Just a reminder

Anyone amongst us working alone in your garage
Just a reminder to take care
Yesterday I caught my tee shirt (that was flapping around,yes I know!!) in my polyromy whilst I was linishing some welds flat on a stainless steel exhaust down pipe
As it caught it twisted my shirt up and whacked me on the nose giving me a nose bleed and cut my chest
It held me in such a tight grip I couldn't get to the off button so I pulled the plug out
I always think I'm pretty careful but obviously I'm not and it gave me a wake up call
So please take care

baz said:

Anyone amongst us working alone in your garage
Just a reminder to take care
Yesterday I caught my tee shirt (that was flapping around,yes I know!!) in my polyromy whilst I was linishing some welds flat on a stainless steel exhaust down pipe
As it caught it twisted my shirt up and whacked me on the nose giving me a nose bleed and cut my chest
It held me in such a tight grip I couldn't get to the off button so I pulled the plug out
I always think I'm pretty careful but obviously I'm not and it gave me a wake up call
So please take care

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Us in the metal trade can become callous....
Glad it wasn't bad

I be more pissed off if the tee shirt tore lol, I worked with hand grinders all my life without being cut by them but when I retired and doing some steel cutting at home the grinder attacked me and sliced the top of my left middle finger down the middle of it, a trip to the hospital and they rushed me in straight away, I just said its just needs a few band aids, one stitch inside and 5 stitches on the outside of the finger later and I thought it was just a flesh wound, but the good part was a lovely young nurse who stitched my finger up, I was too busy chatting to her and of course perving on her to not feel any pain, she did a great job and she told me they get at lease 2 grinder cuts a day.
The home workshop is a dangerous place, more injuries happen at home and ladders falls are the most common accidents.

Ashley

ashman said:

I be more pissed off if the tee shirt tore lol, I worked with hand grinders all my life without being cut by them but when I retired and doing some steel cutting at home the grinder attacked me and sliced the top of my left middle finger down the middle of it, a trip to the hospital and they rushed me in straight away, I just said its just needs a few band aids, one stitch inside and 5 stitches on the outside of the finger later and I thought it was just a flesh wound, but the good part was a lovely young nurse who stitched my finger up, I was too busy chatting to her and of course perving on her to not feel any pain, she did a great job and she told me they get at lease 2 grinder cuts a day.
The home workshop is a dangerous place, more injuries happen at home and ladders falls are the most common accidents.

Ashley

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Yep I've had a few angle grinder injuries over the years including several stitches in my chin
And a large half moon scar on my shoulder
But this poly Romy really did grab hold like a fecking boa constricter
I've not managed to fall off a ladder as yet although I have rolled one
I put a ladder up to get on the roof of my house and as I got level with the gutter the gutter board let go where someone had bodged it up with filler
One side of the ladder went back to the house wall and I was hanging there for a few seconds

baz said:

Yep I've had a few angle grinder injuries over the years including several stitches in my chin
And a large half moon scar on my shoulder
But this poly Romy really did grab hold like a fecking boa constricter
I've not managed to fall off a ladder as yet although I have rolled one
I put a ladder up to get on the roof of my house and as I got level with the gutter the gutter board let go where someone had bodged it up with filler
One side of the ladder went back to the house wall and I was hanging there for a few seconds

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I've come off quite a few ladders (not in my Fire Brigade days) on painting jobs, not been badly hurt, just been bloody lucky !

My issue with angle grinders has been setting things on fire with the sparks.

Funny innit… folk talk about motorcycles being dangerous when the real danger is actually working on them !!

johnm said:

My issue with angle grinders has been setting things on fire with the sparks.

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It's surprising what will burn isn't it!!

I caused a few fires from welding and once from a grinder in my days, at work once it was a cold winters day and I had a double layer flannel shirt on, more nylon than anything, they don't make them like they use too, well here I was doing a small weld job and a spark ignited the long sleeve on my shirt, started to smoulder at first before I knew it then all of a sudden my whole sleeve was a light, funny how clothes can catch alite.
In my younger days (1976) before I had my Norton I had a Honda TL250 trials bike that I rode to work and one day my jeans leg must have sat on the exhaust pipe, well I pulled up at work and walked through the building from the back car park to the front to clock on but walk past the workers sitting having a chat before starting as I walk past them some one said can you smell smoke, I clocked on and walked past them again and the same person said there it is again, then they all seen my jeans leg smouldering and near on fire, burnt a great big hole in my near new Levi jeans.

Took the fingertip off my right index finger because I was cleaning up a rough edge of a spacer with my finger stuck in it to spin it all the way around.

SMART...

It happened in 1/4 of an instant.

Back in the day when i had shoulder length hair I got it tangled up in a drill bit. Took less than an instant for the drill motor to reach my head. Tie itback, cut it, or just go knobby headed. I did all 3 in the end.

...not to forget those of us with long beards. Your average corded electric drill will grab at least one hair in
the commutator vents as you lean over it.
As we get older we get dumber and call it slower.