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96terrano
23-08-2011, 22:07
What's the most stupid thing you've ever done? Me? Well I'll just say this, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TOUCH A TERRANO FAN WHEN ITS SPINNING. Even if you're curious:D It hurts!!:augie:doh
lacroupade
23-08-2011, 22:10
Climbing an unsupported ladder with its feet on a wet kitchen floor.
It put me in a french hospital for two weeks. :o
makeitfit
23-08-2011, 22:28
Shagged the landlady and got shot at by the landlord :eek: I don't drink so much these days ;)
Shagged the landlady and got shot at by the landlord :eek: I don't drink so much these days ;)
theres always one that has to lower the tone :lol:lol
rayf3262
23-08-2011, 22:53
What's the most stupid thing you've ever done? Me? Well I'll just say this, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TOUCH A TERRANO FAN WHEN ITS SPINNING. Even if you're curious:D It hurts!!:augie:doh
Puts me in mind of a comment (by Badger I think)... If you are curious about the performance of your viscous fan...use a carrot, not your finger.
Or any other suitable vegetable.
solarman216
23-08-2011, 23:08
What's the most stupid thing you've ever done? Me? Well I'll just say this, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES TOUCH A TERRANO FAN WHEN ITS SPINNING. Even if you're curious:D It hurts!!:augie:doh
I can testify to that, reminds me when at Dover Raceway couple of years back, put electric fan on my banger (we always have trouble keeping them cool) but I could not see it very well and was not sure it was running, so put my hand between engine and fan preparing for a force of air into the engine bay but I had wired it wrong (all to do with the multitude of things to do when racing) and my hand was sucked into the fan instead, two nicely cut fingers, but it was not all bad, I got to visit the nurses station and got pampered, Swifty will not allow me near fans now, Rick
kitchenman
23-08-2011, 23:24
thought the blade had stopped:doh:doh
Picture taken after it was fixed at the local plastics at Chelmsford
makeitfit
23-08-2011, 23:29
OOPH, was that a chop saw related "I thought it had stopped " ? :lol
My old Elu didn't stop very quickly and nearly caught me a few times :eek:
My Metabo beasty has some serious electro trickery braking :thumbs
I had a router bit explode on me once after it found an old screw in a worktop core. Bits went through my trousers and just missed the crown jewels :sly:augie
solarman216
23-08-2011, 23:29
thought the blade had stopped:doh:doh
Picture taken after it was fixed at the local plastics at Chelmsford
Oooh, ouch, bet that hurt!, Rick
96terrano
23-08-2011, 23:30
Yeah, I cut my hand in to places. It didn't make to much of a mess of my engine bay:lol
96terrano
23-08-2011, 23:42
thought the blade had stopped:doh:doh
Picture taken after it was fixed at the local plastics at Chelmsford
Bloody he'll. What's actually going on there:eek:
kitchenman
24-08-2011, 09:13
Circular saw, fluo lighting, strobe effect, blade looked as if it had stopped, extractor fan masked sound of blade spinning, OUCH:doh picture is xray of top of thumb, ripped off more than cut off, anyway that how it looked, plastic bag, for bit, frozen peas to keep it cold, hospital 5 mins walk away, jump the queue, saw a doctor within 1 minute, blues & twos to plastics
2147
The guys at the plastics hospital spent 6 hours trying to join up the plumbing:clap pipes too small, they could not re-establish blood supply.
Hospital was Broomfield in Chelmsford, all staff bar one were foreign, surgeons looked/sounded like Arabs, saw all the work on huge flat screen monitor, service was 5 star plus.
Had my own en-suite room, nothing was too much for them. 3 days.
I do not understand people knocking NHS, a few months before I was in Southend hospital with gastritis, brought on by gall stones, also 5 star plus, perhaps I am lucky living in Essex, either way my experience with NHS is nothing but excellent.:clap:clap
Circular saw, fluo lighting, strobe effect, blade looked as if it had stopped, extractor fan masked sound of blade spinning, OUCH:doh picture is xray of top of thumb, ripped off more than cut off, anyway that how it looked, plastic bag, for bit, frozen peas to keep it cold, hospital 5 mins walk away, jump the queue, saw a doctor within 1 minute, blues & twos to plastics
2147
The guys at the plastics hospital spent 6 hours trying to join up the plumbing:clap pipes too small, they could not re-establish blood supply.
