eye protection makes me wince. Can lose an eye in an instant. should put protection on the windows mate 😃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peelyfeet Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 (edited) 21 minutes ago, miamiwhite said: Haha, you sound like Frank Spencer 🤣 Haha I bet it looked like that from below. There was soot and plaster all over the place Edited August 18, 2020 by peelyfeet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted August 18, 2020 Author Site Supporter Share Posted August 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, miamiwhite said: should put protection on the windows mate 😃 Don't go there, please. You'll be giving the hse ideas! All the years I've been doing it, both at the council and for myself, its the first time I've wrecked a window. Plenty of previous 'gentle pebble dashing' on vehicles, but no destruction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peelyfeet Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 20 minutes ago, Rudy said: Moved a goalpost with another lad and a gust of wind came out of nowhere , knocked a trainee on the head and knocked him out cold. oof Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamiwhite Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 6 minutes ago, peelyfeet said: Haha I bet it looked like that from below. There was soot and plaster all over the place haha, done it myself in the past pal 👍 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamiwhite Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 7 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: Don't go there, please. You'll be giving the hse ideas! All the years I've been doing it, both at the council and for myself, its the first time I've wrecked a window. Plenty of previous 'gentle pebble dashing' on vehicles, but no destruction. One of ours knackered a phone line last weekend in Farnworth....the client wasn't too impressed 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh white Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 18 minutes ago, miamiwhite said: haha, done it myself in the past pal 👍 🤣 Alphonso Rd Kirkdale.😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamiwhite Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 43 minutes ago, leigh white said: Alphonso Rd Kirkdale.😄 haha, which one was that pal? How on earth do you remember those addresses 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh white Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 3 minutes ago, miamiwhite said: haha, which one was that pal? How on earth do you remember those addresses 😄 https://goo.gl/maps/v7U8EKvhQ5UyN6cLA Just chuckling about you going through the ceiling that day on the flat roof behind the house.😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miamiwhite Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 7 minutes ago, leigh white said: https://goo.gl/maps/v7U8EKvhQ5UyN6cLA Just chuckling about you going through the ceiling that day on the flat roof behind the house.😄 Rotten as hell wasn't it ? Fingers crossed and touch wood i don't ever go through in the living quarters 😆 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh white Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 1 minute ago, miamiwhite said: Rotten as hell wasn't it ? Fingers crossed and touch wood i don't ever go through in the living quarters 😆 Proper hanging, and hardly got a brew, and the tiniest fucking ginnel to get stuff in and out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bolty58 Posted August 19, 2020 Members Share Posted August 19, 2020 Apologies if this is a re run. One of the funniest I ever witnessed was on Lever Street in Bolton. Young apprentice asked to light a propane burner under a bath of whale oil. Silly cunt turns the gas on then wanders off to find a newspaper to roll up to use as a sort of long matchstick. Comes back, lights the newspaper with a cig lighter then puts his face under the edge of the oil drum to "see what I'm doing". Whhoooofff! Fringe gone, eyebrows and lashes gone and he stumbled round the corner with his clothes smouldering with eyes as big as saucers. Maximum sympathy - we were all rolling around on the floor laughing. He could be reading this? Step forward Mr. Aplin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogs Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Only yesterday some pig shit thick wagon driver drove up the road at the back of our unit with the grab arm still fully extended upwards, I didn't even think that was possible. He's dragged down every wire up the street leaving about 8 businesses without any phones or Internet. Fuck knows what it'll cost his company but open reach/BT were already on the phone asking who is getting billed for it before the engineers where even on the scene. Folk were shouting and waving at him after the first wire but he didn't stop til he'd done the lot 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burndens Bogs Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 I remember as a young ‘un i was putting gas on at a freshly (and expensively) renovated stone cottage up Bottom O’th Moor Horwich. I was drilling through a 24” stone wall in order to feed a gas pipe through it. I accidentally drilled through a water pipe and completely flooded the ground floor, it had just had expensive carpets and a brand new kitchen fitted - Doh!. Happy Days! 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogs Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 When I was serving my time and apprentice 2 years older than me had a shaft in the lathe with a 20mm thread in the end. The numb fucker wrapped emery paper round his finger to polish the face of the shaft and the thread picked it up and screwed his finger into it. I've never heard a scream like it, it was horrible. One of the lads ran round and managed to stop the m/c just before it got to the knuckle. Ambulance and fire brigade decided the only thing they could do was saw the end of shaft off take him hospital and effectively unscrew it off his finger. When a couple of lads went to see him in hospital they took a 20mm nut, to see if it fit 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 10 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: Put a tiny pebble through an old dear's window this afternoon. Usually feel it when the strimmer flicks a stone, but not this time, must have been tiny. Heard a big bang but thought something had happened behind me, couldn't see anything. Then looked in front and an entire window panel completely crazed with a tiny hole clean through it. What a bastard. Your liability or hers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Casino Posted August 19, 2020 Moderators Share Posted August 19, 2020 46 minutes ago, boogs said: When I was serving my time and apprentice 2 years older than me had a shaft in the lathe with a 20mm thread in the end. The numb fucker wrapped emery paper round his finger to polish the face of the shaft and the thread picked it up and screwed his finger into it. I've never heard a scream like it, it was horrible. One of the lads ran round and managed to stop the m/c just before it got to the knuckle. Ambulance and fire brigade decided the only thing they could do was saw the end of shaft off take him hospital and effectively unscrew it off his finger. When a couple of lads went to see him in hospital they took a 20mm nut, to see if it fit 😁 We once set up a pillar drill contraption to work as a milling machine, squaring off some 25kg plastic mouldings - drainage kerbs- with a 25mm cutter Anyway, it clearly wasn't adequately guarded and one chap decided to knock some swarf off while it was slowing down Made worse by the fact he was wearing a glove Goodbye 2 fingers, hello Trafford Magistrates Court for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not in Crawley Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 See, this real work sounds dangerous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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