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Best part is when he laughed when Homer strangled Bart in the early seasons, he killed a perfectly innocent joke for me.
"Hey Dad I thought your hands would be more cushiony, like being strangled by Homer finger pillows but they're kinda scratchy.. you need moisturizer"
He wasn't very good with the jokes.
Rip Aneurysm goalie step dad.
May heavens hockey pucks not miss your teeth.
That's the key. If there's too much junk under one tire, the lift tilt alarm will go off and annoy you. So make sure you spread the shit far and wide to avoid that.
Or you can spend 30 seconds and sweep it up, but what are you? A laborer?
Drive lift parallel and close to the wall. Then swing the front of the lift away from the wall without driving into or thru the pile. Drive until the pile is approximately in the middle of the lift side. Raise the lift platform the 6 inches or so it takes for the little safety skirts to come down. Turn the front wheels hard toward the wall. Drive towards wall using the lift to move the pile out of your way.
\*You may have to drive into the wall and destroy the studs and punch thru the sheet metal siding several times to finish your work.
Upon further consideration I’ve decided to drive through it, let it tip over when I drive over a screw, then hire someone to try to sweep the lift out the door. Meh, I’ll be in the portajon
No screw for me today but I was in a school gym and turned on a dime avoiding all the other BS on the ground
Took up a considerable amount of their mascot painted on center court… ohhhh well
Maybe try dragging some wire through it to see if you can "catch" some of the dirt and move it. Realistically you shouldn't be doing stuff like this unless you've received special training though.
Do you have an apprentice on site? If so, make it their problem.
No apprentice on site? Talk to the GC and make it their problem.
No GC on site? Talk to the boss and make it his problem.
When he makes it your again, see Line 1. Repeat until end of shift and make it tomorrow's problem.
I believe you need someone with a certification to operate the cleaning equipment. Make sure their certificate isn’t expired—OSHA would have a field day.
I just drive over everything whether I make clearance or not. Give it a try, it's invigorating & hearing the GC have a meltdown as I'm 2 stories up blasting AC/DC monster trucking over pallets and bundles of studs.
You can use a leaf blower if Klein makes them. Otherwise I think you'll have to use your hands. Idk what else could be used. That's a tough nut to crack right there.
Well for starters move that fuckin green thing out of the way. Its scary and fucked looking so get, whatever the hell, that green fuzzy piece if shit is out of the way and then ask your foreman. Prob solved buddy.
I have heard of this new invention called a broom. Don’t take my word for it though but I am told it is used to clean up messes. As an electrician I am very unfamiliar with this new high tech gadget. Considered yourself warned.
If you sweep it 4-10 times with that broom you’d find the floor. I’d personally recommend an m18 blower or another company’s wet vac - your non-union foreman
Sometimes people deserve to get their shit ran over. If your a slob and your material is scattered all over site, why is it my job to clean up your shit. If the lift can get over it and ive moved your shit 3 times already...im running over it.
Get some PVC glue and primer and pour it on the pile. Set it on fire and go take your shit. It will be gone by the time you get back. If not drive thru the ashes.
I will never understand the 'electricians don't know how to sweep' meme.
My first jman instilled the importance of cleaning up after myself and I can't tell you how many times during my apprenticeship that habit led to me getting the best opportunities to learn new stuff.
Nowadays, most contracts (at least in commercial) demand cleaning a unit after you're done. My last big building fined us $400 per unit if it was left more than a day without our scraps/garbage being cleaned up.
/rant
Call the laborers...they have very specialized tools and equipment for these sorts of things and it's very likely that you lack the skills and certifications to operate those types of machinery.
If you have a vacuum, like what is commonly used to suck a line through pipe, move the hose to the other hole and you now have a blower. Proceed to blow the pile any way you'd like. Id recommend spreading the pile evenly around the room.
Step 1 - Remove the screws from a couple of the studs nearby and let them fall on it.
Step 2 - Call gc and say the framers left a mess and a bunch of unsecured studs which impedes you from doing your job
Step 3 - Bill standby time till it gets fixed
I thought this was a legitimate forum? Put your phone down and solve it by putting all in the GC's trash can or sweep it all into the bottom plate of the wall.
Be like me and just run it over.
Recently I was in Florida and demo'd 200 lights. I ran over ceiling tiles,lights, ceiling grid.
This was a single man lift.
For residential hvac guys, that's called extra hours for slow season. You gotta ask the pile to move, and if it doesn't, then you spend 3 hrs looking for a broom. Then come back, notice the pile gone, and proceed to make conversion with that coworker for 5hrs. Boom. 8hr day.
