As some of you know,i pride myself in my machine skills,safety record,work ability & machine upkeep,& i dont take risks.By which i mean that if i dont feel 100% safe doing a job,I DONT DO IT.(& my company has had a few calls from hirers about me refusing to do a job as I dont feel safe....
Testosterone,peer pressure, call it what you will ,stupidity there are just so many names for it and then people ask why we need Safety and Health regulations.It sad to hear that A person died a work but if one was to apply the 5 step theory to accident causation there was more than one opportunity ...
From my seat time experience a Q-hitch has allowed an excavator bucket to be used for the job it was designed for,I saw operators dig with a grading bucket because the task to be done was to small to warrant a bucket change,from my desk time I see that quantities of stone and materials used for spec...
Well said lads and it is the reason I went back to school as I got sick of jumped up whelps with out the least bit of cop on climbing the ladder and not knowing enough,to know they know nothing.