Know what makes a really big mess?

SVreX wrote: You guys are wimps. We have had 100* + temperatures at the job site every day for 4 weeks straight. One day hit 114*. No shade- all direct sun. I have worn long pants, a uniform shirt, heavy boots and a hard hat every day. Welding, digging ditches, laying block, whatever. I consume 12-15 32oz drinks every day.

In my day we didnt have cold drinks when it was over 100. We drank hot coffee on the job and we liked it. If you were lucky your wife would pack mustard sandwiches for lunch but we didnt have the money for bread. We even had to walk to the jobsite, uphill both ways.

Ohhhhh How about fresh dog poo through the snow blower. Yes been there done that and if you happen to be spraying it in the general direction of say your cars you have a whole bunch of things to clean up.

Using a pressure-type brake bleeder and having the full master cylinder take off like a kid's water-powered rocket. Inside the garage.

Changing transmission fluid on a car with no drain. My hair was luxurious for two weeks, though I smelled like a diesel mechanic.

Forgetting to remove the cap on the oil drain tank and instead, draining hot oil into the funnel while it's still in its storage position. As it fills, reality will sink in eventually, but then it's too late, other than searching frantically for something to start sopping it all up.

No, I don't know anyone that stupid either...

Working on the top side of airplanes in a Texas summer. Glove to avoid burning your hands, at least two hand clothes, one to put your tools on and the other to cover the tools so that they don't get too hot to handle in case you don't have the gloves.

No AC in our cars either.

Picking up chicks from gas stations with your race car?

logdog wrote:

SVreX wrote: You guys are wimps. We have had 100* + temperatures at the job site every day for 4 weeks straight. One day hit 114*. No shade- all direct sun. I have worn long pants, a uniform shirt, heavy boots and a hard hat every day. Welding, digging ditches, laying block, whatever. I consume 12-15 32oz drinks every day.

In my day we didnt have cold drinks when it was over 100. We drank hot coffee on the job and we liked it. If you were lucky your wife would pack mustard sandwiches for lunch but we didnt have the money for bread. We even had to walk to the jobsite, uphill both ways.

At least I always had a few bucks for a fresh pack of Luckys. You know four out of five doctors recommend them.

I used to work at a Hay & Grain store and was tasked with unloading 53ft trailers full of Canadian alfalfa hay bales and stacking them up in our hay barn (that's approximately 600 bales per load). Sometimes the driver would help me with a few, mostly he slept in the sleeper. We went through a lot of hay every summer. Blowing the hay dust out of your nose every hundred bails was mandatory.

Worst part was the day I wore shorts.

dean1484 wrote: I was thinking dif oil. It is like little kid boogers. Just a couple drops and the next thing you know it is everywhere.

Plus it smells like baby diarrhea dissolved in gasoline.

XLR99 wrote: A gallon of waste oil knocked over on the garage floor. 'I just found it that way when I came out here, you must have hit it with the car.'

The shop where I usually get work done on my Samurai spilled half a barrel one time. They called it the Duane Valdez after the guy who spilled it.

A bag of cherries before a 26.2 mile run?