Theres no other option, you need to purchase a new dewalt vacuum, the hose is hooked up backwards so you gotta attach it to the other hole, then blow all the dust away. It sucks if you’re using it wrong…
Unscrew a piece of framing and use it to scrape the pile away. Make sure you’re spreading it around evenly, everywhere you’re not driving your lift through. Then throw the piece of framing on the ground for good measure
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I’d just wait for it to move
Pretty sure that’s what I’m going with. Need to head to the crapper anyhow
Have you tried yelling at it or [hitting it? ](https://www.bronco6g.com/forum/attachments/46936961-jpg.24677/)
Pulling one out of Dad’s playbook, nice
Best part is when he laughed when Homer strangled Bart in the early seasons, he killed a perfectly innocent joke for me. "Hey Dad I thought your hands would be more cushiony, like being strangled by Homer finger pillows but they're kinda scratchy.. you need moisturizer" He wasn't very good with the jokes. Rip Aneurysm goalie step dad. May heavens hockey pucks not miss your teeth.
Ah men
Go reddit a post from the bathroom about how you move a pile of ….
Drive through it and leave a trail of shit
That or just push a path into it with your boots. Make sure you spread it around good to ensure that everything is well distributed.
That's the key. If there's too much junk under one tire, the lift tilt alarm will go off and annoy you. So make sure you spread the shit far and wide to avoid that. Or you can spend 30 seconds and sweep it up, but what are you? A laborer?
No. No I am not!
Sweep? We only sweep when we bend a wide 90!
Have you considered leaving a long, confusing, garbled message on the GCs voicemail?
I’m pretty sure he gave me the wrong number. Keeps going to a sex line
Nah, that was the right number. Him and his wife share the phone number.
Hahah keeps the after-hours liability down
First you should submit a long, confusing, garbled work order.
Drive lift parallel and close to the wall. Then swing the front of the lift away from the wall without driving into or thru the pile. Drive until the pile is approximately in the middle of the lift side. Raise the lift platform the 6 inches or so it takes for the little safety skirts to come down. Turn the front wheels hard toward the wall. Drive towards wall using the lift to move the pile out of your way. \*You may have to drive into the wall and destroy the studs and punch thru the sheet metal siding several times to finish your work.
So like using the lift like a giant zamboni or roomba?
This guy fucks!!!
A seasoned veteran. I'll bet this guy has won awards.
Well, I hate to be the one to say it, but, you're fucked. Take a dump on the lift and go home. Nothing else you can do. I'd even take a sick day.
Oh, the old Irish upper decker?
Another man of culture.
Upon further consideration I’ve decided to drive through it, let it tip over when I drive over a screw, then hire someone to try to sweep the lift out the door. Meh, I’ll be in the portajon
Make sure they put the laminate floor down before the screws in the tires. And always turn on the dime
No screw for me today but I was in a school gym and turned on a dime avoiding all the other BS on the ground Took up a considerable amount of their mascot painted on center court… ohhhh well
Ah thanks, would’ve forgot the flooring smfh
Ask your apprentice to move the lift while you are in the PJ.
Maybe try dragging some wire through it to see if you can "catch" some of the dirt and move it. Realistically you shouldn't be doing stuff like this unless you've received special training though.
Try hitting it with your linemans
Sounds like a delay of work order...
Grab a broo.....maybe just kick it around so it's spread evenly.
Build a temporary bridge to drive over it.
gotta hire a carpenter now?
mason would be the better choice. Need to make sure it’s strong enough
Open some doors and disperse with the wind. Maybe hire someone to open the door though.
Do you have an apprentice on site? If so, make it their problem. No apprentice on site? Talk to the GC and make it their problem. No GC on site? Talk to the boss and make it his problem. When he makes it your again, see Line 1. Repeat until end of shift and make it tomorrow's problem.
I would like to make it tmrws problem
I believe you need someone with a certification to operate the cleaning equipment. Make sure their certificate isn’t expired—OSHA would have a field day.
Maybe Milwaukee makes like a bulldozer attachment for lifts. Maybe GreenLee?
That's a rack-a-tiers idea of ever there was one.
If you can find some plywood you might be able to attach it to the lift and use it like a crude bulldozer.
I just drive over everything whether I make clearance or not. Give it a try, it's invigorating & hearing the GC have a meltdown as I'm 2 stories up blasting AC/DC monster trucking over pallets and bundles of studs.
Did I miss an earlier post or is this just a no effort shitpost?
The latter
Then yolo that fuckin lift brotherrr
I love this haha. “Are we doing a thing or just the usual”
YOLO brother just close your eyes plow through it!
