What have been the worst home handyman accidents you've had,or seen so far ?

In message <[email protected]>, Morris Dovey
<[email protected]> writes
>willshak wrote:
>
>| Why is it that some believe that the US Constitution guarantees
>| weapons ownership?
>
>Because it does (in the last fourteen words of what you've quoted
>below.)
>
>| Most of these people have never read the law, and those that have
>| read it, completely ignore the first clause of the sentence.
>| "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free
>| state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be
>| infringed".
>
>That first clause is the rationale for what follows. If you don't
>understand the motivation, a review of colonial history will
>contribute to your appreciation of the principles involved. You might
>find a review of the grievances listed in the Declaration of
>Independence illuminating. The authors of the Constitution ensured
>that citizens would be empowered to say "No!" to tyranny - both from
>outside and from within our borders.
>
>If you want to rebut by pointing out that there is no tyranny, then I
>give you my very happiest smiley. :-)
>
One of our political comedians offered three thousand pounds ( the
proceeds from an article he wrote) to anyone who killed George Bush, and
as a true patriot, you should all be leaping at the chance


--
geoff

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:35:37 +0100, John Rumm
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Neil Larson wrote:
>
>> manually back out the drill. I chose the drill. It is hard to believe how
>> much blood can come out of 2 small holes and a couple of tears in a scrotum
>> nor how much one person can scream. After recovery he was discharged for the
>> good of the navy.
>
>Last thing you need is thick seamen all over the place.... ;-)



eeewwwwww!!!!

Gunner

"nick hull" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Ed Huntress" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> > I'm not going to read anymore of this thread. I'm afraid to go into my
>> > work shed or pick up a tool!
>>
>> I'm with you. It's scaring the pants off of me.
>>
>> I'll tell you one thing: I'm going to make darned sure I keep my hair cut
>> short...
>
> Short hair, no rings, no necklaces, no body metal, no ties, no
> wristwatches and I have all my fingers left ;)

Yeah, I've got to stop wearing those necklaces and neckties when I'm running
the lathe, too. And the charm bracelet...

--
Ed Huntress

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:24:45 GMT, raden <[email protected]> wrote:

>In message <[email protected]>, Gunner
><[email protected]> writes
>>On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:32:19 GMT, raden <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>>Short hair, no rings, no necklaces, no body metal, no ties, no
>>>>wristwatches and I have all my fingers left ;)
>>>
>>>Four beers for the carpenters .. as the germans say
>>>
>>>>
>>>>Free men own guns
>>>
>>>And dead people are the result
>>
>>
>>Dead bad people for the most part.
>>
>>You seem to think this is a bad thing?
>>
>Spoils your day a bit if you're not a baddie, though


Of course it does. Nearly as bad as crashing through your windshield
on the highway.

Or falling off a ladder

Or drowning in a swimming pool

Or bleeding to death after misusing a power tool

Or choking to death on food

Etc

So you have no issues with banning motorcars, ladders, swimming pools,
power tools and food.

Correct?

Gunner

On Sep 8, 4:52 pm, Ken <[email protected]> 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.

On Sep 8, 12:52?am, Ken <[email protected]> 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.

Serious, sobering stuff...

http://www.amgron.clara.net/circularsawbenches/accidents.htm

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.. ;-)

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 ;)

John A. Weeks III wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]> 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' :-)

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....

On Sep 8, 4:10 am, The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]> 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

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.

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 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' :-)

A Scottish Office typist returned a document with statistics for cancer
of the tentacles.

Owain

On 8 Sep, 05:52, Ken <[email protected]> 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

On Sep 7, 11:52 pm, Ken <[email protected]> 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.

On Sep 8, 7:27 pm, RickH <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 7, 11:52 pm, Ken <[email protected]> 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).

On Sep 8, 12:52 am, Ken <[email protected]> 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.

20+ years ago I was putting the railing on my deck and I used a
couple
36" flat bar clamps to hold the railing to the posts temporarily. I
attached the clamps with the bars pointing out into the yard, not
back
over the deck. I stepped back a few feet for a visual and then
walked towards to railing to adjust it. My eyes were focused on the
railing, not on the clamps, so I never saw the end of the steel bar
until it hit my safety glasses. It knocked them off and put a rather
large gash in my forehead, just above my left eye.

After I bandaged myself up and retrieved my safety glasses, I found a
deep scratch that started dead center in the left lens and extended
up
to the frame. If not for the safety glasses deflecting the bar up
into my forehead, it would have gone straight into my left eye.

I still have a scar (and the railing) to remind me how important
safety glasses are.

On Sep 7, 11:52 pm, Ken <[email protected]> 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.

I did some copy work for a forensic engineer that was investigating an
accident where a carpenter, who had used Liquid Nails to secure a new
sub floor, had ignited the trapped Liquid Nails vapors between the old
floor and the new decking. The entire floor blew upward, propelling
the carpenter into the ceiling, breaking his neck and killing him. He
was using a nail gun that apparently struck another nail that created
a spark.
-Mike

J. Clarke wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>>... his wife decided he shouldnt fix anything.
> A creative solution to the "Honey-Do" list.

One smashed teapot at the age of nine, and one is excused washing-up
duty for life :-)

Owain

On Sep 7, 9:52 pm, Ken <[email protected]> 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.

One cannot run a 4"X4"X1/2" piece over an 8" jointer. I have a really
thin thumb to prove it. No finger print though.
Gene

On
> > 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>
> - Show quoted text -

Yep, you got that right. Ladders scare the hell out of me,
particularly when working alone. When I was in Basic I fell off the
top of one of those backward-inclined climibing obstacles on the
"confidence course" about 20 feet into the edge of the sand pit. My
hip has never been quite the same since, but I figure I was lucky as
it was -- could have missed the pit and then would have busted
something bad for sure.

Bob

Lew Hartswick wrote:
> I think I went through several suggar bowl lids when I was a
> youngster. :-)

We were too poor to have sugar bowl lids.

Owain

On Sep 8, 7:27 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Serious, sobering stuff...
>
> http://www.amgron.clara.net/circularsawbenches/accidents.htm

Hmmphhh, no pictures!

MBQ

On Sep 8, 9:00 pm, raden <[email protected]> wrote:
> In message <[email protected]>, Ken
> <[email protected]> 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 ...

Don't think that's fair. It was on-topic for all the groups; he cross-
posted rather than multi-posted; admittedly, he posted to five groups,
whereas I think the recommended maximum is four.

Lee Michaels wrote:
> "Ed Huntress" wrote
>>I'll tell you one thing: I'm going to make darned sure I keep my hair cut
>>short...
> Reminds me of a conversation I had with a deputy sheriff. ...

That's all very well, but what about injuries sustained from electric
hair clippers, especially when used in bathrooms?

Owain

On Sep 8, 12:52 am, Ken <[email protected]> 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.

Hi,

Was up a ladder fixing a leaking gutter with that black mastic stype
stuff. Got some on the white gutter so dabbed a paper towel in Mineral
Spirits and it cleaned right up. Put the paper towel in my back jean
pocket.

A while later feels like a bee stung me in the backside. Continue
working. Later that day I discover I have this large red painful rash
on my backside. I gess I must have been paint stripping by backside
LOL.

best, Mike.

A couple come to mind. Years ago Briggs and Stratton had a wind up
starter for rotary lawn mowers. You opened the handle, wound the
spring, and flipped the handle closed to trip it. Someone picked up a
lawnmower with the spring wound up and held the mower to his chest.
When the handle was pushed, the spring was released spinning the blade
removing his fingers.

