Man With Auger Issues – IOTW Report

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  1. There is the story of the guy drilling a hole in a house while standing on a step ladder using a large, right angle drill (2hp). The bit bound up and the drill started spinning. The ladder fell away and he held onto the drill. The rotational momentum kept him spinning and the extension cord wrapped around him like a mummy and he hung there, trapped in the cord until his buddies unwound him.
    No video…

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  2. If you keep drilling holes in the water wont that cause a problem if a boat hits it? Eventually the lake will be full of holes and the boaters wont be able to sail, not to mention the fish will fall into the holes and get trapped.

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  3. @Jethro ~ witnessed a couple of incidents w/ 1/2″ drills just like you described … although not the cord-mummy part … saw an auger bit grab a guy’s hair & rip half the side of his scalp out … ouch!

    aaaaaaand, I once witnessed a helper using a portable core drilling machine to drill four-inch sleeve holes through a concrete deck on a high-rise, for electrical conduit pass-thru & stub-ups. on a construction site core drills are usually run by long, heavy-duty extension cords
    (for those of you that don’t know, a portable core driller is usually used to drill through concrete w/ anchors drilled in the concrete. the drill would then be stable if one of it’s teeth hit re-enforcing iron bars or a particular nasty bit of quartz gravel in the concrete mix. the drill was a pressured hand-cranked unit & if you ever ran one you’d know you have to have a delicate touch to ‘feel’ the progress of the drill. remember ‘Armageddon’? that fucktard AJ never got it)
    … the helper figured he didn’t need to anchor the core drill. if he could stand on the core drill stand, he would have enough weight to overcome any drill snag (the kid was 135, soaking wet) …. Wrong! … the drill grabbed a piece of rebar & started spinning the core drill machine, with the helper on it, wrapping the cord around him so he couldn’t get off the merry-go-round. of course, we all helped … by laughter & mockery, cheering him on to hold on until the extension cord eventually unplugged from the socket

    … ah, the daily hilarity of construction sites

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  4. @UncleAl ~ boat: definition – a hole in the water where you deposit your money.

    happiest days of a boat-owner’s life … the day he buys it & the day he sells it

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