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Old 03-27-2012, 01:48 PM
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Had a fully clamped vice-grip, un-clamp directly into my face while working under a car....nice little scar from that one

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Old 03-27-2012, 02:48 PM
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This thread has me lol-ing (as only one can who's BTDT)
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Old 03-27-2012, 04:26 PM
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Had a fully clamped vice-grip, un-clamp directly into my face while working under a car....nice little scar from that one
My daughter uses a small pair of "Vice Grips" to start her car.
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Old 03-27-2012, 04:35 PM
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I had a ratchet slip and pop in the mouth.
Did that when working on Bonnie, dang did that hurt!! Thought I'd cracked a tooth!!
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Old 03-27-2012, 04:41 PM
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I helped my Dad take our old boiler to the dump. We lifted it onto the edge of a regular dumpster. Just as we shoved it, an edge grabbed my coat. Needless to say I flew through the air, and landed with much force. God had it planned out. The dumpster was full of bags of shredded paper, so I was fine, but my Dad was laughing almost too hard to help me out. Was quite startling. I was expecting to have a 700+/- pound boiler land on me.
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Old 03-27-2012, 09:50 PM
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Just switched over to a newer truck for work (Dodge Ram instead of the Chevy S-10)...

Two times now...

Get the new 2"-receiver put on the previously un-2"-receivered vehicle.

Insert NEW 2" hitch with ball of various size...

Forget, for a few micro-seconds, about the fresh install...

Walk FULL-FORCE into the immobile object (complete with UNCONTOURED, POWDER-COATED, UNBELIEVABLY SHARP EDGES) THAT'S LOCATED APPROXIMATELY AT THE MOST SENSITIVE PART OF THE SHIN...JUST BELOW THE KNEE-CAP...and as you're reacting to the sudden rush of pain heading past your groin and screaming for your ear-lobes and skull...you go crashing down into the gravel with the feeling of fresh, streaming blood gushing only where gravity pulls it...

Yep...both times...and it don't heal any faster as you get older...
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Old 03-27-2012, 09:59 PM
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About a month ago I was moving some mattresses around my store. I went to pull one off of a stack, my hand slipped, and I punched myself square in the nose. Now my wife says my snout is crooked.
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Old 03-27-2012, 10:41 PM
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About a month ago I was moving some mattresses around my store. I went to pull one off of a stack, my hand slipped, and I punched myself square in the nose. Now my wife says my snout is crooked.
That's what you get for being "Nosey: in bed.
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Old 03-27-2012, 10:55 PM
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Maybe you are right. Who really nose?
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Old 03-28-2012, 02:00 AM
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i was poking around a running engine, forget the details at this point

next think i heard was ..trrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

that was the tips of a few fingers just barely making contact with the spinning steel fan blades...


a mechanic told me his story of ending up in a jam while turning drums on a lathe,

ended up in a jam where he had to make the right next call, or would have a least lost a few fingers

as i recall, he couldn't move the one hand (that was jammed up somehow), and had to coolly reach over to kill the power to the spinning drum/lathe
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Old 03-28-2012, 01:29 PM
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A local custom upholstery shop let me use their equipment to complete some small upholstery tasks for my then-show-car VW.

I was in the process of stapling the material onto the backing board using an air staple gun.

Got a bit too close at one point and "ka-klick"! A large staple is now firmly embedded into my thumbnail!

I frantically tried to extract the staple with needle-nosed pliers before the pain set in.

Too late. I got light-headed and queasy and collapsed on the floor for about a minute before I could compose myself and finish pulling that staple out...
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Old 03-28-2012, 01:42 PM
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Why are you all working on your cars yourself?? Just take them to the dealership or a repair shop. They'll do the work for you, I don't think they charge very much, I just have an automatic account with them, just withdraws the payment. Pretty nice.
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Old 03-28-2012, 02:54 PM
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Why are you all working on your cars yourself?? Just take them to the dealership or a repair shop. They'll do the work for you, I don't think they charge very much, I just have an automatic account with them, just withdraws the payment. Pretty nice.
Instead of just being a dealership customer, I usually just buy the dealership. They really snap-to when I come in for an oil change.
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Old 03-29-2012, 11:58 AM
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Instead of just being a dealership customer, I usually just buy the dealership. They really snap-to when I come in for an oil change.
Even that becomes a drag... I just buy a new car when it needs the oil changed.

maybe I should start buying manufacturers....
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Old 04-09-2012, 01:35 PM
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OK, running wire for invisible dog fence along my stonewall through the woods. Hunched over, tucking wire under bottom rocks. Rock on top is loose, rolls off of wall, over long dead cedar sapling... sapling bends to the ground under weight of rock, rock rolls off and sapling springs back and smacks me right in the mouth... Just like getting whacked with a broom handle...

Elapsed time from rock moving to impact with face, about 1/2 second.

Hoping to finish the project if I can convince my lip to quit bleeding

edit: Ice Cold Beer bottle works better than ice pack, and tastes better too!!

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