Stupid things you've done..

[96terrano]

Originally Posted by briggie

I once called the rac out to my " breakdown " , he simply put the gear selector in park instead of drive and it started

[96terrano]

Originally Posted by rustygates

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 makes my want to get some decent gloves, I have eye and ear protection and thin gloves. But I want thick ones.

[Lazy-Ferret]

Originally Posted by briggie

I once called the rac out to my " breakdown " , he simply put the gear selector in park instead of drive and it started

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]

fell in a river again today so did my mate jack

[bry]

Not listening to my intuition.I got bottled.(Never hurt though)Just annoyed with myself.

[bry]

Just starting the same thread twice.Doh.

[96terrano]

Originally Posted by bry

Just starting the same thread twice.Doh.

[ginna]

put a peugoet partner body on a terrano

[zippy656]

Originally Posted by ginna

put a peugoet partner body on a terrano

Just a simple swop i bet

[96terrano]

Originally Posted by ginna

put a peugoet partner body on a terrano

I'd like to put the bode of my Hyundai onto a sj410 chassis

[rustic]

Reading all this, most can be prevented, sometimes you are tired and think I will just tighten that nut just one more flat.... SNAP

I think we have all done that.

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.

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...


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.


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]

Originally Posted by rustic

Reading all this, most can be prevented, sometimes you are tired and think I will just tighten that nut just one more flat.... SNAP

I think we have all done that.

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.

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...


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.


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