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What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman
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On Sep 8, 4:52 pm, Ken wrote:
What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. A very predictable accident: Elderly man has free-standing scaffolding 10 feet high. Puts ladder on scaffolding plank and leans it on the side of a house and climbs ladder. The base of the ladder pushes the scaffolding sideways. Elderly man falls on to pile of bricks on ground where he put them. He survived OK. |
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On Sep 8, 12:52?am, Ken wrote:
What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. my old neighbor wanted to put in a new bathroom floor, finding loose boards he accidently rain a nail thru a water line. bringing down his kitchen cieling so he decided car repairs would be better, removed the air cleaner, gunned the engine, metal air cleaner assembly fell into fan went thru radiator new fan, radiator, and air cleaner assembly his wife decided he shouldnt fix anything. he actually was relieved. |
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Ken kirjoitti:
What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. I have heard this one from a man who saw this happen in his yard in the 60´s. A man had a homemade circle saw, (diam about 1,5 meters) with a hydraulic table to move the log back and forth. He and his son run a service to cut the timber of the customer so the machine was movable. The father was operating the machine and the son was at the other end piling up the ready cut timber. The hydraulic table got stuck because of a piece of wood. The father leaned over the table to remove the jammed piece. His hand touched the lever switch that operated the table move. He fell over the sawtable, was driven to the blade and was cut in two pieces. The bodypieces of the father fell in front of the son who was shocked. An ampulance came to pick up the son. The crew of the ambulance were also shocked and were unable to do anything to the body of the father so my friend had to collect the bodypieces in a plastic bag. He had been in WWII in the russian front and seen all. Later in the investigation was foud that the lockspring of the operating lever had been broken and missing. |
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On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 04:52:53 UTC, Ken wrote:
What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. Let's guess...you're researching for another of these dumbed-down, sensationalist TV programmes? -- The information contained in this post is copyright the poster, and specifically may not be published in, or used by http://www.diybanter.com |
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On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:52:53 -0700, Ken
wrote: What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. The guy who owned the house two doors over from me was going to paint his house himself. He first decided to do a bang up A-number one job of stripping the old paint by blistering it with a torch and scrapping it to the bare wood. So I am sitting in my den with the windows open when this big cloud of thick smoke blows past, I go "wtf was that?", and step outside to see............ta da.......he has set his house on fire and the roof is fully engulfed. Dave |
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On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:52:53 -0700, Ken
wrote: What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. Handyman used an aluminum ladder and was electrocuted. The city had to shut down a portion of the city's electricity to retrieve the body. It was a frightening site. I buy wooden or fiberglass ladders. |
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Ken wrote
What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. This has just happened in my town, to people known to me. The first one was a classic agricultural accident, the individual was wearing a coat that got caught in the tractor PTO shaft. By himself, not much left except mangled remains. Then at the wake, another was silly enough to climb the TV tower because the antenna wasnt working properly. The tower collapsed and he was killed in the process. |
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"Ken" wrote in message
oups.com... What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. This happened to my boss some years ago ... Ladder up against the house; leaned over too far and ladder slid; he fell. Then the worst part ... he landed on a picket fence and drove a picket up through his chin and out his mouth. He survived and was back at work in a week or two, though his face looked pretty gruesome for quite awhile. |
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Ken wrote:
What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. Not letting the router spin down before moving it smartly into my jeans and JUST missing my femoral artery. Lighting bonfire with petrol, from a distance if 15 feet on a hot still day, intending to throw the ball of lit paper at the fire from a sfae distance. Petrol vapour travels a long way at ground level. My then Irish neighbour who called the fire brigade and the ambulance, claimed that HE knew of a man who picked up a small rotary lawnmower by the cutting deck in order to use it as a hedge trimmer.. ;-) |
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Rod Speed wrote:
