Falling through

Here's all the stuff pulled off the joists, one of them is gone since it broke completely in half while I was removing stuff.  Another one of them split down the middle for about 4'.

Originally, I was planning on gluing and screwing a 2x8 to each side of the joists to reinforce them, similar to the normal joist leveling process, but then I saw how useless most of them where.  So now I'm just going to pull all of them and replace them.  But, the ceiling on the first floor is held up by them, so I have to put something there to support it.

In order to be able to work by the outside wall, I had to make something to stand on since the joists will be gone, so I attached a 12' 2x4 vertically to the bottom of a 12' 2x8.

And then I tried to walk across it before I finished stabilizing it...falling through the ceiling.  Luckily, I managed to fall in a way where I didn't get hurt

But I made a mess downstairs, if only I was able to get a picture of my legs dangling there

At least drop ceilings are really easy to fix, so from being in the floor to everything cleaned up, it was only about 40 minutes.  Once spot of the metal buckled, and only one tile broke, so it was easy to deal with.