Best Construction Pranks 

“Hey go get the left handed ___” is a classic. You can say that with pretty much anything

Deleting the phone pairing in the truck... f*cking evil and I love it 😂

We fliped my bosses license plate upside down on the work truck, state trooper let him know about it 😂

As a mechanic I told the new guy to "go in the basement and get me some ID-10-T oil", I wrote that down on a post it note and handed it to him... he was gone for an hour asking everyone in the shop where the basement was and showing them the note!

"heat seater" lol, I am glad I'm not the only one that messes this up.

My 1st day on the jobsite as a laborer They got me with the “hen weigh” prank Foreman said “hey buck go grab the Hen Weigh out of the truck I need it asap” I was clueless, i started bringing random tools over saying “is this it?” He’d say no goddamnit the fuckin hen weigh stupid!! I think I even carried over a step ladder lol finally after 15 minutes of pure frustration I said “hey honestly what’s a hen weigh?” Sumnabitch said 7-8lbs lol the entire crew was crying with laughter

And this is why construction projects take 2 times longer than anticipated

If you're a new guy watching this video, one piece of advice - roll with it, even if you recognize a prank is occurring. You've got a get-out-of-jail-free card to go walk around for a while, kick back in some remote area in solitude, take a drive, etc., without being the one who gets into trouble.

One time I reprogrammed the seat setting in the work truck to go all the way forward when you put the key in. Had the boss man all squished up honking the horn with his chest and couldn’t get out. Instant classic!

We had a guy looking for the aluminum magnet for more than an hour!

I'm a plumber and our favorite prank is tell the helper we're low on PVC primer and hand them a Styrofoam cup to bring it back in..

I love it, ive been a plumber for over 28 years, these never get old. Dont forget a bucket of steam and a box a level bubbles.

My favorite all time prank was when we had this Roofing Subcontractor that were all Canadians. One day I popped my head up telling them Celine Dion died. Now because they were anchored to the roof it was a Safety Infraction to use your phone while anchored. So for the next 4 hours till Lunch I heard these four Canadians above me going through the five stages of grief.

"Heat seater" 🤣

Heatseater.

My husband's best prank was when he was the appreciate many years ago and fooled the foreman. He farted in the break trailer and when the foreman smelled it, he thought a mouse had died in there and he was pissed! He made the entire crew, apprentices and journeymen alike, including himself, spend the rest of the day deep cleaning the trailer looking for the dead mouse! 😂 My Hubby never had so much fun on the job site! To this day, the foreman still doesn't know, unless he's reading this comment. My Hubby and I still die laughing about that day! That forman was a jerk and deserved it 😂

Haha I love sending the apprentice for things that don’t exist. “Go get me the sky hooks, they’re next to the board stretcher” Never gets old 😂👌

When u said “delete his phone from the Bluetooth”, I thought u were going to say delete his radio station pre-sets. Would have been 10x worse 😂

In the military, we'd tell the new guy to get the firing pin sharpener, because ours was dull and wouldn't shoot

For several months I worked with a guys who was one of the best helpers you could ask for. Only thing that bugged me is that he could never find the bucket of grinder sparks or the upside down levels when I needed them most!

In kitchens we do a lot of pranks too lol. Ive asled new employees to go get me the bacon stretcher or the rice splitter lol always hilarious.

All these videos are gold! 😂

You forgot to adjust their seat like there wife drove it😂😂

That lunch time one was hilarious

Not construction, CRM archaeologist here. Slowly adding rocks to someones backpack, classic. The best is a big project like a pipeline project, each day add a rock when they dont notice. may take a few days to a few weeks before someone notices that their bag now weighs significantly more than it should. Bonus points if you have to hike a mile or two from the work truck. Another was more specific to a certain buddy of mine. Avid crossword guy, would do them in the truck in the morning. I would sneak in and steal just the page that had it when we stopped at the halfway gas station stop. The real evil mastermind would fill out another one with incorrect answers and replace it in the guys newpaper when he wasnt paying attention.

