practical jokes

[missplumb]

following on from the "opening an airing cupbopard" thread,
What practical jokes have you played on other tradesmen, apprentices etc, or had played on you??

We once went to war with the electricians, just the usual sillicone tricks, under the door handles of the van, sealing the sleeves up on his jacket🙄

 

[SimonG]

Testing the prv blow off on the oil boilers before its returned to the wall just as somebody "happens" to be stood right by it. Even funnier when they try and explain that they havn't "wet" themselves.

 

[missplumb]

i actuallydid that a couple of weeks ago, wass working on a combi on an end terraced house and the customer has been banging on about the kids makiong a racket all the time. anyway, ACCIDENTALLY, i opened the prv just as the kids were sat against the wall, all 3 of them got soaked - and the customer with a big grin on his face - priceless

 

[kirkgas]

i actuallydid that a couple of weeks ago, wass working on a combi on an end terraced house and the customer has been banging on about the kids makiong a racket all the time. anyway, ACCIDENTALLY, i opened the prv just as the kids were sat against the wall, all 3 of them got soaked - and the customer with a big grin on his face - priceless

not taking anything away from what you did here, BUT when we are releasing hot water from a PRV or draining a cylinder etc, hands up if you actually go outside and see where the pipe is going to send the water, BEFORE we open the valve, i kow an electrician who many yrs ago nearly scalded a guy from the flat below the one the spark was in by releasing the water from a cylinder with a dodgy immersor (so the wtaer was VERY hot) pot luck the guy was about 4ft from where the water hit the grass, after that everyone was told to open the valve very slowly and check where it was going before emptying at full bore, (prob lasted about a week till everyone went back to blasting it open without checking)

 

[villa_tom]

Not so much a practical joke but something that the bloke who taught me told me. I was told that the air relief cut into the bottom of a closure plate on a fire was there so spiders could escape from the chimney. He told me that birds caught spiders and dropped them down the chimney and if they survived then they could build a web that would block the chimney. Oh well, I was a teenager then and I now know that he was lying and its actually there so little boys and girls can shove toy cars and felt tip pens in there😛

 

[tamz]

Learned that one with a standing waste and a washing line😱

She wasn't impressed😀😀

 

[Mikey456]

Boss has played a few on me, been under a bath changing the taps pipework everywhere struggling was hard enough getting both hands in i told him to hold the tap for me whilst i done it up with the box spanner then all of a sudden "Pssssssshhhhhhhhh" shaving foam in the ear and down the face. Left it there as my hands were pretty much wedged in there 2 mins later told him to hold the other tap "Psssssssshhh" again this time it was shampoo then the custard walks past when im covered in shaving foam and shampoo haha.

Then the odd one or two here when working with other tradesmen filling up sleeves with sawdust then rolling them up, glueing a whole box of tiles together with CT1, letting smoke matches off in the other boys van etc 😛

 

[GQuigley67]

letting smoke matches off in the other boys van etc 😛

I will need to try that myself haha would love to see the look on the joiners face

 

[Mikey456]

Stinks for a bit but he didnt mind cos it cleared the smell of his farts haha. Worst was letting a powder fire extinguisher off in the back looked like someone had got a bottle of talcum powder and made a bomb out of it

 

[GQuigley67]

It would be priceless though hes had problems with his van since he rolled it into a ditch a few times, so seeing smoke coming out of it he'd probably think the worst

 

[Mikey456]

Rofl we told the boy his van was on fire when we lit them inside.

 

[CMairiD]

... oops, wrong thread

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

once had a right prat in work he was a subbie we were subbing to a builder i was using a sds max,early version no clutch and drilling a 30mm hole it was jamming this numpty thought it would be funny to turn the juice on and off i did not take that view was a bit younger and more fiery so i lamped him ,apparently a few weeks earlier he superglued the chippies g clamps together the chippie threatened to put his testicles in his other g clamp

 

[Dotty]

i love getting sparkies.

Had a floor lifted in a house in Belfast. Looked down and could see the sparkie working on a light fitting immediately below me.

I had a bottle of water with me which I carefully poured down the hole and into the fitting he was at.

All I could hear was "John! John! Help! Help!"

Couldn't really help much. Couldn't do an awful lot where my sides were hurting with the laughter!

 

[Deleted member 7121]

Once put handy foam in the foremans site coats pure class !!!!

 

[REDSAW]

put a lippy aprentice joiner into the sawdust box (4' x 4' with a lid on it and a 4'' x 2'' slot handle) which was half full of mdf dust, nailled it shut and got the forklift driver to put it 20' on top of a roof once, for four hours. forman in a right mood as he thought he had bogged of for the day. all you could see was his fingers and nose with a mumbled cry for help through the slot.

when he came out at 4;55pm, he was choking up dust and pure white. kept his gob shut after that though....

it may have been after we air stapled him (with about a 1000 + staples through his clothing) to a sheet of ply, gave him a bdsm gaffa tape mask, then nailed it to the ceiling for the day (it took the other apprentice about an hour to 'undo' him.
dont suppose you'd get away with it nowadays.lol.

 

[pobsdad]

Many years ago I worked on a government scheme which also employed long term unemployed,as well as the unemployable.One such lad was about 18,but had absolutely no common sense whatsoever,and found everything funny.He started off with the joiners,but when his superviser went down a trap to check the joists for rot,this kid nailed the boards down.They put him to work chopping firewood,thinking he couldn't do much harm working by himself.With an axe!Apparently 3 hours later 2 people were in casualty,and he had been sacked.

