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My dad had a sheave on a cable scraper come apart when he was ejecting. He had enough time to cringe, and the pieces grazed his scalp. Cable is scary.

True. I did have to run off the guy writing the check on a project we were doing. We were setting a big overhead bin at a dairy on a Hutterite colony. If the guy writing the check is in the death zone and making a damn nuisance of himself, he gets removed or the crane goes home. Losing a...

When Dad and I used to do crane work, I had the job of enforcer. I had permission to shit can anyone in the area if they were in the way or trying to give hand signals.

As far as the tree cutting side of my life goes, I agree with Joel. I am a newb anyway. In the fire world I work in snags are one of the big killers, and it has been proposed that you should get a special certification to cut one, even if you are a "C" faller.

I was born Shanky McBuzzcock, but I had to change it because they would not print it in the city court blotter.