Bosses kid? Oh man. Youre asking for it lol

I learned a few new ones thanks man!😂🇺🇸

Got to drop a red brick in porta potty vent when coworker pooping😂 🌊

This is straight up crew chief stuff

On the oil rig it was "hey new guy go ask the company man for his 12" pumping tool" worked every time lol

Bottle rockets under the bathroom door was My Go to.

Nail bags being nailed to something was more then just an inconvenience for me. Mine got nailed to a ridge beam 35’ up and he nailed my hammer and cat paw to it.

Level bubble is also a classic

90% of these would destroy my relationship with my coworker

As a arborist i gotta say the top 3 pranks is 1 super gluing the gas and bar oil caps (if you do this theres a chance of you getting put in a chipper) 2 putting saw chains on backwards 3 taking you co workers sharp chain off and putting your dull chain on and and keeping it till it goes dull and switch it again

Aircraft mechanics have similar ones, get me 50 feet of flight line, a bucket of rotor wash, the pad eye puller, etc. F the new guys! 😂

Lookin good miles wooooooo

Box of grid squares and a Prickey 6 wrench from the E-6 was always fun

The last one is why I always lock my car unless it’s in a garage. High school parking lots gave me trust issues that haven’t gone away the last ten years since graduation.

Man the old guy when I started told me to get the board stretcher it is a classic

Fill a Gatorade bottle with water and depth-charge the porta-Jon vent.

As a mechanic I told the new guys to go get me an exhaust sample. One actually did, grabbed a garbage bag and brought me one.

The boss should take the new guy for lunch. To get back at the old guy attempting the parnk.

Who’s out here leaving their truck unlocked at the job site?! I don’t trust those fools for multiple reasons

Day one of my plumbing career, my foremen sent me into the site supers trailer to, interrupt a meeting to ask for a bucket of steam. That went well

I do vinyl decking, and I once sent the new guy to grab some 2-dimensional flashing. Took him 30 minutes to come back and ask where to find it. Pure gold.

Dude, who poured those bollards, the new guy

Condom on the windshield wiper, or the I called it the window stretcher because I use to stock drywall. 😅

I gotta get one of those" heat seaters" instaled

I need you to grab me the metric crescent wrench

I told a new kid once to go get the board stretcher. He said, "Oh, is that in a box labeled B.S?" Dang, he got me.

Drop a large rock down the vent when your buddy is taking a deuce

Parking truck in front of crapper door, dropping rocks in the crapper vent to make it splash, zip ties on the drive shaft, throwing somebodies hardhat 30 feet in the cornfield, wrapping trucks in caution tape, making somebody “tighten” the hook on a crane

As a concrete guy we would brace the porta potty door shut with a pin and a 2x, You can use tie wire to lock the door shut while you put the pin in. Also dropping a really flat rock down the chimney is a great way to turn them into a smurf

You forgot about gaslighting the new guy into believing you’re an entirely different person with the name Ashley Ferguson so the Christmas Party reveal is that much better when he finds out you’re just a dude named Miles.

Here’s some good ones: -zip tie the portapotty door lock when they go in -if they have carts, remove the bolt on the wheels, keep them attached and watch their stuff roll down when they move their cart - put big rocks in their lunchbox or toolbox - when in an enclosed space, hold your farts until you’re alone with them and let it rip - anchor toolbelt or toolbuckets to the ground

I once screwed my co workers lunch box to the bench on a Friday when I was building boats 😂. P.S. the next week was my purse!

Take out the fuses for the AC and windows. A horrible to ride to the auto parts store after a shift in the summer heat

Never been pranked!

"The heat seater"

Now I get guys to check if the crane hook is screwed on tight.....fyi it's a swivel they just spin and spin and spin it 😂

Don't forget the rocks under the nails in the toolbag trick... or dropping a rock down the vent on the Porta shitter.. or the folded up mayonnaise pack under the tabs of the toilet seat, fold in a v and aim the two ends towards the junk ...

We always did the metric adjustable wrench. Plus you should ratchet strap the port a potty shut for maximum fermentation.

