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Apparently I have tourettes syndrome

#1

PTmowerMech

PTmowerMech

While trying to get a gear off a self propelled craftsman today, using a air hammer. Something slipped and I air hammered my thumb and nail about 4 whacks. Starting at my knuckle and ending in the middle of my thumbnail.
Suddenly, from out of now where, I began cussing like sailer. Saying words that didn't even exists.........

I may have invented a new language.

I'm going to lose a nail over this one. Luckily, they always grow back. That sumbich hurt like the dickens.


#2

Mower King

Mower King

But did you get the gear off?......sorry, I just had too!


#3

Scrubcadet10

Scrubcadet10

Ouch!


#4

I

ILENGINE

That is almost as good as me getting my left pinkie finger caught between a piece of metal I was hammering on and the 2# hammer. Broke it at the first knuckle from the tip. Then after wearing the splint for 3 weeks it slipped and to this day is still crooked.


#5

Hammermechanicman

Hammermechanicman

Well, that just shows you are a real mechanic.


#6

tom3

tom3

Chances are that thumbnail will never be the same either. Been there with my index finger. Been two years.


#7

PTmowerMech

PTmowerMech

mower king said:
But did you get the gear off?......sorry, I just had too!
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Oh yeah, It came off, BY GOD!!!!! But I'm not sure if the air hammer survived the beating afterwards. I get crazy mad when I get hurt.


#8

tom3

tom3

I used to be real patient with stuff like this until I learned that a couple choice words made real good parts loosener. That and a bigger hammer.


#9

Scrubcadet10

Scrubcadet10

So far the only pain I've endured is the slip of a Flathead screwdriver while removing a retainer clip, and jabbing it into my right hand.


#10

Hammermechanicman

Hammermechanicman

Couple weeks ago forgot the chain grinder was still running and put a knucke into the wheel. Couple days later got real stupid and had a can or carb cleaner turned wrong way and shot myself a face full of it. Luckily i had glasses on. Stuff tastes horrible.


#11

PTmowerMech

PTmowerMech

Scrubcadet10 said:
So far the only pain I've endured is the slip of a Flathead screwdriver while removing a retainer clip, and jabbing it into my right hand.
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Those are not fun. Not fun at all.


#12

upupandaway

upupandaway

I think profanity was invented by mechanics.


#13

dougand3

dougand3

To get some jumping exercise - throw a Pblaster soaked rag on a stool and sit on it for 10 minutes. Then ask - Why is my azz on fire?


#14

Scrubcadet10

Scrubcadet10

Carb cleaner in the eye anyone?


#15

PTmowerMech

PTmowerMech

tom3 said:
Chances are that thumbnail will never be the same either. Been there with my index finger. Been two years.
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I don't know man, it's taken a beating over the years. I've lost that same nail at least twice in just the last few years. In fact, about the time I started working on small engines full time.

I think I'm seeing a pattern here. :oops::cautious::unsure:


#16

PTmowerMech

PTmowerMech

Scrubcadet10 said:
Carb cleaner in the eye anyone?
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Let me count the ways & times.

Head cocked to the left. SPLAT!.. To the right. Splat!!!. That stuff has better aim than I have. lol


#17

PTmowerMech

PTmowerMech

Funny thing about all this is how careful you are for the next day or so to make sure these things don't happen twice. Then just about the time you get comfortable with it, BAM, it happens again.


#18

Hammermechanicman

Hammermechanicman

Yesterday my son cut his finger with my gas hedge trimmer while he was helping with some yard work. He got 9 stitches and we spent 3 hours at the emergency room.


#19

wrldtvlr

wrldtvlr

Reading these makes me feel a little better. Was reaming out a low flow restricted shower head a few weeks ago. Holding the shower head in my left hand and drilling from the right. Rediscovered how sharp the cutting edge of a metal drill bit can be when the bit grabbed something for a moment, threw the shower head to the floor and dug into a finger. Barely avoided stitches, but did get to some spend quality time at the local urgent care.


#20

Mower King

Mower King

Scrubcadet10 said:
So far the only pain I've endured is the slip of a Flathead screwdriver while removing a retainer clip, and jabbing it into my right hand.
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Huh.....not a bad record at all!

25 yrs in an auto salvage as the main yard dog and now i'm at 17 yrs at the mow'in house....... I'm just glad I still got all my fingers!


#21

Hammermechanicman

Hammermechanicman

I was taking a service call at a steel mill and the guy escorting me said " you are the softest thing in here. Everything in here can kill you instantly and it won't care."


