Dumbest thing you've ever done in your garage...
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Rockaholic555
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Well, this thread seems as good as any to make my first post, lol.
I have a couple:
Working on a Case loader for the day, decided to do an oil change but didn't realize how much oil the thing held so the oil pan started to overflow. So, of course, what did I do to stop the oil flow? Shoved my finger in the drain hole (keep in mind we had been running the thing for about an hour). Finger swelled up from the hot oil and I couldn't get it out. Just ended up sitting there and waiting.
Welding in an old pair of jeans and of course I caught them on fire, bad part was that half the leg was burnt before I noticed.
One more welding situation, not extremely painful but really weird. I was mig welding on a motorcycle trailer and a small piece of wire broke off at the end of the weld. I did what I usually did with my thick leather gloves and went to swat the piece away with my thumb while it was still hot. This time I must have hit it just right, went right through the glove and into my finger, burnt through the skin and sealed all the flesh up.
I have a couple:
Working on a Case loader for the day, decided to do an oil change but didn't realize how much oil the thing held so the oil pan started to overflow. So, of course, what did I do to stop the oil flow? Shoved my finger in the drain hole (keep in mind we had been running the thing for about an hour). Finger swelled up from the hot oil and I couldn't get it out. Just ended up sitting there and waiting.
Welding in an old pair of jeans and of course I caught them on fire, bad part was that half the leg was burnt before I noticed.
One more welding situation, not extremely painful but really weird. I was mig welding on a motorcycle trailer and a small piece of wire broke off at the end of the weld. I did what I usually did with my thick leather gloves and went to swat the piece away with my thumb while it was still hot. This time I must have hit it just right, went right through the glove and into my finger, burnt through the skin and sealed all the flesh up.
jimkinney
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When I was 16 working at a Gulf station in Houston... (no self serve in 74) had a car on the lift changing the oil. The bell rung... I got up to run out to check out the car that pulled in. I'm 6'4", the lift arms were at about 6'. Full steam run right into the lift arms. Feet kept going, head stopped of course. Had a lump the size of an egg. Two bells got rung that afternoon!!
I had a similar one about the same time at a Shell station. Changing the oil in a VW bus, turned quickly to go grab a wrench and ran into the bottom end of a shock.
Set the bottom of my jeans on fire with a cutting torch once, had cowboy boots and didn't notice anything until I smelled smoke.
Grinding paint with a flap disk on an angle grinder, shut it off and used my left hand to brush away the dust. I wasn't paying attention and shoved my left index finger into the still spinning disk. Seven stitches and a tetanus shot it was all better.
My dumbest one involved a homemade spring compressor (two 1/2" plates and some all-thread) and a 74 Maverick front spring. Compressed the spring and was pulling it from the car when the compressor slipped sideways with my finger between it and the spring. Luckily my brother was working on his bike and grabbed a large screwdriver to pry my finger loose with. No permanent damage, but did purchased a MAC puller for the next job.
I wasn't involved, but one of the other mechanics at the same Shell station was replacing a clutch on a 62 Ranchero. While the trans was out and the engine was supported with a screw jack the lift sprung an air leak and started down (no safety catches then). Eventually the lift got low enough that the whole truck (front end still supported with the screw jack) slid backwards off the lift and part way out the door. Amazingly the only real damage was to the muffler, which caught on the lift as it slid off. I don't know if the manager ever told the owner what happened. We got a lot of mileage out of the whole affair with the other mechanic, secretly glad it hadn't happened to any of us.
still have 10 fingers and 10 toes even if they are scarred.
bushhawg73
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My old shop foreman was heating up a hydraulic cylinder in an attempt to get the nut off. After heating he dropped the torch down to his side and did not realize that he just set a 5 gallon bucket full of old oil and diesel on fire. The dry chemical fire extinguishers make a HUGE mess. He did not live that one down for a while.
I vote favorite, funniest thread ever. Admin should make it a sticky.
I'm pretty lucky, and my few ER visits just weren't very amusing.
