![]() |
|
Welcome to the Australian Ford Forums forum. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and inserts advertising. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features without post based advertising banners. Registration is simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. Please Note: All new registrations go through a manual approval queue to keep spammers out. This is checked twice each day so there will be a delay before your registration is activated. |
|
The Bar For non Automotive Related Chat |
![]() |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
![]() |
#31 | |||
yum
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,417
|
Quote:
Othertimes we had them watering the drivethru gardens, then once they were out there we'd turn on the sprinker system.
__________________
2005 LS Focus LX
Nov05 | Manual | Black Sapphire 250,000kms. |
|||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#32 | |||
Fiat POWAAH!
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Western Australia
Posts: 2,309
|
Quote:
geez have another read..notice the [/SARCASM] down the bottom. I was having a go at the old lets play a trick on the apprentice that went too far stories we used to always hear. I remember them being the in thing on A Current Affair |
|||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#33 | ||
Starter Motor
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 6
|
Whoa! There's too many here to read so if someone else has already told this one forgive me!
I did my apprenticeship in Oakleigh at a Ford dealership in the mid 1970's, the mechanics always use to send the 1st year apprentices over to a hardware store in Oakleight o get a can of compression............... Or the best stuffup I ever actually saw was when working as a second year apprentice next to the head mechanic who use to train the 1st Year apprentices......... I watched with some interest as the head mechanic told the the 1st year to drain the engine (of engine oil) and fillerup!!!!!!!!!!! Well he grained the engine OK replaced the sump plug and then proceeded to fil the engine up and up and up and up until the oil was coming out the breather of the rocker cover! I didn't say Boo............... The head mecahnic came back and tried to start the car.........oil cam spurting out the breather and then lockedup! and me laughing my head off!!!!!!! |
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#34 | ||
Peter Car
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: geelong
Posts: 23,145
|
Just tell them to get you a nine inch reproduction tool.
![]() |
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#35 | ||
OzECruisers FTW
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: In the Shed
Posts: 631
|
Im a smart a$$ and have a pair of "left handed" screw drivers in my tool box (have LHD engraved on the blade), and when im asked for them i give them to whom ever asked.
__________________
Dont waste time... or time will waste you EB II GLi, AU 4lt and auto conversion :evil3: , 17" mags, Tub's on the way, Sound system, Tinted windows, Lowered. |
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#36 | ||
Oo\===/oO
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Tamworth
Posts: 11,348
|
lol, i never have fallen for a apprentice trick. But one of my mates was told to ask the boss for a long weight...
__________________
|
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#37 | |||
Audi S3
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Sydney.
Posts: 8,307
|
Quote:
cause im at eastern creek on the m4, we tell them to do a lot check in the truck bay, and you dont see them for like 2 hours.
__________________
![]() |
|||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#38 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: GEELONG
Posts: 7,946
|
when i was a 1st yr apprentice the boss sent me to the local paint shop for rainbow paint
what he didn't realize the owner ( paint shop )was a really good family friend and he had already warned me on that one being they did to all apprentices so when i showed up in my 3rd week he had the best comeback for them he mixed up a paint that was 250 ish a liter (20ltr) drum so they ended up with a nice bill for the paint from what i saw they never did it again as for the left hand shifting spanner i have one at my current workplace so they do exist jason
__________________
no longer have a ford but a ford man at heart R.I.P 98 EL MAY YOU HAVE A GOOD LIFE IN FALCON HEAVEN [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
|
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#39 | ||
Getahaircutandgetarealjob
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Newcastle area, NSW
Posts: 123
|
On RAN Survey ships (http://www.navy.gov.au/fleet/survey.html I was on LEEUWIN Class) there is a survey device which measures the temperature and salinity of the water so the Hydrogaphers can correctly calibrate the sonar. This thing, which I cannot remember the name of, is connected to the ships' computers by two fine wires which attatch to the "gun" which launches the thing. Point over the side, pull the triger, and the thing springs away trailing it's wires and sending data as it sinks.
I was priveliged to see this first hand. A female Hydrographer was on her first sea posting and was being instructed by the Senior Assistant Surveyor (highest level specialist Hydrographic Officer on the ship) on the use of this thing (bloody wish I could remember the name!). Most of the rest of the Hydrographic sailors on board were gathered around. Female sailor was instructed in the proper safety precautions (Looks like a gun, must be one, eh?), put on anti flash and gloves, and prepared to fire this, apparently, highly dangerous piece of kit. She pulls the trigger... and nothing happens So the Senior Assistant Surveyor yells at the top of his voice "MISFIRE!!!" This poor girl drops the, harmless, gun with it's, equally harmless, payload, and instantly falls into the foetal position expecting the side of the ship to disappear in some collossal explosion! She was less than pleased when the CPO Hydrographer, after recovering from his fits of laughter, calmly removes the thing from the gun and tosses it overboard!
