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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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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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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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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. 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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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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"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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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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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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In message .com, 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. 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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"dg" wrote in message ups.com... 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 At first I didn't like this thread. But your last sentence sums up my realization that it might help me to avoid an accident I never want to have. Everybody here has probably said at some point, in hindsight, "gosh, that (thing I did) was really stupid". To safety---cheers! Bill |
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"Bob" wrote in message ups.com... 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... It only needs to not-work once though. |
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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. Wearing school uniform in the UK equivalent of Workshop 101. Got my tie wrapped round the lathe, and it was too short for me to reach the kill switch. After that we could take our ties off in the workshop. |
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On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 22:47:23 UTC, "Dave Gordon" d@p 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. Don't really want to feed this journalist/'researcher' but.. (a not uncommon scenario) I worked in a large garage for a couple of summers. Guy fiddling around under dashboard of car. Wearing watch with stainless steel bracelet. Yes...shorted heavy 12 volt cable to car body via bracelet. Lots of current and heat. I wear a loose, thin stainless steel chain on one wrist. Take it off when working inside PCs, on cars, near batteries, etc... -- 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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In message . com, dg
writes 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 Somewhat related, but not altogether DIY. My mother had to call in the vet to put her horse down, he was about 20 years old, the horse not the vet and was not too well with no chance of improvement. So as not to confuse him too much the act was going to be performed in front of his stable which is at the end of a 100yd private road way. The horse was being led down the drive by my mother and the vet was walking along behind carrying the humane killer, a cartridge gun that fires a captive bolt. Very similar to a nail gun and has the same sort of safety lock, it has to be pressed against a surface before it will fire. BANG!!!!!!!!!!! Mother and horse turn around to see the vet on his knees holding both, bloody, hands to his chest and not looking at all well. What he had done was to walk along swinging his arms from side to side while holding the humane killer. At some point the end of the killer had hit the free hand and some how he managed to pull the trigger as well putting the bolt through his hand. Not as bad as it first appeared but no doubt painful and embarrassing all the same. Allegedly the horse had a smile on his face, but not for long. -- Bill |
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On Sep 7, 11:52 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. December 4th 1994, I went on my roof to string Christmas lights and clean the gutters. The weather ws OK, no snow, but by the time I was done it had been snowing for about 20 minutes. The ladder was against the eve gutter, only one story, and bottomn of ladder on the driveway. When I put my weight on the ladder, ice had built up under the ladder feet, I went down. My fall was broken mostly by my left hand. As I pushed myself up off the driveway, I felt a burning sensation on palm side of my wrist. I looked down and BOTH arm bones were protruding from the wrist and the tendons had pulled my "no longer attached" hand up my forearm a few inches. I was rushed to hospital and the next day underwent a 12 hour reconstructive surgery to reattach hand, reposition the nerves so they could grow again, and tendons. It was paralized for about 4 months before the main nerves began to talk again, and about 8 years to stop healing fully. Today I have 85 percent of my normal range of motion. The worst part is that I was a jass guitarist, and a damn good one. I began playing guitar again in 2005 after 10 years, I've learned to hold it differently to compensate, but now there is little time for gigging as I have a family. I'm just grateful to play again. |
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On Sep 8, 7:27 pm, RickH wrote:
On Sep 7, 11:52 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. December 4th 1994, I went on my roof to string Christmas lights and clean the gutters. The weather ws OK, no snow, but by the time I was done it had been snowing for about 20 minutes. The ladder was against the eve gutter, only one story, and bottomn of ladder on the driveway. When I put my weight on the ladder, ice had built up under the ladder feet, I went down. My fall was broken mostly by my left hand. As I pushed myself up off the driveway, I felt a burning sensation on palm side of my wrist. I looked down and BOTH arm bones were protruding from the wrist and the tendons had pulled my "no longer attached" hand up my forearm a few inches. I was rushed to hospital and the next day underwent a 12 hour reconstructive surgery to reattach hand, reposition the nerves so they could grow again, and tendons. It was paralized for about 4 months before the main nerves began to talk again, and about 8 years to stop healing fully. Today I have 85 percent of my normal range of motion. The worst part is that I was a jass guitarist, and a damn good one. I began playing guitar again in 2005 after 10 years, I've learned to hold it differently to compensate, but now there is little time for gigging as I have a family. I'm just grateful to play again. Typo, I meant jazz guitarist (not jass). |
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