I did, however, learn a reverse lesson last week. Somehow rolled the wife's Miata over my foot while we were pushing it around the paddock. You wouldn't think thin driving shoes would offer much protection, but damn, it didn't hurt very much and didn't leave any mark. Moral: It's ok to push a girl's car over your foot. No worries.
I'm pretty lucky, and my few ER visits just weren't very amusing.
I did, however, learn a reverse lesson last week. Somehow rolled the wife's Miata over my foot while we were pushing it around the paddock. You wouldn't think thin driving shoes would offer much protection, but damn, it didn't hurt very much and didn't leave any mark. Moral: It's ok to push a girl's car over your foot. No worries.
rockwithjason
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probably my best home story was then i was doing u joints on my f250. the driveway way inclined and of course i didn't think about that because the truck is in park! it can't possibly move if i disconnect the drive shaft from the diff right? duh i pulled the shaft off of the diff and the truck started backing down the drive with me dragging along underneath holding onto the shaft. when it finally stopped i crawled out and felt really stupid for a while.
Bolster
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What an amazing thread!
I spent a lot of time in my high school shop. The front of the hydraulic lift was adjacent to an interior reinforced brick wall. I (a lowly sophomore) was on the other side of that wall sanding Bondo when there was a colossal WHUMP. One of the seniors had lifted his 4x4 about 6 feet in the air, and taken both the rear tires off.
You guessed it. The fellow had done a poor job of balancing his vehicle on the lift. The loss of the rear tires imbalanced his truck just enough, that it pitched forward, fell off the lift and slammed into that wall. Some other kid had just walked in front of the vehicle moments before. He almost got squished--that would have been a certain (and messy) fatality, but the grim reaper was off his game that day.
I spent a lot of time in my high school shop. The front of the hydraulic lift was adjacent to an interior reinforced brick wall. I (a lowly sophomore) was on the other side of that wall sanding Bondo when there was a colossal WHUMP. One of the seniors had lifted his 4x4 about 6 feet in the air, and taken both the rear tires off.
You guessed it. The fellow had done a poor job of balancing his vehicle on the lift. The loss of the rear tires imbalanced his truck just enough, that it pitched forward, fell off the lift and slammed into that wall. Some other kid had just walked in front of the vehicle moments before. He almost got squished--that would have been a certain (and messy) fatality, but the grim reaper was off his game that day.
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ItBurnsWhenIPee
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You guys are complete morons.
Yeah...I've done that particular move myself as well. Followed shortly thereafter with what I'm sure is a similar roll-hop-run-pirroute-into-the-cab-and-hope-the-door-isn't-locked maneuver to what you had to do. .
I've also picked up the small bottle (acetylene?) for a cutting torch setup by the transport bottle cap. Two-handed, elbows straight out, lifted it about 6" off the floor to move it to it's station. Yeah, that cap? Well...It wasn't screwed on all the way. Cap came off, bottle dropped, and my arms -which were previously holding what...50-100 lbs? No idea- came straight at my face in rapid fashion, still holding that couple of pounds of heavy steel cap. Smashed me right in the kisser like I was going for a Tyson payday. By the time my riverdance of pain was in it's last throws and people around me had stopped laughing when they saw the blood spewing forth from my face amidst a technicolor fountain of spit, blood, and profanity...I pulled my hands away from my mouth...I had knocked two slivers off the bottom edge of my front teeth (still can't notice it by looking at them, but they've been wicked sharp ever since), cracked the front four bottom teeth, and knocked all of my front bottom teeth clean through my lower lip. Pulling THAT off was pretty fun. I looked like Bubba from Forrest Gump until the swelling started to subside. 7 stitches on the outside, 9 on the inside, and a decent scar, adding to the other scar where I'd had my teeth knocked through my lip once before (but that's another story).
*note to self*
USE A DOLLY *******.
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Mr.Nutcase
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You guys are complete morons.
Yeah...I've done that particular move myself as well. Followed shortly thereafter with what I'm sure is a similar roll-hop-run-pirroute-into-the-cab-and-hope-the-door-isn't-locked maneuver to what you had to do. .
