Welder Dave
Senior Member
example of where not to walk through
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Not sneaking through here either.
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The worst "squirrel" nutcase I had to work around lately thought nothing. He thought nothing of just stepping up to the machine from my blind spots without warning me.
It was the fiber job above, and i was stripping some heavy sod off with a cleanup bucket, so i would have clean fill for the backfill.
I was moving fast, stripping about 3 bucket widths and moving right along. He just stepped up from behind and took my tape measure by my toe glass without warning. WTF?
Hate those pointed fences after watching the news where a deer was impaled jumping over one. Horrible!!!
Close calls I had was on my MX track. Had the skid steer out to do a quick repair of a big hole. Had someone at the finish line to wave anyone off and stop riders from going on the track. 5 minutes in I backed up and a very inexperienced kid and then his dad were right there! Holy suite!!! Then another rider... the guy supposed to be stopping riders from going out!!! High tailed it back off the track and no one at the start. I asked the idiot and he thought it was OK or got bored or something.
Other time a similar type deal. Was taking a load of material out to fix another hole. 5 ton truck. Asked a guy to stop riders till I got back. Driving backwards on the long straight had a bike coming toward me. Tried to back in fast to dump load and caught a branch which broke a small piece off the fiberglass hood! *&^%$#@ Got back and asked the other idiot and he forgot. HE saw someone riding so figured it was OK and he was the 2nd rider I saw. I should have banned him for life! He also bought a season pass and tried to sneak his neighbors on without paying and got caught because helping at the track was out during the week and the complete moron showed up on the weekend. Let's see 30,000lb. truck vs 225lb. dirt bike, Hmmm, who's going to lose. Then he said riding into a pile of sand would be bad! The sand is one side of the track and you know exactly where it is and have 10ft. to ride around it!!! Personally hitting a pile of sand appeals to me more than hitting a 5 ton truck.6
Clearing snow and having idiots pales in comparison. New policy is no track work unless track is completely blocked off with signs and somewhat intelligent people keeping riders off till work is completed. Has to be a major problem like a tree fell and could get hit in order to go on track when it is open for riding. Still scared me a little.
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