It was all fun and games when I was told to find the pipe stretcher until I explained thermodynamics and how a tool could be a possibility ,that joke died on arrival because I knew what was going on.😂

We were working at a church and job lead told me to report to the office tomorrow and be ready to turn in my stuff Said they had me on camera stealing. Was a pretty good one

Do this sometime: Next time you see a couple dudes chatting in a hallway obviously favoring one side of said hallway to not be in the way of anyone else…the one guy who has his back to the wall, go right up to him and nonchalantly say “excuse me” and go between him and the wall. It’s even better if you have to shuffle and/or sidestep to really sell it. Then keep walking as if that was the only place you could get around them, fully owning it. By the time they have time to process what just happened, you’ll be about 10-15 yards away. Optional: Take this moment to slowly turn your head to see their reaction (typically total confusion) and give ‘em a slight smirk to really drive it home as they are just now processing the fact that you made them move for no fricken reason whatsoever. Works every damn time.

Go find the cement glue

First job in high school was a clean up grunt for a site my dad was on… M80 down the vent while someone was in the porta dooks 🤭 Worked more than it didn’t 🤢😂

Yall aint got crap. i told the new guy i needed him to call the local parts store and i needed a piston return spring for a manual cvt tranmission on a ford truck so the guys at the parts store got a good laugh. so did i. i mean there oil thinner and intake oil and dipstick extenders and led filiments windshield wiper governor springs 710 cap winter air summer air headlight fluid reverse fluid muffler bearings flexable crowbars extended range battery acid left handed cables inside out tires reverse paint job automatic turbo oilers brake fluid coolant pumps thermostat bearings catylitic converter fluid diesel spark plugs... which could be confused as glow plugs. fuel filter backwash tire rods bearing rags floor pan drain valves body mount springs windshield wiper cooler told a new guy to he needed a candle to start a truck one time you light it under and it heats the engine up to operatinf temp instantly. i had ran the truck early that day and new it was already warmed up i asked if he had a lighter or a stick he said no i said we typically use candles but they heat these diesels up instantly. i opened the hood held my lighter as he watched and told him my candle had burned all the way down i had to go drain the wax tank in the back of the semi truck to refill it and i hit that lighter for a few seconds let it warm up close to the engine then hopped in he was going with me and i fired that truck up and it was blowing hot heat. he was thoroughly amazed best day ever. also we to take fire crackers throw them under the bathroom stall. i see alot of yall have port jons. im a shop owner so we have bathrooms haha garden hose over the bathroom stall is a good one to. fire cracker under a welder when hes welding ziptie a chunk of metal to a guys shoe while hes weldin our layin under a truck workin on it. left handed hood prop right handed light bulb had a girl and her friend i liked and one saturday night me and my buddy was over at there house and we went to leave and i greased under there door handles on both there cars got a call sunday morning on the way to church from the 1 girl she wasnt happy but it was 100 % worth it. tire coolant for those really hot days. interal engine scrubber. man theres so many more of these ill just tell a few more things ive did now had a little case front end loader took the horn wire and wired it into the forward side of the forward/neutral/reverse switch. bit shop i worked at had 4 wheeler friday and this one kid was mouthin all week brought his 4 wheeler up on friday and all week we had to hear about how it was this and that kid went to take a dump we put it on the roof acted like we hadnt seen it. and or didnt know its wear about or existance. jacked another kids chevy truck up put a cinder block under the rear axle it was just high enough to not show any signs tryed to watch him drive away but he just spun. i had a geo metro and 6 guys picked it up and set it on top a parking beam one time. i drove off but the got a good laugh. watched a 19 year old college kid walk about my shop picking up and throwing away broken washers... also known as lock washers. lucky for hit it was trash day and he marched right back out there and i explained to him what they was and he picked them out of the trash can and put them in the bin. this was just a few months ago... told a kid one time his tailgate spring was bad. told another kid that the drag strip would take the old tires when they were bald and use them on top fuel drag cars asked a kid to go get me a ball bearing screwdriver a kid one time i asked a kid to check the oil in my weedeater... its 2 stroke. i then same kid. brought in my 4 stroke weed eater and i asked him to check the oil in it and he informed me i got him last time and then i informed him that it does indeed have oil and showed him boy did i get an excellent reaction and many laughs there. i put a chain on a chain saw backwards and had a guy go out back to test it. that was a good one he came back in and was cussing throwin a fit said this was a pile of junk wouldnt cut worth a .... i laughed on that one for a while. guy wanted a tire rotated i said they rotate everytime you drive im not sure what you mean? told a kid we needed a bucket to catch all the sparks from the grinder. older guy standing there in the next bay over started laughing i asked for a can of A I R once. that was good one. put a balloom over an exhaust pipe end and watch a guy leave the shop was interesting to say the least. i seen yall said about dead fish on a hot day i used fishing chicken livers bait. took a ratchet strap on the front of a guys truck on the pass side he drove off it was sitting all crooked. rocks in a bag or lunch box is a good one. used to when cars had spark plugs and boots id pull them off just enough were 1st bump it would miss. waxed a wind shield once. that was interesting put a whooie cushion under a seat cover on a car co worker got it that was funny was years back. goosecall ziptied to the front bumper was rather interesting attached a concete block to a guys work that thats was funny we had a seasoned mechanic onetime just rebuilt a 6.0 powerstroke ford truck. and yes there notorious for alot of horrible things. anyways there was 3 or 4 of us standing around on the 1st fire up well 1 guy had a little hammer and as he started it up the guy would tap lightly on the bumper then the guy reveed it up and the taps got faster and then idleimg again he hurryed up shut it off then we all lost it. balloon over the entrance to a door with a sharp object to pop it. grease in the welding gloves. i was at my parents and my dad went to come inside and i hurryied up and locked the door well he knocked so i knocked back then he yelled open it up i yelled its open. haha hope yall get good laughs and yall use any and all of these if you want!