I've also picked up the small bottle (acetylene?) for a cutting torch setup by the transport bottle cap. Two-handed, elbows straight out, lifted it about 6" off the floor to move it to it's station. Yeah, that cap? Well...It wasn't screwed on all the way. Cap came off, bottle dropped, and my arms -which were previously holding what...50-100 lbs? No idea- came straight at my face in rapid fashion, still holding that couple of pounds of heavy steel cap. Smashed me right in the kisser like I was going for a Tyson payday. By the time my riverdance of pain was in it's last throws and people around me had stopped laughing when they saw the blood spewing forth from my face amidst a technicolor fountain of spit, blood, and profanity...I pulled my hands away from my mouth...I had knocked two slivers off the bottom edge of my front teeth (still can't notice it by looking at them, but they've been wicked sharp ever since), cracked the front four bottom teeth, and knocked all of my front bottom teeth clean through my lower lip. Pulling THAT off was pretty fun. I looked like Bubba from Forrest Gump until the swelling started to subside. 7 stitches on the outside, 9 on the inside, and a decent scar, adding to the other scar where I'd had my teeth knocked through my lip once before (but that's another story).
*note to self*
USE A DOLLY *******.
Oh man that must have hurt........
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Was working on a DIY Hydrogen generator for automotive MPG purposes.
Couldnt really tell if the 4" PVC container I had was generating any gas or not. It's odorless and colorless, so there's no telling really. Even the bubbles in the water were kind of hard to see. .... Unless you light it. Guess what I did. I lit it.
Apparently there was a lot of hydrogen coming out of it. Turned my nice 4" diameter PVC container into a pipe bomb. Other then being deaf for about 6 hours, I only had to clean up water off the walls and ceiling. Oh, and throw all the shrapnel away. I definently believe I got lucky not to get hurt otherwise.
PS, hydrogen supplemented cars (as an air intake adative to gasoline/fuel injection) does not work. I had to disprove it to myself. Mythbusters disproved it too.
Couldnt really tell if the 4" PVC container I had was generating any gas or not. It's odorless and colorless, so there's no telling really. Even the bubbles in the water were kind of hard to see. .... Unless you light it. Guess what I did. I lit it.
Apparently there was a lot of hydrogen coming out of it. Turned my nice 4" diameter PVC container into a pipe bomb. Other then being deaf for about 6 hours, I only had to clean up water off the walls and ceiling. Oh, and throw all the shrapnel away. I definently believe I got lucky not to get hurt otherwise.
PS, hydrogen supplemented cars (as an air intake adative to gasoline/fuel injection) does not work. I had to disprove it to myself. Mythbusters disproved it too.
that's funny as hell because.....I did the same damn thing when I was about 13 years old. was siphoning some gas out of my dads car for my dirt bike gas can. I was using moms vacuum. It had worked just fine a few times before. I guess this time I hesitated a second too long. Blew the vacuum to pieces also. Looking back over the years...its a wonder I'm still alive.
I have a similar story. I was helping a friend get his car running (engine transplant) and the injector/ecu combination was literally flooding the cylinders with gasoline. We found this out by pulling all of the spark plugs and turning it over with the starter which resulted in gas being sprayed 6-8' in the air. That worked well for clearing the cylinders but was a mess to clean up and decidedly quite dangerous. Naturally it flooded again. I joked about using the shop vac. He took me seriously. The commutator/brushes are exposed up top. How we did not blow up we do not know. We did this many times.
Another more recent story. Was with the above friend at another friends house pulling the motor from his car. We were in the barn in December so the furnace was on (exposed ignition/burners). Somebody pulled the fuel line and didn't plug it so we had quite a bit of gas on the ground. Just about the time I was thinking "wow, that gasoline odor is strong", I heard the furnace click and start to power up. At that point I figured I couldn't get to the door fast enough so I just stood and waited as I watched the ignitor turn bright orange and the burners fire up. Luckily nothing happened. So naturally we just kept going as it was too cold to air the barn out.
MXtras
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A guy in my auto school brought his pride and joy in to rotate the tires or some such thing. He jacked it up, put the required stands under it and did whatever-the-hell he was doing. First side went fine, but upon completing the second side he raised the car up, slid the stands out and proceded to lower the car in a hurried fashion. If only he had moved that stand another three inches from under the rear quarter panel, he would not have had the gapping hole in his otherwise pristine Chevelle.