Toro had something similar.

Screw type log splitters. These were attached to the rear wheel of
your truck. A customer was telling my dad about one of these screwing
into his leg...

Junior High school, Woodshop. We were all in a distant circle as the
teacher was explaning the dangers of the table saw. He takes a small
piece of wood and drops it onto the spinning blade. It breaks in
half, hits me in the head and another kid in the neck. "See, I told
you it was dangerous!" he said. Steve Relich was his name. Nickname
was "Vise" If you could beat him at checkers you got 10 points. This
was in Mentor OH in the early 70's

Bob

On Sep 7, 10:52 pm, Ken <[email protected]> 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 college friend was helping a guy work on his house. Guy tries to
make a cut with a skillsaw in a sheet of paneling by bracing it
against his leg. As the cut nears completion, the sheet folds and he
takes a slice out of his thigh. He decides to clean up before going to
the emergency room. Goes into shock, passes out and bleeds to death in
the shower.

Charley wrote:
> ... He had been working on the roof of his house (almost 2 blocks away from
> where I found him) and he had tied the rope from his car up over the front
> of the roof of his house to his waist to keep from falling off his back roof
> , but he hadn't bothered to take his wife's car keys away from her.

Oh, that's a corker, an absolute corker!

He's lucky it was a car - if he'd been working at the local airfield it
could have been even more amusing.

Owain

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Karl





On Sep 10, 5:10 pm, clare at snyder.on.ca wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:17:39 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
>
>
>
>
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >"user" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >news:[email protected]...
> >> Ed Huntress wrote:
>
> >>> I'll tell you one thing: I'm going to make darned sure I keep my hair cut
> >>> short...
>
> >>> --
> >>> Ed Huntress
>
> >> Back in the early to mid 70's when I was living with my grandparents and
> >> had grown my hair to about my belt loops, Grandpa and I went to the store
> >> one evening. Saw the ugliest looking person you ever saw. Grandpa asked
> >> him, "What happened to you?"
> >> The guy answered, "I got my ponytail caught in the lathe at work!"
>
> >> Yikes
>
> >> 5 minutes later and several aisles over, Grandpa told me, "I ain't gonna
> >> ever tell you to get your hair cut again."
>
> >> Didn't have long hair very much after that.
>
> >Man, these stories are piling up. My 1943 edition of _How to Run a Lathe_
> >doesn't say anything about it. d8-)
>
> A kid at the highschool where a friend's wife teaches always wore
> baggy track pants to school - regimental. Thought he was IT.
>
> One day he somehow got his drawstring caught (wrapped around) on the
> wood lathe. Got a few good wraps of the track pants wound up too. They
> got the lathe stopped in time to save "the boys" - but JUST.
> Didn't faze the idiot at all - - -
>
> --
> Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

raden wrote:
> nick hull writes
>> ... Probably have used a gun
>> as a drill more often than to kill something ;)
> Right tool for the right job, eh ?

Aldi don't always have drills on special, but Walmart always has ammo :-)

Owain

On Sep 12, 1:21 am, "Morris Dovey" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> My _preferred_ weapons are keyboard and ballot.
>

I so wish I had a ballot.
That said, it does not render my views and my ability to express them
as impotent.
It's that 'forest-from-the-trees' thing, Morris.

I peek over the fence and worry myself sick.

A lot of my peers were on loan to Iran to build their electrical
networks. They made a lot of friends. So many Iranians we'd love to
have as neighbours. What's with the war drums?

Won't you add impeachement to you arsenal of keyboard and ballot?

respectfully,

r

On Sep 12, 9:16 pm, [email protected] (Jerome Meekings)
wrote:

> 4) killing or injuring someone at a distance is so easy,

I do not know you, but I assure you that killing another human being,
either takes a 'flash' decision, or a calculated one.
If I need to keep the supply lines open to my brothers in the field,
I'd take out the opposition with a .50 caliber.
Even from 2000 yards. No need to be close-up and personal.

If I need to rid the neighbourhood from a low-life who raped my ( or
anybody's) 14-year-old daughter...I'd prefer to use my bare hands. I
wouldn't want a weapon. I'd want his last view of the world to be my
smile.

Killing is either strategic, or personal.


r

On Sep 12, 11:43 pm, Ralph <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Why don't you guys take this discussion to GUNS "R" US?

Because then we wouldn't have the pleasure of your intelligent input.

I forgot it also prevents pregnancy.
Karl



On Sep 12, 7:13 am, Gunner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:27:31 -0000, "[email protected]"
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >The perfect machinists clothing. No sleeves, no tie, not loose, only
> >comes in black and made in extra large. What more can you ask for?:
> >http://www.allaboutdance.com/s.nl/it.A/id.8767/.f;jsessionid=0a000447...
> >Karl
>
> Crom but thats soooooo gay......geeze....
>
>
>
>
>
> >On Sep 10, 5:10 pm, clare at snyder.on.ca wrote:
> >> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:17:39 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
>
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> >"user" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >> >news:[email protected]...
> >> >> Ed Huntress wrote:
>
> >> >>> I'll tell you one thing: I'm going to make darned sure I keep my hair cut
> >> >>> short...
>
> >> >>> --
> >> >>> Ed Huntress
>
> >> >> Back in the early to mid 70's when I was living with my grandparents and
> >> >> had grown my hair to about my belt loops, Grandpa and I went to the store
> >> >> one evening. Saw the ugliest looking person you ever saw. Grandpa asked
> >> >> him, "What happened to you?"
> >> >> The guy answered, "I got my ponytail caught in the lathe at work!"
>
> >> >> Yikes
>
> >> >> 5 minutes later and several aisles over, Grandpa told me, "I ain't gonna
> >> >> ever tell you to get your hair cut again."
>
> >> >> Didn't have long hair very much after that.
>
> >> >Man, these stories are piling up. My 1943 edition of _How to Run a Lathe_
> >> >doesn't say anything about it. d8-)
>
> >> A kid at the highschool where a friend's wife teaches always wore
> >> baggy track pants to school - regimental. Thought he was IT.
>
> >> One day he somehow got his drawstring caught (wrapped around) on the
> >> wood lathe. Got a few good wraps of the track pants wound up too. They
> >> got the lathe stopped in time to save "the boys" - but JUST.
> >> Didn't faze the idiot at all - - -
>
> >> --
> >> Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com-Hide quoted text -
>
> >> - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Bob Eager wrote:
> "Swingman" wrote:
>>A personal favorite was when my cute secretary at the aircraft factory where
>>I worked in Heston, UK would say to me frequently: "knock me up".
> And in the reverse sense (UK to US): "I'm dying for a fag"

It's certainly annoying if a neighbour knocks you up to bum a fag off you.

Owain

On Sep 7, 9:52 pm, Ken <[email protected]> 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.

Guy I knew was hanging fascia board on a two story building, no safety
equipment. He fell off and landed on a piece of #4 rebar sticking out
of a masonry footing. The bar went up his rectum. Some idiot ran over
with a cutting torch and started cutting. He stopped, and they used a
cut off wheel on a angle grinder to cut it off. He couldn't walk or
sit for three weeks. Rectum, damn near killed him.

Dave Gordon wrote:
>>Guy I knew was hanging fascia board on a two story building, no safety
>>equipment. He fell off and landed on a piece of #4 rebar sticking out
>>of a masonry footing. The bar went up his rectum. Some idiot ran over
>>with a cutting torch and started cutting. He stopped, and they used a
>>cut off wheel on a angle grinder to cut it off. He couldn't walk or
>>sit for three weeks. Rectum, damn near killed him.
> Yow! Couldn't they just, kinda, lift him off? Gently.

