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pianotuna wrote:
Then there was the time a phone call came as I was getting ready to leave. It was important. After the call, I merrily towed 100 feet of #12 extension cord for about 2 miles. Finally some one got my attention and I rolled it up. No plug ends committed suicide, either.
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Grit dog wrote:I guess if we all remind each other of our mistakes we make, we can collectively become better at checking things!
Found myself thinking about this when I went to grab the truck and boat trailer from the parking lot last night to load the boat back up and checked, probably for the first time ever, that someone didnโt remove any of the cotter pins, clips or locking pins on the hitch connection!
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BobsYourUncle wrote:
I have done some stupid things in my time, made some serious mistakes, but this one is really a major screw up on my part.
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How could I have done such an idiotic thing?
โJun-22-2021 06:00 AM
philh wrote:
Something I learned from flying, always use a checklist and ALWAYS do activities in the same order. If something gets out of order, START OVER and do it again. Even that's not perfect. Friend was a 747 check pilot and watched an experienced crew got things out of order, and they missed a major check item, landing gear down and locked. He told them to run the checklist again, and sat there in amazement when they "mouthed" the words and missed it again. They went back for recurrent training.
I've tried to maintain the same walk around discipline, what am I supposed to be checking here, and actually touch the item to confirm it's correct.
I've never done complete mental walk around when stopped for a short period of time, but given the example above that someone took the clip off, maybe I should change that up.
โJun-22-2021 05:58 AM
WNYBob wrote:
You didn't even cross the safety chains! You need to do this to cradle the hitch if it does come loose!
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