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Don't be stupid....learn from my mistakes!
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"A man that lives on the couch never gets scars but also never gets the glory!"
A man who lives on the couch maybe
has many scars. And remembers the
glory. Couch time is relative, and earned
for some.
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Balance like anything, don't waste your best years on a couch (or in an office like me!) but at some point in life couch time can be pretty good.
I bought one of those a few years ago at SEMA. The company was a first time show attendee. I've been using it some recently. Works great.
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Chicks (most of them) dig scares tooSorry to read about this injury Greg....looks nasty....but should heal well by the looks.
Just one thing though....that grinder doesn't look like it has a proper 'Safety trigger' to start it. Just a dumb switch that you press and go. I can tell you that a Makita battery grinder has a switch so well designed that you almost need to be a Rocket Scientist to make it work.
Get rid of that tool, or at least, have it looked at by a pro before thinking about using it again.
Take it easy for a while, and don't blow out the stitches trying to do any hard work.
People in a rush are the ones that usually get hurt, something stupid...
I didn't get too many cuts or injuries working my trade
awning installer w/sharp aluminum panels, for my fathers co.
Add On Home Improvements in HS 1st
or an attendent at a Shell Service station, in Georgetown while in HS, $1.65 an hr
filling mostly logging trucks with diesel & washing off mud & cleaning windows
could have fallen tones of times, but didn't
or doing tires on split rims,
I was oblivious to how dangerous it really was, never got hurt
I went thru apprenticeships as Carpenter
(with a termite co., really cool dude raced Fuel F/Cs),
as a Plumber/Pipefitter Union
(my stepdad was a union pipefitter wanted me to be one, no thanks)
Electrical (IBEW for PG&E powerplants, operator) misc. equipment operator, welder etc.
The 1st 2 co.s I started early on, was Framing & Plumbing, both C license/s
skills I learned for both my dad's
PG&E for a 2 year stint in the powerplants as a combination welder,
machinist helper, operator, then a foreman of shutdown crews shifts work/crap...
Then back to the trades,
I got tired of the layoff, I started my own companies
& then in Dealership Facility Mngmt, huge group, of commercial properties,
with everything under the sun, from front driveway to the back fence I/we did it all...
never cut myself, with a hand power tool
never cut myself, on or with a saw, Table, Skill/worm circular/or beam, or reciprocating/Sawzall
had few close calls on ladders
& walking top-plates, or rolling joists/rafters etc., I was always, 'the high man'
My worst injury on the job, in decades of work, was a cut from a utility knife,
installing sheetrock
& I was thinking as I did it too,
"I shouldn't be pulling it towards myself"
& low & behold, I cut the palm of my left hand, with the knife edge
when it slipped...
While finish cutting out electrical box holes...
Went to Kaiser ER, & I think it was like 6 or 8 stitches,
back at work the same day...
Installing sheetrock still...
got quite a few flashes welding, stainless tube in boilers, at PG&E
10 welders going in the boiler, you couldn't hardly avoid it
had a few smashed thumbs as a carpenter, part of the trade
poked myself with every sharp object you can think off, none bad
I had a couple close calls with extension ladders etc.
I'm not sure if I was just lucky or I paid attention when using the tools of the trades,
that I knew I could get hurt with, saws or 1/2 chuck augers/right angle drills etc.
(them things can kick back like crazy), power hammers, compactors, jack hammers etc.
Especially fabricating & building racecars, seems everything tries to kill ya'
get well quick
It looks like they (nurse or dr.) skimped on the # of stiches per inch
that'll leave a nice scare...
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Tell that to John Wayne Bobbitt.....aka Frankenpecker.Chicks (most of them) dig scares too
Jeez Greg, that's awful! Hoping you heal up quickly.
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If not for this clunky splint, I'd feel totally fine. I see a Doctor in 2 days, maybe I can resume working on stuff after that.
Tell her that you need something to take your mind off of it that also puts you to sleep.
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THAT sort of thing actually wakes me up.
Heck of an idea though....
Heck of an idea though....
jays69bird
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I have been working with power tools most of my life, industrial mechanic and I got an angle grinder with a wire brush wound up in a shirt sleeve a couple years ago. They are dangerous, glad you're okay.
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I'm refurbing my car hauler trailer, cutting off the old fenders for replacement. I just took the guard off yesterday so I could get into a tight spot, it'll be going right back on afterwards! Those cut off wheels are no joke!! Glad you're OK.
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Reminds me of the play "Springtime for Hitler."
Don't be stupid be a smartee, come and join the Nazi party."
Don't be stupid be a smartee, come and join the Nazi party."
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My follow up appointment was today. All is well, stitches will be removed next week.
Sort of a funny thing was discovered in the X ray....
Looking closer.....
I had a Doctor call me Friday to say that he saw this on the x ray and wondered if I could explain it. It is really thin and looked like a wire.
Car guys probably immediately know what it is....
Oh yeah....The spinning wire wheel throws out wires when they break off and this one went deep enough to go unnoticed. No need to remove it but I wonder how it would affect an MRI ??
Sort of a funny thing was discovered in the X ray....
Looking closer.....
I had a Doctor call me Friday to say that he saw this on the x ray and wondered if I could explain it. It is really thin and looked like a wire.
Car guys probably immediately know what it is....
Oh yeah....The spinning wire wheel throws out wires when they break off and this one went deep enough to go unnoticed. No need to remove it but I wonder how it would affect an MRI ??
Virg464
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If there's enough iron in it, the MRI will pull it right out. That's why they always ask if you've ever had any metal in your eye, from an accident... yikes!
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...and yet, 2 lbs of titanium in my legs only causes "artifacts" on MRI scans....science is cool!
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When I needed an MRI a few years ago the Dr was smart enough to ask if I do anything with metal even tho he knew I was a computer engineer. We didn’t check my arms tho, just everything neck up to make sure my eyes would be ok.
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I had one a couple years ago and the doctor also asked me if I had any metal in me. I remember having metal shavings get into my eyes over the years so he sent me to radiology to see if anything was large enough to pose a problem.
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I had a bore brush kind of come apart when I was using it a couple months ago. The damn brass bristles kept showing up in the bottom of my feet.
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