NO. That would increase the risk of serious internal bleeding. Better to
leave the bar in, reduces the bleeding from the wounds, and he can be
x-rayed with it in situ to see how far up it's gone.

Owain

They have a blade with the stop jambed in it at the local Woodcraft
store signed by an ukulele maker who got to keep all his fingers, so
I'd say it works. I'd still be just as carefull as I would with any
other table saw.
Karl



On Sep 15, 10:06 am, Rich Grise <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:47:40 -0400, willshak wrote:
> > on 9/10/2007 2:11 PM Ed Huntress said the following:
> >> "willshak" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >>> on 9/9/2007 11:18 AM Shawn Hirn said the following:
> >>>> Ken <[email protected]> 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.
>
> >>> I'm not going to read anymore of this thread. I'm afraid to go into my
> >>> work shed or pick up a tool!
>
> >> I'm with you. It's scaring the pants off of me.
>
> >> I'll tell you one thing: I'm going to make darned sure I keep my hair cut
> >> short...
>
> > My hair has been cut so that it is no more than 1/2" long.
> > The one tool that I use that I have the most respect for (read scared
> > of) is the radial arm saw, especially when ripping. Somehow, the blade
> > over the table is more respected (read scared of) than one under the table.
> > The others, I'm just merely careful.
>
> Would you trust one of these?http://www.sawstop.com/
>
> Cheers!
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>
> - Show quoted text -

On Sep 8, 6:53 pm, "Bob Eager" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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...

Traditional "grounding strap" when working on static sensitive
MOSFETs is a steel wristwatch band connected via a 1 meg
resistor to a wire connected to a grounded pipe.

Gunner Asch wrote:
> John Rumm wrote:
>>Neil Larson wrote:
>>>manually back out the drill. I chose the drill. It is hard to believe how
>>>much blood can come out of 2 small holes and a couple of tears in a scrotum
>>>nor how much one person can scream. After recovery he was discharged for the
>>>good of the navy.
>>Last thing you need is thick seamen all over the place.... ;-)
> eeewwwwww!!!!

Sounds like he was fairly comprehensively discharged at the time of the
incident, never mind after recovery.

At least they didn't actually need the corpseman.

Owain

On Sep 7, 11:52 pm, Ken <[email protected]> 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 exactly handman accident - but witnessed campfire surrounded by
half dozen folks, do-ggooder decides to stoke fire with coleman
lantern fuel by sloshing it out of gallon can. Can catches fire - he
drops can - then decides it might explode or something crazy - he
kicks the can away from the fire - he explodes into very pretty bluish
and orange flame. Quickly he is wrapped in sleeping bag by on-lookers
once able to catch him ...still 40% burned..took ambulance 45 minutes
to get there - a horrible 45 minutes to watch anyone endure.

"JP Sipponen" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> 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

Owain wrote:
> J. Clarke wrote:
>
>> [email protected] wrote:
>>> ... his wife decided he shouldnt fix anything.
>> A creative solution to the "Honey-Do" list.
> One smashed teapot at the age of nine, and one is excused washing-up
> duty for life :-)
>
> Owain

I think I went through several suggar bowl lids when I was a
youngster. :-)
...lew...

on 9/9/2007 11:18 AM Shawn Hirn said the following:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Ken <[email protected]> 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.

I'm not going to read anymore of this thread. I'm afraid to go into my
work shed or pick up a tool!

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on 9/10/2007 2:11 PM Ed Huntress said the following:
> "willshak" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>> on 9/9/2007 11:18 AM Shawn Hirn said the following:
>>
>>> In article <[email protected]>,
>>> Ken <[email protected]> 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.
>>>>
>> I'm not going to read anymore of this thread. I'm afraid to go into my
>> work shed or pick up a tool!
>>
>
> I'm with you. It's scaring the pants off of me.
>
> I'll tell you one thing: I'm going to make darned sure I keep my hair cut
> short...
>
> --
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My hair has been cut so that it is no more than 1/2" long.
The one tool that I use that I have the most respect for (read scared
of) is the radial arm saw, especially when ripping. Somehow, the blade
over the table is more respected (read scared of) than one under the table.
The others, I'm just merely careful.


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on 9/10/2007 5:36 PM Owain said the following:
> Lee Michaels wrote:
>> "Ed Huntress" wrote
>>> I'll tell you one thing: I'm going to make darned sure I keep my
>>> hair cut
>>> short...
>> Reminds me of a conversation I had with a deputy sheriff. ...
>
> That's all very well, but what about injuries sustained from electric
> hair clippers, especially when used in bathrooms?
>
> Owain
>
Mine are cordless.

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Owain wrote:
> Lee Michaels wrote:
>
>> "Ed Huntress" wrote
>>
>>> I'll tell you one thing: I'm going to make darned sure I keep my hair
>>> cut
>>> short...
>>
>> Reminds me of a conversation I had with a deputy sheriff. ...
>
>
> That's all very well, but what about injuries sustained from electric
> hair clippers, especially when used in bathrooms?
>
> Owain
>
My uncle went to the hospital with 109 bruises and 16 contusions. What
happened, you ask? He hit a golf ball in a tile bathroom.
yuk
jo4hn

For some further clarification on "buzz cut" you can look here;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzz_cut
"ameijers" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Dave" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Lee Michaels wrote:
>>
>>> "Ed Huntress" wrote
>>>
>>>
>>>>I'll tell you one thing: I'm going to make darned sure I keep my hair
>>>>cut
>>>>short...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Reminds me of a conversation I had with a deputy sheriff. He used to
>>> have a handsome head of hair. Until the night he got involved in an
>>> altercation with a crazed, very intoxicated woman. She grabbed his hair
>>> in a death grip and they could not pry her loose for several minutes.
>>> By that time, she had torn much of his scalp loose from his head.
>>>
>>> The resulting injuries were very painful and took awhile to heal. They
>>> shaved his head before they did the surgery to reattach his scalp. He
>>> had to keep it shaved during the recovery. It has never been more than a
>>> half an inch long since.
>>>
>>> He said if he retires or takes up another line of work, he might grow
>>> some hair agin. But as long as he is a law enforcement officer, he will
>>> go with a buzz cut.
>>
>> I don't know what a buzz cut is, but I suspect that it is a cut of the
>> hair that can not be grabbed/held.
>>
> 'Buzz Cut' draws its name from the buzzing sound the clippers make as they
> ride along the scalp. Think electric dog clippers- basically the same
> thing. The buzz is 60hz, from the alternating line current, that is used
> to move the heads back and forth. In UK, it would be a 50hz buzz. You hear
> it right through your skull. I had buzz cuts as a kid, until I looked in
> the mirror one day around 4th or 5th grade. I had a pony tail as a
> teenager, but am back to above-the collar now. The current buzz-cut fad,
> presumably war-inspired, leaves me cold.
>
> aem sends...
>

Andrew Gabriel wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Dave Gordon" <d@p> writes:
>>> You sound typical of many of the injured persons described on
>>> http://www.amgron.clara.net/circularsawbenches/accidents.htm
>>> which was posted earlier in this thread.
>> OK, favourites?
>> Mine is the fishing line one near the bottom.
>
> Snap (or rather it didn't;-).
> And the kickback one which got him on the head of the penis.

You know its a bad day when you fall off a scaffold and "Carpenter fell
from a 2nd floor scaffold onto a running table saw, lost most of his hand."