__________________
Te pilos recidene volo et opus solidus capere ![]() |
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#40 | |||
yum
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,417
|
Quote:
__________________
2005 LS Focus LX
Nov05 | Manual | Black Sapphire 250,000kms. |
|||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#41 | |||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Mount Martha
Posts: 769
|
Quote:
|
|||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#42 | |||
King of the Fairy's.
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: CeeeeeTown.
Posts: 5,093
|
Quote:
__________________
|
|||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#43 | ||
Regular Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 282
|
Used to hang the first years from the O/head gantry. Push the hook through the back of the overalls and hoist them up (overalls were better made in the 70's). They cant use their arms to release them selve cause you bring your arms up, the overalls go up the body and cut off "circulation" in the groin area. :the_finge So they have to hang there with their arms by their sides - funny as
Also used to connect spark plug tester to various tools, people etc
__________________
__________________________ They call it a rort when they're not in on it Mark |
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#44 | ||
Banned
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 4,377
|
I have never understood the need for this sort of thing. All the years I had my own workshop and all the Apprentice's I had I would never condone this sort of thing. I find it neither funny or needed.
|
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#45 | |||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Cattai, Sydney
Posts: 7,701
|
Quote:
__________________
1992 EBII Fairmont Ghia 4.0l <---Click for the Gallery! Insta@mooneye_ghia White on bright red smoothies with thick whitewalls. Cruising around to some rockabilly |
|||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#46 | |||
Audi S3
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Sydney.
Posts: 8,307
|
Quote:
![]() ![]() ![]()
__________________
![]() |
|||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#47 | ||
The Vengeful One
![]() Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Tazzy
Posts: 12,762
|
Im a 4th year apprentice painter, and of course was sent to get striped paint a few times, never went tho, had heard all of the stories before i started so i knew what i was up for lol!
__________________
![]() |
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#48 | ||
'04 BA XT
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 2,481
|
I'm an apprentice sparky, I've never had a trick played on me but we do play tricks on the plumbers. My favourite one is to get a length of cable hook it around one of their spark plugs and run it to under their seat so when they crank the engine they get a nice high voltage zap to their thigh.
__________________
1979 F350 Tow Truck 80 series Turbo Diesel Cruiser |
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#49 | ||
eskyman
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: adelaide
Posts: 874
|
i like the old metric shifter one. gets em every time
__________________
who says kents cant be quick |
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#50 | |||
What's green is gold
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Shepparton
Posts: 3,079
|
Quote:
The end result is grease all over them, most try to wipe it off on their shirts.. Not real bad but good for a cheap laugh...
__________________
EF XR8 - Koni's - Cam and Headwork -3.9s - Ex VIC TMU - 1982 Nissan Patrol - 460 ci Big Block soon - Semi Gloss Black - Dark Tint - 4x 6" Infinity Kappa Perfect Splits - 5" Kappa 2 ways - Kappa 6x9's - 2x12" Kappa perfect subs - 2x4 Channel and 2x Mono Kappa amps- |
|||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#51 | |||
.
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Bundoora
Posts: 7,199
|
Quote:
|
|||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#52 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Rockingham WA
Posts: 1,234
|
We have a couple of boilermaker apprentices at our work.
Best trick is to get a bit of black insulation tape on the inside of their welding mask. They go to strike an arc and think they are blind. black dye on their welding mask cushion so they have a ring around their head, on the ear muffs. tacked tool boxes to benches and i even had the time to cable tie every tool in a apprentices tool box together (only because he was real lippy). Best thing is the nicknames though, One we call Muff man, Muff meister, muffy, etc because he wears the most ridiculous pair of ear muffs. The other one is a giant (6 ft 6") for a 15 year olds and is always leaning against things, So we named him Pisa ( the leaning tower...) All good fun though and no harm done, spend more time at work than at home so why not make it fun. ![]()
__________________
A philosopher is a person who finds a problem for every solution . :Reverend: 95 EF XR8, Advance headers, Vortech V2 t trim blower, Ported Cobra Manifold, Capa Switch Chip Eliminator. 307 rwhp 395 ft/lb 13.2 @ 105mph Now NA- AFR 165 heads, 1.6RR, Ported Cobra 269rwhp 14.2 ... needs stall and 4.11's 1977 CL Chrysler Panel Van, 360, 727 torqueflite auto soon to be restored. |
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#53 | |||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Moree, NSW
Posts: 2,076
|
One of the guys i work with told me that they hooked up the welder to the apprenticies tool box then shock the box welding the tools to the interior of the box.