Hospital was Broomfield in Chelmsford, all staff bar one were foreign, surgeons looked/sounded like Arabs, saw all the work on huge flat screen monitor, service was 5 star plus.
Had my own en-suite room, nothing was too much for them. 3 days.
I do not understand people knocking NHS, a few months before I was in Southend hospital with gastritis, brought on by gall stones, also 5 star plus, perhaps I am lucky living in Essex, either way my experience with NHS is nothing but excellent.:clap:clap
I agree my experience with the NHS has also been fantastic........Not been in a hospital for years :lol
spiderpig37
24-08-2011, 17:31
today whilst wrestling to break the bead on my young uns quad bike tyre to put another inner tube in i got a nice long sliver of reinforcing in the palm of my hand:doh dig about with our lasses tweezers got it out:augie
then when inflating the said tyre i dropped the air hose and the quick release coupling let go and the air hose smacked me on the forehead:doh
Tomorrow i will be making a bead breaker out of some inch bar i have:clap
oh and son dont bring me any more nails and screws home in your tyres we have plenty in the shed:lol
cheers Andy
Some many years ago I removed the fan from my Volvo so I could squeeze a few extra horses from the modified motor.No problem there.
However.Next time I was in the pub I was accosted by a vague acquaintance with a bandaged face."This is all your fault" he shouted through the bandages.
Apparently he had been in the garage when I removed the fan but thought that total removal was a bit extreme.So he took a hacksaw to two of the blades on his motor,closed the bonnet and told his mate to rev the engine.Bang ! The fan disintegrated and came through the bonnet taking off the tip of his nose.:lol:
So I suppose I indirectly caused him to be stupid !!
96terrano
24-08-2011, 19:57
Some many years ago I removed the fan from my Volvo so I could squeeze a few extra horses from the modified motor.No problem there.
However.Next time I was in the pub I was accosted by a vague acquaintance with a bandaged face."This is all your fault" he shouted through the bandages.
Apparently he had been in the garage when I removed the fan but thought that total removal was a bit extreme.So he took a hacksaw to two of the blades on his motor,closed the bonnet and told his mate to rev the engine.Bang ! The fan disintegrated and came through the bonnet taking off the tip of his nose.:lol:
So I suppose I indirectly caused him to be stupid !!
:lol:lol i like that
Does marriage count?:lol:lol:lol
Only kidding.
Oh yeah, trying to do a very fast 90 degree take off on a Yamaha 180 on really wet roads with two slicks for tyres while well topped up with cider, thought I had pulled it off as when the bike slid out I managed to right it but over cooked it and ended up on my butt. Pride hurt and that was all, thankfully. Moral of the story, if you're going to do something stupid like that, at least have decent rubber on.:doh
lacroupade
25-08-2011, 12:07
Does marriage count?:lol:lol:lol
Only kidding.
Oh yeah, trying to do a very fast 90 degree take off on a Yamaha 180 on really wet roads with two slicks for tyres while well topped up with cider, thought I had pulled it off as when the bike slid out I managed to right it but over cooked it and ended up on my butt. Pride hurt and that was all, thankfully. Moral of the story, if you're going to do something stupid like that, at least have decent rubber on.:doh
I'm not sure the pope would agree.....:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol
I'm not sure the pope would agree.....:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol
Yeah, well it's been a few years since he paid us a visit so I don't expect a tap on the shoulder any time soon. Besides , I thought he was busy try to convert all you heathens over there, think he now sees us as a lost cause:(
To be honest, each and every institution we were taught to look up to and respect when we were kids have all, without exception, turned out to have feet of clay. Think I wasted a lot of time on role models who should never have had the respect they got. Thank God I still have Ryan Giggs, Cheryl Cole, Ashley Cole , David Beckham, Tiger Woods, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and a good few others to look up to and admire.:clap:clap
You're never too old to learn something stupid.
96terrano
14-09-2011, 22:43
I touched a glow plug today. Burned my hand really bad:doh.
