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135 Fan

10-29-2006 18:01:58

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We've got about 10 inches of snow up here so I'm stuck and can't do any work on my land. I'm building an off road vehicle park for bikes and quads. I thought some humour on this board might help. What's the dumbest thing you ever did? The first time I had to weld a fitting in a tank, that had to be flush on the inside, I took my glove off to hold it flush and proceeded to tack right on the opposite side of my thumb! OUCH! Another welder in the shop almost fell over laughing! After he stopped laughing, he said he's done that too. It would be interesting to hear some other bone headed things people have done. Dave

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jmixigo

10-31-2006 20:03:21

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Re: Stupid things we do in reply to 135 Fan, 10-29-2006 18:01:58

Well I can't claim the credit for this one, but yall be the judge.
In 1969 I was working at Golden's Foundry and Machine in Columbus,Ga.. There was another feller there who ran several machines one of which was an ancient thing they called a "broaching mill".
This old machine was used to cut BIG key ways in the bores of large pullys, like 2" X1" and larger. The feller who ran it cut his left thumb off at the knuckle one day. Two weeks later when he came back to work he was asked to show the shop safety man how that happened and while doing so cut off the rest of his left thumb. Later that same day the shop safety man was showing a feller from the company's insurance provider what had happened an cut his left thumb off. Now the saftey man was a long time shop employee who untill then had 10 fingers, and 40 years time on the job. Ever body in the place had been giving the "kid"(me) a hard time about being clumsy, an well I am a mite clumsy. The next morning the shop forman told me that he was gone show me how to start operating that old broaching mill. I thought then an still think now that making that offer was the stupidest thing anybody could ever do.
I took up a different line of work not long after that.

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135 Fan

10-31-2006 20:57:05

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Re: Stupid things we do in reply to jmixigo, 10-31-2006 20:03:21

A lot of responses. I guess it's just human nature to not think sometimes. Saw a salesman attempt to demo a plasma torch he's never used and was holding the trigger down and brought it too close to the steel and almost vaporized his other thumb off. Luckily he didn't. I worked in a tank shop and a foreman got fired because after hydro testing a 750 barrel tank [filling with water and then pressure] opened the drain to let the water out without relieving the pressure from the top. Sucked the whole top of the tank in. A new apprentice in the same shop was told to cut the D rings off another tank that are used for temporary lifting hooks. Usually you grind one side out and hit them with a hammer to break the other side. He took a cutting torch and cut them off. Only problem was that he cut two holes in the tank to remove off. I guess we've all done some bizarre things. Dave

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souNdguy

10-31-2006 12:01:48

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Re: Stupid things we do in reply to 135 Fan, 10-29-2006 18:01:58

Might as well add mine.

Years ago, (back when i was young and smart.. ) I was doing the rear brakes on my thunderbird parked in my driveway. I had the left rear tire jacked up.. i figured I'd do em one at a time.. you know.. safer that way. I set the emergency brake.. jacked that tire up..pulled the tire off.. couldn't get the drum to budge.. then it dawned on me.. DUH.. parking brake is set.. I promptly pulled the parking brake release.. car rolled of f the jack.. trapped the jack... Almost no room to get another (borrowd from neighbor) jack under there. I had to leverage the car up with a 2x4 to get room to put another jack in there...

After about 3 hours of dinking with it.. I finally had brakes done.. with no damage to the car... thankfully..

Soundguy

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Roy Suomi

10-30-2006 17:25:33

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Re: Stupid things we do in reply to 135 Fan, 10-29-2006 18:01:58

How many of us Einsteins have tried to keep something from turning in a drill press????? Man , Did that leave a mark...

