digger242j
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This one's mainly to vent....
Today I was doing some rather delicate work. The undeground electrical service has already been installed at the site, but the buildings were not constructed as originally designed. Thus, some of the electric company's boxes have ended up right in the middle of driveways and consequently, I have to uncover about 150' of wire so that the boxes can be relocated. There's only about 6' between the garage doors and the edge of the pavement, and the trench is located right at the edge of the pavement.
This afternoon, I'm digging and getting pretty close to one of the existing boxes, so I'm pretty focused on that. The backhoe is sitting at a little bit of an angle to the work, so I'm looking mainly at one side of the hoe. The boom is about 5' above the ground. A carpenter walks out of the garage and ducks *right* under the boom, between the tractor and the dipper. I never saw him until he was there under the boom. Fortunately, the bucket was all the way at the bottom of the hole, so I couldn't really have lowered the boom very far anyway, but there's no way *he* could have known that. Had I been 6 inches higher with the boom, and put it down quickly at just the wrong time, I could have broken his neck.
HOW THE HECK ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DEAL WITH BEHAVIOR LIKE THAT??
:beatsme
Today I was doing some rather delicate work. The undeground electrical service has already been installed at the site, but the buildings were not constructed as originally designed. Thus, some of the electric company's boxes have ended up right in the middle of driveways and consequently, I have to uncover about 150' of wire so that the boxes can be relocated. There's only about 6' between the garage doors and the edge of the pavement, and the trench is located right at the edge of the pavement.
This afternoon, I'm digging and getting pretty close to one of the existing boxes, so I'm pretty focused on that. The backhoe is sitting at a little bit of an angle to the work, so I'm looking mainly at one side of the hoe. The boom is about 5' above the ground. A carpenter walks out of the garage and ducks *right* under the boom, between the tractor and the dipper. I never saw him until he was there under the boom. Fortunately, the bucket was all the way at the bottom of the hole, so I couldn't really have lowered the boom very far anyway, but there's no way *he* could have known that. Had I been 6 inches higher with the boom, and put it down quickly at just the wrong time, I could have broken his neck.
HOW THE HECK ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO DEAL WITH BEHAVIOR LIKE THAT??
:beatsme