 

[turnpin]

Heating up a bullying so called plumbers benders when he left the room for a few minutes on one of the sites couldn`t have happened to a more deserving fellow he had a choice of 9 to choose from but he never found out it was me😉😉😉..........🙂regards turnpin

 

[Resolute]

Heating up a bullying so called plumbers benders when he left the room for a few minutes on one of the sites couldn`t have happened to a more deserving fellow he had a choice of 9 to choose from but he never found out it was me😉😉😉..........🙂regards turnpin

Might do now if he's on here?!!

When I was working in a bar I got one of the waitresses to go into the office and ask the manager for a long weight, then about two weeks later I got the same waitress to ask the kitchen for tartan colouring!!

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

yes i have had the apprentice with,the sky hook and skirting ladder

 

[Mikey456]

I need some new spirit level bubbles

 

[Resolute]

I need some new spirit level bubbles

I'll swap you some for a left handed screwdriver?!

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

i have a left handed hammer

 

[Dotty]

I've got a skirting board ladder.

No. Really!

I am that short!

 

[kirkgas]

i remember when i was a second yr apprentice and we were working on a new build sports centre, i was lippy to a joiner just because i was a plumber, but at tea time they grabbed me and nailed me to an old door, right through the overalls up and down the arms, i couldnt move, i was there all day, and any time anyone passed me they gave me a wee slap just because, they let me down just in time to go home, and the next day it wasnt mentioned, at the end of that day i was told i was off the hook cause i didnt tell the gaffer, haha the good old days, it does teach you something, although not sure what!!!!!!!

 

[ecowarm]

Croppie i will post a pic on here soon, when i get back to the school i've been working. its right up your street😉

 

[Mikey456]

I'll swap you some for a left handed screwdriver?!

If you can throw in some elbow grease with it?

 

[tamz]

i remember when i was a second yr apprentice and we were working on a new build sports centre, i was lippy to a joiner just because i was a plumber, but at tea time they grabbed me and nailed me to an old door, right through the overalls up and down the arms, i couldnt move, i was there all day, and any time anyone passed me they gave me a wee slap just because, they let me down just in time to go home, and the next day it wasnt mentioned, at the end of that day i was told i was off the hook cause i didnt tell the gaffer, haha the good old days, it does teach you something, although not sure what!!!!!!!

I must have been right lippy when i was young.
Got nailed the same way to the floor........twice, one in a house where the woman felt sorry for me and asked if i wanted some tea with a straw🙄, the other one i was shouting so much obscenities at them they taped my mouth up with duct tape, nailed under the floor with no light, ladder taken away when i was up on a roof in the rain.
Taught me to keep my mouth shut and do what i was told.

 

[Mikey456]

brothers apprentice with his ex company right dingbat he was. Hands like two left feet.

 

[Dannypipe]

brothers apprentice with his ex company right dingbat he was. Hands like two left feet.

At least he can see the funny side.

My brother went through a stage of making me jump. Sounds harmless, but when it's the 5th time in a day and he's sprung out from some hideyhole, you stop laughing and want to smack him in the teeth. Pity he's harder than me!

He also nailed my boots to the floor. Nothing that imaginative really!

 

[obseen16]

lol Mikey that tropthy photo is hilarious

one of the builders we work with had a work experience lad for a week. he was a right lippy git, we sent him to the van to find a left handed screw driver. when he asked what one looks like we said youll know when you see it because it looks different to all the other screwdrivers. he was in the van for 2 hours and eventually came back with 6 and said ive looked and looked but these were the only ones that looked different. hahahaha. he was so upset when we said none of them were right and to keep looking lol, he never did cotton on.

the same group of builders decided that after about a year of telling me to get a belt (i had a serious bum crack exposure problem when on my knees. they decided to play darts with hand tools and who ever got it in the crack won. i found it funny at first until the ice cold wood rasp went right down my crack thrown from 15ft away to, not a pleasant feeling, i wear tighter trousers now lol.

 

[Mikey456]

Photo is great haha. Got a vid on the pc of him being hoisted into the sky on an engine hoist haha

 

[Dotty]

Croppie i will post a pic on here soon, when i get back to the school i've been working. its right up your street😉

😱 Not sure what you're implying Eco! 😉😉

When we were doing the primary school at Bessbrook one of the other guy's would always grab my hand when the kids were out so that I didn't get dragged protesting into a class!

 

[CES]

My cousin had his son as his apprentice, he was a bit bigger than his Dad and one day after a bout of particular funny slagging he lost patience, rolled him up in a dustsheet, gaffer taped him and placed him outside on the pavement for an hour.
Another time his dad was showing a bit of bum crack as he was bent over a pan fighting with a saniflo, he whipped out a pair of tinsnips and cut his belt, trousers and elastic on his keks. His dad never noticed and stood up, went to walk away and all and sundry fell to the floor much to his customers amusement.
I'm surprised he kept his job tbh. but it made me laugh when I heard it. BTW He's now a qualified gas man!

 

[lozza3k]

i had one played on me when learning! chap i was working with put a meter test nipple in my pocket knowing that once we was in the van and a mile away i would get my phone from my pocket!!! i seriously needed to find a loo!!! lucky for me he had already put the nipple back in!