A tale of a battery drill and a stepladder

[Slingah]

wow slip...ouch
I used to frame houses too...and roof...and sidewall
I took a couple bad falls..both due to others stupidness...once as I was on the top rung of a ladder just dropping a bundle of shingles on the roof... the kid footing the ladder walks away when he hears the bundle hit...sure nuff it kicks and I go over backwards...landed on the ladder...I had rung marks on my back for a month...the ladder looked like it got ran over by a truck...cant beilive I didnt break anything...I just layed there trying to breathe for about 10 minutes
another time we had made staging inside for an add a level...to set the ridge and strap etc....as me and another were nailing off strapping the foreman was underneath us taking the staging apart..saying "its safe...its safe...a 16 penny will hold blah blah blah"
then BOOM the whole thing came crashing down on us boxes of nails studs planks..we were lucky...me and my buddy chased that guy down when we got our wind back and tuned him up
I ve seen my share of injuries...loss of digits..nail gun mishaps ( Ive shot a couple guys..never got one)
I think almost everyone has done the something on top of the ladder thing ..once
I got out of working with the power tools..and started just painting about 15 years ago...still can be dangerous...

[Backbeach Jake]

I helped my Brother-in-Law frame his house. Man did I take a beating. Learned to work with smashed fingers . Learned a lot tho, worth every pint of blood.