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Post by 45MAN on Apr 28, 2022 6:48:29 GMT -5
WAY BACK WHEN I WAS IN THE ARMY SECURITY AGENCY (ELECTRONIC INTELLIGENCE) IT WAS SAID THAT IN SOME UNFRIENDLY ORIENTAL COUNTRY THERE WAS A COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY WHERE AN OUT HOUSE WAS IN USE. TOILET PAPER DID NOT EXIST, OR WAS IN SHORT SUPPLY, SO THE GUYS USED THE COMMUNICATIONS PAPER WITH THE MESSAGES/DECIPHERED MESSAGES FROM THE FACILITY AS ASS WIPE. WELL, IT IS CLAIMED THAT THERE WERE SPIES WHO WOULD RETRIEVE THIS USED ASS WIPE FROM THE OUT HOUSE. KIND'a GIVES NEW MEANING TO THE OLD SECURITY SAYING OF: ONE MAN's TRASH IS ANOTHER MAN's TREASURE - BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU THROW AWAY. LITERALLY, THOSE SPIES HAD A SHITTY JOB.
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Post by clintsfolly on Apr 28, 2022 10:17:10 GMT -5
Worked job remodeling a waste water treatment plant. One of the things to be done was to drain,clean and cut a hole in the wall of a large concrete tank that held waste. We got drained and several guys put on rubber boots ,rain pants ,jackets and gloves. Down the ladder and with shoveled and scrappers they cleaned the worst. Come break time all but one guy climbed out he just had someone drop him is lunch bucket. There he sat eating his sandwich atleast he took off his gloves!
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Post by kings6 on Apr 28, 2022 10:49:33 GMT -5
Hope those guys had fresh air supply sources. Guys did every year from going down in tanks and collapsing from hydrogen sulphide and methane. Almost never a single life list because someone goes in to get the collapsed person and both go down. Several years ago a dad and three brothers all died in an open manure pit on a dairy in the Midwest from the same thing. Did it a few times early in my time with the business but not the last 15 years or so. Did do the tank entrance thing to retrieve a wedding ring set but I could see the rings hung up on a little piece of concrete so dropped ladder down, took deep breath up top then dropped jn, held my breath and bent over and hustled to the other end, grabbed the rings then got back out all while holding that one breath. Owner paid DEARLY for that 15-20 second excursion!
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Post by magnumwheelman on Apr 28, 2022 12:02:09 GMT -5
I a former life... I( used to have to mix rotten cheese up, mix it with color, & dry it into powder...and it became animal food ( quite a while ago )... when they started doing it, they didn't have refrigerated warehouses, just used to stick the barrels out in a parking lot, dumping got maggots, and black water, that would make most hurl...
after a year of that, a lot of guys would much sandwiches while they were mixing... amazingly... after drying the cheese it looked just like macaroni & cheese powder... did't smell bad either
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Post by rjm52 on Apr 28, 2022 13:31:51 GMT -5
Female friend was on a road trip somewhere and stopped for a pee at one of the highway rest areas...dropped her pants forgetting that she had a KelTec .32 clipped to the back of her pants...the next thing she heard was a "splash"....
At least it was a inside toilet not one of the outside chemical toilets...
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Post by 45MAN on Apr 28, 2022 14:09:57 GMT -5
Hope those guys had fresh air supply sources. Guys did every year from going down in tanks and collapsing from hydrogen sulphide and methane. Almost never a single life list because someone goes in to get the collapsed person and both go down. Several years ago a dad and three brothers all died in an open manure pit on a dairy in the Midwest from the same thing. Did it a few times early in my time with the business but not the last 15 years or so. Did do the tank entrance thing to retrieve a wedding ring set but I could see the rings hung up on a little piece of concrete so dropped ladder down, took deep breath up top then dropped jn, held my breath and bent over and hustled to the other end, grabbed the rings then got back out all while holding that one breath. Owner paid DEARLY for that 15-20 second excursion! ROBB: INTERESTING YOU SHOULD MENTION THE FACT THAT THESE TYPE OF DEADLY ACCIDENTS USUALLY CLAIM 2 LIVES. MANY YEARS AGO, I HAD A CLIENT THAT HAD SHRIMP BOATS. 2 BROTHERS WENT OUT SHRIMPING IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, USUALLY THEIR DAD WOULD BE WITH THEM BUT THIS TIME IT WAS JUST A 2 MAN CREW. ALSO ABOARD WAS A GIRL FRIEND OF 1 OF THE BROTHERS. SOME SHRIMP DIP, USED TO KEEP THE SHRIMP FROM DISCOLORING, WAS SPRINKELED ON THE ICED DOWN SHRIMP IN THE HOLD OF THE BOAT, SPRINKLING WAS A SHORT CUT TO DISSOLVING THE DIP AND SOAKING THE SHRIMP, OFTEN DONE WHEN A LOT OF SHRIMP WAS BEING CAUGHT, OR .... PROBLEM WITH SPRINKLING IS THAT IT CAUSES A FATAL GAS TO DEVELOP. SO BROTHER #1 GOES DOWN INTO THE HOLSDAND IS OVERCOME BY THE GAS, BROTHER #2 LOOKS DOWN AND SEES HIS COLLAPSED BROTHER AND GOES DOWN INTO THE HOLD TO CHECK ON HIM, AND HE COLLAPSES. 2 DEAD BROTHERS, QUITE A BLOW TO THAT FAMILY. THE GIRL FRIEND WAS ABLE TO RADIO FOR HELP. JUST A DEVASTATING EVENT. |
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Post by gunsbam45 on Apr 28, 2022 23:38:36 GMT -5
When I was a kid there used to be some outdoor event held at the grade school over a weekend. Back then there was still an old outhouse out back off to the side. The school was locked up but if folks didn't want to drive several blocks to the station they could just use the outhouse. Can't remember what the event was now, but it was late in the year and ran into the night a couple hours after dark. Some of the older high school guys who were a tad ornery had decided since the outhouse pit was only about a 5 or 6 foot deep hole dug in the dirt, it'd be fun to move the outhouse back the width of the hole leaving the hole open sometime. They actually installed handles on it and you couldn't see them for the grass. Four of them could move it fast. I can't remember if it was a coach, teacher, or the principal, but whoever they pulled it on the time I remember stepped right off the edge in the dark and went in face first.