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135 Fan

10-30-2006 18:02:32

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Re: Stupid things we do in reply to Roy Suomi, 10-30-2006 17:25:33

Amen to that. I worked in a shop where a new green labororer was about to try to grab the piece that was already turning! He almost got fired but thankfully wasn't. Never ran the drill press again though. Dave

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Don-Wi

10-30-2006 08:10:12

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Re: Stupid things we do in reply to 135 Fan, 10-29-2006 18:01:58

I was putting hay out for the girls one day, kinda windy so I closed my eyes after I lined up my freshly sharpened pocket knife. I cut 1 string and my thumb. I ended up getting 4 stitches put in, and still 6 years later the nerves just ain't right in it. I can still feel and all that, but if I get just the right spot, it hurts kinda weird, hard to describe.

Yesterday I jabbed myself in the hands probably 1/2 dozen times on thorns while pruning along the fence line. My hands are pretty sore today from it.

Donovan from Wisconsin

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cj3b_jeep

10-30-2006 05:53:15

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Re: Stupid things we do in reply to 135 Fan, 10-29-2006 18:01:58

I'll jump in on this one. About 3 1/2 years ago when we were building our house, I was up on a high ladder trying to install a light above the dining room and sliced my left index finger wide open while trying to strip the UG wire the builders used. About 2 weeks later, just when the feeling was coming back into it, I was installing those hurricane ties on my garage roof, using those fat little galvinized nails, and my brand new Estwing framing hammer. I missed the nailhead and smacked my left index finger so hard, it pretty much exploded where I had cut it. Damn near fell off the ladder. It was a year before I had feeling back in it.

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Rod in Smiths Falls, ON,

10-30-2006 04:03:44

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Stupid things we do: floor sander in reply to 135 Fan, 10-29-2006 18:01:58

Then there was the time I rented a floor sander to do my son's bedroom. When finished I decided that it would save a lot of work if I used it to surface the 7' oak desk top, so I put it on the back deck and tilled away. That worked, so why not the shelves for the unit? No room on the deck? Why not string them out on the concrete street by the house and then drive down the row with the sander? Cord too short? Unreel an extension and plug it in.

This went well until I actually started the sander and it popped the 10 amp breaker on the extension cord. Exasperated after a long day, I stepped over and punched down the breaker...

Nothing on this earth accelerates down a street as quickly as a Clark floor sander. At terminal velocity when the cord unplugged, it narrowly missed a Pontiac and then smashed its case to pieces on the curb. Not my best introduction to my neighbours.

The rental guys were pretty stoic about my gaffe, welded the case back together and put the sander back in operation, still with the two-pole switch they had substituted for the electronic one.

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135 Fan

10-30-2006 11:08:49

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Re: Stupid things we do: floor sander in reply to Rod in Smiths Falls, ON, , 10-30-2006 04:03:44

Sorry, I'm still laughing at that one. No one got hurt. I had a dodge gear reduction starter out that had a flat spot and wouldn't turn. I hooked it up to battery to see what it was doing. If I turned the gear with my thumb it would work. I did this a couple times. Then I tried it again and it sucked my thumb in between the gear and the case. I quickly wrapped it up so it wouldn't bleed. It never did bleed but I had gear teeth marks in my thumb nail for a couple of months. Dave

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davpal

10-29-2006 21:59:33

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Re: Stupid things we do in reply to 135 Fan, 10-29-2006 18:01:58

Broke my ankle in a football game in high school. Broke my hand in a fight with my brother! Broke a vertebrate in my back in a snowmobile accident. Broke my arm playing spiderman in the house climbing a doorway with my brother and sister. Dropped a 30 pound weight on my foot at work that was a lapping barrel that had air connectors hooked to it that went through my foot like a paper punch and broke my toes. Slipped and fell on top of a grain bin we were building and cut my wrist all the way across on one of those sharp stamped steel ladder rungs. Lots of stupid and unfortunate things. I try my best to be much safer nowdays!

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Joe Losinski

10-30-2006 05:54:20

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Re: Stupid things we do in reply to davpal, 10-29-2006 21:59:33

I think it's too late to be safe fur ya'll --- all those broken bones are going to come and haunt yu in your older years, same with those who play sports --- ya have to suffer for the doumb things ya do and like it or not - it's pay-back time... Safety is Number One-think before you do it or lose.

