Ben Please Be OK!!

[arron]

wow ben thats one heck of a story to tell for the rest of your life m8.. your a lucky guy glad to hear your on the mend..

[Warren]

Ben Ben  Ben  Ben 

I shudder at the thought of what happend, but I'm overjoyed at your recovery.

Maybe you should be limited to manual hand tools only for awhile 

My thoughts and well wishes to you you big duffus

Warren

[lewy]

A big hello to you Ben, and im glad your still here to tell that horrific story.
My thoughts are with you Ben and also too Steve with his incident, all the best for a speedy recovery to full health.

I had a near miss using a drill 2 weeks ago, instead of clamping a short peice of steel to drill a 12mm hole i had placed it on a peice of wood and stood on it ..... it grabbed and unbalanced me, one step sideways to gain my balance BUT there wasnt anything to stand on........ down the pit i went but got hooked up on a step ladder at the end of the pit leaving me upside down.

Please be carfull everyone and try not to take any short cuts, these to guys have suffered too much and this is a timely reminder as to how easy things can go wrong.
Take care Ben

Cheers Lewy

[beddiediesel]

Blimin hell Ben, thats sure was a close call to being dead, at least you'll be staying alive from now on....

[Bas NZ]

Had a near miss a couple of years ago, was painting, well getting ready to paint a mates car, hooked everything up compressor on ready to go hooked the gun up pulled the trigger and no paint came out turned the gun towards me to check out what was going on, was looking at the front of the gun when some how my finger pulled the trigger and the paint sprayed right into my face, dropped everything and ran to the mirror scramming only to find my hole face was covered in paint except my eyes, quick reflects must have made me close my eyes in time, but could not remember that part, but now I disconnect the gun from the air line before I do anything like this again.

[Merlin]

Weeeelllllllllll heres my stupid moment! i was workin under a car on my back tryin to undo a gearbox drain plug with a socket and ratchet it slipped off causing me to punch myself in the mouth reflexes caused me to pull back my head slammin it into the floor and if that wasnt enough i chucked a tanty cause it hurt a lot so i punched the floor of the car breakin two knuckles in my hand  try explainin that to tha docs in the emergency dept      Cheers Neil

[Morgz]

Mate....maaaaaaaaate.  Holy moly!  That's very close to a Darwin Award right there buddy.  Glad to know you're on the mend.  I guess I can give you a little more time to do my bonnet then eh? he he he

[mezzmo]

Spoke to Benny today and i told him that if ever there was a candidate for the Darwin awards he's our man - except he survived!

Let me relate a 'Stupid' story of a mate of mine. Big Al as we know him asked if i could come and give him a hand to finish the decking on the side of his house - no problem i thought as he lives a couple of hours away it gives a chance at a weekend away and for the wives to catch up.

Friday afternoon - we arrive and after a couple of coldies Big Al introduces me to his new friend - an airless Pasload Nail Gun.... ARG ARG ARG - real tool for real blokes ARG ARG ARG. So we spend the rest of the night preparing for the following day, between copious amounts of alcohol (as you do)

Saturday Morning - huge country breakfast and we're rearing to go. At this point the women have thought it a good idea to leave the men to 'bond' while they go into town for some coffee and cake....good plan.

Enter the Pasload! - i'm laying out all the decking planks on the pre done joists ready for nailing when big Al advises there's just one more joist to nail into place - not by hand as before no no no - lets use the new pasload - go for it!!!

Bang goes the Virgin Pasload nail gun.... F**K says my mate big Al, who has turned a very nice shade of white (coincedently his last name is white) Up comes the hand and there.....for all to see was a perfectly placed nail right in the middle of his middle finger - and i mean middle - it was so well centered to his finger you would reckon is was "measured twice shot once" - the very first nail out of the gun EVER

Laugh!! i f**ken near wet myself, Janice he cried (his beloved's name) JANICE....(i should point out at this stage that the girls were in the car and heading down the driveway when this happened) WHAT she screamed back as the car came to a halt...he showed her his finger and without blinking an eye my mrs says - F**CK - now we have to take him to the hospital, gee thaks Al, so much for our coffee and cake.....to which his wife pipes in "great new tool you got there ... YOU TOOL"

By this time i'm near collapsing with laughing, so off they go to the hospital and on i go with getting as much done as i can....enter the neighbour "where's Al he says?" i couldn't lie and told him the story and i tell you, quicker that a bushfire spread on black Saturday everyone, and i mean everyone in town knew what he'd done - ah the bush telegraph.

Saturday night at the local pub was a night where you just had to be there - in he comes with his arm in a sling and the shit that man copped was truely a spectacle to behold - that was near 5 years ago and he has never and i mean never lived it down!!!

Moral...no matter how stupid you feel right now Benny Boy, you are part of a very exclusive club and you have given us all a story to add to our "pissed baroom tales"

Stand proud my friend - you are truely a goose of the highest order and in very good company!!

Mezz

[Warren]

Being a young (left handed) apprentice fitter and turner in a rural engineering work you learn very quickly how dangerous shit is.

everything is ass backward, so your either crossing over arms or working bio mechanically wrong.

Two off the most dangerous things were the 12 inch angle grinder, and the 3/4 inch chucked 5 horse power drill, this and all the welders guillotines, presses 24 inch abrasive cutoff machines etc.

That drill was a beast, took two people to work half way safely, on your own if it grabbed you'd do at least a 360 before you could take your finger off the trigger. we used to use a 8 foot piece of pipe as a bracing handle

The most painfull things I did was try and straighten a drill in a drill press with my palm, drill bent a bit then shattered, slicing my palm, and chipping slag off a weld only to have it land inside my boot and burn through my sock onto my Achilles tendon - that was sore for weeks

 



 

[lewy]

Hey Ben i've been wondering how are you going.....
Cheers Lewy