I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade. But I had this happen to me when I had tried to over ride the electric eye safety feature on my garage door.
I had the wires unstapled from the walls, I was trying to get outside of the garage, to check reflection problems, by hitting the button, running through the closing door, (never got around to installing that optional keypad), hoping over the beam and ducking under the door, when I tripped over my napping three legged cat. (I won’t go into how that happened, but let’s just say it had something to do with some starter fluid, a lighter, and hard to seat bead on my ride-on tractor tire…. )
Any way as I stumbled over the cat, I reached for the side of the garage door opening to steady myself and instead of grabbing the jam, I caught a hold of the electric eye sensor wires and ripped the eye off the wall, as I was flipping backward (think slow motion… I watched as the sensor flew across the garage door opening and landed, one in a million shot, inside the toilet paper roll, did one slow quarter turn and lined up with the sending unit, so the door continued to close.
I whipped my head around to see what I might be landing on and saw my kids Red Radio Flyer wagon right behind me. Needless to say, my big fat **** did not land in the wagon but the back of my head hit the edge of the wagon and sent it rolling………..towards the wall where my garden tools are stored, (never got a chance to get the garden stuff out of the garage and into the shed I was gonna build, that was on the to do list.).
The Radio flyer rolled to the wall and knocked my garden rake off the wall, it hit the floor and bounced under the closing garage door, just so happened the rake landed with the tines up, right under the door and when the door hit the ground the rake flipped up, three stooges style. (I guess I had adjusted the reverse sensor a little too much to get past that binding roller problem I had last month.) Just at that moment, the cat was trying, and I do mean trying, to jump over the handle of the rake and the handle launched the cat skyward.
I quickly rose to my feet and made a lunge for the cat, (he don’t land to well on a counta that missing leg.). But I missed, eyesight was a little blurry from that bump on my head, and the bang of the rake against the garage door was a little distracting, as was the sound of the rake handle flying passed my head towards the far wall.
Not sure where the cat ended up, might of landed in the wagon, (cuz that’s where I found the other leg, more on that later), but the rake handle smacked right into the PVC air lines I had just installed on the compressor, ( I was able to use a salvaged tank by plugging the rust hole in it the with a drywall screw,. Saved some $$ there.)
The shrapnel from the PVC pipe, the vet said, would not cause an infection, but the cat is having trouble learning to walk on two legs.
My head is still aches from the bump, when it rains, my kid won’t play with the wagon cuz of the blood, and the garage, well there more to that story, but let’s just say, chain your welding tanks, and compressed air does help the wifey’s Christmas wrapping paper she lets me store in my garage, burn, ……….a lot.
The good news is the heat from the fire and the water in my air lines tempered the steel in the ramp of my Class Act Trailer, so now it is a lot stronger and should not bend when I load the propane powered ride-on tractor I made from an old steam roller, my BBQ Grill and some smoked kielbasa ………, if I can get it out of the lube pit, I had dug in the garage, but the fire dept said they may be able to help…………….I’ll post some pics.
BTW looking for garage plans, want to do most of the work myself……
Funny thing is I was going to post a request on this board,but didn't want to drag all the "safety" trolls into the daylight.