MudLifeCrisis
14-09-2011, 22:52
Many many years ago my father told me "not to use the screwdriver like that as it will slip and stab you in the hand" which it did 2 minutes later
Recently reminded of this when fixing something as I stabbed myself in the hand again.
we never learn
Brian
96terrano
14-09-2011, 22:54
Yep been there too. It hurts. I done that about 3 days ago:rolleyes:
solarman216
14-09-2011, 23:11
Did this on Sunday, Rick
MudLifeCrisis
14-09-2011, 23:18
Did this on Sunday, Rick
Lost a wheel trim there mate ;O)
solarman216
14-09-2011, 23:34
Lost a wheel trim there mate ;O)
no it was a smaller steel wheel in place of the alloys as it had already had a rear end shunt and was rubbing the wing, but great fun nonetheless, Rick Oh and still did two more races,
did you get their insurance details ? :augie:lol
solarman216
15-09-2011, 21:41
no the car that hit me did not stop, Rick :nenau
laurieash
15-09-2011, 22:33
I was watching my older brother doing some rewiring on a old tiger cub motor bike, he had a habit of putting wires in his mouth to hold them wile working on the others to stop them getting mixed up. until he put a live in with earth what fun i had watching him trying to spit them out as they was sparking:lol
he the hit me for laughing,but it was worth it, I would not have missed it for the world.:sly
solarman216
15-09-2011, 22:44
I was watching my older brother doing some rewiring on a old tiger cub motor bike, he had a habit of putting wires in his mouth to hold them wile working on the others to stop them getting mixed up. until he put a live in with earth what fun i had watching him trying to spit them out as they was sparking:lol
he the hit me for laughing,but it was worth it, I would not have missed it for the world.:sly
Like it, it reminds me of the time many years ago when I first started work in a car workshop, had a guy working with us who liked to play practical jokes, one day he was working on a morris minor and at lunch time I knew that when he returned he was going to start it up, so I stuck a fine wire in the center lead of the distributor cap connected to a spanner that I wrapped in rag and laid it on the wing, sure enough he started the car saw the spanner starting to fall and grabbed it, it was a picture, he jumped good and proper, did not have any more practical jokes from him, Rick
laurieash
15-09-2011, 22:52
Like it, it reminds me of the time many years ago when I first started work in a car workshop, had a guy working with us who liked to play practical jokes, one day he was working on a morris minor and at lunch time I knew that when he returned he was going to start it up, so I stuck a fine wire in the center lead of the distributor cap connected to a spanner that I wrapped in rag and laid it on the wing, sure enough he started the car saw the spanner starting to fall and grabbed it, it was a picture, he jumped good and proper, did not have any more practical jokes from him, Rick
yes nice to get you own back,my older brother was always a bully.
solarman216
15-09-2011, 22:55
and I suppose it is fitting to add that today I had a diesel delivery (red) at a price that was good from the same supplier that I have used for 8 years, so did not think to question anything, you know the system, give them a ring they ask post code then they have all your details on the computer, I ask current price, it sounds good they ask how many ltrs I say 1100 I say thats OK ordered, delivered today after driver gone look at ticket to make sure 1100 is on it and notice it says "kerosene" omg my genny wil not like that, so tomorrow they are coming to pump it out and refill with derv, what a cock up, Rick:confused:
laurieash
15-09-2011, 23:12
and I suppose it is fitting to add that today I had a diesel delivery (red) at a price that was good from the same supplier that I have used for 8 years, so did not think to question anything, you know the system, give them a ring they ask post code then they have all your details on the computer, I ask current price, it sounds good they ask how many ltrs I say 1100 I say thats OK ordered, delivered today after driver gone look at ticket to make sure 1100 is on it and notice it says "kerosene" omg my genny wil not like that, so tomorrow they are coming to pump it out and refill with derv, what a cock up, Rick:confused:
I wish i lived near you i use Kero for my heating i woud have bought it cheap:lol
solarman216
15-09-2011, 23:22
I wish i lived near you i use Kero for my heating i woud have bought it cheap:lol
I bet you would, Rick
96terrano
09-06-2013, 22:34
i dropped a brick on my foot yesterday and it removed the nail.......yes i have i pic if you want to see:augie doesn't hurt that bad tho, just feels bruised
96terrano
09-06-2013, 22:35
it's not broken tho!
jims-terrano
09-06-2013, 22:36
i dropped a brick on my foot yesterday and it removed the nail.......yes i have i pic if you want to see:augie doesn't hurt that bad tho, just feels bruised
So how did you get the nail in your foot :lol:lol:lol:lol:lol
Hope it wasn't rusty:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol
96terrano
09-06-2013, 22:38
So how did you get the nail in your foot :lol:lol:lol:lol:lol
Hope it wasn't rusty:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol
:lol:lol:lol:lol wasnt too bad!!!!