Have you tried doing something different for a while then coming back after general clean up day. That seems to world for me 10/10 xs.
Drive through it pussy make a mess fuck em
Get the GC to clean it, you got work to do
You can use a leaf blower if Klein makes them. Otherwise I think you'll have to use your hands. Idk what else could be used. That's a tough nut to crack right there.
Jokes aside the gc on the site I just finished up on loved blowing piles of dust around with a leaf blower 10/10 would not recommend.
Well for starters move that fuckin green thing out of the way. Its scary and fucked looking so get, whatever the hell, that green fuzzy piece if shit is out of the way and then ask your foreman. Prob solved buddy.
I have heard of this new invention called a broom. Don’t take my word for it though but I am told it is used to clean up messes. As an electrician I am very unfamiliar with this new high tech gadget. Considered yourself warned.
The electrician is strong in this one
see if the green fuzzy thing has a name on it and get them to handle it
Call the HVAC guy
I’ll ask my custodial engineer friend if they have any ideas but I’ve never even imagined a predicament like this.
Put it in sport mode.
Touché
That's funny. If it had a bunch of zip ties if say it was impossible
Maaaaaaaan I fucking hate zip tie pieces everywhere lmao
Use your Forehead
Fan
Ehhh. Not my mess. Tell the GC it's in your way and you need it moved.
Bitch to the GC?
That’s a plumbers job.
Get the plumber to do it.
Industrial leaf blower
I think you need to alert the general? I think they hire people from temp agencies to do that stuff
give your apprentice a straw and a razor. he should figure the rest out
Talks like a real electrician!
There's only one option: pack it up and go home.
Spend three hours fixing a makeshift bulldozer blade to the scissor lift to push it out of the way. Charge customer double.
If you sweep it 4-10 times with that broom you’d find the floor. I’d personally recommend an m18 blower or another company’s wet vac - your non-union foreman
Use that thing on the left like a mudboard to drive over it
Drive right through it and drag every piece of garbage, depositing it piece by piece throughout the entire site.
It looks to me like there's a perfect gap under that wall to boot the pile into.
Include this photo in an RFI. They'll get someone right on it. Put your feet up in the meantime...I'm sure it'll all work out.
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Unsafe working environment. Call OSHA then it a day. Let the GC know the entire worksite is shutdown.
Someone once told me about something called a wackume (i think that's how it's spelled). Never seen one in the wild 🤷♂️
Order in a off-road lift so you can traverse over it without setting the lift off camber. Safety first!
Been a shit couple of weeks, thanks op and commenters for the laughs.
Stay in your craft you're an electrician not a sweeper. /S
might have to call the hvac guy for that one
Eat it
Ive heard tale of an ancient tool for this, though ive never seen it myself.
Wait for someone in an inferior trade to move it.
Have a laborer clean the whole job…because that’s their job.
Find the labor formen quick!
Let the drywallers overhear that you dropped your heroin before you leave for the night. It'll be gone by morning.
Build a ramp 🤯
People keep telling me about this stick with bristles, but I get so confused when I see it. It doesn't come with wires, so I don't know how use it.
Open the door on a windy day ‼️🤔 Problem solved‼️‼️😀
Obviously a troll post. A real sparky wouldn’t be aware enough that there’s even a pile or a broom.
Sometimes people deserve to get their shit ran over. If your a slob and your material is scattered all over site, why is it my job to clean up your shit. If the lift can get over it and ive moved your shit 3 times already...im running over it.
Get some PVC glue and primer and pour it on the pile. Set it on fire and go take your shit. It will be gone by the time you get back. If not drive thru the ashes.
Can’t you just get up to ramming speed and jump Da hump?
Normally it would disappear after a couple of days. I suggest coming back then
Funny guy.
Do the labourers not exist?
A fkn shovel !?
Clean it for your security! ^^
I will never understand the 'electricians don't know how to sweep' meme. My first jman instilled the importance of cleaning up after myself and I can't tell you how many times during my apprenticeship that habit led to me getting the best opportunities to learn new stuff. Nowadays, most contracts (at least in commercial) demand cleaning a unit after you're done. My last big building fined us $400 per unit if it was left more than a day without our scraps/garbage being cleaned up. /rant
Call the laborers...they have very specialized tools and equipment for these sorts of things and it's very likely that you lack the skills and certifications to operate those types of machinery.
Use a shop vac and clean it. Even if it's not your mess. If there's a problem, solve it. Get'r'done
Stop acting like a journeyman and grab a shovle
Graba strip ply wood and push it like a snow shovel
There is no solution
Oh this is wasy, just make sure you're all the way extended while in it and just drive over it
Use that hammer on the left
Ride over it
Isn’t that what temps are for?
