Good Job Site Pranks.

[Aaron91]

Since the thread about cool plumbing tricks was such a 'hit'. I was wondering what are some good job site pranks you've done or witnessed?

I'm not talking about messing with guy's flux so they can't solder or putting a nickel in a 3/4"-1/2" Pro-Press tee acting like a flapper, basically anything being a real *******.

I know the flux or duck **** behind the door handle and tie-ing zip tie's to the drive shaft to make an annoying noise soon as the truck starts moving due to the zip tie hitting the frame. I've heard putting a long ball of Caution tape under the truck and tie-ing it to the truck, so soon as a bump comes along, theres 50' of Caution tape flying behind the truck.

What are some other good one's?

[Masterplumb]

In new construction we have sent the helper out to the truck and as he walked by the window we dumped a 5 gal pail of water on them.

we have put seran wrap on the bowl of the toilet at the shop.

we put a fish in the springs under the seat of a co-workers van (do it on a Friday after work for best results)

Released the air from gas piping test.

Sent an apprentice to the supply house for: a bucket of blue steam, left handed wrench, sky hooks, bubble fill for the level etc.

[rombo]

when hanging large pipe fill it with acetylene and ignite the whole building will shake.



when you get a new apprentice tell everyone on the job that he is gay

[PlumbingSkool]

I have always enjoyed sending the helper out for the "Bucket of steam" or the "sky hook",

Those two have been my favorite!:D

[ToUtahNow]

We use to wait until a guy went in the outhouse and then we would tip it up on the back edge where it would tip the rest of the way if he moved around. Now 35-years later I can see how that might not have been the brightest thing to have done.

Mark

[haycad]

putting 3 hole punches in the defrost and turning the fan on when they start up the truck in the morning. ;) nail the crawl hatch down when someones in there. drop a big rock down the porta potty vent when someones in there its a little nicer than tipping it over.

[oldslowchevy]

while setting stairs of anything else at an angle send someone out to the truck for the "unlevel level" or the ever popular "nail, board, pipe, shingle, ect streacher"

[woodenstickers]

Wouldn't do it or recommend it, but I met one guy who was a master at nailing your boot to the floor when you had a load of something in your arms. He never tried it on me and I'm glad because I had steel sole boots at the time and it may have turned into a toe-nail literally.




Eli

[westcoastplumber]

I liked sending the new guys to the supply house to pick up a couple things, and it was such a hit, that the guy's at the supply house caught on and would send them to other supply houses:D

for things like : level water, not any level water, level water with bubble in it

go and please get the pipe stretcher.

the other good one is heat proof grease on the wiper blades

key tite behind the door handles of the van

telling them the water is off and asking them to go and open a ball valve to see if they see dirty water or debris sitting in the pipe:p

[gear junkie]

When I did commercial ac, I used to walk around the stubouts with a little plastic bottle in my pocket. A couple drops on the floor and watch the plumbers go crazy. Now I do plumbing also, karma's going to hurt.

-screwed the door shut on a porta john

-get someone's hard hat and freeze it in a 10 lb block of ice.

-put blue chalk from a chalk line on the inside of the person's hardhat. Once they start sweating, down it comes.

-sew the sleeves of someone's jacket together

-seabee skills test-get the new guy and see if he can split a 2x2 with a roofing hatchet-blindfolded. While he diligently trying to split this-"you almost got it, keep going". We place the top of his uniform on the stake. He takes off the blindfold and sees his uniform hacked up-good times. We used to do this as hazing is prohibited in the US Navy and seabees would never continue to do such a thing that might be misconstrued as hazing.

-I'll save the rest of the for me; just in case anyone gets any ideas at the roundup.

[toolaholic]

THIS won't work on the job. 3 of Us guys rented a house togeather in My bach. days. 2 of us were carpenters. we drank way to much,and mon. morns we were all hung over. On hi top boots ,the nite before, reverse both laces on them. lace from the top down. both loose ends come out at the toes. try to figger this out ,at 0 dark thirty, hung over!

[Tyman]

Flip the switch for child door locks on the van.

Call the shop with prank calls in a disguised voice.

I once put a rotten mouse I collected from a sewer under the drivers seat in a coworkers van. It smelled like death.

Take the labels off the primer and glue cans.

Loosen the unions on the water heater and when your buddy turns the water on and it sprays everywhere, look at him like he is incompetent.

