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Post by stusco on Sept 29, 2020 17:56:29 GMT 1
Never ever try to open a tin of paint with an old screw driver if I stretched my hand the muscle tried to escape,i wish i could have filmed it but i was jumping up and down. i i had found bit rust on my garden fence so I thought ive got half a tin of smoothrite paint,it never got opened but it did get launched
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Post by Tobyjugs on Sept 29, 2020 18:01:04 GMT 1
Stu we always like a story to go with the pictures.
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Post by 4l04ever on Sept 29, 2020 18:08:26 GMT 1
That will sting...
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Sept 29, 2020 18:29:29 GMT 1
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Post by chrisg on Sept 29, 2020 18:29:29 GMT 1
Ouch, a few beers should dull the pain 🍺
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Post by Shytalk on Sept 29, 2020 18:56:50 GMT 1
I see the lucks still there.
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Post by stusco on Sept 29, 2020 19:18:30 GMT 1
Yep still lucky and my £500 deposit to audi is still lost in the eather
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Sept 29, 2020 19:34:26 GMT 1
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Sept 29, 2020 19:34:26 GMT 1
That's going to sting
Did the same injury to the palm of my hand last year but at my index finger while trying to undo a seized hose clip
Thought I'd got away with it till my palm started filling with blood. Had to squeeze it all out to try and stop it getting a right mess
Hope you are ok for work. I couldn't grip anything properly for a month
Steve
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Post by stusco on Sept 29, 2020 19:36:47 GMT 1
Not too bad its my left hand ,just glad it didn’t get infected
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Sept 29, 2020 19:41:17 GMT 1
Not too bad its my left hand ,just glad it didn’t get infected That's good I was crapping myself as I did it in a female prison laundry trying to unblock a chemical line in a bucket of water (the red bucket they use to clean the bogs) How I didn't die of a weird disease I don't know Steve
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Post by veg on Sept 29, 2020 19:55:42 GMT 1
Last time I was in prison I got scabies had to self isolate for a while fecking horrible thing. Making me itch just thinking about it.
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Sept 29, 2020 20:03:04 GMT 1
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Sept 29, 2020 20:03:04 GMT 1
Last time I was in prison I got scabies had to self isolate for a while fecking horrible thing. Making me itch just thinking about it. Too funny, feckin horrible thing I visit a lot of care home laundries. If when I arrive they tell me they have a Norovirus outbreak and it's a break down I'll usually still go in and just be really careful. If they say they have a scabies outbreak, no feckin way, I'll be back when it's gone 🤣🤣🤣 Steve
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Sept 29, 2020 20:06:07 GMT 1
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Post by veg on Sept 29, 2020 20:06:07 GMT 1
Just realised makes me sound like an old lag. The problem is they always have these shitty things floating about and you’re not dealing with the nicest end of society esp in a nonce wing. You don’t know where they’ve been nor want to know. 😷
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Sept 29, 2020 20:37:13 GMT 1
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Post by chrisg on Sept 29, 2020 20:37:13 GMT 1
Yep still lucky and my £500 deposit to audi is still lost in the eather Did you pay on a credit card? If so you can get the money back through the insurance they have.
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Post by stusco on Sept 29, 2020 20:40:32 GMT 1
I did pay with a credit card,ill give them til tomorrow as they said they have sorted it today
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Sept 29, 2020 22:09:24 GMT 1
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Sept 29, 2020 22:09:24 GMT 1
Just realised makes me sound like an old lag. The problem is they always have these shitty things floating about and you’re not dealing with the nicest end of society esp in a nonce wing. You don’t know where they’ve been nor want to know. 😷 Stop making excuses for going knuckle deep into a leper 🤣🤣🤣 Steve
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Post by JonW on Sept 30, 2020 4:53:18 GMT 1
At school in woodwork class I believe the teacher told us never ever to hold something and use a chisel, instead to use a vice.
10 mins later i was rushed out covered in blood... hard to say you listened when youve a chisel stuck in the side of your thumb. Damn...
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Post by stusco on Sept 30, 2020 7:34:39 GMT 1
I remember catching a fellow apprentice when he fainted after sticking a scriber in his hand ,he had forgot to grease the centre on the lathe and it had welded to the job so he thought he could poke it out! Wrong ,the scriber went in about an inch peely wally then down😩
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Post by JonW on Sept 30, 2020 8:53:56 GMT 1
I have to admit that I never did learn anything much at school... I stuck a pick in my finger just last week. I knew when i started to use it that it would happen. Doh...
