Apparently I have tourettes syndrome

[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."

 

[PTmowerMech]

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.

OUCH. Poor kid. Those hedge trimmer don't play. Hope he's better

 

[tom3]

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."

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.

 

[upupandaway]

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.

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....

 

[PTmowerMech]

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.

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.

 

[Hammermechanicman]

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....

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.

 

[PTmowerMech]

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.

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.

 

[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

 

[PTmowerMech]

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

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

 

[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.