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Ed Huntress wrote:

>>> I'll tell you one thing: I'm going to make darned sure I keep my hair cut
>>> short...
>>
>> You SURE don't want to go into your shop without pants. ;-)
>
> Oh, jeez, did you have to say that? I'm not going anywhere near my lathe for
> a while now...

This is one of those occasions where the subtle difference in language
use between UK and US does rather change the implications!


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on 9/10/2007 7:57 PM aemeijers said the following:
> "Dave" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>> Lobster wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Owain wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Lew Hartswick wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I think I went through several suggar bowl lids when I was a
>>>>> youngster. :-)
>>>>>
>>>> We were too poor to have sugar bowl lids.
>>>>
>>> Aye, us an' all - we used t'have to make do wi old jam-jar lids
>>>
>> Lids? Sugar bowls? What was wrong with the paper bag that it came in?
>>
>>
> You had sugar? We had go out back and pick berries to mash into our cereal,
> and squeeze into our coffee, if we wanted to sweeten them. Nothing like
> wrestling racoons in the half-light of dawn to get the blood flowing....
>
> aem sends...

You had dirt to grow berries in?

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on 9/11/2007 1:28 AM John B > said the following:
> Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
>> "willshak" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> My hair has been cut so that it is no more than 1/2" long.
>>
>> Mine has not been that long in a couple of years now. 1/6" on the
>> sides, uh, even less on top. Eliminates a lot of problems and is
>> easy to style in the morning.
>>
> G'day Ed,
> I'm in your camp. I call it a 6 month hair cut :)
> In Oz they are commonly called a Crew Cut.
>
> regards
> John
Here in the US it is called a crew cut too. Back in the 50's there was a
singin8 group called "The Crew Cuts"
The "Life is but a Dream" melody immediately comes to mind, but I don't
know if that was by the Crew Cuts

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on 9/11/2007 7:36 AM John B > said the following:
> dennis@home wrote:
>>
>> "Roger" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> The message <[email protected]>
>>> from John B <""johntoymaker\"@large puddle.com"> contains these words:
>>>
>>>> While at Tech, doing my apprenticeship we where warned never to wear
>>>> jewellery, including rings in the work shop. (Although some of the
>>>> instructors wore ties).
>>>> To drive home the message several large posters of photographs were
>>>> displayed.
>>>> One that I've never forgotten was of a finger with a wedding ring
>>>> and a
>>>> long piece of string like stuff protruding from where it had been torn
>>>> from a hand.
>>>> This was a tendon that had stayed attached and pulled out from the
>>>> shoulder. No use or very little left in the blokes arm.
>>>
>>> That photo made a lasting impression on me as well (back in 1962 or
>>> 63).
>>> I was thinking about making a similar post myself when I found John had
>>> beaten me to it.
>>>
>>
>> Probably faked though as the tendon would only go till just after the
>> wrist where it attaches to the muscles that work the fingers.
>> About 6 inches I would estimate.
>> I always took my watch off after being told what happens if you
>> forget and reach between the battery bus bars and never have worn a
>> ring as they are naff and dangerous everywhere not just at work.
> G'day Roger,
> Could have been ?? May not have been a tendon, but that's the way I
> remember it.
> It still did the trick, even if they played around with it in the 60's
> and 70's.
> I won't let the War Office see this in case she takes your point of
> view and makes me hunt up the ring :)
>
> regards
> John

Between then and now, your recollection of the length of the tendon has
been growing longer with each telling. :-)

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Gunner wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:24:45 GMT, raden <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>In message <[email protected]>, Michael A. Terrell
>><[email protected]> writes
>>>raden wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In message <[email protected]>, Dave
>>>> <[email protected]> writes
>>>> >
>>>> >In the UK if we had the right to carry a gun and be immune to
>>>> >defending ourselves against a mugger with a knife, or a burglar in the
>>>> >house, then I am all for it.
>>>> >
>>>> Do you understand nurfink?
>>>
>>>
>>> I understant that you're aren't qualified to own a gun, in your nanny
>>>state.
>>>
>>One of the more sensible laws we have
>
> True. Here in the US we dont let the mentally ill own firearms
> either. Pity your nation is filled with such.
>
> Gunner

Seems there is a significant scandal in the UK right now regarding
ministers having cooked to books to under-report the number of, and
escalating amount of gun crimes in that safe, gun-free country.

Free men own guns, slaves don't.



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on 9/11/2007 11:34 PM Gunner said the following:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:29:43 GMT, raden <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> In message <[email protected]>, Michael A. Terrell
>> <[email protected]> writes
>>
>>> Gunner wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:32:19 GMT, raden <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> Short hair, no rings, no necklaces, no body metal, no ties, no
>>>>>> wristwatches and I have all my fingers left ;)
>>>>>>
>>>>> Four beers for the carpenters .. as the germans say
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Free men own guns
>>>>>>
>>>>> And dead people are the result
>>>>>
>>>> Dead bad people for the most part.
>>>>
>>>> You seem to think this is a bad thing?
>>>>
>>>> Gunner
>>>>
>>> He doesn't think, he just parrots the anti Second Amendment cult.
>>>
>>>
>> We don't have a second amendment, you thick septic
>>
>
>
> Actully..you did have a Bill of Rights, which guarenteed weapons
> ownership, until you used it for bumwad
>
> Now you are simply a serf, owned by the State.
>
> Doesnt that collar around your neck bother you?
>
> Gunner
>

Why is it that some believe that the US Constitution guarantees weapons
ownership?
Most of these people have never read the law, and those that have read
it, completely ignore the first clause of the sentence.
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free
state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be
infringed".
How many gun owners belong to a "well regulated militia"?



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Gunner wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:23:05 GMT, raden <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>>> John
>>> Here in the US it is called a crew cut too. Back in the 50's there was
>>> a singin8 group called "The Crew Cuts"
>>
>> We used to call it a "bog brush" at school
>>
>>
>> --
>> geoff
>
>
> why would anyone want to brush a swamp?

"bog" being a UK slang expression for toilet ;-)

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on 9/12/2007 10:48 AM Sam E said the following:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:52:48 -0400, willshak <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>> on 9/11/2007 11:34 PM Gunner said the following:
>>
>>> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:29:43 GMT, raden <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> In message <[email protected]>, Michael A. Terrell
>>>> <[email protected]> writes
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Gunner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:32:19 GMT, raden <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Short hair, no rings, no necklaces, no body metal, no ties, no
>>>>>>>> wristwatches and I have all my fingers left ;)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Four beers for the carpenters .. as the germans say
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Free men own guns
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And dead people are the result
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dead bad people for the most part.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You seem to think this is a bad thing?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gunner
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> He doesn't think, he just parrots the anti Second Amendment cult.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> We don't have a second amendment, you thick septic
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Actully..you did have a Bill of Rights, which guarenteed weapons
>>> ownership, until you used it for bumwad
>>>
>>> Now you are simply a serf, owned by the State.
>>>
>>> Doesnt that collar around your neck bother you?
>>>
>>> Gunner
>>>
>>>
>> Why is it that some believe that the US Constitution guarantees weapons
>> ownership?
>> Most of these people have never read the law, and those that have read
>> it, completely ignore the first clause of the sentence.
>> "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free
>> state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be
>> infringed".
>> How many gun owners belong to a "well regulated militia"?
>>
>
> And where's the part of that which says a "well regulated militia" is
> the ONLY reason you can own a gun?
>

It is the section that gun proponents quote. If there is another section
that outlines gun ownership other than the 'militia, please cite it.