Ken wrote What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. This has just happened in my town, to people known to me. The first one was a classic agricultural accident, the individual was wearing a coat that got caught in the tractor PTO shaft. By himself, not much left except mangled remains. I have a cousin who caught a sleeve on a corn (husker?) when he was about 7. It broke his arm. His father stopped the wheel with one hand while he flipped the kid over with the other in order to free him. My cousin was climbing on the roof of the barn the next day. I have a friend whose father amputated three fingers with a table saw. He had retired not long before and had taken up a new hobby. I worked as an occupational health nurse for years, and the most memorable injuries I know of came from punch presses, waste paper baler, lathes. At each place of employment, there was one particular department that I never wanted to hear from. At a printing plant, a pressman was target of a ruptured line that supplied ink to the press...it would have to be the red ink ) Once I got past the red stuff splattered all over him, and my brain registered that he was smiling I was ok. One of the most frightening was when an electrical panel exploded in someone's face. The electrician working on it had minor burns, but burns are something I don't ever want to see. Another time, three guys working on a pressurized steam pipe made a rapid evacuation of the area when the pipe broke. All I had to do was put ice bags on the sore spots they landed on when they jumped six feet to get away from it. Then there were two guys in maintenance clearing out a culvert who encountered a skunk .. they weren't hurt, but I sent them shopping for tomato juice to bathe in. They said it worked fine ) My closest call was when I was painting a kitchen. I sprayed shellac primer on the ceiling and the room was thick with mist when I remembered that I had not shut off the pilot light for the oven. I thought for about 1/10 sec. about running outside but the family was sleeping so I got down and put out the pilot real quick. In the same project, I blew off the blade of a utility knife while trimming wallpaper around an elec. switch...was wearing rubber gloves, so no harm done to me. |
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On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:52:53 -0700, Ken
wrote: What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. A guy I used to work with was cutting wood with a chain saw. The saw hit a knot in the wood and kicked back and got him in the face. He survived but no amount of plastic surgery will help. |
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I posted a question earlier about the feasibility of using two step
ladders and a board for scaffolding... I think I've changed my mind about trying that |
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"al" wrote in message ups.com... I posted a question earlier about the feasibility of using two step ladders and a board for scaffolding... I think I've changed my mind about trying that I missed your question, but I've done that many times. I don't recommend it unless you're really careful. On most surfaces you'll still want to either: 1) nail a brace to the wall you're working on, C-clamped or whatever to one or both of the stepladders; or 2) prop the stepladders with a long 2 x 4 from behind. I put a stake in the ground, nail the 2 x 4 to it, and clamp the 2 x 4 to the stepladder. I use two braces, one to each stepladder. Using stepladders that way has long been a way to set up a low scaffold, but you'd better have good balance and not try to get too high with it. It does work, however. Using the braces slows the whole process down. It's a question of how you feel about broken bones. I've also built homemade scaffolds and it's a real PITA, in my opinion. I use 2 x 4s for the verticals and 1" electrical conduit for diagonals. Never count on those diagonals to handle compressive loads; use two, crossbraced, so the load is always in tension. The slickest solution I've used is two regular ladders with ladder hooks for a scaffold plank. I'll go up about ten feet with that, but no higher. Again, you want to nail a brace to the wall. Use a short plank or else make sure you're using genuine scaffold plank, which is undressed and thicker than framing planks. -- Ed Huntress |
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"JP Sipponen" wrote in message news Ken kirjoitti: What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. A guy a few blocks over was painting the outside of his house from a ladder. The ladder fell over while he was on it and he fell into a window. In the process he nearly completely severed both arms... Moral of that story is don't set up your ladder on uneven ground without a means to steadily level it. Years ago my wife's uncle was building his home. He was using a circular saw to cut up a piece of plywood supported on saw horses. His young son was playing and went under the plywood... took the saw blade in the head. Cut through skull... fortunately not deeply. Left him with relatively minor brain damage. Moral of that story is keep the kids away from you while you are working. John |
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Bob Eager wrote:
Let's guess...you're researching for another of these dumbed-down, sensationalist TV programmes? Hmmm... Researcher of some kind ;-) http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author%3Alavrulr111%40hotmail.com Good topic, but which ones are the real DIY stories? ;-) However, for those who haven't seen it before we must nonetheless highlight the expanding foam story in this crosspost. http://www.diyfaq.org.uk/humour.html#foam -- Adrian C |