It was a sad sight, but I didn't like the guy anyway so no biggie.
Scott
It was a sad sight, but I didn't like the guy anyway so no biggie.
Scott
Art From De Leon
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When I was a student in the automotive mechanics (B.T. before mechanics became technicians), program at Texas State Technical Institute at Harlingen, Texas, I was at the Ford Dealer parts department for some reason, when there was a LOUD crash out in the shop, some mechanic had dropped a pickup off the lift, and it lay on its side in the next bay.
I was helping a friend load a Harley Sportster into the back of a truck. We didn't have a ramp so with one of us on each side we grabbed the lower legs and rolled/lifted it. The end of my left ring finger got caught in the disc brake and it sheered the end off. Lost about a 1/2 inch of finger. I'll never do that again.
fourfeathers
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Changed the fan belt on a Mack Midliner truck, started it up to pull outside, but forgot to unhook the trouble light from the new belt after tightening the adjuster. Pulled 50' off the retractable cord reel, ruined the belt, and tripped the circuit breaker! ZZZZZZZZboom.
Dumb...
Dumb...
I was working for a company that serviced lifts. One of the other employees went to a dealership to check out a inground 2 post lift. Front and rear post job, Rotary I think. They were losing fluid so he was told to put the lift all the way up, take the flat plate out that slides with the front post and look for a leak. The lift was being used. instead of waiting or taking the car off he does it with the car on. Gives the front post full air pressure, the pinhole turns into a big hole and the front post starts to come down. Instead of letting the back post down, he throws a hat rack under the front(no safety legs). So the car is up in the air with no way to get it down. We had another job going installing a similar lift. I had to bring the front post over, put it in with the car over the trough, fun stuff
babzog
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At leat you didn't have to call for a chimney sweep for a while... nice and whistle clean inside!I was working on a 1965 Pontiac and used a bumper jack and concrete blocks. The block broke and when the car dropped the jack punched a hole in the gas tank. It cost me $10.00 to get the tank soldered. I purchased a Craftsman hydraulic jack and stands the same day.
I learned you need proper tools that day.
I learned you need proper tools that day.
kf4zht
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I was cleaning the pipe thread on a piece of 4" galvanized on a HF baldor knockoff with a wire wheel. The grinder was not bolted down and grabbed the threads. Before I could do anything it had run up the pipe and was doing a burnout on my hand. Ended up losing several square inches of skin. Worst part was my best friend coming over right as I did it, she walked right in the garage and simply says "you idiot, what did you do?"
On a stupider but less painful note we were rewelding a 500 gallon tank off a fire truck (same project actually) and after washing it out (with a 2.5" smoothbore ) we needed to dry it to paint. We were not entirely sober and decided that it would help if we sprayed brake cleaner in it and then threw in a match. After several satisfying booms we went inside till someone came over around midnight. By this point we were fairly drunk and it was instantly a hey, you gotta see this moment. Due to bad judgement we used about a whole can....
The tank blew off the ground about a foot, several things fell off the walls in the garage. What made it better was having a sheriff living next door. we did the cut off every light, hide the brake cleaner cans and get down rather quick
On a stupider but less painful note we were rewelding a 500 gallon tank off a fire truck (same project actually) and after washing it out (with a 2.5" smoothbore
) we needed to dry it to paint. We were not entirely sober and decided that it would help if we sprayed brake cleaner in it and then threw in a match. After several satisfying booms we went inside till someone came over around midnight. By this point we were fairly drunk and it was instantly a hey, you gotta see this moment. Due to bad judgement we used about a whole can....The tank blew off the ground about a foot, several things fell off the walls in the garage. What made it better was having a sheriff living next door. we did the cut off every light, hide the brake cleaner cans and get down rather quick
jdcompman
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I tried to remove a piece of sheetrock from the middle of a stack of about 25 sheets of 14' 1/2 sheetrock that I had leaned against the wall. Long story short, the entire pile fell on me and pinned me between my car and the sheetrock. Luckily I got away with only a very sore knee but the car fared much worse.
eborcim
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Not moving fast enough when a coil spring "popped" into place on the RF of my racecar. Reaching through fender opening to set chassis ride height. The chassis settled down pinning my forearm between the tire and trimmed out fender. No one home but me, lucky a neighbor heard me yelling and raised car with a floor jack and I slipped out. Just ended up with a mark on my arm....lucky the fender was weak enough to bend around my arm some.