> I expect you don't know, and are just mindlessly repeating some
> nonsense you heard somewhere (from someone who doesn't know either).
>
I haven't insulted anyone over this issue. Why is it that you fell the
need to do so?

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on 9/12/2007 5:42 PM Dave said the following:
> Michael A. Terrell wrote:
>
>> raden wrote:
>>
>>> In message <[email protected]>, Gunner
>>> <[email protected]> writes
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:23:05 GMT, raden <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>> John
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here in the US it is called a crew cut too. Back in the 50's
>>>>>> there was
>>>>>> a singin8 group called "The Crew Cuts"
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We used to call it a "bog brush" at school
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> geoff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> why would anyone want to brush a swamp?
>>>>
>>>
>>> And you septics claim to understand English ?
>>>
>>> --
>>> geoff
>>
>>
>>
>> We do, whe just don't get 'British'.
>
> 'English', not British, was the language that your founding fathers
> brought to your shore. Was it the Mayflower that was one of the first
> ships to land and populate that land?
>
> It was you that chose to bastardise it, by ignoring the changes that
> we made to it over the years. Hence we talk the same language, but do
> not understand each other
>
> Dave

Now Dave, don't get your shorts all knotted up.
The main US language is still English. We both have idioms that the
other does not understand.
We also have a segment that is unintelligible even to us, like you and
your cockney, and that rhyming thing that no one understands.
Besides, you no longer talk like the Pilgrims either. And let's not
mention Beowulf and the Canterbury Tales.
They might as well have been written in German.
When it is important, we speak the same language.




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Bruce L. Bergman wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:17:35 +0100, John Rumm
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Gunner wrote:
>>> raden <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>>>> Here in the US it is called a crew cut too. Back in the 50's there was
>>>>> a singin8 group called "The Crew Cuts"
>>>> We used to call it a "bog brush" at school
>>> why would anyone want to brush a swamp?
>> "bog" being a UK slang expression for toilet ;-)
>
> I seem to recall a similar shared "Whut the hell...?" between the UK
> term 'Bum Bag' = USA term 'Fanny Pack' Going either way it could be
> considered an insult if one was looking for a reason to be insulted.

My favourite (favorite!) story came from someone I knew who used to be
an instructor in the Royal Air Force. One job he quite enjoyed was when
he was sent to one of the USAF bases over here to induct new service
personnel into the pitfalls of our common language. His opening line was
always "Is there anyone called Randy, in the room?". He said you could
guarantee that a few hands would go up. His response of laughing out
loud and saying "you poor shits!" always seemed to raised some
indignation. He would then point out that the closest word in meaning
they would be familiar with would be "horny". He said you could see a
few faces drop as the implications sank in!

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on 9/13/2007 10:17 AM clifto said the following:
> willshak wrote:
>
>> on 9/11/2007 1:28 AM John B > said the following:
>>
>>> Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
>>>
>>>> "willshak" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>>
>>>>> My hair has been cut so that it is no more than 1/2" long.
>>>>>
>>>> Mine has not been that long in a couple of years now. 1/6" on the
>>>> sides, uh, even less on top. Eliminates a lot of problems and is
>>>> easy to style in the morning.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> G'day Ed,
>>> I'm in your camp. I call it a 6 month hair cut :)
>>> In Oz they are commonly called a Crew Cut.
>>>
>>>
>> Here in the US it is called a crew cut too.
>>
>
> Careful. There were definite distinctions between any number of short
> hair styles. IIRC a buzz cut was shorter than a crewcut, which was shorter
> than a butch. The shortest of all was the baldy sour.
>
>
>> Back in the 50's there was a
>> singin8 group called "The Crew Cuts"
>> The "Life is but a Dream" melody immediately comes to mind, but I don't
>> know if that was by the Crew Cuts
>>
>
> "Sh-Boom"

Right!

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on 9/14/2007 6:52 PM clifto said the following:
> willshak wrote:
>
>> on 9/13/2007 10:17 AM clifto said the following:
>>
>>> willshak wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> on 9/11/2007 1:28 AM John B > said the following:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> "willshak" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My hair has been cut so that it is no more than 1/2" long.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mine has not been that long in a couple of years now. 1/6" on the
>>>>>> sides, uh, even less on top. Eliminates a lot of problems and is
>>>>>> easy to style in the morning.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> G'day Ed,
>>>>> I'm in your camp. I call it a 6 month hair cut :)
>>>>> In Oz they are commonly called a Crew Cut.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Here in the US it is called a crew cut too.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Careful. There were definite distinctions between any number of short
>>> hair styles. IIRC a buzz cut was shorter than a crewcut, which was shorter
>>> than a butch. The shortest of all was the baldy sour.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Back in the 50's there was a
>>>> singin8 group called "The Crew Cuts"
>>>> The "Life is but a Dream" melody immediately comes to mind, but I don't
>>>> know if that was by the Crew Cuts
>>>>
>>>>
>>> "Sh-Boom"
>>>
>> Right!
>>
>
> Yadadadadadadadadadaaaaa

I even had the lyric wrong. It's "Life could be a dream".

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"Dave Gordon" <d@p> wrote in message
>
> How big would the manual have to be to tell that retard all the things he
> should not use his lawnmower for.
> "Do not cut your finger nails with this device"
> "Do not cut your hair with this device"
> "This is not an extractor fan"
>
I teach HS wood shop. While most of my kids are pretty good, some are
dumber than a bucket of rocks. A few years back (thank God it was in
another teacher's class, not mine) one boy, an emo, had long fingernails.
He thought it would be "cool" to cut a notch in his nail on his pointer
finger, right hand. Sort of like a snakes tongue. He decided to use the
big Powermatic band saw. He ended up splitting his finger right up to the
first joint. Dumb.

Last year I caught two who were doing something almost as dumb. Anothe kid
was turning a handle for a gavel out of walnut. The piece broke and he
through the parts in the scrap bucket and started over. Two of my more
"genius" kids saw the piece and thought it would make a pretty ornate hash
pipe. The waited until they thought I wasn't looking and the one was
holding the handle vertically in his hands while the other was preparing to
bore through it with the drill press. Fortunately I caught them before they
turned on the DP.

If you ever work in a HS shop, believe me, you will soon learn the meaning
of stupid!

Glen

on 9/15/2007 5:17 PM Rich Grise said the following:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:12:14 -0400, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
>
>> willshak wrote:
>>
>>> You had dirt to grow berries in?
>>>
>> i know, you were so poor that you had to use borrowed belly button
>> lint to grow berries from seeds found in bird droppings, and you liked
>> it that way.
>>
>
> Sheesh! You only get belly button lint if you can afford clothes! ;-)
>
> Cheers!
> Rich
>
>

You had a belly button?

