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Pft . Only the tards that can't pick up the dime say that .

Thats a sad story, but it is the fathers fault. When my son is out with us doing field work or harvest or whatever, I check and check and check and double check again to keep an eye on him. Heavy equipment is a cruel mistress, it WILL fuck you up if you have your head up your ass for even a second.

Quoted: Pft . Only the tards that can't pick up the dime say that .

Man can you really pick up the dime? I have heard that saying a long time.

My father taught me how to drive a forklift when I was 8 or 9.  I knew they were not toys. Letting kids play like that was negligent. This is just really sad.

Doing dumb stuff with heavy equipment is pretty common.  At work we used to use loader buckets as work platforms, moving and stationary... Safe enough with the *right* operator.

...Watching guys hitch a ride on the side of a 40 ton rock truck underground, with maybe 3' of clearance on each side.... Even I went  ...Coworker standing on the forks of a zoomboom while the boom extended waaaaay out over 33 degree water... A coworker took a bath.  We did not have a boat because it might have tipped and someone gotten wet

But then, guys operating equipment for years may not know every thing about the machine.

One average working guy, a superior electrician, who ran a 25 ton Volvo 6x4 articulated truck for years thought the retarder was a dimmer switch for the lights.  Kinda funny why the dimmer never worked, or what those gages on the left were supposed to be for.  Hmmm.

On a loader, I found out there is an automatic function that lifts your bucket up to a dumping position.  Never heard of it before - pull the joystick on a 966 type loader - John Deer 644 - full to the right-down position and it will stay there.  I found it by lifting up rafters on a shed we were taking down.  I put the forks under the rafters three guys were cutting, and the forks kept moving up while 3 guys scrambled for something to hang onto as the roof, rafters, and 3 walls shattered.

Felt pretty humble during lunch.

 

Quoted: Pft . Only the tards that can't pick up the dime say that .

I've done it with a quarter, never tried a dime though.

People ride on the front of forklifts fairly regularly at my work.  It's dumb...but I've done it.  I definately wouldn't "play" around one with kids or anything.  

Quoted: Quoted: Pft . Only the tards that can't pick up the dime say that . I've done it with a quarter, never tried a dime though.

Same trick . Smaller coin .


Listen when you are taking a brand new car out of a a few million dollar airplane you damn well better know what the hell you are doing .