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SpeedFreak

SpeedFreak

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So the neighbour is trimming his hedge (not bush). He has chosen to jump in the air and wildly swing his hedge trimmer to reach the higher branches. All while his mate is walking around him with a lawn mower...............

Feel free to share your Darwinian experiences in or around the garden :)
 
Was once breaking up a concrete path in the garden with a sledge hammer, but we hadn't put the washing line away (type that stretches between two buildings on a reel). Went to swing the hammer, caught the washing line, it caught me off balance and I fell flat on my arse, very nearly with the hammer on top of me!

Felt fairly daft at the time, not quite on the same level as jumping around with a hedge trimmer though!
 
abbotsmike said:
Was once breaking up a concrete path in the garden with a sledge hammer, but we hadn't put the washing line away (type that stretches between two buildings on a reel). Went to swing the hammer, caught the washing line, it caught me off balance and I fell flat on my arse, very nearly with the hammer on top of me!

Felt fairly daft at the time, not quite on the same level as jumping around with a hedge trimmer though!
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Did you get up and stand on a garden rake?
 
most of mine comes from not wearing correct ppe....

Was Using a mushroom head chisel and a normal hammer to chisel off a bolt, cue me hitting it not straight. Metal shard breaks off and embeds itself in my wrist, which causes a nice severed artery and a long stay in a hospital which could have been prevented by wearing leather gloves and a long sleeved jacket...

Using a angle grinder with a cutting disc to cut off a load of security bolts when i was replacing my mums garage door which had rusted through. Cheap disk plus too much pressure caused disc to explode and strike me about a 1/4 inch below the eye...20 micro stitches later.

lesson learned. I now wear all the right amount of ppe when working
 
On occasion it's taken a near miss for me to remember to put safety specs on or move my feet out of the way. I'm much better at eye cover now but I should get round to getting some more sturdy footwear than 8 year old Etnies.
 
I remember for years I didn't wear any safety gear when using a grinder or a stihl saw

One day I put a gash in my leg while cutting some blocks on the ground when the grinder kicked back randomly, luckily only about 1/2 inch deep, it could have easily been my entire limb in one motion. Had I been wearing safety boots and long trousers as opposed to trainers and shorts it would have offered at least some protection.
 
pitchfork said:
Did you get up and stand on a garden rake?
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Not on that occasion...

With the comments about near misses and eyes, when I was at school I actually went and bought my own safety glasses, on account of us being forced to wear them whenever using machinery (fair enough) but the ones in the lab were so badly scratched that you could barely see through them once they were on!

Also the time we were making cement in chemistry, wearing lab coats, rubber gloves and goggles. That one amused me as I'd spent most of the weekend in front of a cement mixer making up a couple of tonnes of the stuff for a workshop base, in shorts and trainers!
 
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Was cutting a piece of decking board to cover up the joists on the outside of my shed, I didn't have much in the way of powertools and certainly no workshop to work in. I should have clamped it but thought I'd take the chance and hold it whilst using the circular saw... hit a knot and the saw pulled my arm into the air and somehow ran the saw blade across my stomach..... fortunately the spring loaded safety cover prevented injury which I shudder to think what would have happened.

I will clamp wood and use a mitre saw in future.

A friend did something similar and has 3 fingers much shorter than they should be :/

Another friend repairs power tools at a local hire shop and something went wrong with one of the rotary based tools and it exploded, basically in his hand... he wasn't wearing any gloves and had a t-shirt on. He had pieces of sheered casing embedded in his hand and up his arm. What a mess.
 
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The fella who cut back the tree in my garden last year was happily chainsawing through branches that his ladder was leaning on, and relying on the ladder falling deeper into the foliage rather than slipping sideways. Not sure I'd make the same assumption with a chainsaw in my hand.
 
Removing skirting boards with a crow bar and one pesky bit got stuck so spun the crow bar around to pry it the other way and a trip to A&E was taken that night with a nice big gash in my finger! Perhaps some tough gloves are in order for the next lot I remove!
 
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