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The Natural Philosopher wrote: My then Irish neighbour who called the fire brigade and the ambulance, claimed that HE knew of a man who picked up a small rotary lawnmower by the cutting deck in order to use it as a hedge trimmer.. ;-) When I was in school in the early 80's, I had a friend who had a job entering consumer product lawsuits into a database that was to be used as part of a research project. It was amazing reading some of these lawsuit summaries. Using a lawnmower as a hedge trimmer is actually a fairly common thing. A few beers beforehand always seems to make it look like a better idea. In the case that I read, the person got hurt badly. He sued the lawnmower manufacture and won some big money. The court ruled that the company was at fault because they didn't have any labels on the mower or any text in the owners manual that specifically said to not do that. That was said as if someone dumb enough to do such a thing would either read the manual or take the advice of a warning label. -john- -- ================================================== ==================== John A. Weeks III 952-432-2708 Newave Communications http://www.johnweeks.com ================================================== ==================== |
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In article .com,
Ken wrote: What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. Last weekend I was setting a tetherball post in an old tire. I was carrying four ninety pound bags of concrete stacked on top of one another, so I couldn't see in front of me very well. I tripped over my wife, who was sunbathing on the deck. She got so mad about being kicked in the ribs that she went inside and slammed the door. I lost my balance and fell face first into the kids' wading pool. The four bags of concrete split open, and I lost consciousness as my head slammed into the uppermost bag after it crashed into the pool. When I came to, the concrete had absorbed the pool water and hardened around my head. I couldn't see and I could barely breathe. I had heard that you can cut relatively fresh concrete with a chainsaw (the city crews around here do that to make the expansion joints in the sidewalks) so I groped my way to the garage and got the chainsaw and fired it up. It was slow-going but after about a half hour I managed to get one side of my head freed up. Unfortunately I cut off my ear on that side. By that time I was getting impatient and frustrated and the chain was dull, so I stumbled inside to get my shotgun. I fired four rounds at my head. That seemed to be working pretty well, but then I blew out six teeth and an eyeball. Well, a man's got to know his limitations. I finally yelled out to my wife that I really needed some help and she could finish being mad at me later. She is pretty intelligent and resourceful, so after just a few minutes of pondering, she got out the electric drill and drilled a big hole through the concrete. The thing grabbed and went about two inches into my neck, which caused me to experience some discomfort. Then she disconnected the flex gas line from the stove and jammed it into the hole. Of course she told me to hold my breath so I wouldn't get killed. Always thinking of safety and kindness, that one. After my concrete head was filled up with gas, she jammed a wine cork into the hole to keep it from escaping. Then she handed me a bic lighter and told me to wait til she was in the other room before I used it to light the gas. The concrete blew to pieces! Thank god that's over. I did lose my remaining eardrum from the explosion, and a few of the windows in the room were broken by the flying bits of concrete. I've had some seizures this last week but I'm not sure whether they're related. Anyway, I guess it's back to the store for more concrete now. I'm glad nothing real serious happened to me. |
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What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman
accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. #1 Neighbor was painting slipped off the ladder, fell about 10 feet, hit his hips on a clothes dryer bounced off then hit almost head first onto a concrete floor. He's back on his feet today but it took a while. #2 Uncle was cutting plywood with a circular saw using his hand to support the plywood. Lost his pinky. #3 Brother-in-law using radial arm saw to cut a too short board. Took off tip of thumb. 3a Same BiL was repairing barn roof. Using chainsaw to trim overhang. . ..while standing with one foot on roof, one foot on over hang and chainsaw cutting between his legs. Think 3 Stooges. Nothing but bruised pride. |
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John A. Weeks III wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher wrote: My then Irish neighbour who called the fire brigade and the ambulance, claimed that HE knew of a man who picked up a small rotary lawnmower by the cutting deck in order to use it as a hedge trimmer.. ;-) When I was in school in the early 80's, I had a friend who had a job entering consumer product lawsuits into a database that was to be used as part of a research project. I remeber protyping a medical databaase with test data. I chose random numbers. Imagine my surprise when one of my test injuries was a 'sprain' to area 'gentials' :-) |
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Hired a college boy for the summer to help roof. Gave him a 100' tape
and told him to measure the ridgeline on a 2 story house. Next thing I know he is laying in the bushes at the end of the house. He had hooked the tape to the gable end and started walking backwards. You can guess the rest.... |
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The Natural Philosopher wrote: Imagine my surprise when one of my test injuries was a 'sprain' to area 'gentials' :-) I have that happen a lot... (g) |
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"Smitty Two" wrote in message I've had some seizures this last week but I'm not sure whether they're related. Anyway, I guess it's back to the store for more concrete now. I'm glad nothing real serious happened to me. Seizures? I believed the rest of the story, bit I think you are exaggerating that part. |