#22

PTmowerMech

PTmowerMech

Hammermechanicman said:
Yesterday my son cut his finger with my gas hedge trimmer while he was helping with some yard work. He got 9 stitches and we spent 3 hours at the emergency room.
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OUCH. Poor kid. Those hedge trimmer don't play. Hope he's better


#23

tom3

tom3

Hammermechanicman said:
I was taking a service call at a steel mill and the guy escorting me said " you are the softest thing in here. Everything in here can kill you instantly and it won't care."
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Used to work in a steel mill years ago. Only place I can think of where water can cause a MAJOR explosion. Liquid melted iron in a wet ladle. Not good.


#24

upupandaway

upupandaway

Hammermechanicman said:
Yesterday my son cut his finger with my gas hedge trimmer while he was helping with some yard work. He got 9 stitches and we spent 3 hours at the emergency room.
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With this, this is why with my 3hp table saw, I go by the rule 'don't take your eye off the blade, never put my hands between my eyes and the blade- move hands down and around the blade.' I like my fingers....


#25

PTmowerMech

PTmowerMech

tom3 said:
Used to work in a steel mill years ago. Only place I can think of where water can cause a MAJOR explosion. Liquid melted iron in a wet ladle. Not good.
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A friend of mine was training a new guy at the steel mill south of Dallas. It's a strict rule not to wear contact lenses. Because his job consisted of stamping hot steel. Well, long story short, he didn't listen and his contacts melted to his eyes.


#26

Hammermechanicman

Hammermechanicman

upupandaway said:
With this, this is why with my 3hp table saw, I go by the rule 'don't take your eye off the blade, never put my hands between my eyes and the blade- move hands down and around the blade.' I like my fingers....
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I own and use 2 table saws and i still am a bit scared every time i turn one on. Years ago i got hit just above the man parts with a kickback. Put me on the ground for quite a while. The new saw has a riving knife so a safer saw but i still have a healthy fear of table saws.


#27

PTmowerMech

PTmowerMech

Hammermechanicman said:
I own and use 2 table saws and i still am a bit scared every time i turn one on. Years ago i got hit just above the man parts with a kickback. Put me on the ground for quite a while. The new saw has a riving knife so a safer saw but i still have a healthy fear of table saws.
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I watched a guy cut his finger off using a table saw once. Seeing a finger on the floor isn't something you don't forget.


#28

S

slomo

Here's one. Good buddy of mine way back in high school. He was working on his 1970 Chevy truck front end. He had a 12" crescent wrench trying to remove a large nut on the front end of his truck. He was pulling the wrench towards himself. Wrench slipped off the nut and smashed himself in the mouth. Couple teeth fell out, blood everywhere and his lips were busted.

Think about that. A decades plus old truck. All the nuts are very large and rusted on. Kind of nuts an air impact will not get off. He was pushing with his leg on the frame when the wrench slipped.

slomo


#29

PTmowerMech

PTmowerMech

slomo said:
Here's one. Good buddy of mine way back in high school. He was working on his 1970 Chevy truck front end. He had a 12" crescent wrench trying to remove a large nut on the front end of his truck. He was pulling the wrench towards himself. Wrench slipped off the nut and smashed himself in the mouth. Couple teeth fell out, blood everywhere and his lips were busted.

Think about that. A decades plus old truck. All the nuts are very large and rusted on. Kind of nuts an air impact will not get off. He was pushing with his leg on the frame when the wrench slipped.

slomo
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I've had some really close calls doing something of that nature.


#30

tom3

tom3

I've usually had much better luck pulling on a wrench than pushing. My hands are scarred up enough as is. And my main use for a crescent wrench is holding a bolt head - or bending a lip on a piece of metal.


#31

B

bertsmobile1

tom3 said:
I've usually had much better luck pulling on a wrench than pushing. My hands are scarred up enough as is. And my main use for a crescent wrench is holding a bolt head - or bending a lip on a piece of metal.
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Like Tom got 3 shifters all over 3' long
Only use for them is bending the lips of decks back into shape


#32

Hammermechanicman

Hammermechanicman

Wise man once said "pushing on a wrench is pushing your luck"
Many years ago, like 40, helping a friend work on his race prepped Kaw 400 tripple. He was in a hurry and using a pair of pliers to pull a stuck fuel line off a carb. When fuel line came off he hit himself in the forehead hard enough with the pliers to make him dizzy and nauseous for about 15 mins. Blood everywhere.


#33

PTmowerMech

PTmowerMech

tom3 said:
I've usually had much better luck pulling on a wrench than pushing. My hands are scarred up enough as is. And my main use for a crescent wrench is holding a bolt head - or bending a lip on a piece of metal.
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I've busted & squeezed my knuckles using this more times than I can count. Especially when taking idlers off of decks. It's a lot easier to do idlers with this while the deck is on the mower. BUT, there's not a lot of room sometimes.
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