Gunner wrote:
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:36:12 -0700, Jane & David
wrote:

In article tPBEi.2171$Ot1.929@trnddc07,
"newman" wrote:

friend of mine was on tractor and his wife, who had long hair,
was
behind guiding post-hole digger. her hair got wrapped around
mechanism and partially tore out part of her scalp.


Whoa, that made my remaining hair stand up. Several years ago, I
was
doing a long rip with a circular saw and noticed that a few long
hairs were bouncing off the blade. Only a few hairs had come untied
and none got caught by the blade, but it scared the **** out of me
and so that was the last day I ever had long hair (not that I could
anyway lately).

PDX David


When I was running an alarm company..had a long haired installer
running a bell hanger bit straight up through the ceiling of a
church,
from the top of a 12' ladder.

If course it was a dull bit and he started hugging the drill motor
to
push up harder...

Hair got spun around the drill bit. Rather than calling for
help....he paniced and either jumped or fell off the top of the
ladder.

I got a call from his wife at the hospital telling me he was there
being treated and would I please gather up his tool?

Arriving at the church..Im greeted by a badly shocked pastor and
staff..all looking a bit green. I had to back out the drill bit and
unwind the hair and about 1/3 of his total scalp. I quickly put it
on
ice and ran it down to the hospital, where they managed to reattach
it, about 45 minutes after the accident. Most..most of it managed
to
reattach but not all of it and they later had to use maggots to
debride the dead tissue.

Wrapped up his head with a handful of maggots under gauze, chewing
away the dead tissues. He said it tickled.

Speakin of hair, I was routing an edge the other day and felt a jerk,
and the router jumped out of my hands and (fortunately) stalled.
Turns out my hair (which I have since gotten trimmed much shorter) got
pulled not into the bit but into the motor--once enough hair was in
there it stopped, and now I can't turn it with a wrench it's so
packed.

Could have been tragic, instead, since I didn't get hurt, it's funny.
Was a very old router, had it for 40 years or so, I think it's the
first power tool I ever owned, from back when Black and Decker made
good stuff.

I'm just glad that it was that one and not the 3 horsepower job--that
one would have likely ripped my head off.

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