96terrano
09-06-2013, 22:57
Bugger it, I'll upload a pic, can't be as gruesome as kitchenman's finger :augie
Adjusted the suppressor cap on a running 350YPVS with wet gloves on.............fell off, much to the amusement of passers-by
Got the kickstart of a KMX125 stuck up the inside of my right trouser leg...........fell off, much to the amusement of passers-by
Got the front wheel of my sons BMX stuck in a drain while showing off....fell off, much to the amusement of passers-by
Got myself caught between my game bag and an electric fence whilst shooting, leading to the site being renamed 'Nutcracker Wood'
And many, many more....................................... :o
Circular saw, fluo lighting, strobe effect, blade looked as if it had stopped, extractor fan masked sound of blade spinning, OUCH:doh picture is xray of top of thumb, ripped off more than cut off, anyway that how it looked, plastic bag, for bit, frozen peas to keep it cold, hospital 5 mins walk away, jump the queue, saw a doctor within 1 minute, blues & twos to plastics
2147
The guys at the plastics hospital spent 6 hours trying to join up the plumbing:clap pipes too small, they could not re-establish blood supply.
Hospital was Broomfield in Chelmsford, all staff bar one were foreign, surgeons looked/sounded like Arabs, saw all the work on huge flat screen monitor, service was 5 star plus.
Had my own en-suite room, nothing was too much for them. 3 days.
I do not understand people knocking NHS, a few months before I was in Southend hospital with gastritis, brought on by gall stones, also 5 star plus, perhaps I am lucky living in Essex, either way my experience with NHS is nothing but excellent.:clap:clap
You would still be on a waiting list around here,for such a small scratch:thumb2.I hope you had good pain relief.
96terrano
04-07-2013, 23:02
Hit my head on a propshaft.... Again
(RIP) rustygates
05-07-2013, 06:53
Using a 9" angle grinder on some thin wall box section and it jammed and then kicked back at me,sliced the back of my hand and blood everywhere,off to A & E, i had cut through 2 tendons,they managed to save one but the other one had to much damage,moral of the story never use an angle grinder without a guard and always use slitting discs on thin walled box section.
rustygates.
melissachels
05-07-2013, 09:04
Using a 9" angle grinder on some thin wall box section and it jammed and then kicked back at me,sliced the back of my hand and blood everywhere,off to A & E, i had cut through 2 tendons,they managed to save one but the other one had to much damage,moral of the story never use an angle grinder without a guard and always use slitting discs on thin walled box section.
rustygates.
yeah I cut thru gloves without a guard on :doh:eek: any my step dad nabbed me q2 full face grinding masks out his work cos one of the boys in his work had a disc shatter & get his face badly.
I once called the rac out to my " breakdown " , he simply put the gear selector in park instead of drive and it started :augie:doh
96terrano
05-07-2013, 09:48
I once called the rac out to my " breakdown " , he simply put the gear selector in park instead of drive and it started :augie:doh
:jesterbg
96terrano
05-07-2013, 09:50
Using a 9" angle grinder on some thin wall box section and it jammed and then kicked back at me,sliced the back of my hand and blood everywhere,off to A & E, i had cut through 2 tendons,they managed to save one but the other one had to much damage,moral of the story never use an angle grinder without a guard and always use slitting discs on thin walled box section.
rustygates.
Jeeze:eek: makes my want to get some decent gloves, I have eye and ear protection and thin gloves. But I want thick ones.
Lazy-Ferret
05-07-2013, 10:42
I once called the rac out to my " breakdown " , he simply put the gear selector in park instead of drive and it started :augie:doh
:lol:lol
At least my poor wife only called me out when she did that...