Change the house numbers on the work order causing your buddy plumber to pull his hair out trying to find the house.

My personal favorite. When the boss is on his way to look at a job or deliver something, tell everyone that "your helper" will be at the job soon and he likes to talk like he knows something about plumbing.

[All Clear Sewer]

I've heard putting a long ball of Caution tape under the truck and tie-ing it to the truck, so soon as a bump comes along, theres 50' of Caution tape flying behind the truck.



Thanks Aaron91
I`m gonna be doing this one in the next week to my master plumber :D

[PLUMBER RICK]

while setting finish, tape or rubberband the hand held sprayer in the on position. the next guy that goes to use the kitchen faucet gets nailed:D

reverse the blade on the hacksaw top either teeth pointing back.

the old timers will never catch it.


why am i telling you these things:confused:

i need to save the good ones for the roundup:grin-angelic:

rick.

[All Clear Sewer]

Rick keep on your toes, you just never know what might happen ;) :outtahere:

[DUNBAR]

Here's one:



Back in new construction plumbing residential homes we was always behind, way behind and what would happen is they'd start insulating AND drywalling just about all the walls around the plumbing just because they couldn't wait on us anymore.

Well, that made us the bad guys always and these two drywallers were pissing us off royal even though I'm sure we made it hell for them as well but they shot a nail in a vent pipe.............WAR!!!!!

So.......we casually put the air test on the copper at the shower head in one bathroom, got it inspected and felt good that we got another builder off our backs.....for a minute.

So in an impulse moment, my buddy looked at me, I looked at him and I watched him remove the schrader valve out of the threaded ball valve that we purposely only opened about a 1/4 way so it would take a long time to remove all 100 pounds of air since we had the water heater set on the 2nd rough.

He held his finger on the end of the valve, made sure he banged a pipe to pipe to make it sound like we broke something when the air started rushing out at a high shrill, LOUD and we both


run like hell screaming "GAS LEAK! GAS LEAK!!! GET OUT!!!" like we was dead serious with the shocked faces heading out the front of that building and we kept on trucking!!! :D

It was so ****ing hilarious because one guy was on stilts and the other was on a ladder, the one on the ladder made it out first but stumbled bad off the ladder and the guy on the stilts fell down on a stack of drywall literally screaming trying to unhook his stilts to get out of the building. :smile-us-down:


These two drywallers took us completely serious as there was no indication to say otherwise that it wasn't true.

We was laughing so hard we was crying because one of them fell down in a huge rut in the front yard from concrete trucks pouring the walls initially.

Not only were these guys shocked, but they were instantly furious after realizing that it was joke, and it was air......LMAO~~~~!!!!!


They left, they didn't come back and we really didn't care because we went to the house next door to set the finish. HA!


We should of been cuffed and stuffed for inducing panic that day but it was worth laughing so damn hard, tears running down my cheeks to give such a quality payback!

[plumberscrack]

Call the shop with prank calls in a disguised voice

While our receptionist was on maternity leave we hired a temp agency to fill in. Every week they would send us somebody new. :bash: Retraining them became a pain so we decided to have some fun :grin-devilish:

Our accountant in the back office would call in posing as a frantic customer that had just accidentally flushed a 2 month old kitten down the toilet while giving it a bath:shocked2: and wanted to know what to do :confused:

You would be surprised how many different reactions each person had to this

Most were visibly upset and brought to tears :sad:

One even just hung up the phone without saying a word and pretended nothing happened :scratchhead: We were all scared of this one

The best reaction was a young girl that burst out laughing when she heard about the kitten
We hired her on a permanent basis :welcome:

[Josh]

Great thread Aaron. Funny stuff.

[bigPipe09]

One that stands out for me is the old "Tape measure Pendulum" trick.

What you do is eyeball the distance from your victim's eye's to his crotch, and extend that distance on your tape and press the locking mechanism, Then hold your tape parallel to the ground at your mark's eye level and ask him to look down the tape and see if it looks crooked to him. Right about the time he closes one eye to get a good look at the tape, you release the back end, hold the dumb end in place, and the tape measure body swings down and hits the mark square in the beanbag. A classic.

[UA22PLumberdude]

Well,we do habitual abuse of electricans on the jobsite,the best was switching out our locks on thier gangboxes.After they all leave for the day open box and empty out....return thier locks.The sight of them opening an empty gangbox was priceless...

