OT: This can't be real - or is it?

dgasper · Oct 1, 2014

casenut1 · Oct 1, 2014

Yes it can be real. I've seen people do things like
that.

b79holmes · Oct 1, 2014

My wife had an email the women in the office passed around titled something like 'why women outlive men' with a dozen of so similar images.

Wemedeeres · Oct 1, 2014

I like how he's using a second skid steer with no ROPS to protect the garden shed by putting the bucket in the air!

Alan K · Oct 1, 2014

Maybe that is to catch him if he falls?

Spook · Oct 1, 2014

After watching a local tree guy work, I believe it's real.

4play · Oct 1, 2014

That kind of stuff is why men don't live as long as women. He's trying real hard to win a Darwin Award I guess.

Larry EC-OH · Oct 1, 2014

Hey, A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.....

Probably went like this...Elmer, when are you going to trim that tree? If you don't do it, I'm going to call the tree service...

Oh MA!!!

flembo · Oct 1, 2014

I worked in Puerto Rico for a few yrs. and saw some strange things. A cow tied up in the trunk of an old car, a large bundle of re-bar strapped under a Ford Mustang sticking out both front and back, a overloaded truck you could see daylight under the front tires when it hit the seems in concrete highway. But the best one was when I passed a car pulling a trailer a man was sitting in the trunk with his feet hanging out holding the tongue of the trailer no hitch on the mid sixty Chevy. BTW the people were great and I loved my stay.

John B. · Oct 1, 2014

Living Proof why OSHA was established...

Jonak · Oct 1, 2014

That is one way to Git-er-done! Or Get done in!! Sure Glad that is NOT Me on the ladder, SWMBO would NOT Be happy!!

bill mart · Oct 1, 2014

found these 25 on the web

bill mart · Oct 1, 2014

a lot of these are overseas. Bill

dgasper · Oct 1, 2014

Joe - there's no way I could do that either. I don't have a skid steer.

Ivan in Mich · Oct 1, 2014

I saw a guy putting siding on the end of a house
on a side hill once. He tied a 2x4 on one leg of
the ladder so it fit the side hill

notjustair · Oct 1, 2014

We trimmed the evergreen hedge just like that. Ours was a
rear engine rider with the back wheels on the loader scoop. A
chain went to the front axle to hold it up level with the ground.
Then we just drove back and forth over the hedge. Did I
mention that was done with a Farmall narrow front M and a
Horndraulic loader?

I've always been the only one in the family not afraid of heights. Dad put the extension ladder in the Wagner front loader on the 8N and had me top out a couple of sickly elm trees. Even I thought that was stupid at the time (I was about 12). The trees died anyway. Dutch elm.

NCWayne · Oct 1, 2014

OSHA was actually established to keep employers from forcing their employees to do things like this under threat of being fired. Unfortunately it can't really do anything against an individual being stupid......In fact, unless something has changed, they don't even have authority over a company with less than 5 employees.

The bad thing about the whole deal is that since OSHA came about, I think it has actually allowed a lot of these idiots to survive, and to pass on the "idiot gene" to a whole new generation of them......

Billy Shafer · Oct 1, 2014

Looks like Texas A&M grads

CenTex Farmall · Oct 2, 2014

The guy welding on his truck remembered to block the rear tire. Safety First!

mkirsch · Oct 2, 2014

(quoted from post at 18:44:19 10/01/14) OSHA was actually established to keep employers from forcing their employees to do things like this under threat of being fired. Unfortunately it can't really do anything against an individual being stupid......In fact, unless something has changed, they don't even have authority over a company with less than 5 employees.

The bad thing about the whole deal is that since OSHA came about, I think it has actually allowed a lot of these idiots to survive, and to pass on the "idiot gene" to a whole new generation of them......

Yup, I've long maintained that the "Dumbing Down of America" has nothing to do with our educational system, and everything to do with GENETICS.

In the past, stupid people offed themselves through their own stupidity. Eventually, people discovered that it made them feel better, and they could get big time attention, by crusading to have "safety" laws enacted.

We've spent the last 40 years or so trying to outlaw stupidity, and make a few smart people liable any time someone finds a new way to kill themselves through their own stupidity. All we've done is kept the stupid people alive and all they've done is procreate.

It's mean to say, and rough to contemplate, but it's true. I mean what if it's your wife/son/brother who is the stupid one? Would you be able to brush it off and say, "He/She was being an idiot. It's their fault that they died." Or, in your grief, would you do the typical human thing and blame anyone and anything else?

dgasper · Oct 2, 2014

"The guy welding on his truck remembered to block the rear tire. Safety First!"

And he's welding up the gas tank!

Foghorn Leghorn · Oct 2, 2014

So who is really the stupid one then?

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