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Oct 2021 04 11:39

Daft accidents

-Shock.png- The recent thread concerning angle grinders reminded me of one of my first days on a building site. I was given a petrol disc cutter by the foreman and told to cut up some steel bars. That was the training! I had never used and rarely seen a disc cutter before so without a clue I stood over the bars and lowered the cutter onto the wrong side of the disc and it kicked back straight between my feet. Pure luck it didn’t do serious injury. This was a few weeks after I had laid a piece of ply across my leg to cut it with a jigsaw. Yup. 5 stitches. Hard way to learn!
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Oct 2021 04 14:45

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Vasectomies are free, no need to go to these lengths
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I was planing a portacabin door once, only needed a smidge taken off literally minutes before it went out on hire (last minute job). Moved it onto the level ground in the yard, mate in the yard was holding the door still. Next thing I know I've gone over my finger....

Turns out answering his phone was more important, so let go of the door. The air was blue, and he almost ended up with an electric plane in the side of his head -Wink.png-
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Oct 2021 04 17:31

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After doing a 12 hour shift working in the tunnels of London underground I was on my Motorbike heading home, the chain was slapping a little so when I got home (14hours after leaving that morning) I put the bike on the paddock stand and adjusted the tension and begun cleaning the chain, the method I've always used for this is to have the bike in 1st gear so the wheel is spinning, soak the chain with WD40 to loosen and spray off the dirt then use a rag to dry it off before spraying the wax lubricant, however this time I was exhausted after weeks and weeks of 14+ hour days, I was too tired to notice my finger wrapped in a rag getting closer to the rear sprocket, next thing I know I'm looking at a cross section of my finger, the sprocket bit the end of my index finger and tore it off at the first joint. I calmly shut the bike down, locked the garage up and walked round to the house and knocked on the door, my partner answered the door asking why I couldn't let myself in, I replied with "I've cut my finger off" she replied "f**k off" I then raise my hand and repeat "I've cut my finger off" and walk past her into the bathroom and sit on the floor with my hand in the sink, she started panicking and called for an ambulance.
Never dis find the end of my finger.
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Oct 2021 04 17:37

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Stiggy wrote: 4th Oct 2021 at 5:31pm After doing a 12 hour shift working in the tunnels of London underground I was on my Motorbike heading home, the chain was slapping a little so when I got home (14hours after leaving that morning) I put the bike on the paddock stand and adjusted the tension and begun cleaning the chain, the method I've always used for this is to have the bike in 1st gear so the wheel is spinning, soak the chain with WD40 to loosen and spray off the dirt then use a rag to dry it off before spraying the wax lubricant, however this time I was exhausted after weeks and weeks of 14+ hour days, I was too tired to notice my finger wrapped in a rag getting closer to the rear sprocket, next thing I know I'm looking at a cross section of my finger, the sprocket bit the end of my index finger and tore it off at the first joint. I calmly shut the bike down, locked the garage up and walked round to the house and knocked on the door, my partner answered the door asking why I couldn't let myself in, I replied with "I've cut my finger off" she replied "f**k off" I then raise my hand and repeat "I've cut my finger off" and walk past her into the bathroom and sit on the floor with my hand in the sink, she started panicking and called for an ambulance.
Never dis find the end of my finger.
Some bikers say it is perfectly ok the clean/oil the chain with the engine running, I never have precisely because of what happened to you and others I have heard of!
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Oct 2021 04 22:40

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Nigel wrote: 4th Oct 2021 at 5:37pm Some bikers say it is perfectly ok the clean/oil the chain with the engine running, I never have precisely because of what happened to you and others I have heard of!
I still do it with the engine running and wheel spinning but I don't use my fingers anymore, I wrap the rag around a pice of floor mat foam I've cut into strips, it works perfectly and won't damage the chain or sprocket if it does get caught. Since that day I've adopted the motto of "I don't put my fingers where I wouldn't put my c**k"
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AndyCornwall wrote: 4th Oct 2021 at 2:45pm Vasectomies are free, no need to go to these lengths
Someone should tell Boris that!
Anyway, I remember reading about a Ranch owner in America who was having trouble with Cayotes killing livestock. They managed to kill a few, but one day, they caught one and decided to come up with something new and imaginative to dispose of this particular one. So they made a makeshift collar and stuck a stick of dynamite in it and lit the fuse. They then released the Cayote, which was obviously terrified, and it ran and hid under the Ranch owners Pick Up Truck! -Happy.png-
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Oct 2021 05 08:14

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Stiggy wrote: 4th Oct 2021 at 10:40pm I still do it with the engine running and wheel spinning but I don't use my fingers anymore, I wrap the rag around a pice of floor mat foam I've cut into strips, it works perfectly and won't damage the chain or sprocket if it does get caught. Since that day I've adopted the motto of "I don't put my fingers where I wouldn't put my c**k"
Provided me with my first laugh of the day - thank you! -Thumb_up-
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Stiggy wrote: 4th Oct 2021 at 10:40pm I still do it with the engine running and wheel spinning but I don't use my fingers anymore, I wrap the rag around a pice of floor mat foam I've cut into strips, it works perfectly and won't damage the chain or sprocket if it does get caught. Since that day I've adopted the motto of "I don't put my fingers where I wouldn't put my c**k"
Now there's a motto you don't hear everyday -Big grin.png- -Scared.png-
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Oct 2021 05 12:52

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I so far have not removed any of my appendages, (touching wood) -Scared.png- But, I’ve made the silly mistake of removing a sink waste trap and cleaning it out under running water on the very sink it came from many times, silly boy… -Blush.png-
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