[JRM638fitter]

In keeping up with abusing electricians welding there gang boxes closed work nicely. Turning off someone's B-tank when there up in a ceiling works well on plumbers they get all prissy. If you are roll grooving pipe flipping the Ridgid 300 on forward work nice too you can you see the look of what the hell on there face as the pipe walks off. I have seen this one make the sprinkler fitters go nuts they where testing a fire sprinkler system and someone opened the inspection drain that was in the back of a building out of sight when they where testing about a hour latter they found it.

[SlimTim]

When I was a helper there was a certain plumber I was assigned to who would always send me out to turn the water back on at the meter while he was still putting on the new washer. "I'll have the stem back in before you get there, it'll save time."
So, one time I said ok as usual and shuffled out of the bathroom real slow, then I broke into an all out sprint. I could vaguely hear him all the way out at the street, "turn it off, turn it off".

And in the same vein, when I had a helper, and we had to flush a water line at the tub to remove rust or diptube pieces, I would tell the helper that I would turn it on and off three times and wait 3 seconds between each time and then he was to check the valve body for debris......yup.

[Aaron91]

I've noticed the term 'sky hook' used more than once in this thread. I haven't heard this one before. What's this story used with this one?

[drtyhands]

Skyhook?
For a skillsaw or nailgun it's an attachment you can add to them for hooking on things.Great for working off the ground.hang-'em off 2x's,ladders,nails,etc.Sometimes the safety harnesses you are required to where when you're high.

[libbyloulou]

Skyhook?
For a skillsaw or nailgun it's an attachment you can add to them for hooking on things.Great for working off the ground.hang-'em off 2x's,ladders,nails,etc.Sometimes the safety harnesses you are required to where when you're high.

That's right, they come in either rubber or steel, the rubber one's are safer, but not as strong as the steel, i know what i'de rather hit me on the head.

But the rubber one's don't work to good if your mate is still attached when it gives way:)

[libbyloulou]

Drtyhands,

What would a saftey harness do for me if i was high, and low ?:D

[OkieBill]

Graphite on door handles and tool-box handles...

Doing new construction we would all hang tails of each other when ever we got the chance...

Rocks in hubcaps was always a good one.

I convinced an apprentice that the boss was deaf in his left ear so if he was standing on the bosses left he needed to talk really loud... Boss thought the kid was retarded:D

Superglued the bosses phone handset to the reciever.

We took a grinder to the wheels on the bosses chair and gave them facets he would roll across his office floor...thump thump thump thump we had him convinced he was gaining weight and was causing flat spots on his wheels he must have bought 10 extra wheels.:grin:


The best was actually removing the door to his office, we pulled the door, placed studs, sheet rocked, mud / taped and painted. By Sunday afternoon you could not tell there was ever a door there.
If it was not for the window into the shop he had to keep an eye on us you would not have even known there was an office.
Monday morning was priceless when he came to work:) ( I was let go for that one)

We used to get guys suited up in all the PPE ( Respirator, goggles, gloves,Tyvek coveralls and send the to the parts house for cancer causing chemicals... ( Parts house would throw some sodas in a box we had made that had radioactive stickers and special handling instructions printed on box like cover testicles when handling package ect...) Scared a few customers with that one:eek:

I will think of more:)

[Service Guy]

Wow, some of you guys are really immature, I never participated in these kind of pranks. I have a wacky, crazy sense of humor, but pranks and stuff just aren't funny to me.

[OkieBill]

Service Guy did you get picked on in school alot?

It's ok I was too... It took me a while to lighten up and realize we all make this world go around...

[drtyhands]

Years ago it was getting old getting your bags nailed down.Had it done to me a few different times by cockies.

We had this one new guy(loudmouth,cocky),nailed my bags down to impress the crew.
He went to the portable John,I gave him a few moments to get seated and comfortable,
I got the firehose Brian got the door.Full open to the body.

He didn't even try to move,just sat there with his pants around his ankles getting his second shower/drenching.It was about 100deg that day.Oh well.

[drtyhands]

The framers used to leave the keys to the pettybone(forklift with boom forks) under the seat.

I took the outhouse from the parking lot next to my companies 25' construction drop box and set it on the second floor balcony over the superintendant's trailer.He thought he was being smart by not moving it.After two weeks in the summer sun that baby was ripe.Oh well,least it's not by my bin.My house is only a few miles away if I need facilities.Besides I was polite when I asked him to move it.
Man,looking back,I sure didn't see the inconvenience I put on everyone(other trades).My crew thought it was good.