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Stan in Oly, WA

10-29-2006 20:12:02

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Re: Stupid things we do in reply to 135 Fan, 10-29-2006 18:01:58

In 1974 I went to New Canaan, CT to spend the summer with my BIL who was going to teach me the building trade by way of some valuable on-the-job-training. We had torn out the front wall of the basement apartment where we were staying and it would be a few days before we got it closed up again. That night I heard some noise from the kitchen, the room without a wall. When I went to check I found a raccoon going through the garbage. I made a fuss and the raccoon ambled off.

By the next night we had moved the project ahead to the point where the kitchen was not only without a wall but also without lights. When I heard noise from the kitchen and went to deal with it, I couldn't see anything. I was bare footed which made me even less inclined than usual to get tangled up with a raccoon in the dark, so I just made some shooing noises, felt a newspaper on the counter and slapped it on the floor, etc. Long story short, I'll just mention that this story has an element in common with Howard H's story, and that if we were playing 20 questions and I had to start by telling whether that element was animal, vegetable, or mineral, I'd have to admit that it wasn't vegetable or mineral. The end.

Stan

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Craig in MO

10-29-2006 19:39:32

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Re: Stupid things we do in reply to 135 Fan, 10-29-2006 18:01:58

Landed my plane in a corn field once after the harvest 100 feet short of the runway. That was the day that this student pilot learned about lift verses drag. All came out well. Just my pride hurt a bit.

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Jimmy King

10-29-2006 19:36:50

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Re: Stupid things we do in reply to 135 Fan, 10-29-2006 18:01:58

When I was at Ft Riley, KS in 1960 in the allied shops on Marshall Field. A SP5 came in where I was holding up his finger with a bandage on it. He was holding a small piece of AL in the palm of his hand and drilled a hole through it with a air drill finger and all.

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iowa_tire_guy

10-29-2006 18:59:36

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Re: Stupid things we do in reply to 135 Fan, 10-29-2006 18:01:58

I could tell a few but you will have to buy the book I am writing. If I live long enough to finish it.

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jpuleo

10-29-2006 18:59:00

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Re: Stupid things we do in reply to 135 Fan, 10-29-2006 18:01:58

OLD Thats pretty dumb!

In the past year I put a framing nail straight through my finger holding the piece I was shooting through. And just Tuesday I was tightening a lug on the unfused end of a service pannel (100Amp) when I realized I was using a screwdriver that had the steel shank go all the way through the handle aginst my hand. Thank heavens I was standing on carpet and didnt touch the pannel frame. Im 31, si I guess that means I have about 58 more dumb stories.

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Howard H.

10-29-2006 18:55:15

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Re: Stupid things we do in reply to 135 Fan, 10-29-2006 18:01:58

One time I fired up a well and sprinkler and the last 20 feet or so of nozzles weren't putting out any water.

I had seen a skunk go into the feeder pipe once before and figured it had gotten caught in the tail section of the sprinkler.

I parked my pickup under the end of the tail section - climbed up on top of the cab and could just barely reach up to the end flush nozzle. I ran a long piece of barbed wire into the mainline sprinkler pipe - thinking I could twist the skunk onto the barbed wire and pull it out with the pressure of the water behind it helping push.

It worked like a charm - I finally got the wire twisted up good in the skunk and pulled - I heard the rumbling/gurgling and it dawned on me I needed to get out of the way...

The main thing I remember was see skunk parts and a huge shower of gallons of yellow, stinking water against a brilliant blue sky come flooding down all over me and my pickup...

Next time I'm getting my brother to climb up there and get the clog out!!! ha...

Howard H.

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old

10-29-2006 18:39:27

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Re: Stupid things we do in reply to 135 Fan, 10-29-2006 18:01:58

Years ago I was welding on an old mail jeep I had, the one wth the right hand steering. I burned through and hit the gas tank and burned a hole into it. The tank was full of gas and then started on fire. I was lucky that it was full or I probably wouldn't be here now but being full there wasn't room for it to go boom

Hobby farm

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