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on 9/16/2007 3:31 PM Gunner Asch said the following:
> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:02:36 GMT, Rich Grise <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:37:34 -0400, J. Clarke wrote:
>>
>>> ameijers wrote:
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>>> pony tail as a teenager, but am back to above-the collar now. The
>>>> current buzz-cut fad, presumably war-inspired, leaves me cold.
>>>>
>>> Doubt that it really has anything to do with war.
>>>
>> It has _everything_ to do with war. Militaries have regulated hair length
>> and beard length (or even a mandatory clean shave) for centuries, because
>> even the Phoenicians knew what a convenient hand-hold either one is.
>>
>
> Also to prevent major lice infestations.
>
>> I saw a guy in the NFL get pulled down by his hair, and it wasn't a foul,
>> because the defender hadn't grabbed his face mask, horse-collared him, or
>> clotheslined him, but pulled him down by his own body part, as if he'd had
>> his arm or something. It was the guy's hair, but the NFL ruled that if
>> he's stupid enough to leave it dangle out of his hat like that, that it's
>> fair game.
>>
>> I wear my hair long, but I go to great lengths (pun unintended, but noted)
>> to avoid altercations with drunks. :-)
>>
>> Cheers!
>> Rich
>>
>
> Cops used to wear uniform shirts with those nifty epaulets on the
> shoulders. Great hand holds for the bad guys.
>
> I cut mine loose and put velcro on the shirt and epaulets. First bad
> ass to grab one as he had so many before, stood there staring at it
> with a surprised and stupid look on his face, long enough for me to
> chop him down like an oak with my baton.
>
> Gunner

How times have changed. When I started, I wore a Sam Browne belt with
the leather shoulder strap over a dress blouse. It wasn't until the 70's
when the strap became a hazard, and we became pigs, that it was removed.

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Neil Larson wrote:

> manually back out the drill. I chose the drill. It is hard to believe how
> much blood can come out of 2 small holes and a couple of tears in a scrotum
> nor how much one person can scream. After recovery he was discharged for the
> good of the navy.

Last thing you need is thick seamen all over the place.... ;-)

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On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:34:12 -0500, "Neil Larson"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>About 20 years ago, when I was in the US Navy, I was stationed on a LSD
>(Landing Ship Dock). We had a yound machinest that had a string of stupid
>mistake, and one too many.
>
>- He was trying to cut a wrag in half by pulling the knife towards him,
>knife went thru the rag and slipped into and through his right nostril. Nice
>fillet job.
>
>- Next, he used the same knife to attempt tochang a fuze to the power source
>for a piece of machinery he was trying to operate. He used it to pry out the
>440V 20A fuze and welded the knife and the fuze panel together.
>
>- Final and best was when he needed to drill a small hole in a short board.
>He didn't have a vise in the part of the shop he was in so he put the board
>on his lap. He was sitting on one of those old military cloth covered
>stools. He put his weight on the 1/2 " drive drill, and the bit went thru
>the board, his pants, his underwear, his scrotum, back out thru all of them
>then into the bottom of the stool. As any of you that have tried to drill
>thru cloth know, it likes to twist up on the bit. The Chief corpsman and I
>were walking by and heard him scream. After he analyzed the problem. the
>Chief corpsman gave me the choice, hold the mans scrotum in place or
>manually back out the drill. I chose the drill. It is hard to believe how
>much blood can come out of 2 small holes and a couple of tears in a scrotum
>nor how much one person can scream. After recovery he was discharged for the
>good of the navy.
>

"Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by
legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being
stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime: the
sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out
automatically and without pity".
Robert A. Heinlein,

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...

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On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:15:14 UTC, "Swingman" <[email protected]> wrote:

> "John Rumm" wrote in message
>
> > he was sent to one of the USAF bases over here to induct new service
> > personnel into the pitfalls of our common language.
>
> A personal favorite was when my cute secretary at the aircraft factory where
> I worked in Heston, UK would say to me frequently: "knock me up".

And in the reverse sense (UK to US): "I'm dying for a fag"

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On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:20:52 UTC, Ferd Farkel <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sep 8, 6:53 pm, "Bob Eager" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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...
>
> Traditional "grounding strap" when working on static sensitive
> MOSFETs is a steel wristwatch band connected via a 1 meg
> resistor to a wire connected to a grounded pipe.

Pretty stupid idea unless the outside of the band is insulated, though.
Proper earthing straps are cheap.

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On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 04:52:53 UTC, Ken <[email protected]> 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?

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On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:50:03 UTC, clare at snyder.on.ca wrote:

> Generally when working with static sensitive electronics your power is
> also limited toless than an amp. Generally you would blow the
> protection fuse before heating the bracelet up enough to do any
> damage.

That would include the 30A 5 volt supply, then.

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"Morris Dovey" <[email protected]> writes:
> aemeijers wrote:
> | "Dave" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> | news:[email protected]...
> || Lobster wrote:
> ||
> ||| Owain wrote:
> |||
> |||| Lew Hartswick wrote:
> ||||
> ||||| I think I went through several suggar bowl lids when I was a
> ||||| youngster. :-)
> ||||
> |||| We were too poor to have sugar bowl lids.
> |||
> ||| Aye, us an' all - we used t'have to make do wi old jam-jar lids
> ||
> || Lids? Sugar bowls? What was wrong with the paper bag that it came
> || in?
> ||
> | You had sugar? We had go out back and pick berries to mash into our
> | cereal, and squeeze into our coffee, if we wanted to sweeten them.
> | Nothing like wrestling racoons in the half-light of dawn to get the
> | blood flowing....
>
> ...and when the berries and paper bags had all been eaten, we boiled
> the dishrag to make broth and added icebox scrapings for our soup...

Dishrag? Icebox?

Rich Grise <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Uh, yeah, like, not fall off the scaffold in the first place? Acrophobia
> can be pretty handy sometimes. ;-)
>
> ("Yeah, you get me a cherry picker, and I'll go up there again. Oh, and
> let me double-check my harness...") ;-)

That's not acrophobia. Acrophobia is, "no." Trust me on this one.

nick hull <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Short hair, no rings, no necklaces, no body metal, no ties, no
> wristwatches and I have all my fingers left ;)

But what about the ones that were on your right hand?

"Morris Dovey" <[email protected]> writes:

> SteveB wrote:
>
> | You DO remember the topic of this newsgroup, don't you? No? Sigh
>
> Which of the three newsgroups you posted to is "this newsgroup"?

I think his point is valid for any of them.

Ken <[email protected]> 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.

John Rumm <[email protected]> writes:

> You know its a bad day when you fall off a scaffold and "Carpenter
> fell from a 2nd floor scaffold onto a running table saw, lost most of
> his hand."

If I fell from a second floor scaffold onto a running table saw and
the news said "lost most of his hand", I'd consider myself to have
gotten off very lucky.

John B <""johntoymaker\"@large puddle.com"> writes:

> My wedding ring was worn on my wedding day and has stayed in a box at
> home ever since.

My wedding ring is on my finger most of the time... but comes off
when I pick up a screwdriver.

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:52:48 -0400, willshak
<[email protected]> wrote:
<snip>
>How many gun owners belong to a "well regulated militia"?
<snip>

This is simply another red herring for a yet another "gun grab."

The idea of armed and trained citizens united in well-regulated
and organized local militia units strikes terror in the hearts of
politicians and political functionaries everywhere.

In many states this is specifically prohibited unless they are
under the control of the political authorities as is our
so-called national guard.

As in most things, if the politicians and bureaucrats are against
it, it is the best thing for the people.

FWIW -- as soon as it became obvious that using national guard
troops to augment the border patrol / ICE was having very
positive effects on reducing illegal immigration, they were
removed from such duty. Why are national guard units on border
security duty a good thing in Iraq but a bad thing in Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona and California?


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
============
Merchants have no country.
The mere spot they stand on
does not constitute so strong an attachment
as that from which they draw their gains.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),
U.S. president. Letter, 17 March 1814.

J. Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:

> And then it's the "nutter", the ownership or possession of firearm by
> which is unlawful everywhere in the United States, who commits the
> murder.

The bigest problems with having so many guns is that.
1) the nutters can get them more easily.
2) borderline nutters can get them easily.
3) young kids can, and do, get them to play with and kill others by
mistake much too often.
4) killing or injuring someone at a distance is so easy,

And the reason that guns should be much more closely controlled is that
with almost all other weapons you have to get close to the person you
injure/kill.