Ahh the luxury of a drunken youth past,all the wild stories.I'm lucky someone or something never broke me into pieces:o

[oldslowchevy]

yup we are all going to hell for the things we have done

[ChrisConnor]

Well, this isn't a job site prank, but a good one none the less.

Go into the bathroom and lift the lid on the toilet tank.

Pull the refill tube from it's clip on the overflow.

Place tip of the refill tube on the edge of the toilet tank right over the flush lever so that it extends about 3/4".

Put the lid back on.

When the next person flushes the toilet the refill tube will shoot them with water right at their crotch. You may have to be a little creative with your aiming, but you get the idea.:nono:

[Bogart]

We used to make blowguns out of 1/2" copper tube. We shot putty balls thru them. We would stand by a 2nd floor window on a rough and snipe unsuspecting trades up to 50 ft. away.

[Aaron91]

We used to make blowguns out of 1/2" copper tube. We shot putty balls thru them. We would stand by a 2nd floor window on a rough and snipe unsuspecting trades up to 50 ft. away.

HAHA yeah I've done that one before with cpvc. When the other guys would shoot me, it'd hurt like a *****, but I could never get mine to shoot fast enough.

[MR.WRENCH]

We use to wait until a guy went in the outhouse and then we would tip it up on the back edge where it would tip the rest of the way if he moved around. Now 35-years later I can see how that might not have been the brightest thing to have done.

Mark

i think i would literally lose my freedom if someone did that me.

[gear junkie]

We used to make blowguns out of 1/2" copper tube. We shot putty balls thru them. We would stand by a 2nd floor window on a rough and snipe unsuspecting trades up to 50 ft. away.
Ameture-use wire nuts and if you want to do some real damage, drive a drywall screw out the front of the wire nut.

I learned this in Haiti. Lots of alcohol and rats make for some inovative ways to pass the time.

[oldslowchevy]

Ameture-use wire nuts and if you want to do some real damage, drive a drywall screw out the front of the wire nut.


now thats just plain evil........... i like that:grin:

[JCsPlumbing]

Anyone ever take a CPR dummy with bricks in it for weight & throw it out of the ceiling while yelling?:D:D:D

J.C.

[MrsSeatDown]

Anyone ever take a CPR dummy with bricks in it for weight & throw it out of the ceiling while yelling?:D:D:D

J.C.

Where would you come across a spare CPR doll just laying around?

[Bogart]

One time a guy put his blowgun to his lips while running to the window, the end of the blowgun hit a 2x4 stud. Ouch! He had a perfect 1/2" circle cut into his upper gum.

[Buckwheat]

You can put grease on the bosses telephone receiver and call him. Gets him a real ear full. Or you can just tape the buttons down and call him and watch the look on his face when the phone continues to ring.:smile2:

[Australian Plumber Josh]

a multi storey job we once worked on had a loading zone out front for trucks to park while being unloaded by the crane.

once too often this space was parked in by a courier.

the surly crane crew made him wait 8 hours before they brought his van down from the 25th floor.

[NHMaster3015]

Where would you come across a spare CPR doll just laying around?

Rick's probably got a spare. :D

[Gene Bickford]

I had a buddy that worked as a mechanic at a garage. He and the other mechanics were always pranking each other. In an attempt to one up the last prank, the pranks started to get pretty nasty and down right dangerous.
The owner put a stop to it and had a "special":rant-on: meeting when he caught them hooking electricity to another's tool box:shocked2:

[Bob D.]

I heard of this prank the other day at work.
Had a newbie on the job who was deathly afraid of radiation. The job they were going in to do was one with higher than the normal dose rate, and the guys all convinced him that he was getting way more dose than he was being led to believe, and they said they could prove it.

So they put a few unpopped kernals of popcorn in their pocket before they went in, and they told the guy that if they were in more than a 200mR field for longer than 2 minutes that the popcorn would POP.

When he wasn't looking they switched the unpopped for some popped corn, and when they came out and got out of their PCs they showed him the popped corn and he fell for it. They said he claimed he was not going back in there no matter what and wanted to be laidoff right then and there.

They finally told him the truth later that day and he calmed down.

[NorthernIllinoisPlumber]

When teamed up on service calls when the customer is watching:

"Are you still wearing the monitoring device?"

