Broken Stuff

[ScottR]

Now, envision a Honda foreman 4 wheeler backed up about 5 feet away from that workbench sitting there and then all of the sudden heading for the wall in reverse as hard as it can go, redlined...

Now, envision being in between that 4 wheeler and the workbench just to the left of that bench vise.

Welcome to my nightmare.

I'm lucky I'm somehow just bruised from my tits to my knees.

The only thing more awesome that Fixing Broke stuff is fixing broke stuff for other people, who have (unknown to me) hotwired their 4 wheeler, because they lost their keys, so they reach down to unhook the wires to shut it off and hold the throttle WFO with their forearm.......while still in reverse. JFC.

I'm going to go pop another 2 Advil now.

Man, I'm glad to hear that you are ok!!!

 

[RICMIC]

Thank God for safety glasses. I recently had cataract surgery and have become even more vigilant about wearing them whenever I am doing anything other than sitting in the recliner. That incident could have seriously changed your life, and not for the better.
Recover, rinse, repeat, (and maybe ban the atv owner from your shop).

 

[tim]

I need to be better with safety glasses. I took a branch to the eye socket mountain biking in june. I had black spots in my vision for about a week. Concusion i guess.

 

[JimP]

This hasn't been my year.

First are the health problems but those are under control, I hope.

Then came my new roof. After 60 years the roofer found problems with every sheet of roofing that they peeled off of the existing roof. The dollars kept adding up and up from the original estimate. But what are you going to do when the work needs to be done and the workers are there to do it. My biggest surprise was my boiler flew that comes up from the basement and into the fireplace chimney, it was totally rotten in the attic area. So bad that I was just venting the fumes into that space. I had found a section of bad flue a few years ago down in my crawlspace when I was checking out a new headlamp and had that piece replaced but never gave a thought about the rest of it. I still have a section that go through a enclosed wall that I need to get a bore scope in to see if I need to pull a wall apart.

Then it seams that if I start a project I break something that isn't even associated with what I'm working on. Yesterday I decided to place a shelf in my laundry area above the washer and drier. All was going well until I dropped a shelf brace behind the drier, that brace managed to stick a hole into my drier vent. Just one more thing to take care of.