PowderKeg
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Oh this brings back some memories.....
Worst thing I did entirely myself was jacking up the rear of the Jeep to replace the brake pads, not thinking about the very slight incline the front end was still sitting on. Stopped rolling back on the jack just before the handle punched through the shed door almost pinning me between the @ss end of the jeep and the shed wall.... Parking brake only works on the rear dummy, and the trans in Park won't hold if it's not in 4wd...
'Nuther time I was helping a friend replace the ****** in an early 70's Torino. The ****** mount ran almost the full width of the car and weighed probably 40-50 lbs+. Laying on our backs under the car, I looked up just as he snagged the drop cord wrapped around the mount - saved the falling mount from any damage by cushioning it with my nose. Have a temper that would make David Banner blush (don't make me angry, you won't like me when I'm angry) - the primeval roar coming from my bloodied face was at first unintelligible, but was about to let loose with a string that would curl a sailor's hair. Just then his mother pops out the door "Oh my goodness!! What happened!!". I couldn't cuss in front of his mother, so I stomped around the car wiping at the grease, blood, and tears covering my face shouting "Ouch!! Darn!! Ouch!! Aw Shoot!! Darn!!!", while he rolled around the yard laughing his @ss off knowing what I really wanted to shout...
Worst thing I did entirely myself was jacking up the rear of the Jeep to replace the brake pads, not thinking about the very slight incline the front end was still sitting on. Stopped rolling back on the jack just before the handle punched through the shed door almost pinning me between the @ss end of the jeep and the shed wall.... Parking brake only works on the rear dummy, and the trans in Park won't hold if it's not in 4wd...
'Nuther time I was helping a friend replace the ****** in an early 70's Torino. The ****** mount ran almost the full width of the car and weighed probably 40-50 lbs+. Laying on our backs under the car, I looked up just as he snagged the drop cord wrapped around the mount - saved the falling mount from any damage by cushioning it with my nose. Have a temper that would make David Banner blush (don't make me angry, you won't like me when I'm angry) - the primeval roar coming from my bloodied face was at first unintelligible, but was about to let loose with a string that would curl a sailor's hair. Just then his mother pops out the door "Oh my goodness!! What happened!!". I couldn't cuss in front of his mother, so I stomped around the car wiping at the grease, blood, and tears covering my face shouting "Ouch!! Darn!! Ouch!! Aw Shoot!! Darn!!!", while he rolled around the yard laughing his @ss off knowing what I really wanted to shout...
ZRX61
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Agreed to let a *friend* use my garage "for 5 days" to swap out the SBC in his 240z.
What he didn't tell me was that the 5 days would be spread over 3 months. He finally removed the car when I left a msg that said "If it's not gone in an hour I will push it across the street into the desert".
It was gone 20 minutes later.
What he didn't tell me was that the 5 days would be spread over 3 months. He finally removed the car when I left a msg that said "If it's not gone in an hour I will push it across the street into the desert".
It was gone 20 minutes later.
redneckprofessor
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I have a slightly different story. I was making a rope with loops on each end for hunting. I use it to attach one end to my climbing tree stand, the other end on my pack and bow or gun, and once I climb up, I pull my stuff up to me.
Well, I didn't want it to fray, so I got my lighter to melt the ends of the cut rope. Did one, let it cool a bit, then did the other. I dropped the rope fumbling with the lighter, reached down blindly and grabbed the end I had just finished melting.
It melted to my hand, I screamed, and swung my hand to try to get the melted rope off or out of my skin. The rope swung around, caught something and then yanked the burnt rope off of my skin.
