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Hi all

Talking to a old mate i used to know when i worked for Deborah Grayston many years ago and he reminded me of a accident on a job we were doing .
We were scaffolding the NatWest building and we had got up to about six or seven lifts and the job was fully decked on all lifts and it was going good as you had all the women in there summer clothes walking around, it was distracting a bit but that certain day we had a new top hand who said he had been doing it for a far few years so we thought fair enough lets see what the gezzer is made off so the 21's where coming up for the lift and we were topping up as we went along but on this particular top up that the new top hand had come across was at chest height and my mate asked him as you do ' are you alright with that mate or shall i do it ' but the gezzer said that he did these all time and he would make it fly on so he thought f*** it let him do it , anyway we were watching him do it and you could tell straight away as he was standing wrong to far back from the top up and it just looked all wrong but before we had chance to get him to put it back down the asshole had dropped it and it was heading towards a range rover and i never forget as it was bright green and the next thing it had landed on top of the roof and done the roof right in and smashed the front screen and done the bonnet infact it was right mess ( could not believe it )but the worst thing was that this stupid ass was giving it the 'big un', so we've gone down and by that time there was a bit of a crowd but we were so glad that no one got hurt so ive made the phone call to the office and they were not impressed!! and had come out with in ten minutes and fired the gezzer striaght away and was giving the chargehand the propper grief but you know ,no one got hurt and i would imagine the insurance coughed for the range rover .

If it has happened to anyone else or something like that i would love to hear it
 
Never happened to me, but Ive heard a few stories of cars getting harpooned by tubes, not sure how many are true tough.

Heard of one a few years ago where a 21 went through the roof, straight down between the driver and passenger seats, through the floor and shish kebabed the car to the ground, driver was sat in the seat at the time too.

Also...In Southampton about 2 years ago, on a site right next door to one we were working on, the crane was slinging around a pack of long when the load slipped sideways loose from the chains and went through the top deck of a double decker bus going up the high street, fcuk knows how, but no-one hurt.
Slinger got the boot for that one unsurprisingly.
 
i,ve not really had an accident with a top up [fingers crossed] but it is pretty damn funny seeing a guy getting their glove cought in the sleeve!!!
 
i,ve not really had an accident with a top up [fingers crossed] but it is pretty damn funny seeing a guy getting their glove cought in the sleeve!!!

Ye, seen that sooooo many times, seen hi vis vests, webby part of the thumb and hand caught....hehehe. There was even a post here about someone getting their nads caught in a sleeve....:sick:

Dave.
 
Hi Dave

I also have been told the one with the long thats gone through the roof and floor and stuck in the ground !! Think maybe one of those stories that got out hand but who knows it could be true .

About ten years ago we were working on a massive site and again we were stripping a big old birds cage out from up under a roof space and passing the gear out through the windows and stacking onto the roof outside anyway there was this no it all banksmen who thought he was gods gift to slinging and slung a bundle of 21's and did not double wrap or place wood in under the chains to stop the chains sliding anyway we seen from a distance these 21's being lifted and they were a bit of balance a little and just as the crane took the weight and took the 21's from the roof and down to the waiting truck the chains both slid to the middle and the long had gone almost vertical and come out of the chains so we have all ran to the egde of the roof just to see two tone of long hitting the floor and making a right mess like kerplunk and again luckily no one was hurt but i can tell you the truck driver was white as sheep when he got out of his truck and the banksmen got the boot staight away and lost his slinging ticket.

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seen a bloke get his zztop beard caught in a sleeve that was also very funny and he was never aloud to forget it
 
once upon a time
we were erecting a scaff on a bank in the middle of town,we were about 5 or 6 lifts up at the time the pavement was about 12 ft wide.we had instructed our bottom man to not let cars park beneath us.
Guy comes along and parks will not move it when requested then goes into bank
bag of fittings comes up on rope while tipping them out on two boards with feet placed to outside of boards one of the doubles escaped hit a ledger on the way down and shot out from the scaffold hitting the jag on the roof causing a pretty large dent :sad2: labourer retreves double and starts whistling, Guy eventually comes out of bank gets in car drives off:)

Guy returns 2 hours later with police accuses us of throwing fittings at his car we of course no nothing about damage to his car,police tell him that there is no evidence to accuse us or witnesses that saw anything and that he (police) could do nothing about it.Irate driver gets in car drives off copper turns to me winks and strolls off:D

Yea I have caught the fleshy part of hand between the joint and topper on a couple of occasions end up with a nice blood blister about 4" long no gloves in my day "rubber gloves rubber balls"was the taunt in those days
 
Iv never dropped a Paddy Mc Ginty whilst hemping out---however, I have had my share of ass clenching white knuckle moments :nuts:, as no doute we all have ;)
 