But by controlled I mean that all guns and ammunition should be easily
identifiable and the original owner made equally responsible for their
use or misuse, with no exceptions at all, unless that owner could prove
that they had sold the gun/ammo to another identifiable responsible
person.
Regrettably at this time that could not happen in any country where the
law often lets people totally avoid responsibility.
However if it could be achieved the level of gun related crime/accidents
would drop at an amazing rate.


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[email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> They have a blade with the stop jambed in it at the local Woodcraft
> store signed by an ukulele maker who got to keep all his fingers,

Jings that's a shame. I'm as devastated as the day that I heard the
local accordion factory had been saved from a fire.

Fri, Sep 7, 2007, 9:52pm (EDT-3) [email protected] (Ken) doth ask,
for some unexplained reason:
<snip> please elaborate on what unfortunately went wrong.

Friend of family; nicked thigh bone; advanced case of stupidity.
Another friend of family; lost three fingers; also advanced case of
stupidity.

You want elaborate, you provide an acceptable e=D7planation of
'why' you want to know.



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humiliations?
- Peter Egan

SteveB wrote:

> "Just Wondering" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>>SteveB wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>>>Count the postings to this thread. YOu'll find that even though OT it
>>>>>>>is generating more interest
>>>>>>>then anything else going on in this newsgroup right now. That's the
>>>>>>>First Amendment at work. Don't like it? Then exercise your own rights
>>>>>>>rather than try to suppress others, by just ignoring this thread.
>>>>>>>
>>>
>>>People screeching in this newsgroup on OT subjects have the credibility
>>>of anyone screeching from atop a step ladder on the corner in a major
>>>city.
>>>
>>
>>Perhaps so, but so what? As you point out, some posters consider much of
>>what is said idiotic. It does no need to cry about it, and those who do
>>any way are well on the road to becoming anal retentive.
>>Usenet is a forum for people to speak out. If they are speaking out on an
>>off-topic subject and you want to stay on-topic, just mark the whole
>>thread as "read" and get on with your life.
>
>
> NO, NO, NO. I killfile the idiots first. Most never have anything to say
> about the group they are responding to anyway. When I killfile some of
> these people, my list of posts sometimes lessen by 20%. They must need to
> get a life to get on with.
>
> Steve
>
When you skip an OT thread, you've saved yourself from having to see it. When
you killfile a poster, though, you not only eliminate the OT stuff, you also
prevent yourself from seeing any good on-topic stuff from his as well. As long
as you are OK with that, by all means killfile away.

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:52:48 -0400, willshak <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>Why is it that some believe that the US Constitution guarantees weapons
>ownership?

It doesn't. It guarantees the Right to own a weapon. If you choose not
to exercise that right...you don't have to.

>Most of these people have never read the law, and those that have read
>it, completely ignore the first clause of the sentence.
>"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free
>state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be
>infringed".
>How many gun owners belong to a "well regulated militia"?

You seem to have missed that tiny little "comma" between the first and
second clauses in the verbiage as well as the third clause.


Is there some reason for your reading comprehension issues? Some form
of autism perhaps?

Gunner

>
>

The message <[email protected]>
from John B <""johntoymaker\"@large puddle.com"> contains these words:

> While at Tech, doing my apprenticeship we where warned never to wear
> jewellery, including rings in the work shop. (Although some of the
> instructors wore ties).
> To drive home the message several large posters of photographs were
> displayed.
> One that I've never forgotten was of a finger with a wedding ring and a
> long piece of string like stuff protruding from where it had been torn
> from a hand.
> This was a tendon that had stayed attached and pulled out from the
> shoulder. No use or very little left in the blokes arm.

That photo made a lasting impression on me as well (back in 1962 or 63).
I was thinking about making a similar post myself when I found John had
beaten me to it.

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On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:21:23 GMT, "ameijers" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
><clare at snyder.on.ca> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:17:39 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"user" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>news:[email protected]...
>>>> Ed Huntress wrote:
>>>>
>(((snip)
>> A kid at the highschool where a friend's wife teaches always wore
>> baggy track pants to school - regimental. Thought he was IT.
>>
>> One day he somehow got his drawstring caught (wrapped around) on the
>> wood lathe. Got a few good wraps of the track pants wound up too. They
>> got the lathe stopped in time to save "the boys" - but JUST.
>> Didn't faze the idiot at all - - -
>>
>Well, being in high school, he probably hadn't reproduced yet. So this
>counts as interfering with natural selection?
>
>aem sends...
>
At 15 he had fathered at least 3. This is an "inner city" school. Stud
muffin.

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Ed Huntress wrote:

> "willshak" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>
>
>>Why is it that some believe that the US Constitution guarantees weapons
>>ownership?
>>Most of these people have never read the law, and those that have read it,
>>completely ignore the first clause of the sentence.
>>"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free
>>state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be
>>infringed".
>>How many gun owners belong to a "well regulated militia"?
>
>
> It's not a clause (except to a lawyer), because it contains no predicate.
> It's a phrase, and the sentence is a type called "nominative absolute."
> Nominative absolute sentences tell you nothing about the dependency of the
> clause ("the right of the people..." etc.) upon the phrase. It may be a
> dependency, or it may be incidental. Often it's a sufficient but not
> necessary condition.
>
> Nobody ever gets this right, so don't feel badly about it. And it wouldn't
> be the first time the FFs wrote something that was intentionally ambiguous.
> The whole purpose of the Bill of Rights was to get the anti-federalists to
> calm down and ratify the Constitution. Nothing more, nothing less.
>
> Gunner does identify the source of the idea of our 2nd Amendment as a
> "right," however, which is English common law.
>
> --
> Ed Huntress
>
>

Ed;

The Founding Fathers may have been unnecessarily ambigous in the
phrasing of the Second Amendment but the Resolution of Congress that
became the 2ND Amendment upon ratification by the states was NUMBER ONE
on the list of Resolutions passed by Congress and sent to the states.


Dave

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.

dg wrote:

> On 8 Sep, 05:52, Ken <[email protected]> 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
>
I shot a staple through my finger once. That was bad enough. I think
I know the feeling you describe.

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Gunner wrote:
>
> Arriving at the church..Im greeted by a badly shocked pastor and
> staff..all looking a bit green. I had to back out the drill bit and
> unwind the hair and about 1/3 of his total scalp. I quickly put it on
> ice and ran it down to the hospital, where they managed to reattach
> it, about 45 minutes after the accident. Most..most of it managed to
> reattach but not all of it and they later had to use maggots to
> debride the dead tissue.
>
> Wrapped up his head with a handful of maggots under gauze, chewing
> away the dead tissues. He said it tickled.

Isn't it amazing how well those maggots work? Nothing in "modern"
medicine that can match them.

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
>
> "Lobster" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > Distant cousin of SWMBO was found dead in his workshop a couple of years
> > ago, and police originally treated it as suspicious. However, it emerged
> > that he'd disabled a safety feature on his industrial-grade circular saw -
> > I don't know the details but I think he somehow got impaled on a length of
> > wood he was cutting and bled to death before being able to summon help.
>
> That bring sup another point. My workshop is in a detached garage. I
> usually work by myself, but I always take either the portable phone or my
> cell phone.

My shop is detached, but that doesn't make any difference since I'm
single. I pretty much always have my cell phone with me, but since I'm
always working alone, I pay that much more attention to safety details.
I still never use the silly guard on my table saw, but I always wear
safety glasses, stand to the side out of the path of any kickback, and
use a pusher stick.