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"Ken" wrote in message oups.com... What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far I've had small cuts on my fingers a few times. Otherwise, being careful has worked for the best part of half a century since I started doing DIY. Colin Bignell |
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Adrian C wrote:
Bob Eager wrote: Let's guess...you're researching for another of these dumbed-down, sensationalist TV programmes? Hmmm... Researcher of some kind ;-) http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author%3Alavrulr111%40hotmail.com Good topic, but which ones are the real DIY stories? ;-) However, for those who haven't seen it before we must nonetheless highlight the expanding foam story in this crosspost. http://www.diyfaq.org.uk/humour.html#foam That just has to be the funniest thing I've ever read :-) -- Dave The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk 01634 717930 07850 597257 |
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Handy, Woman wrote:
On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:52:53 -0700, Ken wrote: What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. A guy I used to work with was cutting wood with a chain saw. The saw hit a knot in the wood and kicked back and got him in the face. He survived but no amount of plastic surgery will help. When using a chain saw I always try to position myself at an angle to the saw so that in the event of kickback it's path would be past me and not into me. I never use the anti-kickback chains as their performance is atrocious compared to the "real" chains. |
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On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:05:25 -0700, alvaradotx
wrote: Hired a college boy for the summer to help roof. Gave him a 100' tape and told him to measure the ridgeline on a 2 story house. Next thing I know he is laying in the bushes at the end of the house. He had hooked the tape to the gable end and started walking backwards. You can guess the rest.... Was helping roof a two story house in Susanville Ca back in the 80's. Most houses there have an almost vertical roof that's made out of sheetmetal because of the snow load. I was all the way at the top, sitting down, when I started to slide. Because of the pitch of the roof I was afraid to stand up less I go ass over tea kettel. I started sliding faster and faster, all the while trying to get the roofing hammer into the sheetmetal to stop me. Alas, I had no luck at that. I go flying off of the roof and manage to land on my feet. The roof nails I had in my bag went everywhere. I am standing there shaking like a leaf and my friends father in law comes running up asking if I am ok. I was fine but I was shaking so bad I could not talk. I took the rest of the day off and went fishing. Came back that evening and found out that almost the same exact thing happened to my friend but he was not so lucky. He hit some bushes on the way down and broke his leg. The next day his fater in law hired some real roofers to due the job. |
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Everyone I know always pokes fun at me for my attention to detail and
safety. Stupid accidents will never happen to me. That is until one night when I had a rush job, doing something I had done a hundered times. I was too tired to be out in my shop and was too stressed from a rough day at work. I was doing repetitive cuts on a project and I ran my left hand over my table saw blade. As I said I was too tired, I failed to reset the blade height and for the first time that I can remember, I did not use a push stick. I cut my middle finger just where it attached to my hand, severed my index finger and my thumb right at the knuckle. It was about a thirty minute ride to the emergency room, with my finger in a bag of ice, and then another fourty five minute ambulance ride to St. Lukes Hospital in Houston. The finger and thumb were reattached and are mostly useable. They do serve as constant reminders to never take any tools for granted. Oh by the way, I do still jump a little when I hear my table saw start. |
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Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
"Smitty Two" wrote in message I've had some seizures this last week but I'm not sure whether they're related. Anyway, I guess it's back to the store for more concrete now. I'm glad nothing real serious happened to me. Seizures? I believed the rest of the story, bit I think you are exaggerating that part. I had trouble believing he was carrying 360 pounds of concrete, and that so much concrete was needed for a tetherball, so I didn't get past the first paragraph. -- The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form . |
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Ken writes:
What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. My dad always took the attitude that if you were careful, there was really no need for things like blade guards on table saws, or using pushers to feed the wood into the saw. Then he got distracted one day while cutting some thin (maybe 1"?) strips for planter boxes, and the saw hit a knot. My first thought as he came up the stairs was that he was teasing me with a red plastic snake. Then I saw that it was blood all over his hand. If you ever end up getting a finger (right index finger, in this case -- and dad was right-handed, and he was an accountant, and this was right before tax season) amputated, *don't* let the doctors convince you that it'll be less noticeable if they go ahead and take the knuckle along with it. They're right, but you really do want as much of the hand as possible for stability. |
