Yeooow!

Mark_B.

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I was doing a training course last week with Patrick Zürcher, who some of you may remember from the Seattle ITCC masters'. A sound guy by all accounts.

Aaaaanyway, he was telling me about a guy who just started up in their company who was working in forestry before joining Patrick's lot. One of this guy's work mate's in the old company got manoeuvred into a rather unfortunate bet. Get your head round this: He maintained he could hold on to a chainsaw bar without gloves on and have someone rev it up and stop it with his bare hands! Yikes! /forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

He lost his bet.... and not just that!

Go figure! One can't help but wonder if there wasn't alcohol involved in the run up to the bet. In copious amounts.
 
Mark B Did he lose his complete hand or just half of it? That chap (STOM LOL) must of been well loaded from more than just drink, sort of thing Fraser would of tried, but maybe Danny can get can get Maurice to try it the next time he is drunk and calling everybody Sooky la la´s.

One last thing what was that book you were reading at x-mas time? that you posted info on, could´nt re-find the thread for it.

Say hi to Chris, hope your all well.

Scotty from Freelance
 
Scotty,

...yes, Maurice. Never met a guy who could call you a "sooky la la" in quite such a insulting fashion./forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Say hi to the crew.

The book was "The secret life of trees" by Colin Tudge.
 
Dan, ... I suppose after that you'd be down to trying to grip it with your feet, so make that three.

No, seriously, I think there's a lesson to be learnt there, I just can't quite put my finger on it.

Umm.. maybe somthing down the lines of "Don't try to hold the chain bar of you chain saw" or - to go a step further back - "Don't get involved in bets when drunk".

Or maybe quite simply "Don't get drunk when around power tools!". /forum/images/graemlins/beer.gif
 
Just kidding of course.

There is a local story of a young man that mixed a toxic drink and bet a man he wouldn't drink it. The man did drink it and he nearly died and still has damage. The young man is in jail now and goes to trial soon. Alcohol was involved.

I think a good lesson would be to not make stupid bets!

Dan
 
man, drunk or not ...ya gotta wonder if the guy had any brain cells

I was taking trees out for a contractor last year and he told me of a story about a so called climber they hired to remove some trees. The fella was working the tree over and got extreamly thirsty. So he had his wife tie on a gallon jug of water to his bulllne. Well, for some reason instead of tieing off the rope, he bites onto it with his teeth while pulling up the rope. The rope slips out of his hands. Instead of opening his mouth, he takes the shock load of about 8 lbs x 3 or 4 and of course , end result?. I venture to say he probably has false teeth now. Almost bled to death in the tree from what they said....Dont know how he got out or down.

DAmn ! sometimes you have to wonder...

Greg
 
Man for Dumb Tree guys . . . those stories are worse than this one, had a young employee once, I heard this way after the fact, he spilled some gas on his pants so he figures the best way to dry himself off was - you guessed it a match - Everybody laughed as he rolled on the ground putting himself out, fortunatly he wasn't hurt singed leg hairs and burnt pride - dumb sh__! can't imagine what the neighbors thought of our company - Human stupidity never cease's to amaze me - I figure we havn't heard em all yet
 
Mark,

I´ll keep that one to myself, at present in fits of laughter, but will pass on the best wishes to the crew. Talked to Fraser when I was home over the holidays, seems to be doing well, has teamed up with a couple of others and working away quite the thing. But still being the Fraser we all know.

Hope to see you all at the Europeans in May.

Klimbinfool its what we call getting your teeth into it, did you call him gummy the dummy after that? mind you we just hired a new muppet last year and we are all waiting for something to happen.


Scotty
 
Scotty , I didnt know this fella ... I was hired to replace the many climbers they had hired and fired because they couldnt find anyone who werent damadging things or totally being unsafe.

Greg
 
Greg, It is a problem finding the right people at times and maybe it is better you never knew him anyway. But this morning I was thinking about the toothless wonder, Just wondering if his name was Jack and his wifes name was Jill. It was that pale off water that brought it all on. HeHe

Scotty
 
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