Thread: Hidestoart; Kevin thank you

That's a beautiful book! Been out in the patch for 3.5 years now. Driving oil tanker. And yea sometimes even ride my Harley up there to and from work. Can't stand them damn hard hats. Swear to midas they are rubbing off all my hair on top lol

Originally Posted by nodakjohns

That's a beautiful book! Been out in the patch for 3.5 years now. Driving oil tanker. And yea sometimes even ride my Harley up there to and from work. Can't stand them damn hard hats. Swear to midas they are rubbing off all my hair on top lol

That old hat with all the stickers in my pic saved my head one afternoon. It was hotter'n Hell and we were knocking in 270' of boom on a conventional crane. Had all the boom built and were trying to mate it to butt section. Crane wasn't quite square with the boom and the operator was trying to use the swing to shift that long boom section enough to get a bull pin in it. I had that 5lb bull pin and was trying to get it far enough in the hole to hit it with my 16lb "purse". Pin in my left hand up over my head and I'm the ONLY SOB wearing a hard hat. Operator decided he wasn't going to get it and let off, it spit that pin out of the boom and my hand. That 5lb pin was was flying. Had enough time to duck my head a bit and that pin hit that hat hard enough to break the liner. I saw stars. I turned away from the thing I'll be damned if that pin, which had flown straight up after hitting my head, cam down and hit me in the back. That one put me on the ground. I shook it off and we had a good laugh. After that I noticed everybody had their hard hats on.

Had a spud wrench bounce of my hat another time. Can't count the times I've been bumped or bumped into by "head ache" balls loading and unloading crap off trucks.

You'll hate it until it saves your head sometime.

Oh I'm not gonna deny it's saved me a couple scars. In fact my most recent scar (not counting my shaving) just healed up from me jumping out of my truck to check on something and walking around the truck i slipped a little from a rut/mud/scoreo and smacked my head on the truck mirror ! I'm tall and one well has pipes over most people's heads. Readily seen except at night when your light is focused on the ground so you can see where your walking. 3 times in one night I smacked my empty head on them ! But had that plastic thing sail plenty of times from the top of the tanks . Not to mention leaving it on getting into or out of my truck and having it flip off into the mud. Damned if you do and damned if you dont.