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This was too funny and probably not the best way to finish but hey it works….
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As a 30 year old, I look at stuff like the first one and think “Damn, that’s dangerous” …but when I was 20, working at Sports Authority, like 20 feet up in the H-frames, without a harness, hanging over the side to reach some boats on another H-frame to pull them square.
When I saw him doing that I laughed and called him a dumbass, he replied “yeah I really am but it’s gotta get done and hey I haven’t fell in a while.”
Of course my 40yo self would probably still do something just as dumb.
At 21 first in construction I did stupid crap like that. At 30… screw that. I’ve seen and heard too much to be that dumb anymore.
Years ago I worked for a gutter company, but I was always much more comfortable doing the prep work on the ground. My coworkers did some outright insane stuff though! I recall a job on a three story house that was built into a hill. On the backside, one of the guys had the 32′ ladder going to a balcony, and a 28′ ladder on the balcony, standing on the top rung to hang a piece of gutter.