"You are not working too close to the school to get you in trouble, are you?"

"Remember what happened the last time I let you connect the gas line?"

"Did you and your wife get the blood test back yet from the counselling center yet?"

:itsover:

[Gene Bickford]

When teamed up on service calls when the customer is watching:

"Are you still wearing the monitoring device?"

"You are not working too close to the school to get you in trouble, are you?"

"Remember what happened the last time I let you connect the gas line?"

"Did you and your wife get the blood test back yet from the counselling center yet?"

:itsover:

:clapping::rotflmao1:working too close to the school. Thats the best one, but they are all pretty funny.

[Aaron91]

HAHA those are great.

[westcoastplumber]

I had a customer writting a $6,000 check for work completed, as he was signing the check, he said " So how long have you been a plumber"

I responded, "about a week now, I don't even think the company has my drug test results yet"

:rotflmao1:, he did not feel the same;)

[mheriot]

My last job I was on the plumbers were notorious for attaching cable ties to the axles of the other trades trucks.

[NHMaster3015]

My favorite prank is to pink slip all the guys I catch wasting company time on stupid pranks.

[oldslowchevy]

http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/5079/Banned+From+Kmart/


something tells me this guy could teach us all a few things lmao

[mheriot]

- Poured the feet of one of our field engineers desks in 6 inches of concrete.

- Told one of the field engineers he needed to calibrate his measuring tape. We let him work at it for an hour or so before stopping him.

[BucketMan]

In my construction day we lifted an electricians truck up with a loader and placed cinder blocks by the tire under the axle just so the tires were a half inch off the ground. He jumped in his truck and slammed on the gas. Nothing happened so he tried reverse nothing happened. He jumped out mad as hell. Yelling I just put this Transmision in. We were on the ground laughing so hard

[westcoastplumber]

In my construction day we lifted an electricians truck up with a loader and placed cinder blocks by the tire under the axle just so the tires were a half inch off the ground. He jumped in his truck and slammed on the gas. Nothing happened so he tried reverse nothing happened. He jumped out mad as hell. Yelling I just put this Transmision in. We were on the ground laughing so hard


thats a good one, but boardering on property damage, still funny.

[BucketMan]

Yeah it crossed my mind but I was young and the foreman was running the loader and somebody had to put the blocks under there.:)

[deanorod]

I had a customer writting a $6,000 check for work completed, as he was signing the check, he said " So how long have you been a plumber"

I responded, "about a week now, I don't even think the company has my drug test results yet"

:rotflmao1:, he did not feel the same;)

hahahah
had a similar one

under a mates sink and he went out his misses was in and was askin if i wanted tee etc and the conversation came to how long have you been doing plumbing









first time im a window cleaner

the look on her face was price less

[wrongler]

When I worked in Pennsylvania on commercial jobs, we liked to hit the steel columns with our hammers when our buddies were working on stacks in the chase on the other side. :speechless:
I threw a big pile of pvc shavings down my buddies crack when he was bent over once too. It was pretty funny to see him itching himself for the rest of the day.

[gear junkie]

This one is at your own risk; get a red hilti shot and place it in a set of vise grips with the primer side out. Walk behind someone and drop it straight down. It'll go off and scare the bejeus out of them. Do not do this on green concrete, it can crack it. Once again, this one is at your own risk.

[Aaron91]

I didn't even know there was such a thing as green concrete until now, I just Googled it.

How is it to jack hammer green concrete, any different than normal concrete?

[gear junkie]

It's just new concrete. Easily chippable. Wait till you hace to chip out some 1920 5000 psi concrete. Makes you wish you had a excavator bull prick.

[drtyhands]

This one is at your own risk; get a red hilti shot and place it in a set of vise grips with the primer side out. Walk behind someone and drop it straight down. It'll go off and scare the bejeus out of them. Do not do this on green concrete, it can crack it. Once again, this one is at your own risk.When I was a kid there was a tract of homes built close to my home.I found some hilti shots.I was hitting them with a hammer to make them go off.Put a brass rim into my calf(through my jeans).
Definately at your own risk.

[AFM]

When working on a building site years ago we silver soldered a 4" nail to a 50c and hammered it into the ashfelt in the pavement outside the job site and watched the passerby try to pick up the 50c piece and couldn`t stop laughing at what they would do to get it.

Tony:rotflmao::rotflmao: