What not to do.

[oseaghdha]

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[Larrym]

Count before and after

An excellent example of how people "learn". Not by doing it right but rather by doing it wrong or seeing someone else who did it wrong.

Makes me really appreciate the "Shop Safety" training/videos I had as a kid.

[Bigfoot]

Glad I had already had dinner. LOL.

[MeatTooth]

That is horrible. Ever since I was 9 and seen my uncle get thrown off his motorcross bike ass first into the sprocket I've been terrified of chain and sprocket setups. He was laid up for quite a while with a huge chunk of butt muscle missing. I'm glad I ride a xs1100 never have to worry about it!

I hope it heals right ....maybe he'll ride again.

[HobbyMan]

Well, before I saw the photos, I was wondering why he was using WD40. (don't want to start that debate)
The problem is that no matter how many pictures people show us, we keep doing dangerous stuff until it happens to us. On my last ship, I used to work down in the shop lathing out parts late at night. (never mind the obvious problems of working at night when everyone is asleep) We were in the Bearing Sea in the dead of winter with a snow storm so there was snow being sucked into the engine room ventilation system. I had on my cheap walmart jacket that I usually weld in. Of course my sleeves were down and I wasn't using the safety shield (disconnected safety switch) on the lathe. Luckily I was only threading at that point because my sleeve got caught on the machine. I was able to hit the emergency stop just in time to save my arm. Scary stuff. Narrowly escaped that one with just a sore arm. It just takes one mistake and your life is changed forever. Every few years a classmate gets injured pretty bad. I leaned a lot out at sea. The best one was where I learned not to use a carbon air arc setup to gouge heavy gauge steel only wearing jeans and an oily jacket. (is it getting warm in here?)

[redbone]

Shaft drives rule!!!

[oseaghdha]

Well, before I saw the photos, I was wondering why he was using WD40. (don't want to start that debate)
The problem is that no matter how many pictures people show us, we keep doing dangerous stuff until it happens to us. On my last ship, I used to work down in the shop lathing out parts late at night. (never mind the obvious problems of working at night when everyone is asleep) We were in the Bearing Sea in the dead of winter with a snow storm so there was snow being sucked into the engine room ventilation system. I had on my cheap walmart jacket that I usually weld in. Of course my sleeves were down and I wasn't using the safety shield (disconnected safety switch) on the lathe. Luckily I was only threading at that point because my sleeve got caught on the machine. I was able to hit the emergency stop just in time to save my arm. Scary stuff. Narrowly escaped that one with just a sore arm. It just takes one mistake and your life is changed forever. Every few years a classmate gets injured pretty bad. I leaned a lot out at sea. The best one was where I learned not to use a carbon air arc setup to gouge heavy gauge steel only wearing jeans and an oily jacket. (is it getting warm in here?)

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."

In spite having been in the metal cutting business for more than 20 years, and wrenching on all things mechanical since I was a kid, I still have all my fingers, although my fingerprints are quite different now.

You were lucky, I have heard of people getting KIA operating lathes and getting tangled up in them. I almost lost my little finger when a stainless steel stringer threw a loop around it. I was trying to unwind it from my knuckle with some needle nose pliers when the secretary came up to ask me something. I was afraid she was going down hard when she saw what was going on. Too much blood I guess. The Dr had to cut it out anyway.

At any rate, I have a very healthy respect for spinning-moving-much-harder-than-skin-and-bone type things.

Lesson for the day: Rags and moving parts= BAD THINGS ARE GONNA HAPPEN.

[trbig]

At any rate, I have a very healthy respect for spinning-moving-much-harder-than-skin-and-bone type things.

As a medic, I got a call out to a buddy of mine's dad's house. They had been unloading a belly-dump semi full of feed (This was a farm) using the PTO shaft on the rear of a tractor to run a conveyor belt to run the feed up to a grain elevator. His dad had on some coveralls and got caught in the PTO on the tractor. Soft squishy boddies don't stand up to lots of H/P and spinning forces. If he had been on the 50 yard line, there would have been pieces in both end zones.. and beyond.


I have lots of other stories I'll spare you from, but the point is to be careful and think about things before you do them. The guy in the above story was a farmer in his early 60's and had done this type of thing thousands of times with no problems. Getting complacent and losing respect for stuff is probably just as bad as not respecting it or getting distracted to begin with.


Tod