Anyone else been bit by a linisher belt? if youve never used one before, let someone else do the job for you lol
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Post by arrow on Sept 30, 2020 10:33:01 GMT 1
Back in the 80's I worked in a place that had a big bench grinder. You are supposed to keep the rests right up against the wheels with minimum clearance. This one had about 10mm gap at one time. A job snatched and a guy managed to get his finger in between the wheel and the rest. Those big grinders take a while to wind down. Not nice.
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Sept 30, 2020 11:35:27 GMT 1
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Sept 30, 2020 11:35:27 GMT 1
Don't suppose anybody watched 24 hours in A and E over the last few weeks?
Last 3 weeks have been hand injuries
One was hand v's circular saw. Right across the palm of his hand which was left flapping by the skin on the back of his hand 🤢
Ambulance guy BRI gs him in and the Doc asks if he had a good look at the wound
His answer was no, he couldn't look at it 🤣
Even the A&E Doc was getting queasy looking at it 🤮
This week a plasterer lost his balance and while falling dropped his trowel.
You guessed it, put his hand out to save himself and landed on the edge of the trowel 🤢🤢🤢🤮
Steve
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Post by JonW on Sept 30, 2020 14:03:13 GMT 1
Ooof! nasty.... feeling a bit green thinking of that, but i am a visual thinker...
The linisher accident Im talking about is when the belt shreds and the machine is running about 10,000rpm. The whipping is like a cat o nine tails and seems to never stop no matter how far you stagger away. I thought maybe the damage wasnt too bad, until another guy there noticed my face and went white. Ahh... To be fair it did feel a little numb. lol. In seconds it had got my face, chest, arm and even the tops of my legs. Luckily nothing serious that wouldnt heal, but it could have been far worse. A savage warning that serious tools can wound seriously.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2020 14:07:22 GMT 1
Computers - ask an 8 year old to help Social media - ask a 12 year old to help Painting and decorating - use a tradesman Plumber - use a tradesman Electrics - use a tradesman Motorcycle - Do it yourself Fix the Do it yourself disaster - use a tradesman Keep your phone handy. You never know when you might need to dial 999 All tools should only be used by a competent person
#knowyourlimitations :-)
PS hope the hand heals quickly
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Post by stusco on Sept 30, 2020 16:59:02 GMT 1
Back in the 80's I worked in a place that had a big bench grinder. You are supposed to keep the rests right up against the wheels with minimum clearance. This one had about 10mm gap at one time. A job snatched and a guy managed to get his finger in between the wheel and the rest. Those big grinders take a while to wind down. Not nice. I saw a guy try to grind a burr of a u shaped bracket he held the centre and tried to grind the edges on the outside of the wheels it caught and trapped his fingers it was a big wheel maybe 24” never saw him again
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Post by arrow on Sept 30, 2020 17:05:10 GMT 1
Heck, that reads like the wheel just ground him away!
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Post by stusco on Sept 30, 2020 17:26:41 GMT 1
I should have said he never came to work again at least not on the tools
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Sept 30, 2020 17:31:46 GMT 1
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Post by veg on Sept 30, 2020 17:31:46 GMT 1
Stu this reads like some horror story, and as said above I hope your luck changes soon.
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Post by steve h on Sept 30, 2020 17:40:51 GMT 1
It's strange one has the premonition of pain and injury whilst chancing your luck in a dodgy act... knowing full well at what could happen...but has it ever stopped you in your tracks?? The "I knew that was going to happen" is cold comfort in A and E. And no matter how much of a dressing down you give yourself...you'll knack yourself again in another act of stupidity. I did a good one with a needle file... could see it coming a mile off...what a dick.
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Sept 30, 2020 18:14:10 GMT 1
Oh the anticipation of it going wrong
I still feel a bit uneasy using a Stanley knife
Too many previous feck ups 😖
Steve
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Post by chrisg on Sept 30, 2020 18:39:21 GMT 1
I have cut myself deeply with a stanley knife and not even realised until blood dripping down my hand because they are so sharp, unlike me 🙈
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Post by steve h on Sept 30, 2020 20:04:08 GMT 1
I have cut myself deeply with a stanley knife and not even realised until blood dripping down my hand because they are so sharp, unlike me 🙈 They are dam dangerous Chris, they dont take prisoners. One job I was on banned them from the site.. but they still expected us to terminate some horribly difficult cabling that used some neoprene rock hard insulation... It was nigh on impossible and even more dangerous using an inferior knife.... tossers had never heard the old saying that a blunt knife is more dangerous than a sharp one.
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