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Post by clintsfolly on Apr 29, 2022 7:19:52 GMT -5
To clarify the tanks we worked on was 12’ deep 50’ dia. And open top.
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Post by bula on Apr 29, 2022 7:37:42 GMT -5
That's some shi...!
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Post by magnumwheelman on Apr 29, 2022 7:57:43 GMT -5
Confined space entry is nothing to mess with… pooop tanks and boat holds can be dangerous places
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Post by dougader on Apr 29, 2022 12:56:17 GMT -5
My grandmother used to tell the story about a new set of Sunday go-to-meeting clothes they had scraped and saved pennies for so my dad could have some nice clothes for church. I think he was about 4 years old. Everyone was ready to go to church, but no one could find my dad, the youngest of 6 at the time. The whole family was looking for him. Grandma had a thought... what about that old outhouse all the children were forbidden to use? The one some not-so-nice men in the area built for a local "spinster" lady as a joke, the hole being absolutely HUGE.
You guessed it. Grandma looked down in that hole and there was my dad, covered and stuck in all of it. Grandma had to climb in there to get my dad out of that disgusting hole. She claimed she could still smell that awful aroma for months and months afterward. Needless to say, both dad's and grandma's clothes had to be burned.
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Post by dougader on Apr 29, 2022 13:02:21 GMT -5
Hope those guys had fresh air supply sources. Guys did every year from going down in tanks and collapsing from hydrogen sulphide and methane. Almost never a single life list because someone goes in to get the collapsed person and both go down. Several years ago a dad and three brothers all died in an open manure pit on a dairy in the Midwest from the same thing. Did it a few times early in my time with the business but not the last 15 years or so. Did do the tank entrance thing to retrieve a wedding ring set but I could see the rings hung up on a little piece of concrete so dropped ladder down, took deep breath up top then dropped jn, held my breath and bent over and hustled to the other end, grabbed the rings then got back out all while holding that one breath. Owner paid DEARLY for that 15-20 second excursion! Robb, you probably recall at least one winery worker in Yamhill county, Oregon, who died while pushing down the cap on fermenting grapes. Fermentation creates loads of carbon dioxide and while not toxic it does displace oxygen and if you pass out in there you will die unless someone finds you in time. I recall a death in Carlton, but here is another more recent death: www.opb.org/article/2021/08/05/oregon-osha-corus-estates-vinyards-worker-death/ |
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Post by parallaxbill on Apr 29, 2022 16:57:04 GMT -5
Outhouses can surely be dangerous.
A late uncle of mine got a black widow bite on his, hmmm.. how can I state this, on his sack. His brothers told us all at the family reunions over the decades that the swelling was the size of a grapefruit. He couldn't even wear his pants on the long drive to the nearest hospital in the mountains of SW Virginia. And if you're wondering it wasn't fatal. This happened in the 1930s and he lived a very long life.
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Post by callshot on Apr 29, 2022 21:01:14 GMT -5
I smell something foul about this hole post! Growing up we used the Sears and Montgomery Wards catalogs. By spring we were down to the gardening tool section. I dug a pit for one last summer but it wasn’t built before I returned home. Used a hunting blind filled with mosquitoes. Thought I heard a bear once but it was my grandson. Where I was you took a firearm with you.
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Post by bula on Apr 30, 2022 7:43:37 GMT -5
Yes, ALWAYS take a gun to the outhouse. Reminds me, need to swap in a couple of rice loads into one of my speed strips. Hate to drop pants, get comfortable, and then hear, BUZZZZZ. Wasps, not snakes.
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