Would you like to die a horrible death?!

[PHXLT1]

I know 2 guys who could have. I'm a QA tech at work but when we are short I'll jump in and help out. This day I was operating a front end loader and while loading sand bins these 2 sand truck drivers (with in 5 minutes of each other) walk behind and in front of the loader while it's moving. Are you crazy?! This thing weighs, what, 50,000 pounds?! Can carry about 4 tons in the bucket and has tires about 5 1/2 feet high. Even though I am a capable operator I am, believe it or not, human. (Gasp! Are heard throughout the forum) . Yes, yes, it's true and as such I do make mistakes. But don't worry guys. If I do manage to score and get a driver I'll make sure I go back and forth a few time to make sure there is very little suffering. I joke but it doesn't take a whiz kid to figure out that maybe, just maybe, it won't be smart to walk into the path of this thing.

[Sapphire]

lol yeah people will walk in front of anything. I guess they feel invincible? what ever happened to looking both ways before crossing? oh that's right... that person is too busy on their cell phone to care. you can't fix stupid.

[Camaro_Corvette]

I know exactly what you mean. Every now and then I operate a skidsteer for work. And you can't see shit behind those. People still walk/stand behind it while I'm working.

[rich3fan]

No I don't want to die a horrible death.

[PHXLT1]

Called their dispatch and I talked to one of the drivers so if they at least got an I.Q. of a banana they should get the meaning.

[ChrisBlair]

Originally Posted by PHXLT1

I know 2 guys who could have. I'm a QA tech at work but when we are short I'll jump in and help out. This day I was operating a front end loader and while loading sand bins these 2 sand truck drivers (with in 5 minutes of each other) walk behind and in front of the loader while it's moving. Are you crazy?! This thing weighs, what, 50,000 pounds?! Can carry about 4 tons in the bucket and has tires about 5 1/2 feet high. Even though I am a capable operator I am, believe it or not, human. (Gasp! Are heard throughout the forum) . Yes, yes, it's true and as such I do make mistakes. But don't worry guys. If I do manage to score and get a driver I'll make sure I go back and forth a few time to make sure there is very little suffering. I joke but it doesn't take a whiz kid to figure out that maybe, just maybe, it won't be smart to walk into the path of this thing.

I'm a hockey fan, and I have been re-reading Phil Esposito's book. It is only about half hockey. Very good and funny read, actually. He doesn't make himself a saint. Anyway.

Back in the start of his era, you took a job during the off-season to make ends meet even if you were a pro athlete in the NHL. He worked at a steel plant for his family until he was 30 years old, and an NHL star.

He related in the book how he once saw a guy named Enos Finos (really was the name) get "squished like a grape" under the tire of a Euclid, one of the huge dump trucks. It was loud in the plant, the tires are 6 feet tall, and Enos had gone in back of the Euclid to move something out of the way. Driver didn't see him and backed up. Guy was dead right there in front of Esposito. All he said about it was "it was awful". I imagine the guy was a flat and mangled pile of rags.

That stuff happens.

[ssrs2lt]

no thanks, ive enjoyed enough parts of my life not willing to succumb yet..i've seen people put themselves in precarious situations and never realizing how close they were to death..exactly what you're talking about .. we call it Darwinism or culling the heard in the animal kingdom..