watglen
Senior Member
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2009
- Messages
- 1,324
- Location
- Dunnville, Ontario, Canada
- Occupation
- Farmer, drainage and excavating contractor, Farm d
I had a guy moving dirt away from a building one time. The windrow was piled so that the backhoe was pushing into the end of the windrow toward my barn. The windrow was piled away from the barn for obvious reasons.
The barn has a 4' knee wall, 2x6 stud wall on top of that, and sheeted with steel.
I don't need to tell you what i found when he was done. As the pile got smaller and there was less and less dirt to push into to fill the bucket, he used the barn wall to back up the dirt!!!! I went out there to find the concrete was sheared off, the stud wall pushed off the top of the wall, and the sheet metal all torn to ribbons.
He didn't think anything of it. Its as close as i have ever come to breaking someones jaw. He was gone immediately.
The barn has a 4' knee wall, 2x6 stud wall on top of that, and sheeted with steel.
I don't need to tell you what i found when he was done. As the pile got smaller and there was less and less dirt to push into to fill the bucket, he used the barn wall to back up the dirt!!!! I went out there to find the concrete was sheared off, the stud wall pushed off the top of the wall, and the sheet metal all torn to ribbons.
He didn't think anything of it. Its as close as i have ever come to breaking someones jaw. He was gone immediately.