whitebb2727
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To be honest though I wear safety gear. I've seen some rough accidents and a couple deaths from preventable causes.
What did you accomplish today?
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Ha ha! I've got three more weeks
then you can laugh at me ...... PS I'd hate to be trimming 'those' tomatoes, what a pita
420God
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I grab safety glasses any time I have to grind, they get too fogged up under the helmet though. It was hot as hell today so I didn't wear my jacket and got a little weld flash.
jerryb73
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Wish I was..
WeedFreak78
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Maybe? I can't find a conclusive answer. My scan tool won't access the ABS system on it, but it does on other cars, so IDK if my scan tool just can't access it on this particular truck and I need a different scanner or if there's just no ABS functions to access. It's a 2000, which seems to be around the changeover years for needing a special scan tool to reset it.
The way things have gone with everything else on it, I probably need that scanner
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WeedFreak78
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I had a grinding wheel on a die grinder blow up and it took out my eye, no safety glasses
and I have had metal shavings go around a face shield, around safety glasses and right into my eye. I can't win, my eyes are like magnets, I've been to the ER over a dozen times to have shit drilled out, not to mention the multiple times I dug something out myself with a qtip, toothpick..or a pin
...lol. And I still forget to put safety glasses on half the time
.Flash burn isn't too bad, it's the slag beads embedded in the arms that sucks.
Hubby said, proportioning valve... ??
WeedFreak78
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That's part of the ABS module on this thing. I think It's F.U.B.A.R and I'm S.O.L.
whitebb2727
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You know when you drill soft metals you get long squirel tails?
I was using a pneumatic drill and one of those pieces of aluminum made it past safety glasses and a face shield.
Its hard not to move an eye on the way to the ER.
Aeroknow
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You know how many of those i've gotten in my eyeballs? 2 times it was so bad i had to go to the hospital. I fought wearing safety glasses. I So dumb. As a metal stud framer, it's in evitable you're gonna get shit in your eyes. Shavings from self-tappers, chopsaw blade(abbrasive blades) crap, lots of things. If i had to do it all again though, you bet i'd wear them things at all times.
On a sunny day, i close my eyes and look up towards the sun. It's like there's a bunch of worms squirming around lol.
I'm surprised i can see as good as i can considering. The hearing is a dif story
whitebb2727
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I'm quite lucky myself.You know how many of those i've gotten in my eyeballs? 2 times it was so bad i had to go to the hospital. I fought wearing safety glasses. I So dumb. As a metal stud framer, it's in evitable you're gonna get shit in your eyes. Shavings from self-tappers, chopsaw blade(abbrasive blades) crap, lots of things. If i had to do it all again though, you bet i'd wear them things at all times.
On a sunny day, i close my eyes and look up towards the sun. It's like there's a bunch of worms squirming around lol.
I'm surprised i can see as good as i can considering. The hearing is a dif story
Aeroknow
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I wasn't wearing my leathers one time welding stickers(Zbar) up to the steel overhead before our plasterers came through fireproofing. Pretty standard shit, anyways that one time some slag went down my chest and ended up getting stuck in between my pants and my lower stomach. Fucking sucked bad for months. It got hella infected. It hurt strapping my bags on forever! But yeah, i've fucked myself up from welding overhead many times too lmao
tyler.durden
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I had a grinding wheel on a die grinder blow up and it took out my eye, no safety glasses
And I still forget to put safety glasses on half the time
Flash burn isn't too bad, it's the slag beads embedded in the arms that sucks.
Last week I was sorting sheet music and I got a nasty fucking paper cut. It REALLY hurt and bled a bit. So I know what you guys are talking about...
Bareback
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My step dad is a structural and pipe welder , and I have lots of burned stories and tonight I'm sharing this one . I was 18 and weighed about 135# my step dad was about 190# , we were fitting and welding some I beam , riding these beams that are being placed with a crane . I'm on one side of the hookup and he's on the other , so naturally his side is lower than mine, and as he is welding a big ball of slag falls onto the beam and heads down hill right for his ball sack ( hehehe ) as it starts to burn him he is squeezing his ass cheeks to try and make his ass hop over the red hot slag it burns his ass, balls, and his legs. And yeah it took months to heal.
Ok one more.
One day in Stockbridge GA we are working on a water treatment plant . I have a project installing Leopold filters, and my step dad is in the pipe gallery with his own crew , I noticed his crew members running out of the hole but he doesn't come out so I run in and he is standing on his head with water up to his chest trying to weld a pipe that had ruptured and was quickly filling the room with water. As he serfasted for air I asked if I could help and he said hold my leg ( I new it would suck because it takes the shock off him and puts it on me) and now ever second he's welding I'm getting shocked . By the time he finishes I was well electrocuted .
Fun fun and now why I like to drink.
Ok one more my stepdad was grinding in a pipe gallery when the grinding wheel exploded in his face the rotating bits grad and snatch his toung out of his mouth and slpit it from the front to the back, inter and outer stiches and sevrald hours later they sent him home with 15% of living ( swelling and infection) but he lived.
I have lots more and some have bodies and no funny endings.
Venus55
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LOL
Aeroknow
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Fucking dangerous shit bro!
I got a story of my buddy dying from a buzzbox on a jobsite. On a fucking hospital no less! Long story, but involves knicks in the leed. Wetter than shit. And must have been a bad gfi temp box.
My one buddy was welding stickers in front of my other buddy(plasterer)waiting so he can start spraying his fireproofing. Next thing you know my buddy up on the scaffolding welding stuck his rod. He lifted his hood and our buddy was bouncing on the ground. He grabbed the ground clamp standing in water with knicks in the leed and a bad temp box.
Just absolutely horrible man. They found speed in his blood. Totally nullified any kind of lawsuit. His wife got 1000 dollars from their union. I hate thinking about that shit.
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