![]() I forgot that the steering mode was set to "rear" when I made the turn, which makes the back end swing wide. There was a narrow stretch right next to the pool, and then a hard turn. ![]() One day, I nearly drove that forklift into the wave pool. Reading blueprints, fetching steel trusses from the yard, hooking them to the crane, orienting the lift, directing other temps. So anyway, from that point I was running a lot of the ground operation. It had so many interlocks, I couldn't even get it started in 10 minutes, so got chewed out for that too! This was a big overhead boom telescoping arm construction forklift. One day, Mr Clean is across the yard and yells "HOHMANN DO YOU KNOW HOW TO DRIVE THAT FORKLIFT?" The contractor needed all their guys up there once the crane showed up, and as the only temp service guy who stuck it out an wasn't a complete idiot, I got an absurd amount of responsibility. But don't let the foreman catch you sitting down! Guy looked like Mr Clean and he'd spot you a hundred yards away - "HOHMANN GET OFF YOUR ASS!!!"Īs temp service I couldn't go up on the steel - official rule was no higher the the 2nd step on a ladder I think. Spent a full day making bolt sets - take a 5 gallon bucket each of bolts, flat washers, lock washers and nuts and assemble them (1 bolt, 2 flat, 1 lock, 1 nut) into empty buckets. The foreman was a hard ass and some of the work was super tedious. Long long hours - 80 hours a week was typical, but got paid time and a half for hours over 40 and double time for hours over 60. Summer after sophomore year I worked at building a big water slide at Dorney Park before heading off to ROTC field training. I worked temp service jobs on breaks from college. also recommends that the person with a manual transmission not be the one driving, for similar reasons //although you feel worse when it's even younger kids because they're all siblings and the oldest gets injured /worst is when it's a bunch of teens and only one is of driving age has had to wait with people for hours for someone to come and pick them up after the patient is taken down, of course) (When that happens, the supervisors go out and photograph the scene for our insurance. The rule was if you wanted to go to action park, you had to find 2 people willing to drive, because SOMEONE was getting hurt, and you didn't want it to ruin things for everyone.īut at least in Virginia, hitting an unmarked / unpadded man-made object placed by the resort could be a chance at a lawsuit actually holding up. I wiped out on that alpine slide in the winter and shredded my arm.Ħ months later i slid out on ice on the ski slope, hit the god damn alpine slide which wasn't marked and barely covered, and broke the same farking arm in 2 places. The crazy concrete alpine sled was run down, what in the winter was a ski slope.īeing NJ, we don't get THAT much snow, so ice, bad coverage, etc, was normal. ![]() LineNoise: Although my favorite action park story.Īction park in the winter was a ski resort.
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