Had a WHOA BABY moment today. We’ve had lots of those over the years. My occasional RE partner asked me to come help him and the electrician we use on a friends house today. House is a new purchase, an awesome 1 bedroom cabin with a loft in the middle of nowhere. We were running a wire for the bathroom above a plywood covered ceiling. Not sure why the original owners put plywood on the ceilings, but it’s easier to leave it there in this case. Electrician had a 5’ flexible drill bit for situations like this. Drilling across several joists over to the access point and then stick the ground wire through a hole in the pilot end of the drill bit and pull back the wire to where you need it. As I was feeding the wire to him and he was pulling, the ground wire came loose while he was tugging and all his energy knocked him off balance and off the ladder. 8’ down onto his face like a ton of bricks. Luckily he was fine but holy cow did he hit the ground hard. --24.152.xxx.xx

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Scary. Glad he is alright. Cabin sounds awesome. --172.59.xxx.xx

The cabin sounds sweet. How did you find that deal? --98.17.xx.xxx

Not my deal. Purchased by friends of my flip partner. We were helping them do some work on it. --24.152.xxx.xx

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We have had lots of mishaps through the years RB. Including some hospital trips. Those things will probably be what we will end up remembering from the projects. --174.240.xxx.xxx

Ha ha, that just reminded me of one time I was having a guy help me on a few houses and he was patching some siding on the end of a single-story ranch house. He was up near the peak which might’ve been 11 or 12 feet off the ground and I was on the other side of the house, and I hear him yell help. I ran around the house and he’s dangling from the peak with both hands and the ladders on the ground. I started laughing and just said hold on a second, I’ve got to get a picture of this. --174.240.xxx.xxx

One of DH's friends and former co-workers didn't realize the torque on a power tool and it jumped and slammed him in the face knocking out several teeth. He had to go to emergency dentistry. --64.246.xxx.xx

If you don't bleed just a little on a project then you did something wrong. --107.147.xx.xx

My kind of place. --73.19.xxx.xx

Oreo is right about things could show up after the fact. --73.19.xxx.xx

I think he’s OK. I called him last night. After he stood up yesterday and we confirmed that he was all right, I told him one thing was for sure was that his face now looked a lot better than it did before he fell. He told me to shut up in not such a nice fashion. Haha --174.240.xxx.xxx

LOL, zero - that's kinda true --96.3.xx.x

I concur with Zero - I've invested blood, sweat and tears in my rentals over the years. --24.4.xx.xx

I was up on the top of a 30 foot extension ladder propped up against a tree this week trimming out a couple of dead limbs that had been bugging me. As I was doing it I was thinking how I don't bounce nearly as well as I did as a young man. I know a lot of guys give up their ladder at some point, I don't know that I will be one of them. I'd rather die doing something productive than sitting in front of a TV in a nursing home at a ripe old age trying to extend a miserable existence. --209.205.xxx.xx

Every unit we own contains some of my blood. --74.222.xx.xx

Within 6 months of that conversion he fell off a roof. Died in the helicopter during the medi-vac. --198.168.xx.xxx

The security biz had no value without him. His son sold the tools for pennies on the dollar. --198.168.xx.xxx

Had I been the one dangling, as soon as my feet were on the ground, one of us would have been going to the hospital shortly thereafter lol. --75.75.xxx.xxx

Ya Jason, but you have to have a sense of humor in this business. --174.240.xxx.xxx

I program industrial controls systems for a living where one wrong keystroke has the potential to kill whomever has the misfortune to be in the area at the time. I don’t take safety lightly. --75.75.xxx.xxx

There are times when goofing around is okay, then there are times like I just described. --107.147.xx.xx

One of the reasons I keep my maintenance tasks as simple as possible and hire out the rest. At my age, a fall like that can be catastrophic. When you're younger you can jump right back up and have at it, not so much when you're older. --172.56.xxx.xx

This electrician is 66-67 years old maybe. --24.152.xxx.xx

If I had fallen dead on my face at age 69, I might have been okay or I might not have been. Heck, you don't even need to be up on a ladder to have a nasty spill, but I chose the path of minimizing the risk. Just today, I was changing some smoke batteries and the tenant offered a step ladder which I declined in favor of my task ladder. Even for something like that, I prefer three points on contact on a ladder. --23.28.xx.xx

Heard of a handyman in Missouri who was trimming tree branches from a ladder and fell - broke his back and became a paraplegic - no insurance . . . They had fundraisers to help pay his nursing home care .... --72.220.xxx.xxx