I am pretty sure I peed a little. Just a little.
I had black plastic burnt into my skin for about a week.
Well, I didn't want it to fray, so I got my lighter to melt the ends of the cut rope. Did one, let it cool a bit, then did the other. I dropped the rope fumbling with the lighter, reached down blindly and grabbed the end I had just finished melting.
It melted to my hand, I screamed, and swung my hand to try to get the melted rope off or out of my skin. The rope swung around, caught something and then yanked the burnt rope off of my skin.
I am pretty sure I peed a little. Just a little.
I had black plastic burnt into my skin for about a week.
wreckercologist
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#1. Wasn't paying close enough attention working with a table saw. 18 stitches to left thumb.
#2. In a hurry drilling holes in mudflaps with a 3/8" drill chucked up in a air drill. Same thumb, same *******. No need for stitches though, it was shredded, nothing to really stitch. I ran it under cold water to get the capilaries to shrink up and quit bleeding, taped it up, put on a latex glove so I wouldn't get it dirty and went back to work.
#3. Once again, in a hurry changing the punch and die on an iron worker. I was trying to loosen a bolt, pulling the wrench towards myself. The wrench slipped off and hit me above my left eye, right on the eyebrow. Three stitches and a bottle of aleve.
Oh well, it could always have been worse. At least I have scars now. Chics still dig scars, right?
#2. In a hurry drilling holes in mudflaps with a 3/8" drill chucked up in a air drill. Same thumb, same *******. No need for stitches though, it was shredded, nothing to really stitch. I ran it under cold water to get the capilaries to shrink up and quit bleeding, taped it up, put on a latex glove so I wouldn't get it dirty and went back to work.
#3. Once again, in a hurry changing the punch and die on an iron worker. I was trying to loosen a bolt, pulling the wrench towards myself. The wrench slipped off and hit me above my left eye, right on the eyebrow. Three stitches and a bottle of aleve.
Oh well, it could always have been worse. At least I have scars now. Chics still dig scars, right?
I was working on my boat in the driveway. Boat was on a trailer. To get into the boat, I was (stupidly,) using a metal folding chair as a step up. Well, the inevitable happened, and the chair collapsed just as I was climbing into the boat. My feet were about 4-5 ft off the ground at that point, and I fell backwards into the garage and hit the concrete slab. I thought for sure I broke my ***... as I was pretty much paralyzed. Went to the the ER for Xrays...but nothing broken. Wife laughing at me all the way. Got some incredible injected painkiller, and went home giddy. The next day I was black and blue from the center of my back down to my knees. Could hardly walk for a week.
Worst ever garage stupidity happened to one of my clients. He died screwing in a lightbulb in his garage by falling off a small ladder. He was an electrician.
Worst ever garage stupidity happened to one of my clients. He died screwing in a lightbulb in his garage by falling off a small ladder. He was an electrician.
babzog
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A few years ago, on my lunch break, I was removing the wiper arm from my Cavalier. I'd popped it off before a year or two before so I knew how it came off (and it came off easily then). This time, it was giving me a bit of attitude. I pulled and pulled and pulled. Then I went and popped the other side off, just to ensure I was doing it the right way. Back around.. pulled and pulled and then POP! The pop was the combined sound of wiper letting go and the sonic boom created by my hand flying up to my face.
My wrist (or knuckle) made contact just above my left eyebrow (sooo close) and the force of the impact split my forehead open about 1cm. And the blood... holy **** did that sucker bleed! I still had half a day of work to do so I bandaged it up, finished my repair and went back to my desk. I had to change the soaked bandage a couple more times before my day was done and I headed to the clinic. No stitches, just tape it closed, I told the Doc. Still have a little indent in the skin where it was split.
My wrist (or knuckle) made contact just above my left eyebrow (sooo close) and the force of the impact split my forehead open about 1cm. And the blood... holy **** did that sucker bleed! I still had half a day of work to do so I bandaged it up, finished my repair and went back to my desk. I had to change the soaked bandage a couple more times before my day was done and I headed to the clinic. No stitches, just tape it closed, I told the Doc. Still have a little indent in the skin where it was split.