If all mistakes were compiled, I would be fired, arrested, committed,
and divorced.

Fortunately, I have a poor memory that keeps me from thinking less of
myself.

I do remember that I got my finger in the grinder in April, and got 3
stitches. All these other scars are distant memories.

Owain wrote:
>
> J. Clarke wrote:
> > [email protected] wrote:
> >>... his wife decided he shouldnt fix anything.
> > A creative solution to the "Honey-Do" list.
>
> One smashed teapot at the age of nine, and one is excused washing-up
> duty for life :-)
>
> Owain


Making one pot of coffee with a little detegent in it excuses you of
having to EVER make coffee again. Have you ever seen a regular cup of
coffee with an inch of foam on the top? ;-)


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Ed Huntress wrote:
>
> "willshak" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > on 9/9/2007 11:18 AM Shawn Hirn said the following:
> >> In article <[email protected]>,
> >> Ken <[email protected]> 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.
> >
> > I'm not going to read anymore of this thread. I'm afraid to go into my
> > work shed or pick up a tool!
>
> I'm with you. It's scaring the pants off of me.
>
> I'll tell you one thing: I'm going to make darned sure I keep my hair cut
> short...


You SURE don't want to go into your shop without pants. ;-)


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jo4hn wrote:
>
> Owain wrote:
> > Lee Michaels wrote:
> >
> >> "Ed Huntress" wrote
> >>
> >>> I'll tell you one thing: I'm going to make darned sure I keep my hair
> >>> cut
> >>> short...
> >>
> >> Reminds me of a conversation I had with a deputy sheriff. ...
> >
> >
> > That's all very well, but what about injuries sustained from electric
> > hair clippers, especially when used in bathrooms?
> >
> > Owain
> >
> My uncle went to the hospital with 109 bruises and 16 contusions. What
> happened, you ask? He hit a golf ball in a tile bathroom.


Then your aunt beat him with his golf clubs for breaking the mirror,
window and glass shower doors.


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Dave wrote:
>
> Lee Michaels wrote:
>
> > "Ed Huntress" wrote
> >
> >
> >>I'll tell you one thing: I'm going to make darned sure I keep my hair cut
> >>short...
> >>
> >
> > Reminds me of a conversation I had with a deputy sheriff. He used to have a
> > handsome head of hair. Until the night he got involved in an altercation
> > with a crazed, very intoxicated woman. She grabbed his hair in a death grip
> > and they could not pry her loose for several minutes. By that time, she had
> > torn much of his scalp loose from his head.
> >
> > The resulting injuries were very painful and took awhile to heal. They
> > shaved his head before they did the surgery to reattach his scalp. He had
> > to keep it shaved during the recovery. It has never been more than a half an
> > inch long since.
> >
> > He said if he retires or takes up another line of work, he might grow some
> > hair agin. But as long as he is a law enforcement officer, he will go with a
> > buzz cut.
>
> I don't know what a buzz cut is, but I suspect that it is a cut of the
> hair that can not be grabbed/held.
>
> Most police officers in the UK have the same short cut, for the same
> reasons.


AKA a 'burr' haircut like you get when you enter basic training or
boot camp. About 1/8" long.


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willshak wrote:
>
> My hair has been cut so that it is no more than 1/2" long.
> The one tool that I use that I have the most respect for (read scared
> of) is the radial arm saw, especially when ripping. Somehow, the blade
> over the table is more respected (read scared of) than one under the table.
> The others, I'm just merely careful.


You are not supposed to that the 'arm saw' part literally.


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raden wrote:
>
> In message <[email protected]>,
> nick hull <[email protected]> writes
> >
> >Free men own guns
>
> And dead people are the result


Only if you're a good shot.


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raden wrote:
>
> In message <[email protected]>, Dave
> <[email protected]> writes
> >
> >In the UK if we had the right to carry a gun and be immune to defending
> >ourselves against a mugger with a knife, or a burglar in the house,
> >then I am all for it.
> >
> Do you understand nurfink?


I understant that you're aren't qualified to own a gun, in your nanny
state.


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Ed Huntress wrote:
>
> "user" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Ed Huntress wrote:
> >
> >> I'll tell you one thing: I'm going to make darned sure I keep my hair cut
> >> short...
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ed Huntress
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Back in the early to mid 70's when I was living with my grandparents and
> > had grown my hair to about my belt loops, Grandpa and I went to the store
> > one evening. Saw the ugliest looking person you ever saw. Grandpa asked
> > him, "What happened to you?"
> > The guy answered, "I got my ponytail caught in the lathe at work!"
> >
> > Yikes
> >
> > 5 minutes later and several aisles over, Grandpa told me, "I ain't gonna
> > ever tell you to get your hair cut again."
> >
> > Didn't have long hair very much after that.
>
> Man, these stories are piling up. My 1943 edition of _How to Run a Lathe_
> doesn't say anything about it. d8-)


They were smart enough to keep short hair back then, when common
sense, was still common.


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Don Klipstein wrote:
>
> Now, what if I am the caffeine junkie and nobody else at the shop is in
> a mood for coffee and the pot is empty? Looks like I gotta brew it then!
> (or guzle some Mountain Dew.)


I had worked doubles, seven days a week for over six months when my
idiot boss decided that I should make the first pot of coffee, along
with everything else I had to do. I told him I didn't drink coffee, and
didn't know how to make it. He grunted, "You'll make it, or you're
fired.". The next morning I decided the pot wasn't clean enough, and
scrubbed it till it shined. I smeared a fingertip full of Dawn inside
the pot, then filled the Mr. Coffee. He came in bleary eyed about 20
minutes later. He didn't even look at the pot. He just filled his cup
and was about to swallow when his eyes went wide and he spit it all over
the kitchenette. He dumped it out, followed by the rest of the pot. I
just smiled and said, "I told you that I didn't know how to make
coffee. Do you want me to try to make another pot?" He turned bright
red and started yelling, "Don't you EVER touch the coffee maker again!"
:)

I preferred Mt. Dew, anyway. ;-)


> Meanwhile, decades ago at a much younger age, I did put Joy (or
> the like) regular dish detergent in a dishwasher. This was one of those
> dishwashers with a dual hose that went to a fitting that fits onto a
> kitchen sink faucet. This generated a few cubic yards of foam at a rate
> 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than the rate at which such foam can go
> down the drain, IIRC.
> Thankfully, the back door was at the kitchen and we had brooms. I don't
> remember whether or not the snow shovel was used.
>
> - Don Klipstein ([email protected])


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Gunner wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:32:19 GMT, raden <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>
> >>Short hair, no rings, no necklaces, no body metal, no ties, no
> >>wristwatches and I have all my fingers left ;)
> >
> >Four beers for the carpenters .. as the germans say
> >
> >>
> >>Free men own guns
> >
> >And dead people are the result
>
> Dead bad people for the most part.
>
> You seem to think this is a bad thing?
>
> Gunner


He doesn't think, he just parrots the anti Second Amendment cult.


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"J. Clarke" wrote:
>
> Doubt that it really has anything to do with war. Circle goes
> around--when I was a little kid buzz cuts and crew cuts were popular.
> When I was a bit older styles got longer (I remember when the Beatles,
> as they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, had scandalously long hair)
> and longer and longer and then shorter and shorter and shorter and now
> we're back to buzz cuts. In another 30 years or so it will be long
> again.


If you still have any hair. ;-)

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