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  1. #16
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    OUCH!

    yep..mates are a good idea when you moving heavy stuff

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    ben i hope its mending ok. I get tempted as well to not ask for a hand.
    I usually get my best mate to help me.
    last time i didn't i was separating a lathe from its stand with a engine crane.
    It started to move in the sling and before i new it it was hanging up side down
    from the crane. could of been heaps worse. so i carefully lowered the lathe and
    waited for a time when my mate could help.
    my mate gave me heaps when he saw it. and i had to look at it for a week or two.
    besides this misshap what do you think of the scates
    aaron

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    Hi Aaron,

    I eventually moved everything to the way I liked it. By myself (I didn't realize my mate was home doing nothing) without incident.

    Finger is getting better. Will most likely loose the nail permanently and some feeling in the tip. Will also have to see a hand specialist at some time due to the nature of the break.

    I ended using the skate to move my Hercus mill (really had me worried about dropping it - would definitely try and catch it), worked well enough. I've got three years before I will look like moving again, but I've been thinking of making up a small scale gantry type crane for home use. Something that could be customized to fit my lathe, mill and shaper ect.

    Ben

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    hi you have all the gear. nice one. I wanted to get some scates while i was moving my mill. i ended up using 2 bit of pipe
    it was easy and felt safe.
    Ive got an engine crane which i have used for lifting my lathes but i think its a pain and gets in the way when im not using it.

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    Hi,

    Quick update on the finger. Garage is all set up and being used. Finger is still on and sort of working. Bandage is off, looks gross but doesn't hurt (at all) this may change in time. Makes for funny typing.

    When working in the garage or outside had to come up with some protection:

    fingercover.jpg

    Works a treat.

    Ben

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    Quote Originally Posted by bwal74 View Post
    Hi,

    Quick update on the finger. Garage is all set up and being used. Finger is still on and sort of working. Bandage is off, looks gross but doesn't hurt (at all) this may change in time. Makes for funny typing.

    When working in the garage or outside had to come up with some protection:

    fingercover.jpg

    Works a treat.

    Ben
    Good to hear your finger is recovering.

    Makes for funny typing.
    You haven't seen me type. I did learn to touch type at school but I cannot do that very well anymore. Quicker to hunt and peck now.

    Dean

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    Quote Originally Posted by bwal74 View Post
    Hi,

    Quick update on the finger. Garage is all set up and being used. Finger is still on and sort of working. Bandage is off, looks gross but doesn't hurt (at all) this may change in time. Makes for funny typing.

    When working in the garage or outside had to come up with some protection:

    fingercover.jpg

    Works a treat.

    Ben
    Ben,
    Next time you pop into a chemist shop, ask them for a leather finger stall.
    Same princable as what you have there but the leather breathes and protects better than the rubber glove..

    Matt
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    Try wearing some of those light weight open weave back Ninja work gloves - they don't sweat your fingers.

    I often wear them when machining.

    I also had a "moment" a coupla days ago, using a biggish coiled wire brush in the angle grinder to de-rust the Rong Fu band saw (which incidentally is coming up a treat).

    The brush wheel caught on the vice bracket, took off, and ran up my bare arm at 10,000 RPM.

    Got a better case of gravel rash than I could get falling off the m/cycle.

    A good swabbing with Dettol and back to work

    S##t happens.

    Rob
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    Quote Originally Posted by nearnexus View Post

    S##t happens.
    I'm trying to teach my apprentice the the opposite.."it happens generally due to careless mistakes"...so what do I tell him..it just happens cos of his blunder

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    I agree Eskimo, it only take a second of lack of concentration and you have stuffed up.

    Rob I have done similar things myself with both wire wheels and buffing wheels, just escaped serious injury.
    You soon learn to concentrate where the edges are with buffing wheels otherwise your part gets thrown against the wall/floor and it's damaged.

    Dave
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    Quote Originally Posted by eskimo View Post
    I'm trying to teach my apprentice the the opposite.."it happens generally due to careless mistakes"...so what do I tell him..it just happens cos of his blunder
    It's not always due to carelessness. Sometimes things happen that you don't expect.

    This was a stiff wire wheel that I rarely use, and where as a softer wire wheel would easily flex over a metal edge, the stiff one jumped back at me.

    Just something I hadn't anticipated.

    But yeah, we wouldn't want the part getting damaged

    Rob
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    But at least you tried.



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    You eventually learn which way to angle the wire brush when near edges. You want the wires running off the cliff not smashing into it. I think there must be something in the way the grinder is held, the arm position etc because I have had cutting disks catch and break, wire wheels hit edges and kick but I have not come even close to injuring myself in the process. I am not trying to pretend I am anything special but I often wonder about how these injuries occur and yet I avoid them myself. I am not careful with a grinder. I don't use a guard, I do use eye and ear protection and gloves. I throw wire brushes around into tight corners etc. I think it is just that I have developed a method of holding that enables me to deflect the grinder when it catches or kicks.

    Hope you are not in too much pain tonight Rob. Sounds like not much fun. "Bare arms" you said? Nough said. So you got right back on after you fell off? I wouldn't have bothered with dettol. Takes too long. Unless SWMBO catches on that is. LOL

    Dean

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    Hi Dean,

    I'm OK, no pain, plenty of red wine to counter it. Bit of a dumb ass trick, but still here.

    It's funny really coz when I was a kid and we got hurt, Mum just dabbed the ol Dettol on neat out of the bottle, and we gritted our teeth and carried on no worries.

    When I told the local doctor some time how I'd "fixed up" a wound with raw Dettol he was horrified. You can't do that he said, it will burn your skin blah blah blah - yeah right mate, been doing it my whole life and still here.

    B###dy doctors, what would they know.

    Rob
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    But at least you tried.



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    Quote Originally Posted by nearnexus View Post
    Hi Dean,

    I'm OK, no pain, plenty of red wine to counter it. Bit of a dumb ass trick, but still here.

    It's funny really coz when I was a kid and we got hurt, Mum just dabbed the ol Dettol on neat out of the bottle, and we gritted our teeth and carried on no worries.

    When I told the local doctor some time how I'd "fixed up" a wound with raw Dettol he was horrified. You can't do that he said, it will burn your skin blah blah blah - yeah right mate, been doing it my whole life and still here.

    B###dy doctors, what would they know.

    Rob
    The medical profession seems to think of everything in terms of an operation type situation. I had a splinter removed by a doctor earlier this year. First for me. Generally I just grab hold with teeth, fingernail or pliers and yank. Maybe a dig around with the tip of my pocket knife or something. This one though was pretty big, went in deep and into the joint of my thumb. I was also happy to leave it up to the experts when I was kicked in the mouth by a half grown bull protesting at me relieving him of his manliness or is that bulliness. They are actually pretty used to me turning up in emergency with some form of injury or another but it is mostly sprains and strains. Life in the bush and on a farm is risky business.

    I avoid doctors as much as I can but unfortunately because of issues that I have they are a necessary evil. We do have a very good clinic. We are very lucky in that. You know that letting a dog lick your wound is good for it? That is why they lick their wounds! I recall someone had this as a signature on a forum.


    Dean

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