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Mr.Nutcase
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any more??????
mooman
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Tell my neighbor he could use my garage and tools to work on his car.
It quiclky became "my job"
It quiclky became "my job"
78Bird
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making my first ghetto welding cart, and when testing the position of the grate I was using to hold the gas bottle I dropped a 160cf bottle dead onto my right big toe, and wasn't wearing safety toed shoes.
Crunched the toe pretty good, the nail came off, bled like **** and hurt like I'd have not believed. It never grew back quite right and I keep getting ingrown nails on that toe now...
Crunched the toe pretty good, the nail came off, bled like **** and hurt like I'd have not believed. It never grew back quite right and I keep getting ingrown nails on that toe now...
TireTracks
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I was changeing the oil on my dodge. I had let it cool down..
As soon as i pull the plug, a gusher of oil shoots 3 feet out of the bottom of the pan, right onto the shop floor. Luckly we have a 100lb bag of oil soaker. .
As soon as i pull the plug, a gusher of oil shoots 3 feet out of the bottom of the pan, right onto the shop floor. Luckly we have a 100lb bag of oil soaker. .
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My understanding is that argon must be present as well as heat to make phosgene, but I know I won't risk one or the other! I'm guessing you'd have suffered some symptom if you had created phosgene. What did it smell like, cut hay / grass / flowery? I hate using brake cleaner at all. It really affects my breathing. I usually use a fan, hold my breath, and move in and out of the work area to breathe. Maybe a little paranoid but it is some nasty stuff.
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s_morrison57
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not with that finger you won't
s_morrison57
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had a friend who died from a steel sliver, met him at drilling school, Gary Rottenburger was his name after school we all got jobs and he got this sliver from the drill rods and it got infected bad so they flew him to town to get it removed and cleaned up, he went to the bar , got drunk and stepped of a curb and got hit by a city bus. if it wasn't for that sliver he'd probably still be here.
true story
RIP Gary
true story
RIP Gary
wafrederick
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Done at work a lot,have my hand in the way while tighening bolts with my very powerful Snap On air ratchets and I yelled ouch saying a cuss word
inclined2fish
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Just bought our first house and haven't had the time to do anything all that dumb in the garage yet, but I remain hopeful nonetheless. I began to piddle out there only a few days ago, so I'm sure a good story is just around the bend.
reinstalling 48" long by 5" hydraulic cylinder back in the main beam of backhoe
used my finger to line up hole for pin with pry bar stuck in from opposite side to hold cylinder yeah pry bar slipped out and weight of cylinder cut my finger off
found the end of my finger stuck in a water bottle went to hospital and they used a brillo pad to clean the grease and oil from both sections then stiched it back together
tetanus shot hurt like a ****** btw
cut if off at 3:30pm and after hospital and to get meds from pharmacy had backhoe back togther before 9:00pm
my writing ***** now
used my finger to line up hole for pin with pry bar stuck in from opposite side to hold cylinder yeah pry bar slipped out and weight of cylinder cut my finger off
found the end of my finger stuck in a water bottle went to hospital and they used a brillo pad to clean the grease and oil from both sections then stiched it back together
tetanus shot hurt like a ****** btw
cut if off at 3:30pm and after hospital and to get meds from pharmacy had backhoe back togther before 9:00pm
my writing ***** now
TireTracks
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Lesson of many stories in here.
Dont use your finger for lineing up heavy objects.
Dont use your finger for lineing up heavy objects.
FoMoCoPower
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Letting a "friend" use the garage for a day. That day turned into 2-months.
I set a garage on fire and my cousins stuff she had stored in it. I had my 68 bird outside over 4th of July weekend and was welding and grinding on r front fender and ignited 2 paper bags full of bottle rockets and fire crackers and the like that were sitting just inside the door on a chair. I was running the grinder and didn't know what was happening until a bottle rocket flew past me. Thankfully I had a hose and extingisher handy. Most of the bottle rockets were pointed down so damage was mainly to chair(cloth sitting chair) and my cousins boxes of stuff.... She wasn't real happy, but she lucky there was anything left at all.