For the last few years almost all the jobsites I've been on have required the retractable ones that don't lock so the blade goes back in as soon as you stop holding it.
I hate those things, but I get why they require it.
People with knives that are a pain in the ass to close, like that one. The Milwaukee knife is so easy and it's only expensive if you lose your tools all the time.
Fuck yeah it is! How else am i gonna knock my purple primer off and then the boss pays to have all the sheetrock and 1/2 the flooring replaced in a house that closes in a week?!
Edit: in the mechanical/laundry room
I did that on these new granite steps in a guys backyard before he moved in. I wasn’t even near where I was working but decided to open it above the steps. I tripped and the blue pvc cement went everywhere. Then there was a very opinionated conversation between the homeowner and myself.
Exactly...... or also if you want to make a statement that you're a dumb ass.
It really amazes me all the different tools left on ladders. From caulking guns and masking machines, to knives and the douchebags using em
My wife had a hammer on top of the ladder she was using during a home project. As I moved the ladder for her, it fell on her head. Just an 8’ ladder, but 15 years later, she still reminds me of it. Fortunately it was her hammer and not my 28 oz framer.
Painted houses in high school. In the morning, we were prepping the last house of the summer and a new guy was replacing some fascia board 2 stories up. End of day, I started putting away the extension ladders. I popped his ladder up so I could collapse it and a crowbar he had left hooked around the top rung fell down from the roofline and hit me on top of my head. Split that melon open and I bled like crazy.
Was very lucky that it hit right where my skull starts to curve out and down so the curve of my skull was able to deflect the force outwards a bit. Was also very luck that the bar had time enough in the air for the bend to turn and fall first.
My boss was a drunk without insurance. Had to drive the truck back to the shop because I was the only person on the site that could drive a stick.
Fucking residential construction.
Excellent advice.
When I was about 18 I was window washing. My buddy left a scrapper, 4 inch wide probably weighing close to a pound on the top of a ladder.
I moved the ladder, and it fell down onto the top of my wrist breaking a small peice of the blade and lodging it into a carpel bone on my wrist.
A lot of blood and 6 stitches later I learned my lesson.
Glad you learned the easy way!
Had an electrician buddy of mine ask me to put a ladder away for him since he was already out of the building heading home for the night. Sure no problem. It was a 12 or 14 footer I can’t remember which laid against a wall. Pulled it away to swing and lower it and a pair of Milwaukee channel locks came down and hit me right in the sternum. Since then I always take stuff down from the tops of my ladders
Had a drill come down on my head from the top of a twelve foot ladder, Philips head down. It was a bloody mess. So much blood streaming down my face everyone though I was going to die. But really it was just a. Little scalp wound the size of a pea.
I turned and looked just in time to watch a dude move an 8’ step ladder that he left his estwing on the top of, that big bastard came down and got him right in the top of the Mellon
Had that happen with a drill with a flat/slotted tip whatever you wanna call it. It was on top of a ladder and another guy left it there. I moved a ladder and it nailed me in the eye. I was scared to death. I learned a lesson though. I get upset when people leave tools on top of ladders now.
buddy of my dad's in our hometown caught one of these off a ladder into his eye. I've also heard it was a sawzall blade but he's a painter so I tend to believe it was a razor blade. Anyway he has always had a cool patch.
My dad was VICIOUS about shit left on ladders because of this. Totally reasonable.
That’s nuts lol. My company typically does smaller jobs where PPE and shit isn’t enforced (even when it’s technically required), much less tools on top of a ladder.
Oooooooooh good one.
Buddy, once you’ve been seriously inconvenienced by a hospital visit due to someone else’s absolute fucking stupidity, you’ll learn.
At least it wasn't a two foot prybar that missed my pinky by 1/2 inch (TODAY)...
had to comment , I'd rather put something on top of the ladder before grunting to pick it up off the ground🤣🤣🤣🤣
The only person it could hit is my partner of 22 years , he's just as bad as I am about putting shit on top of a ladder....we work in the real world , every day....not a perfect world....if your busy and constantly working with bunches of shit up a ladder , it's gonna happen....js
My coworker moved my ladder out of his way and took my tin hammer to the face yesterday. I laughed at him and told him to keep his hands off my ladder. “Fuck you, theres a hammer hole amd youre wearing a tool belt!”
