A classic job site moment at Victory Outdoor Services—when one trusty tape measure meets its end. A light-hearted look at the tools that work as hard as the crew does.

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A tape measure's purpose is obvious. Just pull out the blade and it will tell you just how long something is. It'll even adjust for the width of its own hook.

"At first we measured with a 15-foot tape measure that we had lying around, and it wasn’t long enough," Hoffman said. "Then I took a measurement with a 25-foot tape.

This photo shows a construction site in Jersey City, N.J., where a man delivering sheet rock at the site was killed when a tape measure fell 50 stories and struck him in the head Monday, Nov. 3, 2014.