She started the car first thing in the morning, but it had a manual choke, and as she pulled away the car stalled. She was half way across the road blocking it just round a bend. She panicked, but could not get it to restart, it was apparently as dead as a Dodo.
I go out and jumped in to have a look, and automatically put the selector into park with out thinking, which allowed it to start as soon as I tried it. The problem is, not realising that is what I have done, I now have no idea what is wrong with the car, so am a bit worried it has an apparently intermittent starting problem.
Best bit was, she then had to admit that as soon as she saw me move it into park, she knew what was wrong...
The worst I did with an automatic, was when I first started driving, I had this dog of a car, and it would just die for no apparent reason after you had been travelling at higher speeds and then slowed down. When it did this, you had to pull over, switch everything off, and then it would re-start and run fine.
The gear selector was on the dash board between the steering wheel and drivers door, and one day, as I pulled into the village, the car died. I was in one of those bits of road that are 2 cars wide, but cars are parked along one side, so there is no room for cars to pass each other, and someone was waiting at the far end to come the other way.
I tried to be smart, and instead of stopping the car, which might confuse the other driver, I decided to put the car into neutral, and try starting it while the car was still coasting forward. Unfortunately, instead of neutral, I slapped it right the way up to the top, and into park. I was travelling forward at about 20MPH when the gearbox locked in a front wheel drive car, and as I was already leaning forward, I nearly went through the windscreen. To make things worse, the parking pawl jammed into the Diff so hard, we had to push the car backwards to release it, and move the selector again.
The car went soon after that, and I got a manual...
96terrano
12-07-2013, 20:13
fell in a river again today so did my mate jack:lol
Not listening to my intuition.I got bottled.(Never hurt though)Just annoyed with myself.
Just starting the same thread twice.Doh.
96terrano
13-07-2013, 00:46
Just starting the same thread twice.Doh.
:lol:doh
put a peugoet partner body on a terrano
zippy656
13-07-2013, 09:25
put a peugoet partner body on a terrano
Just a simple swop i bet
96terrano
13-07-2013, 11:08
put a peugoet partner body on a terrano
I'd like to put the bode of my Hyundai onto a sj410 chassis:D
Reading all this, most can be prevented, sometimes you are tired and think I will just tighten that nut just one more flat.... SNAP :doh
I think we have all done that.:doh
But last summer I was using a belt sander, and as I was working forward and back, my T shirt got close to the belt, jammed and then the belt sander ran up my chest and arm and wrapped the T shirt into the sander taking my skin with it...
I was expecting the worst, after unravelling the T shirt and my skin from the sander, I only suffered a Chinese burn and some bruising, but no blood. I was lucky.:augie
I have now made a foot switch extension cable for such operations, I have the tool and a vacuum cleaner to collect the dust plugged int the double socket, and if all goes wrong, the dead man's pedal cuts the power, as most electric tools have the feature of locking them on. hmmmm...:eek:
What gets me is the likes of Aldi and Lidl sell chain saws... now if they kick back you can loose more than a T shirt.:doh
Don't carry on working when tired, when I start to make errors, I usually stop and pack up, BEFORE the job goes pear shaped.
best regards,
Rustic
96terrano
21-07-2013, 19:50
Reading all this, most can be prevented, sometimes you are tired and think I will just tighten that nut just one more flat.... SNAP :doh
I think we have all done that.:doh
But last summer I was using a belt sander, and as I was working forward and back, my T shirt got close to the belt, jammed and then the belt sander ran up my chest and arm and wrapped the T shirt into the sander taking my skin with it...
I was expecting the worst, after unravelling the T shirt and my skin from the sander, I only suffered a Chinese burn and some bruising, but no blood. I was lucky.:augie
I have now made a foot switch extension cable for such operations, I have the tool and a vacuum cleaner to collect the dust plugged int the double socket, and if all goes wrong, the dead man's pedal cuts the power, as most electric tools have the feature of locking them on. hmmmm...:eek:
What gets me is the likes of Aldi and Lidl sell chain saws... now if they kick back you can loose more than a T shirt.:doh
Don't carry on working when tired, when I start to make errors, I usually stop and pack up, BEFORE the job goes pear shaped.
best regards,
Rustic
good advice that, glad your ok, indeed, tiredness can actually be a killer
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