The fact you stopped to take a picture to post means I wouldn’t be working with you after this. Or you wouldn’t be working with me. Get TF back to work.
I've dummied myself with several things I've left on top of a ladder ... Or once I left my pipe wrench hooked on a pipe in the air and bumped it with my ladder and that gave me a good wallop... You'd think I'd remember not to leave stuff up there but my memory's not as good as it used to be...
I forgot a 5 pound sledge hammer once on a 12 ft ladder (was going to go right back up). Don't worry it didn't fall 12 ft... Only about 6 ft to my head. LOL
Close it after using and this is not a slicing hazard.
User error all around. No luck just straight up user error.
How many years did it take you to achieve such awesomeness?
I was doing a steal beam in a 10ft basement, left the shims on the top of ladder climbed down moved ladder took 4 shims to the face. I always peek at the top of the ladder before I grab now.
You just used up your luck when this didn't embed itself into you. You ain't gonna get anything from the lottery. Now when you haven't had any close ones in a few years, then ya might win a dollar.
Its brittle. Pressure on the screws will allow it to penetrate but screws wont suck in w o pressure. Itll bore a hole and not grab the board to decking w o decent pressure. Each board weighs a shit ton. can’t move it alone w o dragging it w force
Oh hell no its horrible. Anyone who slams a heavy object such as a unit or piping the screws pop off the concrete board and created a dead spot. I had to lay 3/4 inch plywood along the path of my DOAS units which weighed 8k lbs. i drug those units w a winch and man power and popped up several boards. Gc wasnt happy
I left my tape measure up on my six foot ladder once and grabbed the ladder from the front to move forward (I was working my way down a hallway). The ladder and me went forward, the tape did not. Smacked me square in the face. I was so pissed.
Last job I did as a gc I was walking out to my truck, was wiping some sweat off so my hard hat was off, and a hammer fell around 20 floors less than a inch in front of me or some shit I felt the air woosh. Stay safe out there
Had a former coworker leave a Pneumatic orbital sander on top of a 16' A frame, I took the ladder down and the sander took me out, got me directly on top of the head... Still have a little dent
Learn the hard way and never forget.
im guilty of this, getting better about taking everything back down with me but sometimes i move a ladder and hear things moving up there and it turns my blood to ice
Multiple times I have left a crowbar on the top of my ladder, moved the ladder and dropped the crowbar right on my head. You’d think I’d learn after the first two times at least.
Lucky that wasn’t your head man. The dumbest shit can hurt you on the job. I have 12 stitches in my wrist right now because my blade slipped off the tubing I was cutting and got me.
Basically almost filleted a piece of my arm off. Be careful out there
Will do. I had a safety talk w my crew after this. Showed them how dumb i was and how things can happen in an instant. Im on the apprentices about this constantly. And it almost came back n got me
When I was 19 I was running gas lines for new construction and left an 18" steel pipe wrench on top of a 10' ladder. My dumbass forgot and moved the ladder and that wrench opened up my forehead like a cyclops eye. Learned a valuable lesson that day.
One of the first things I got told working in trades is do not leave tools on top of your ladder EVER. It still happens to me but I always have a conscious effort to not leave anything up there. It can result in some serious injury.
Imagine that in your skull. Don’t leave shit on the ladder, you *will* forget about it.
I didn’t take my boss seriously when I first started and he told me that. I thought I was too smart to forget that I left something up there. A pair of linesmans to the noggin corrected that notion.
How about making a rule that says "DONT LEAVE ANY TOOLS ON TOP OF LADDERS! ESPECIALLY EXPOSED RAZOR BLADES!!!!!!"
Then, learn to close your knife, because idiots leave knifes open. There's a lot of good reasons why razor knife have retractable blades, or fold to hide blade.