B.S. errands stupid nicknames hiding tools i mean the list goes on and on 😂😂

Need the sky hook

We used to screw down the tool bag of the helpers

One of the best I had done, was someone took one of those big HVAC zip ties and wrapped around my driveshaft. I drove around thinking I had something horribly wrong with my truck, pulled over and looked underneath and saw that thing under there

To add to the porta john- drop a good size rock down the vent for a nice splash!. Referred to as getting smurfed. The ratchet strap around the John with the 2x4 treatment. That was referred to as getting the shock and awe! This cuts down on bathroom breaks!

if someone asked me to get them a left handed hammer i would be like sure thing and then go sit in my car and make sure there were 3 hammers next to me being that you get paid by the hour i would just relax and say and wait until someone asked what i was doing just sitting in my car and i would say looking at my hammers thinking which might be a left handed one of course lol

Whatever happened to Tacklebox?

Putting the seat heater on is a classic, but not as classic as putting the heat seater on!

Who else new board stretcher would be #1

Don’t forget the metric and sae adjustable wrenches, vise grips, pipe wrench etc

1st, send them to get the key to the basement to find the board stretcher, if all goes right, 3 to 5 people will keep it going before the realization there is no basement or board stretcher....

Make them go up and down the ladder for one box of nails ar a time. Or rocks in the lunch box

Long zip-tie on a drive shaft

"Why won't anyone go into the trades"....

Grease under the door handle

Hey ya betcha guy can you give me advice to a new iron worker

I did roofing for a summer. They tried to prank me at first, good old “go get the ____”. But I knew what things were real and which were BS. They ended up not liking me. And I think it’s because I didn’t fall for the pranks.

It’s all fun and games until bossman puts in cameras…

Has to put the car in park? What is that? We drive manuals around here son

Can plugging the port o potty vent kill someone? Prolly.

Who doesnt lock the vehicle when its on a ....anywhere!?!

What about using a ratchet strap to tie the porta-potty closed?

I was shitting in a porta potty and buddy parked their truck right in front of the door locking me in there

Ask the new guy to go find the ID10T form 😏 You're welcome

Glove dust in the ac vents Toy harmonica zip tied to the grill of truck Grease the door knobs tailgate handle and gas cover Long zip ties on drive shaft And let’s not forget “I sat in gum” LU 769

Put a fish under the back seat of the truck on a hot day.

Go find a metric adjustable wrench

You forgot log chain wrapped steering wheel brake pedal

I think Tacklebox got to him, because he's looking a lot thinner then before.

Grease under the truck door handle.

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