So Much For Safety First??

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Michael Bush

#1
June 26, 2023, 06:53:05 AM
As Mike Rowe says: "Safety third".  If Safety was first, we would all go home and never do anything...
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Ben Framed

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June 26, 2023, 09:58:07 AM Last Edit: June 26, 2023, 02:14:52 PM by Ben Framed
Quote from: Michael Bush on June 26, 2023, 06:53:05 AM
As Mike Rowe says: "Safety third".  If Safety was first, we would all go home and never do anything...

lol, In some situations I agree with Mike R, but not this time.  Lets see Mike Rowe do the exact same without a safety harness attached!! 
:cheesy: :wink:

Sundog

#3
June 26, 2023, 06:03:54 PM
Safety is the Process of Natural Selection trying to do it's job.

animal

#4
June 26, 2023, 06:13:38 PM
Being safe impedes progress, decreases the amount of fun, and slows natural selection. Therefore, safety is bad. :cool:
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Ben Framed

#5
June 26, 2023, 07:03:17 PM

"Sundog"
"Safety is the Process of Natural Selection trying to do it's job."

"animal"
"and slows natural selection"

Ain't that the truth,  :grin: especially in a situation as show in the short clip...  :cool:

Michael Bush

#6
June 27, 2023, 06:25:50 AM
I worked in construction for a number of years.  The boss would usually give me the most dangerous jobs, I think, because he knew I would find a way to make them as safe as possible.  But if Safety was job one, I wouldn't have done any of them.
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Ben Framed

#7
June 27, 2023, 11:43:42 AM
I suppose there are all sorts of examples of safety and not being safe. My cousin built high rise building and regularly walked 8" beams hundreds of feet from the ground without a harness. But I wouldn't do that for 'any amount' of money! lol   :cheesy: :wink:

Nor would I for one, ride the platform steading a couch, was it 20 plus stories, as in the short clip featured in the OP; 'with or without' a safety harness. lol  :grin:

Phillip

Michael Bush

#8
June 27, 2023, 01:31:24 PM
3 stories will kill you.  What difference does it make if it's 20?  Well, maybe the cherry picker might be more likely to tip or lurch or something...
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animal

#9
June 27, 2023, 01:36:53 PM
lurch.. yep and wind kicking up without warning.
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Ben Framed

#10
June 27, 2023, 01:39:30 PM
Or maybe the operator may 'accidentally' touch the wrong lever no matter his or her years of experience, or a strong gust of wind may swoop as often happens between building or maybe..... so forth and so on....

One story can kill you lol; Regardless, as I said earlier. Not for me personally, with or without a safety harness.. But feel free to be my guest! lol PS make a video of it!!   :shocked: 
J/K    'Please' Mr Bush "don't do it" Im just kidding with you. I think much too "highly" of you!!
:shocked:  :cheesy: :grin:

Phillip

Ben Framed

#11
June 27, 2023, 01:40:28 PM
Quote from: animal on June 27, 2023, 01:36:53 PM
lurch.. yep and wind kicking up without warning.

Thank you!!   :wink:

Phillip

animal

#12
June 27, 2023, 01:46:01 PM
I think I would have opted for a piece of rope around the couch and riding the elevator up while the boom operator got it to the window  ... but hey they got it done :cool:
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Ben Framed

#13
June 27, 2023, 01:47:59 PM
Quote from: animal on June 27, 2023, 01:46:01 PM
I think I would have opted for a piece of rope around the couch and riding the elevator up while the boom operator got it to the window  ... but hey they got it done :cool:

Hey! That's thinking outside of the box and using the old noggin!!  Thumbs Up!!

Phillip

Ben Framed

#14
June 27, 2023, 01:51:47 PM
Did any of you ever see the old Laurel and Hardy movie where they was moving a piano to a high level room on the outside of a building, while using a rope?   lol 
Those two were a trip!!

Phillip

animal

#15
June 27, 2023, 01:52:14 PM
nah, it's being old and not having enough beer :grin:
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Ben Framed

#16
June 27, 2023, 02:03:20 PM
I was thinking of posting it here, but I can not find 'the one' I was looking for..   :grin:

animal

#17
June 27, 2023, 02:07:38 PM Last Edit: June 27, 2023, 02:09:41 PM by Ben Framed
not sure .. I think I remember one with a piano and stairs .. but maybe the stooges

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Ben Framed

#18
June 27, 2023, 02:09:56 PM
Quote from: animal on June 27, 2023, 02:07:38 PM
not sure .. I think I remember one with a piano and stairs .. but maybe the stooges

Yes, maybe it's the stooges I am thinking about..  :grin: They were a trip too!

Phillip

salvo

#19
June 27, 2023, 02:56:48 PM
Hi Folks,

I have a single-story home, 40 feet wide, with a seven pitch roof. I'm olde.

Every now and then I have to get up to the peak, about 24 feet if I remember, and then an eight-foot-high chase. Has gotten scarier over the years

My wife made me get an OSHA approved harness. PITA, but it's not the fall that kills you.

It's the sudden stop!

She said if I fall, don't go running to her.

Sal
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