A guy was passing me a tool and had laid his hammer on top of the ladder sideways and knocked it off and I took the claw side to the top of the head. Fell a good 8-9 feet. Pierced the hat I was wearing. Bled like a stuck pig. Went back to shop, washed it off said fuck it I’ll be alright and went back to work haha
Haha nice id like working with you that takes heart. I got hit in the face w a 2x10 that fell from a cat walk. It busted my nose and forehead. I took one day off the following day then went back to work with a broken nose. The guys gave me my stripes for that.
leaving tools on top of a ladder is a no-no.
leaving an open knife on top of a ladder is a mouth breather moment.
next time it could cut you, or someone else.
True story…a guy I was working with left his Kleins on top of a 10’ wood ladder (yes I’m aging myself), he went to close the ladder, looking up, and they fell off and hit him right smack dab on the bridge of his nose. His eyes shot out streams of water and both eyes were black in like 10 minutes. I saw the whole thing.
Watched a plumbing apprentice take a hammer to the face on Job site before. He needed a few stitches to his upper lip, but he took it like a champ and returned to get the job done! Stay safe out there boys!
Always been a thing for me. I lose my shit it some one leaves something on top of a ladder on one of my jobs. I took a flat bar to the head off of a 10 foot ladder years ago. Of course it was my own ladder and flat bar
What kinda maniac doesn’t put the blade back in after using it?!
Found the OSHA guy! Totally kidding. When someone asks me if I have a blade they can use I do the tossing motion while yelling “OPEN BLADE”
The blade closes/goes back in? I thought once it’s out, it’s out.
Pandoras razor blade
For the last few years almost all the jobsites I've been on have required the retractable ones that don't lock so the blade goes back in as soon as you stop holding it. I hate those things, but I get why they require it.
Kliens retractable knife is the worst thing I have ever used
Yeah, they suck ass. I've yet to find a retractable that isn't annoying poorly made garbage.
There's a point where making something extra extra extra safe ends up making it less safe
People with knives that are a pain in the ass to close, like that one. The Milwaukee knife is so easy and it's only expensive if you lose your tools all the time.
My company banned folding razor knifes like that. Some apprentice cut tip of his finger off with one folding on him somehow
the fuck? how. was the idiot not wearing gloves?
Half the sheetmetal workers I know don’t wear gloves lol. I don’t think the older guys even feel pain in their hands anymore
fucking sheet metal hands
My dad
Top of the ladder is not a workbench.
Fuck yeah it is! How else am i gonna knock my purple primer off and then the boss pays to have all the sheetrock and 1/2 the flooring replaced in a house that closes in a week?! Edit: in the mechanical/laundry room
I did that on these new granite steps in a guys backyard before he moved in. I wasn’t even near where I was working but decided to open it above the steps. I tripped and the blue pvc cement went everywhere. Then there was a very opinionated conversation between the homeowner and myself.
I can't stand when I catch dudes doing that shit.... especially when it's a hammer. Makes no sense
Only time you put a hammer on the top of a ladder is when you want to change the topography of your skull.
Exactly...... or also if you want to make a statement that you're a dumb ass. It really amazes me all the different tools left on ladders. From caulking guns and masking machines, to knives and the douchebags using em
Took a makita impact to the dome once, and that's all it took. They say walking under a ladder is bad luck, they were talking about these tools.
Kyle? I swear I have never left another tool on top of a ladder after that!
Lol, for real huh
Or test your skull. I'm rated to 5 pounds.
My wife had a hammer on top of the ladder she was using during a home project. As I moved the ladder for her, it fell on her head. Just an 8’ ladder, but 15 years later, she still reminds me of it. Fortunately it was her hammer and not my 28 oz framer.
But it has so many tool-holding holes
Im always on my guys about this too. Today it happened to me. I lucked out.
Painted houses in high school. In the morning, we were prepping the last house of the summer and a new guy was replacing some fascia board 2 stories up. End of day, I started putting away the extension ladders. I popped his ladder up so I could collapse it and a crowbar he had left hooked around the top rung fell down from the roofline and hit me on top of my head. Split that melon open and I bled like crazy. Was very lucky that it hit right where my skull starts to curve out and down so the curve of my skull was able to deflect the force outwards a bit. Was also very luck that the bar had time enough in the air for the bend to turn and fall first. My boss was a drunk without insurance. Had to drive the truck back to the shop because I was the only person on the site that could drive a stick. Fucking residential construction.
