How many paramedics should be on hand to change a lightbulb?

[Muffler Bearing]

at least he's not on the top rung

[Asphalt/Dirtman]

thats a good one.
I'd like to see if he was brave enough to stay on the ladder while it was raised and lowered haha

[Hendrik]

thats a good one.
I'd like to see if he was brave enough to stay on the ladder while it was raised and lowered haha

My theory is that he did this all by himself and climbed up the arm............well unless the idiot that was in the cab was genius enough to get out and take a picture to share with the world........."look ma what i gone done with Zeb"

[oriden]

it takes all kinds..

[Dualie]

Darwin had a theory.

[Yepblaze]

Keep your nose clean and your mouth shut.

If the foreman tells you to take the new guy around back and fix it, do it.

[watglen]

I can't say much here. I count count the number of times i've worked from a loader bucket.

I wouldn't do exactly that though, that's just asking for a broken neck.

[nickbowers]

I can't say much here. I count count the number of times i've worked from a loader bucket.

+1 Its a handy tool

[qball]

wow!
i would love to be TOLD to do that.
i would have a two word reply, and it ain't "let's dance"

[markshr151]

I climb towers for a living and even though he is not hooked off he is barely off the ground.

[Muffler Bearing]

HAHAHA! you guys are great. I think he stood in the bucket as it was raised, then climbed, but he is a ways up there, they actually poured a few buckets of sand first to fill in a hole and keep the front wheels level with the back. I just took the picture and shook my head.

[Asphalt/Dirtman]

Just remebered a story looking at this picture.
Few years back, running an old old old old GAS bucket tractor for a guy trimming limbs so his combine wouldn't get scraped up. Had a electric pole saw, small honda generator, large chain saw, and his dumb butt in the bucket. Raised up as high as it could go which is pretty high, think a large skid loader maxed out. Reaching up to cut a very very large limb.

I'm just doing as im told but the limb looks like its going to fall onto the bucket and tip this tractor, i have no cab, him up there cutting. I put it in park and bail back away from tractor. He cuts it, it drops and misses the bucket by a mater of inches, bout pulls him off. Bout hits the bucket and makes the tractor nose dive.

He has this bewildered look and I just shake my head. Not smart...

[qball]

a fall of 6 feet has a 50% chance of killing and the numbers climb exponentially with each rise in height.
shortcuts can and do kill.
some of this safety stuff seems cliche, but it is all too true.
we all have a duty to work safe and help those who are too stupid to know.

[td25c]

Amen Q. My buddy worked bridge job's his whole life without any major injuries.He retired few years ago,built a new home, and while hanging the gutter on the front porch he slipped on the ladder and fell 5 feet to the ground & broke his back.Layed there for a couple hours until his nieghbor found him. You dont have to fall very far to get hurt bad.

[RocksnRoses]

Quite a few years ago at a local grain terminal here, a chap was sitting on a chair on an elevated platform about 8 feet high, overseeing the loading of trucks. For some reason, he over balanced on the chair and fell between the railings to the ground and he died. I think he broke his neck.

RnR.