18 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

Use mine all the time, with my wonky eyesight it's the only way to get vertical holes.

With a hairnet?

 

Saw the results of loose hair plus pedestal drill as an apprentice fitter. 

 

Still feel sick to this day.

2 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

With a hairnet?

 

When I was an ape, yup, hat with built-in hairnet.

 

Now with a No.2 there's not much risk.

 

2 minutes ago, Crossy said:

 

When I was an ape, yup, hat with built-in hairnet.

 

Now with a No.2 there's not much risk.

 

 

Please stop this malicious fake news that Mods have blood ! 

 

 

Yes, ... but, ... we all take the guard of our angle grinder. ????

Chatting with my youngest (Ex RN aircraft tech) about this yesterday, he witnessed a guy getting his willy drilled.

 

The "victim" was leaning on the outside of the aircraft making some repair, the "perp" was on the inside of the aircraft drilling rivet holes!! Of course Lady Luck ensured that the rivet hole was exactly where the victim was located.

 

Note that all appropriate warning signs were posted.

 

13 minutes ago, carlyai said:

Yes, ... but, ... we all take the guard of our angle grinder. ????

 

Also a large number of people seem to operate their grinder with the hot sparks flying towards their nether regions!

23 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Chatting with my youngest (Ex RN aircraft tech) about this yesterday, he witnessed a guy getting his willy drilled.

 

The "victim" was leaning on the outside of the aircraft making some repair, the "perp" was on the inside of the aircraft drilling rivet holes!! Of course Lady Luck ensured that the rivet hole was exactly where the victim was located.

 

Note that all appropriate warning signs were posted.

 

Brings a whole new meaning to "being bored" ! .....OK, I'll leave now....5555

4 hours ago, Crossy said:

 

Did you attend the TATC at Copenacre?

No.  I worked on merchant shipping repairs in the London Docks late '70's early '80's

1 minute ago, phetphet said:

No.  I worked on merchant shipping repairs in the London Docks late '70's early '80's

 

We had exactly the same incident at the TATC, same era too.

 

2 hours ago, Will B Good said:

With a hairnet?

 

Saw the results of loose hair plus pedestal drill as an apprentice fitter. 

 

Still feel sick to this day.

I witnessed a guy scalped on a Lathe whilst looking into a bore he was doing.

Not just  his Hair, but half his face was also taken off.

I can 100 % agree to it being the most horrible thing I think I have ever witnessed in my life.

And as a Rally Marshall, I have seen a few,

 

Personal minor to moderate injuries because you don’t know better are somewhat excusable specially if not repeated and safe practices are then followed.
 

Of course getting educated first and so not getting a visit to the A&E department are better. 
 

When I was several decades younger I managed to plane off a significant section of the tip of my left index finger. The only fortunate thing was that my local A&E was closed so I got taken to one of the top neurological hospital’s A&E department and the consultant who operated was doing research on reconstructive surgery and nerve regeneration so I was offered the choice of tip amputation (the most common treatment) or an experiment to see if muscle and a skin graft was an effective treatment. I am happy to report the experiment was effective and have almost perfect nerve regeneration, though my finger print is almost always rejected as fake.

On 9/6/2021 at 3:21 PM, Crossy said:

 

We had exactly the same incident at the TATC, same era too.

 

We're you guys the same as us Roofers working in dangerous conditions and mistakes could result in death as seen by me. 

Some of the roofing gangs I worked with were beyond symphathy, one time guy fell to his death and when they looked down they just and said his brown bread,  and then came what came was what size boots does he take mine are done.