Someone from here had a good one in the Workshop Mishaps thread earlier in the year or late last year about a long weight, can't remember who though but it was a good story. Aparently the kids supervisor told him to get a long weight and the kid came back with a bit of I beam and dropped it on his supers foot.
__________________
Nathan 2005 FPV BF Super Pursuit The new toy (now sold) The SP The old ute (sold) www.aufalcon.com/nc1183 Build Thread Quote:
|
|||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#54 | ||
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
i told a 1st year to take out spark plugs out of a diesel.
told one 1st year of the others to get me a box of sparks told a work experience kid to get me a left hand turning screwdriver also gift rapped a entire tool chest with seat covers and also turned off some hosts to slow down some of the rushing mechanics - works bloody well too |
||
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#55 | ||
Regular Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Auckland
Posts: 289
|
This ones more along the lines of "what stupid things has your apprentice done". I sent mine out to drop off a customer at work in the customers car. My customer worked as a nurse at a hospital. When my apprentice was pulling out of the hospital driveway, he looked left, looked right, looked left again and floored it. What he hadnt seen was the person going past the frt of the car in an electric wheelchair. As the guy said later,"its a good thing Im a full paraplegic, didnt hurt a bit!"
__________________
bigger Is better. |
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#56 | ||
Regular Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 372
|
OOOO s h it that would be bad, atleast he had a sense of humor about it.
|
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#57 | ||
Performance Ford Club Cns
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Cairns
Posts: 258
|
one of our apprentices ****ed off the service man, so he drilled a little hole in the side of his tool box.. fitted a grease nipple.. and proceded to unleash a 60L drum of grease with the numatic grease gun into his box... was very funny.
__________________
Au Pursuit 250. XD ESP. - Monza red, 351, FMX stock.. in Resto. BA XR6 T Auto - 19's Herrod spension. sunroof, APS Phase 3 kit, 4spd SSS auto 485 RWHP Killed auto count 2 |
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#58 | ||
FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Rockingham
Posts: 559
|
When my brother was an apprentice boiler maker, he got one of the old welders back by sticking a sparkler in his hand piece. The old tradie sat there with an astonished look on his face as it sparkled away.
Some of the ones I have seen is fire crackers and oxy/acetylene bombs (really loud, I blew a coke can to bits with it) underneath where the apprentices are oxy cutting |
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#59 | ||
Regular Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 372
|
I'm a third year electrical apprentice at a power station i haven't had much done agaisnt me. But best ones i have seen and heard about are.
One apprentice was big pranster when he went to tafe his tool box got siliconed to the floor with heat proof silicon, took about 3 weeks to get off. Same apprentice on an overhaul had one pair of overalls covered in grease, put them on before realising. Had a shower put the second pair on and they had bearing blue in the pockets and inner thigh. Had another shower after taking them off and his last pair was throwing over the shower into him and got soaked. Annother apprentice 1st year who was a know it all and told tradies how to do jobs. When he had a day of leave, his tool box was covered in tac 2, its like a spray on grease/oil mixture. This apprentice also had his entire tool bag filled with expanda foam. Best cockup ive seen in a 22year old matureage apprentice try to change a tyre on a car by lefting it up at the tow ball with a crane and then proceding to get under the buggy while it was in the air. Best apprentice come back was from a fitter apprentice got asked for a can of tiger paint. Went to the store got a can of black spray paint, can of yellow spray paint, and tiger taped them together, similar to one of the over apprentice comebacks. |
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
#60 | ||
Regular Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 130
|
Place i worked at years ago had a work experience kid come in, it was at a medium volume bakery with a large traveling oven which was about the size of 3 single car garages end to end and these swinging trays would travel along the top then along do a u turn and come back along the bottom. Well occasionally cake tins etc would fall off inside the oven anyways at the beggining of a shift, oven still cold they told the work exp kid he had to ride one of the trays round the inside of the oven with a torch and pick up the fallen tins. LoL. Well he did good along the top section wasnt freaking even though tis only about 1-1/2 foot high and pitch dark, however whilst he was half way back along the bottom they turned on the fan turbines, the oven had 4 tirbines and 4 huge flame thowers but of course they only turned on the fans but they sound like jet engines cranking up. Ah man lets just say he couldnt get outta there and prolly still heres turbines in his nightmares , poor kid.
P.S having done his first week in the bakery he then did a 2nd week in a auto shop and we later heard at the end of that week a security guard let him down from a block and tackle bout 4hr after closing time covered in blue dye. |
||
![]() |
![]() ![]() |
![]() |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|