What's the biggest thing you ever wrecked?

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I did tree work all through my 20's. Several Times I had the opportunity to drop large trees onto houses that were to be bull dozed. Most of these houses where located on prime real estate on the local lakes and the houses were 10 times nicer & larger than what I was currently living in.

To my dismay I was never able to really crush a house as most of the houses were 2 story and the tree never picked up enough speed on its way down to do much damage.

I cleaned up after several storms though on Ranch style houses where large limbs had come down in storms and gone completely through to the basement, a ford pickup that was crushed from front to back straight down the middle to the ground and a brand new Cadillac that was parked next to a tree that was struck my lightning and fried all the electronics and blew out 2 of the tires. And my personal favorite, a very large ash tree on the local golf course next to the #9 green near the club house was struck by lightning. The tree just exploded when the moister trapped in the frost cracks in the tree was vaporized. A 14 foot wide and 3 foot deep crater was left with a good chunk of the trunk still standing like a tooth pick. 500lb chunks of the trunk were blown over 25 feet away!

Lighting is Wicked Cool!

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So...anyone here ever burn down a garage or sink a nice big boat? It would make me feel better to know that someone out there has done more damage to things than me.

Oh Yeah, I almost forgot. When I was about 8 years old I was teaching the little 5 year old down the street to play with matches in the old wooden barn on some hay.

I Started the Barn on Fire. It was a big fire.

The little boys dad was the towns fire Chief!

I think we moved to anouther town about 3 weeks later. Not sure why

[swede]

Re: What's the biggest thing you ever wrecked?

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So...anyone here ever burn down a garage or sink a nice big boat? It would make me feel better to know that someone out there has done more damage to things than me.

Oh Yeah, I almost forgot. When I was about 8 years old I was teaching the little 5 year old down the street to play with matches in the old wooden barn on some hay.

I Started the Barn on Fire. It was a big fire.

The little boys dad was the towns fire Chief!

I think we moved to anouther town about 3 weeks later. Not sure why

That story reminded me of this opening from a really cool book for big kids, "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever", by Barbara Robinson:

The Herdmans were absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world. They lied and stole and smoked cigars (even the girls)and talked dirty and hit little kids and cussed their teachers and took the name of the Lord in vain and set fire to Fred Shoemaker's old broken-down toolhouse.

The toolhouse burned right down to the ground and I think that surprised the Herdman's. They set fire to things all the time, but that was the first time they managed to burn down a whole building.

Knowing that you burnt down an entire barn must must fill you with complex feelings of wonder, shame, and pride.

[MJZiggy]

I once made a typo and made a payout for $10,000 to the wrong company. Client wouldn't give the money back either. I was not cut out for data entry.

There's also the time like a day or two after I got my license that I was pulling into a driveway oh-so-slowly to avoid the car that was waiting to pull out and I went so slow I didn't realize that I actually did make contact and scratched the whole side of his car--that was a week old. The other driver didn't even want my insurance information...never figured that one out.

[MateoInMex]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqHYGzQDe2w&feature=related

When I was a young tart with no direction, my cousin Enrique got me a job at an insulation company. Insulation sucks worse than laying tie-bar for anyone who's worked construction before.

Anyway, Enrique and I were the only ones who were bi-lingual, and I was the only one with a driver's license. So my first day on the job, I was driving a big insulation truck...I don't know how big it was, nor do I know if I needed a CDL. Probably. So our first job that day was approx. a 2 hour drive. I was getting the feel drivin' my big rig, but unfortunately....Driving on the freeway doesn't teach you shit about backing up in reverse. Let alone in a cul-de-sac with a fucked-up curvy driveway and pine trees on both sides.

I laugh about it now, but boy did I feel like crap when I backed that bad boy right into the brand new garage addition on a 3-story home that hadn't even been insulated yet. Whatever trussells and beams that came down didn't harm my rig..but the builders who had to take the next 2 days re-doing the work had some choice words for us working on the job site.

Who knows how much it cost to fix that house. The good news is I was OKAY even though I was in never in any danger.

[swede]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqHYGzQDe2w&feature=related


Who knows how much it cost to fix that house. The good news is I was OKAY even though I was in never in any danger.

I don't know why, but the picture in my mind of you hopping out of the truck after the last swinging rafter had crashed to the ground made me laugh. That had to be a long walk to the back of the truck.

[MateoInMex]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqHYGzQDe2w&feature=related


Who knows how much it cost to fix that house. The good news is I was OKAY even though I was in never in any danger.

I don't know why, but the picture in my mind of you hopping out of the truck after the last swinging rafter had crashed to the ground made me laugh. That had to be a long walk to the back of the truck.

LOL. I liked this thread Swede, this brings back memories. The walk back was excruciating. I wanted to stay in that thing, but I had to help out my cousing pick up 2 rolls of insulation that had fallen off when I put it back in D and drove forward.

I've been called things before, but wow...I'll say that was some of the most vicious language I've ever heard. We ended up seeing that foreman dick again too, but we got out before the owners were scheduled to look at the progress of that house.

Big mud tire tracks leading right up to the garage with a bunch of wood beams and shit all over....lol.