Once put a free~standing handrail around a factory,standards needed to be 26ft,stood gear up to get a start and told my then donkey not to do anything until i got on the roof,walked to the ladder access,got to the other side of the roof and begun walking towards the stood up gear,as i approached i was greeted by the sight of a waivering 21 being raised aloft,then the sudden sound of a dull thud,the lad had dropped it and done the roof,and windscreens of a ford escort,when asked why he tried to top it off,his reply was just to see if he could do it...priceless his face at the time.:D
 
working on a site in southend last year get too work sitting in the mess room one off my m8tes comes in big grin have a look at this new per of cat steel toe boots pops them under the table we all go up and sign out keys for plant get back too the mess room and its all turned over bags lunches wtf m8tey comes in go's poty weres my boots
21stone monster you just dont mess with him.
leg it up too site office m8tey behind us
we all get told too get to work it will be sorted m8tey gets told no boots no job sorry we all met up after work this polish guy walks in the pub big bag off tools harness's
and a nice new per of boots looked like he was working on the site there was about 10 trades on there lets just say he got his boots back and some tools
 
The company I was offshore with asked me to do a job on my leave in my home town and I thought it would be a good earner. Thankfully they sent down a couple of local boy's down as I had never used layer before. The problem started during dismantling, it was just me and my old father in law who was an old sea dog. When I tried to show him the knotts he laughed and told me where to go. The first load of ledgers came down from 50 feet slipped the knott (that was supposed to be able to hold the queen Mary) and crashed in to the gap between back to back phone box's. The poor woman in the box got the fright of her life as did I. Spent the rest of the day in the pub so at least the father inlaw was happy.:D
 
aom

Good point regarding Knotts when raising and lowering Scaffold Materials with a Rope and Gin Wheel and the correct method of erecting the Gin Wheel to the Scaffold Structure.

To contunue on the theme: how many Scaffolders are trained in the correct lashing of ladders and moreover the correct lashing of boards ?.

I have saw Lashed Boards that resemble the Running Track for the 100 Meter Hurdells and some actualy look like they could snare a rabbit LOLooo.

With the Manunal Handing Regs now in force and the use of Cranage to move Scaffold Materials more prominant in Large Construction Projects, is it now time to include Rigging and Lifting Operations into the In-House Training Programms ???
 
Gary,

Couldn't agree more with you about the rabbit snare and the poor lashing of ladders. The first thing that any young lad that comes through our gate is the correct way to tie knotts and lash a ladder correctly. Most of the sites we go on we are not allowed to attach the crane to any load, it's a bit of a bitch at times when we are in a hurry but it's one less thing to worry about. I don't know if it should be introduced I kinda like not being involved in every so called high risk activity on site. Can't remember about the newer certs but did the older tickets not mention something on them regarding lifting and rigging or am I getting mixed up.
 
my old boss told me he was striking a tower block in london ( in the days of bombing) an he bombed a 21 from a great hight , it hit the deck an dissapeared , leaving about a foot or two out the ground , it had gone through to the underground carpark, an speared a car . luck has it there was no one in the car , phew .
 
aom

I dont want to cross demarcation lines or give an increased work load to us Scaffs already busy work load,However, I find it very hand to be able to conduct Slinging and Lifting Operations, epecialy where I want more Gear to be landed on a partialy erected Scaffold and again getting rid of gear when Striking---the problem is that if a Scaffold is either partialy erected or stripped the Tag is Pulled, therefore non that Scaffolders are allowed on the ( De-Commissioned Scaffold ) Scaffold. It's just the way I prefer to work---let the Deisle do the lifting---Rigging and Lifting Tickets are becoming an addendum to the Offshore Scaffolders Credentials for the reasons above...
 
I worked on a power station just outside London and we had erected and stack and it was 48 lifts it was for the demo guys as they would knock down 3 lifts worth of stack at a time to a level were they could blow it safley and then we would go behind them and strip three lifts and make the next three ready for the demolition crew but this one time the chargehand had had a disagreement with the office over the price he was given which ment he was well pissed .
We were sent down to take three lifts off ,when we got there the chargehand straight away blocked the entrance to the base of the stack were the demo guys were getting all the rubble out after they had dropped it from the top so there was no possible way anyone could have got anywhere near that entrance anyway we have started to go up when he tells the labourer to stay down and guard the entrance , so we have got to the top and started to strip the scaffold and i have looked round to see the chargehand bombing all the gear he has stripped down the inside of the stack and to cut a long story short when we have got down to clear the gear with the labourer from the base of the inside of the stack the gear was propper F***** as all the boards were just like splinters and all the tube has compressed and bent all out of shape even the fittings had gone out of shape, it was like a birds nest gone wrong, need less to say the chargehand got the boot (dodgy gezzer)
 
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