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On Sep 8, 4:10 am, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Not letting the router spin down before moving it smartly into my jeans and JUST missing my femoral artery. I've got a nice crescent-moon shaped scar on my thigh from sitting on the deck of my boat, grinding some new fiberglass work with an angle grinder, and forgetting the "spin-down" part before setting it down...which is not an uncommon accident among boatyard workers. I've met several other guys with similar interesting scars. Most of us only do it once, though! And before somebody leaps in yakking about guards, you can't use a guard on a grinder when flat- grinding glasswork. It's impossible. More than a few fall off ladders in boatyards, as well. Everybody gets confident about their ability to climb one-handed (or no-handed) while carrying heavy tools or awkward parts. Most of the time, it works, too... Bob |
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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. "Rod Speed" wrote in message ... Ken wrote What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. This has just happened in my town, to people known to me. The first one was a classic agricultural accident, the individual was wearing a coat that got caught in the tractor PTO shaft. By himself, not much left except mangled remains. Then at the wake, another was silly enough to climb the TV tower because the antenna wasnt working properly. The tower collapsed and he was killed in the process. |
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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 |
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"Ken" wrote in message
oups.com... What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. You don't need all sorts of high tech camping accessories to start a fire if you run out of matches. Brought home a new plunge router and decided to play with it on some scrap wood in the garage. In the manual, I got as far as a page where it described which direction the router should be moved for certain types of work. Figured these were just fine points to be concerned with later. Turns out a router in the hands of an amateur will toss burning bits of wood for quite a distance. Some of those chips will be smart enough to land in the kindling box, or on plastic web chairs. :-) Fortunately, the fire extinguisher was just a few feet away. |
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let me guess-Texas A&M?
"alvaradotx" wrote in message oups.com... Hired a college boy for the summer to help roof. Gave him a 100' tape and told him to measure the ridgeline on a 2 story house. Next thing I know he is laying in the bushes at the end of the house. He had hooked the tape to the gable end and started walking backwards. You can guess the rest.... |
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writes What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. Tosser x-posted to numerous DIY related Ngroups He accidentally fell into the north sea with his feet encased in concrete How we did laff ... -- geoff |
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my best friend took my advice and those of his family and added a
railing to his porch steps. he welded pipe in place then stepped back to admire hs job, feel off the steps and broke a rib while flatening some new porch furniture..... he noted this was the first time anyone had fallen on their steps..... he finished the railings a month or two later. |
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JP Sipponen wrote:
Ken kirjoitti: What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. I have heard this one from a man who saw this happen in his yard in the 60´s. A man had a homemade circle saw, (diam about 1,5 meters) with a hydraulic table to move the log back and forth. He and his son run a service to cut the timber of the customer so the machine was movable. We have had two pretty messy farm equipment accidents in the last decade in the St. Louis area. One was a teenager who was home operating some kind of harvesting gear and it ripped both his arms off. Luckily the arterys snapped back and didn't spurt or he would have died in seconds. He got up, walked back to the house, opened the door with his teeth, and called 911 by using a pencil to dial the phone. The paramedics rushed him to the hospital while a fire department team got his arms out of the machinery. His arms were not severly damaged, and they were reattached. The newspaper went back and interviewed him after a while. He was still working on getting his arms usable, and was making progress. I think this made the national news at the time. Another one was an elderly gent who had a big saw that was apparently powered by a tractor PTO. He somehow got caught, maybe on a log, and was sawed in half from the groin to mid-chest. Amazingly, unlike JP's story, he survived this and was basically put back together. In the hospital, he asked his wife what happened to the saw, and she said "It'll be at the bottom of the lake by the time you get out of the hospital!" Jon |
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On 8 Sep, 05:52, Ken wrote:
What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong. This one really shook me up. I was using a Paslode (gas) nail gun on some decking. I had to hold a small piece of timber against the side of joist, in order to nail it with the gun. I was working kneeling downwards, a bit uncomfortable, with the gun horizontal in a bit of a confined space. Basically doing everything wrong. I fired the gun, and the nail went in. But in a split second the gun recoiled, and as I was pushing it against the timber it went forward and across slightly and the tip squashed hard against my index finger. This happened so quickly that I really thought I had shot through my finger. The pain was intense, as was that feeling of sickness in my stomach and light headedness at the thought of having no finger. When Iooked, my finger tip was bloody and cut but in one piece. But it was a lesson for me to have greater respect for tools. dg |
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