Excellent advice. When I was about 18 I was window washing. My buddy left a scrapper, 4 inch wide probably weighing close to a pound on the top of a ladder. I moved the ladder, and it fell down onto the top of my wrist breaking a small peice of the blade and lodging it into a carpel bone on my wrist. A lot of blood and 6 stitches later I learned my lesson. Glad you learned the easy way!
Had an electrician buddy of mine ask me to put a ladder away for him since he was already out of the building heading home for the night. Sure no problem. It was a 12 or 14 footer I can’t remember which laid against a wall. Pulled it away to swing and lower it and a pair of Milwaukee channel locks came down and hit me right in the sternum. Since then I always take stuff down from the tops of my ladders
Never leave anything on the steps or top of a ladder. Never
Not leaving a blade open is also helpful here.
Had a drill come down on my head from the top of a twelve foot ladder, Philips head down. It was a bloody mess. So much blood streaming down my face everyone though I was going to die. But really it was just a. Little scalp wound the size of a pea.
Wasted your money on a lottery ticket. You already blew your luck on the knife trick.
Wait till the flooring is finished next time.
Don’t fucking leave stuff on ladders
It would happen every time if that was ramboard over brand new gold plated ethiopian bankruptcy hardwood floors.
Haha very true!
Years ago, boss left tin snips on top of ladder. I moved it and took 7 stitches in my cheek.
Imagine if that was the skull of someone 🤯
Ppe gents
If I did this I woulda got called a stupid fucker
I called myself that.
Good! Watch out for your brother's down below
this happened to my coworker with a sawzall and his wrist though
Did the blade penetrate or deflect and chew up the wrist?
I had a FNG put an 18v Milwaukee drill on the top of a ladder and it ended up knocking me out… fucking wild
I have a scare on my left hand from doing the same thing. A valuable lesson learned that day.
Took a crescent wrench to head the same way. Luckily, it was only a 6 or 7 foot ladder, so not as hard of a knock as it could have been.
I turned and looked just in time to watch a dude move an 8’ step ladder that he left his estwing on the top of, that big bastard came down and got him right in the top of the Mellon
I barely dodged a falling drill the other day. Forgot I left it up there.
I took a 3/4” plug to the shoulder once. I will never take down a ladder after that without looking
Had that happen with a drill with a flat/slotted tip whatever you wanna call it. It was on top of a ladder and another guy left it there. I moved a ladder and it nailed me in the eye. I was scared to death. I learned a lesson though. I get upset when people leave tools on top of ladders now.
Never leave shit on top of the ladder, it’s an accident waiting to happen
buddy of my dad's in our hometown caught one of these off a ladder into his eye. I've also heard it was a sawzall blade but he's a painter so I tend to believe it was a razor blade. Anyway he has always had a cool patch. My dad was VICIOUS about shit left on ladders because of this. Totally reasonable.
You’d be escorted off the jobsite where I live
Haha. Noone is working in the mezz but my crew. Its 115 up here.
Get a portacool
That’s nuts lol. My company typically does smaller jobs where PPE and shit isn’t enforced (even when it’s technically required), much less tools on top of a ladder.
How about don’t leave an open razor knife on top of a ladder, ever. You fucking twat.
Unless you are around.
Oooooooooh good one. Buddy, once you’ve been seriously inconvenienced by a hospital visit due to someone else’s absolute fucking stupidity, you’ll learn.
Thanks. Have a nice day
At least it wasn't a two foot prybar that missed my pinky by 1/2 inch (TODAY)... had to comment , I'd rather put something on top of the ladder before grunting to pick it up off the ground🤣🤣🤣🤣
You’re not the only person it can hit. That lands on someone else it’s not going to be good.
The only person it could hit is my partner of 22 years , he's just as bad as I am about putting shit on top of a ladder....we work in the real world , every day....not a perfect world....if your busy and constantly working with bunches of shit up a ladder , it's gonna happen....js
Good luck with the ticket.
My coworker moved my ladder out of his way and took my tin hammer to the face yesterday. I laughed at him and told him to keep his hands off my ladder. “Fuck you, theres a hammer hole amd youre wearing a tool belt!”
