ok.. put me on the "dumbass" list please..

[Kejtar]

And after reading all that I went and crushed one of my fingers (middle one right hand) tonight with the axle! (it shifted on me as I was moving the support under it).... Finger is about twice the size, hurts like a mad mofo.... nail is all purple....... damn!!!!!!!!!! and that all happened while I was thinking how good I am about wearing safety glasses....

owwww the pain (I'm typing this with my left hand as my right one is in a bucket full of ice)

Kejtar

 

[Rev Den]

Feel your pain....mashed middle finger left hand (I am left handed) putting in my cage. Wife finally convinced me to go to the doctor, appt is Wednesday....I'll let you all know. Feels like the knuckle is cracked.

till then Vicoden!!! Hang in there Remi.

Rev

 

[XJEEPER]

I think I have the best dumbass story.

I send PM's to people I want to hitch a ride to Moab with, all the while, my profile is set to NOT accept return emails or PM's...........
Flowers

Sorry Tim, kind of a delay response, but timing is everything Did you get your flight nailed down?

What a sorry bunch of accident prone losers we've got here among us..........and after witnessing Beezil's obsession of taking photos of people relieving themselves in scenic Moab, I believe him when he says that he once had s**t in his eye........probably happened trying to get a closeup.

Good advice here, full faceshields are great for grinding, plus they look cooler than goggles........:anon:

 

[Kejtar]

RevDen..... I feel your pain! In my case I don;t think anything is broken and well... I'll see tomorrow hot things progress (gotta play soccer !!!) plus my XJ is still sitting on the jack stands with the axle almost on the ground and no leafs underneath!

Kejtar

 

[Lupine]

Kej,

Check it out - keep mashin those digits enough, pretty soon you won't have to worry about the pain...case in point:

Last January I was at work, mindin my own bidness, when I receive a call - go figure, it's Crash. He's all, "I just drilled through my finger, think I just hit the bone." So I tell him, get inside, put a bandaid on it or something for C's teeth, and we'll go to the hospital. Then he tells me, "Nah, I've been out here for 30 minutes, I think it has stopped bleeding. Don't worry about it, go back to work."

I think I looked at the telephone for a good 15 minutes after he hung up.

 

[Kejtar]

LOL........ good one So does he have an extra hole in the finger?

 

[4ward]

I try to wear my safety glasses with the side shields as much as possible, sometimes I'm too lazy to grab them for a 15 second grind though. I can't do the full face shields.

I ALWAYS wear glasses when I'm using a wire wheel though. You don't want one of those little shards of wire from the wheel sticking in your eye.

 

[sidriptide]

well.. the eye seems all better now.. but i was scared sh#$less for a while there.... now that we are on basic "dumbass"stuff... this all reminds me of the time i was shingling a house when i was 16 and stapled my thumb to the wall with a big bostich pneumatic stapler, and didnt have pliers in my tool belt... here i am, second floor pump staging, wind blowing cause we are on the beach... the guys on the crew were tossing pliers to me intentionally just out of my reach.. only until they could get the polaroid loaded.... Aholes!!
mike

 

[RichP]

Helped a girlfriend move once with my dodge van, big 50 series tire mounted on the back door, grabbed the last load in lazy man fashion, locked the door, grabbed the load and started swinging the door shut when I sas something else I wanted. Tried to grab the door with two fingers, caught it and it locked and closed on one of them. Did not hurt either but I had to put the load down, take the keys out, unlock the door and when it opened it was like an electrical shock up the arm.
Quick trip to the base hospital EF, corpsman drilled the nail and instant, I mean INSTANT relief. Had fun a few weeks later when the nail came off and I could pull it off and put it back on in the mess hall.

 

[Slip Kid]

ok all you ametuer idiots... a while back, when I was about 13, I decided to disect a shotshell. luckily I had gotten the pellets out before I decided to drill through the primer(yea you heard me)..... but anyways I got a tiny shard of shattered titanium drillbit literally shot into the left eye. eye watered for a while, didn't hurt, went about my life. about a month later I noticed things looked funny. eye doctor said "oh my god, look at this". saw a foreign object and a newly formed cataract. nonetheless it took 5 grand worth of surgery to remove the piece of drillbit and replace my thrashed lens with a plastic one. so now that eye is basically fixed-focus on far away stuff, so I can't read with that eye and have pretty much no close up depth preception. but I've had no problem wearing safty glasses since then.

so think of that next time you about take my advice. or next time you think you did somthing stupid.

well I've gotten a little smarter with age, I'm indeed a whole 6 years older now

 

[JnJ]

drilled the nail and instant, I mean INSTANT relief.

Had to do that to myself twice. Just used my smallest bit and turned it by hand til it went through the nail.

 

[Rev Den]

ok all you ametuer idiots... I decided to drill through the primer(yea you heard me).....

OK....you win.

Glad it did not turn out worse for you.

Rev

 

[Lawn Cher']

When Peterbilt and myself were replacing the roof and installing a cage on my '97, we were doing alot of grinding. Whatever material his sweatshirt was made of must have been very flammable, because the hot sparks from the grinder set it ablaze. Fortunately I noticed right away and put him out before it got through the other layers and actually burnt him, but the potential was there. So the only loss was a dirty sweatshirt.

And how about Stroker getting run over by Skorpyo's XJ? Skorpyo had broken the pinion yoke on his D35, and Stroker was working on the R&R operation. They had put the transmission in park but hadn't chocked the wheels. So as soon as the rear driveshaft was disconnected from the axle, the Jeep rolled backwards. Stroker didn't get out in time and was "cold-rolled" between the earth and the D30, suffering a broken ankle and other bruises.

I guess I've just been lucky. Watch sparks and use chocks!

 

[Ryan4x4XJ]

I had a couple of run ins with not wearing my safety glasses but nothing too major.

My worst injury came from installing new 6" coils on my old jeep. I was using coil spring compressors( I know I know) and I had the coil compressed and I was sliding it onto the coil perch when the coil shifted and snapped the two coil compressors around two of my fingers. Well I was home alone and I had to sit there and ratchet off the bolts while I was looking at the bone on my finger. Im still thankful I had my ratchet and the right socket in reach.