Because of what I do I have one hard hat with a shade ring fitted, that one gets used mowing as it also has a flap to protect the back of the neck. One gets used to them as at the Chemical factory, as long as you were running around in the production & storage areas you wore one. So that was pretty much the whole shift.

Mowers here range from a Honda push one to 2 tonne & 4.5 tonne tractors. No cabin & they can throw out interesting sized missiles.

You do get entertainment with some get ups. One pair where one had worked in Orchards the other a bank. Turned up in the vineyard no hats, coke tanks tops & shorts. As I was handling the paperwork. My comment to the young roosters was to enjoy what you see today, it wont be here tomorrow. As I expected they got incinerated. There was the usual from the hats and at another site, one rather well endowed FM was advertising the assets, provoking the same comment: Same result. To add insult to injury there was a solar flare that day & they would be untouchable for a week. Never saw evidence of Sunscreen there.

One other bird was wearing open toed sandals, dangerous even without her getting her tootsies burnt. What was scary is that she wanted to go into OH&S. Clearly she was not good at risk management, as she ended up in the mothers club.

Best rural seen was at AG college where one city Goose, that CES had sent there managed to lift up a "star post" driver in a crazy way and too high, so it rotated and donged him on the head & flattened him. No damage skull was confirmed as been fairly thick.

Dumbest, was obviously put in the army as a last resort & was at that point an his last chance before they threw him out for being too stupid.His crowning achievements that I saw doing an Industrial fire fighting course; Was to forget the proper fire lighter and decided on the local paper as a taper. Lit whilst in the middle of the flammables. Lucky there was a cold strong wind. That was topped off by the unbelievable by barreling into a downhill corner & getting the 13tonne fire tender to do a 720 degree flat spin.

On the subject of monumentally silly, we had a gardener at Gladesville Hospital in the 1990s who used to use a chainsaw with the same movement when using a carpenter's wood saw - yes, he was pushing it forward and pulling backward like a static sawblade! He'd clearly never been shown the correct way to cut tree branches - I wonder if he still has his legs...

Marcc you remind me of the days I went cotton chipping, a broad rimmed hat with thick black cotton sheeting stitched to the rim covering my neck from the right eye to the left, long jeans , boots and long-sleeved shirt. I used to bring two x 4 litre solid ice drink bottles and drink the lot and never took a piss all day because I literally sweated it out.

Nothing worse than going to a job where you personally, or the operators hired are totally ill prepared in all meanings of the word, for the job.