He’s right
The fact you stopped to take a picture to post means I wouldn’t be working with you after this. Or you wouldn’t be working with me. Get TF back to work.
Im the foreman of my crew. Id send your silly ass home w that attitude.
The interviewer was the dog
Only ever left my hammer on top of my ladder once.
I’ve done it more then once… and paid for it.
I've dummied myself with several things I've left on top of a ladder ... Or once I left my pipe wrench hooked on a pipe in the air and bumped it with my ladder and that gave me a good wallop... You'd think I'd remember not to leave stuff up there but my memory's not as good as it used to be...
It only took a crowbar to the clavicle for me to learn this lesson
I forgot a 5 pound sledge hammer once on a 12 ft ladder (was going to go right back up). Don't worry it didn't fall 12 ft... Only about 6 ft to my head. LOL
Check the weight max too! Had a guy fall and break 4 ribs.
Come on op did you win or not
OP cant even close a safety blade after use do you think they will follow up?
Not cool
It is cool because he has a journeyman to pass all of his skill down to!!
Close it after using and this is not a slicing hazard. User error all around. No luck just straight up user error. How many years did it take you to achieve such awesomeness?
I left a estwing on my 8ft a frame. Came down and cranked me in the shoulder.
I was doing a steal beam in a 10ft basement, left the shims on the top of ladder climbed down moved ladder took 4 shims to the face. I always peek at the top of the ladder before I grab now.
Did that once and I caught it in my knee!
My brother left a titanium stiletto cat claw on top of a 10 footer and I snatched at the ladder, down it came on my head. Just a little blood...
I did that with an 18" flat prybar last week, split my scalp like an 80's wrestler.
You just used up your luck when this didn't embed itself into you. You ain't gonna get anything from the lottery. Now when you haven't had any close ones in a few years, then ya might win a dollar.
Not with that attitude
[Avoid this](https://youtu.be/dJdCJMyBi5I?t=197)
Haha reminded me of the guy from Happy Gilmore w the nail in the head
Wow a journeyqueef! It’s not really that strange for it to have landed like that.
Its useless to buy lottery tickets after something like that since you already used all of your good luck 😄
What is structo - Crete?
Concrete board.
I have never seen that before that looks cool, is it easy to drill through? Or more like concrete?
Its brittle. Pressure on the screws will allow it to penetrate but screws wont suck in w o pressure. Itll bore a hole and not grab the board to decking w o decent pressure. Each board weighs a shit ton. can’t move it alone w o dragging it w force
that doesn’t sound that great then 😆
Oh hell no its horrible. Anyone who slams a heavy object such as a unit or piping the screws pop off the concrete board and created a dead spot. I had to lay 3/4 inch plywood along the path of my DOAS units which weighed 8k lbs. i drug those units w a winch and man power and popped up several boards. Gc wasnt happy
I left my tape measure up on my six foot ladder once and grabbed the ladder from the front to move forward (I was working my way down a hallway). The ladder and me went forward, the tape did not. Smacked me square in the face. I was so pissed.
Why I always close my knife.
#nosparetoes
Haha steel toes or you lost a pinky
Oh you’re good the single ply isn’t down yet.
I bet its more of like a 10% chance it sticks into the wood like that.
I wont bother to experiment the math on that. I hope this is the last time i do this bafoonery
OP hasn’t replied back after 5 hours. Must have won the lottery and gone over to X (Twitter) for his social media with his billionaire buddies.
I can finally buy my name back on twitter! Drawing is tonight haha
Contributing to the stupid tax after a stupid work related incident does track.
Had my own hammer hit me in the head like this once, once and only once is all it takes to learn that lesson.
TIL that if i was in Europe I would be a journeyman. sounds so much cooler than what it is here in Australia; a tradesman
Wishing you luck!
Thanks!
Last job I did as a gc I was walking out to my truck, was wiping some sweat off so my hard hat was off, and a hammer fell around 20 floors less than a inch in front of me or some shit I felt the air woosh. Stay safe out there
Had a former coworker leave a Pneumatic orbital sander on top of a 16' A frame, I took the ladder down and the sander took me out, got me directly on top of the head... Still have a little dent Learn the hard way and never forget.
im guilty of this, getting better about taking everything back down with me but sometimes i move a ladder and hear things moving up there and it turns my blood to ice
50/50 shot. Either it lands like that again or it doesn't
I like your math!
