Stupid things you've done..

[bry]

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
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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]

Hit my head on a propshaft.... Again

 

[(RIP) 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.

 

[melissachels]

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 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.

 

[briggie]

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]

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]

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]

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]

fell in a river again today so did my mate jack:lol

 

[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]

Just starting the same thread twice.Doh.

:lol:doh

 

[ginna]

put a peugoet partner body on a terrano

 

[zippy656]

put a peugoet partner body on a terrano

Just a simple swop i bet

 

[96terrano]

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 :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...


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]

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...


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