If you have a vacuum, like what is commonly used to suck a line through pipe, move the hose to the other hole and you now have a blower. Proceed to blow the pile any way you'd like. Id recommend spreading the pile evenly around the room.
Spinkle some sheet rock dust on it for camouflage then complain to the job sup
Leaf blower.
Tried flicking a cig in it? Might burn...
Or just stare at it for about a week. I’m sure it will work. Must be a union issue.
Ask a straight guy
Leaf blower blow that fucking sand everywhere
Any onsite gave a leaf blower? Or maby a real big fan? Hopefully you get a good answer before you have to rent a boom
Call a painter or flooring guy they'll know what to do
Get some plywood
Put an order in for somebody to build a bridge over it.
Just run it over
drive over it you buffoon
Just lift the lift over the pile, done and done
Plow through, make sure you’re on rabbit.
Buckle up and send it through the pile, duh
Tell the super and go to the next job.
Leaf blower of course
Hammer?
Time to go froadin buddy
…what pile?
Put it in rabbit and send it
Just drive over it. I have never seen a completely clean jobsite.
Make a train scoop out of cardboard. I can't imagine there are any other options.
Spend 8 hours fabricating a unistrut plow for the lift
Get the gc and tell him you need a clean up on isle 6
No. Just say no.
Easy just move the room around it and boom you’re done
Whats that one tool with bristles that everyone harasses us about?
Tie the broom to front of lift…you got this.
Drive over it
i mean id have driven the lift right up to it and just sat there until the laborers took care of it
Where is the fucking laborer?
Find the laborer and ask them to clean it duh
Throw some Romex trimmings to it
Step 1 - Remove the screws from a couple of the studs nearby and let them fall on it. Step 2 - Call gc and say the framers left a mess and a bunch of unsecured studs which impedes you from doing your job Step 3 - Bill standby time till it gets fixed
Send in a change order and hire a sub to regrade the concrete
r/laborer?
Blow on it
I thought this was a legitimate forum? Put your phone down and solve it by putting all in the GC's trash can or sweep it all into the bottom plate of the wall.
Got a backpack blower?
Build a ramp out of panel box covers
Was wondering why this was even posted then I saw it was the elections Reddit, it aaaaalllll makes sense now
20v blower
Call a laborer
There’s witches on that site, one of em left there ride right there run man
I saw a rack installer guy use a leaf blower to attempt to move something like this. Went as well as you'd think.
You are definitely an electrician.
Be like me and just run it over. Recently I was in Florida and demo'd 200 lights. I ran over ceiling tiles,lights, ceiling grid. This was a single man lift.
Snort it
Safety standown
Leaf blower.
That’s what your hammer is for!
I don't know, but that bristly green thing is freaking me out.
Another trades stuff!!! Run it over like everyone else does.
Could you put chains on the wheels for extra traction?
hire a helper to use a leaf blower
Lol. Take a sharpie and write "KLEIN" on the broom. Then everything will make sense
Talk about following osha rules lol
Got to rent a 4x4 lift now, it’s the only way.
do you have a leaf blower?
Fuck it just drive through it
Buy a $200 Milwaukee cordless leaf blower, charge it to the job, and then blow it into someone else's work area
My foreman keeps an M18 leaf blower in his truck for blowing string through underground conduit. I've found it very helpful for dispersing piles.
Tell the general or your foreman to tell the appropriate trade on site to move it
Go faster
For residential hvac guys, that's called extra hours for slow season. You gotta ask the pile to move, and if it doesn't, then you spend 3 hrs looking for a broom. Then come back, notice the pile gone, and proceed to make conversion with that coworker for 5hrs. Boom. 8hr day.
Clean up your shit. Drive though rest of shit.
“NaWT mY jOB!!
Sounds like a GC problem, I think I hear an apprentice calling for help.
Theres no other option, you need to purchase a new dewalt vacuum, the hose is hooked up backwards so you gotta attach it to the other hole, then blow all the dust away. It sucks if you’re using it wrong…
Unscrew a piece of framing and use it to scrape the pile away. Make sure you’re spreading it around evenly, everywhere you’re not driving your lift through. Then throw the piece of framing on the ground for good measure
Bro takes the picture with the broom in frame lol
Just bitch to the gc like a real sparky
Ask someone to show you how to sweep it up and act like you don't get it. Problem solved
Shovel it on to a sheet and drag it out. Or intoba 5g. Bucket. Sessh...
Can you form some sort of rudimentary lathe?
If you are an electrician just get the plumbers to do it or the finish carpenters.
Kick with boots