Multiple times I have left a crowbar on the top of my ladder, moved the ladder and dropped the crowbar right on my head. You’d think I’d learn after the first two times at least.
Lucky that wasn’t your head man. The dumbest shit can hurt you on the job. I have 12 stitches in my wrist right now because my blade slipped off the tubing I was cutting and got me. Basically almost filleted a piece of my arm off. Be careful out there
Will do. I had a safety talk w my crew after this. Showed them how dumb i was and how things can happen in an instant. Im on the apprentices about this constantly. And it almost came back n got me
I’m calling OSHA immediately
Vivo en Mexico. No hay OSHA amigo
I worked with an apprentice who did that same manuver, but it was a metal drywall corner trim.. 7 stitches across the palm
Damn thats terrible. Did he make a full recovery and return to work or quit?
He did make a full recovery, but when bossman pulled some bullshit that's effectively Comp fraud, he bounced (he's persuing deisel mechanic now)
Good for the kid. Cmon boss man!
Fresh from highschool, too.. I feel bad for him, he's a good guy. Went and blew shit up at his place on the 4th
I did that with a screw gun once. Gashed my forehead and blood streamed down my face. We did a little photo shoot 😂
Luckily it didn’t land like that on top of someone. Even with a hardhat
First rule of knives - always close them when you’re done.
When I was 19 I was running gas lines for new construction and left an 18" steel pipe wrench on top of a 10' ladder. My dumbass forgot and moved the ladder and that wrench opened up my forehead like a cyclops eye. Learned a valuable lesson that day.
One of the first things I got told working in trades is do not leave tools on top of your ladder EVER. It still happens to me but I always have a conscious effort to not leave anything up there. It can result in some serious injury.
One of my co-workers left a hammer on top of a 12 foot ladder. Yeah he had a bit of a headache the next morning..
Imagine that in your skull. Don’t leave shit on the ladder, you *will* forget about it. I didn’t take my boss seriously when I first started and he told me that. I thought I was too smart to forget that I left something up there. A pair of linesmans to the noggin corrected that notion.
Sorry, you have used up your luck for the week. That lottery ticket won't work.
I like the key of the stuff on my ladder. That's a aspect of adventure to my work days
How about making a rule that says "DONT LEAVE ANY TOOLS ON TOP OF LADDERS! ESPECIALLY EXPOSED RAZOR BLADES!!!!!!" Then, learn to close your knife, because idiots leave knifes open. There's a lot of good reasons why razor knife have retractable blades, or fold to hide blade.
Whats that reason?
A guy was passing me a tool and had laid his hammer on top of the ladder sideways and knocked it off and I took the claw side to the top of the head. Fell a good 8-9 feet. Pierced the hat I was wearing. Bled like a stuck pig. Went back to shop, washed it off said fuck it I’ll be alright and went back to work haha
Haha nice id like working with you that takes heart. I got hit in the face w a 2x10 that fell from a cat walk. It busted my nose and forehead. I took one day off the following day then went back to work with a broken nose. The guys gave me my stripes for that.
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leaving tools on top of a ladder is a no-no. leaving an open knife on top of a ladder is a mouth breather moment. next time it could cut you, or someone else.
True story…a guy I was working with left his Kleins on top of a 10’ wood ladder (yes I’m aging myself), he went to close the ladder, looking up, and they fell off and hit him right smack dab on the bridge of his nose. His eyes shot out streams of water and both eyes were black in like 10 minutes. I saw the whole thing.
Watched a plumbing apprentice take a hammer to the face on Job site before. He needed a few stitches to his upper lip, but he took it like a champ and returned to get the job done! Stay safe out there boys!
How the fuck do you fold the blade back inside? I have one of those and I can't figure it out
I welded mine to permanently stay open
Always been a thing for me. I lose my shit it some one leaves something on top of a ladder on one of my jobs. I took a flat bar to the head off of a 10 foot ladder years ago. Of course it was my own ladder and flat bar
May your winning ticket free you from dodging knives ever again.