Counting my near death experiences in no particular order – #6 – More with the Gunite rig.
On another swimming pool job I was operating the Gunite truck which is basically a cement mixer that sprays the cement mixed with sand and water onto the surface of the pool. My pant leg got caught in the rotating mixer and I was being pulled up in the air. At first my pants started…
Counting my near death experiences in no particular order – #5 – Electrocution
On another job with the pool company, the Gunite pump, which is what sprays the cement onto the bottom and sides to the swimming pool, was standing in a few inches of water but had stopped working. It was plugged into an electrical supply. My boss told me to go over and give it a few…
Counting near death experiences in no particular order -#4 Hanging from an eleven-story building
I worked construction during high school and college summers building swimming pools with a Gunite rig. Once we were building a pool on the rooftop of an eleven-story building. We had to haul the Gunite hose up the outside of the building with a rope. There were four of us trying to pull it up onto…