Arsehole alert......

[whitevanman]

YUP.............its me whilst in the midst of a weldathon this afternoon I had a grinder hank up on me....bounce of a tire and hit me in the face I have two great big grinder marks and a big gash on my nose......................I look and feel like a TIT and yes I did have eye protection on ....moral of this story................shite happens...usually to me

[Station]

I've only dropped a grinder on myself once, but it spins so fast it just 'glances' off. Quite scary though. Of all the years I've been doing this, I've never actually injured myself at all.Apart from when a spring holder gave way and the spring twatted my knee, three seconds earlier it was pointing at my face.

[pompei]

Jeez, nasty. Lucky it didn't take your face off ...

[Split_Pin]

Crikey, glad you got off not too badly considering.

[trigger]

Ouch!, Sounds painful, Not as painful as AX's zipper accident but still painful...My mate who is a roofer, a few years ago was cutting a tile with a disc grinder which he was holding down with his foot when it jumped and went right across the top of his foot (He was only wearing trainers ) He ended up in A+E getted it sewed back together.

[hotford00]

You aint on your own Whitevanman, welcome to the grinderphobic society of the so called intelligent world, whilst working in Chicago I was finishing of an installation in a brand new air freight warehouse, the transfer cart that ran along a track was binding up as it travelled along its track so with the aid of 2 fork trucks I lifted it up to modify it(see the 9 inch grinder) unfortunately due to a weak left wrist when I thought I had removed enough my left wrist gave in and low and behold I found I did have bones after all.Straight into my outer forearm, see the nice new grey painted concrete and safety yellow painted transfer cart get a red respray!. I called my cousin who I was working for and he said" oh you clumsy twat" even worse he was at the airport picking up my wife and kids who had just flown in. It took a couple of months before it heald up and still turns purple when cold or wet, and that was in 1995.The wife still panics when I do any grinding. Oh she of little faith.

[VWPowered]

chin up dude, if it helps a mate was doing a roof, had a big grinder cutting ridge tiles and he slipped and took off four of his toes....teach him not to wear steelies i have times i feel shit just happens to me but normally its my own idiotic fault that it happens i.e. got into a fight at school, when to punch a kid (i was 13) he ducked and i went though the window cut myself from wrist to elbow, really really fucked myself up, cut muscle, arteries, tendons... but ho hum it happens still here to grab the odd spark plug lead and fry myself again on another day

[Claypole]

First time I used a knotted wire brush and took a wire in the leg I bought one of these, bad enough through jeans never mind in the face.

 

 

Use it whenever I am grinding/cutting anything now just in case, better safe than sorry.

[AXrescuer]

Ouch! Sounds really painful. You certainly dodged a bullet there. And looking on the bright side, at least yer cock is still ok!

[whitevanman]

Thanks guys, yup it was a lucky one.but a risk we all take when using power tools, perhaps I need to buy a garage with a four post lift and a spit roaster..............might not help prevent all accidents, but my back will be less sore........

[nigel bickle]

Been there-scary.Glad its only your dignity thats damaged.

[ashmicro]

Had a bloody lucky escape myself a little while ago. While logging up some stuff we'd taken off the big trees in our garden, I caught the toe of my steelie rigger boot, and the chainsaw climbed up the front of it somehow. I just threw the saw away from me as hard as I could. I reckon I was 1/8" from chopping my leg off as the boot was cut in two at the front.

 

Here's me wearing the protective gear I ordered the same day (after I'd stopped shaking)

 

 

It's actually police riot gear which I got from protecop.com. You can't see them in shot, but I'm also wearing riot boots as well, and the whole inside of the boot is steel, so they're sodding heavy at 3.3 kilos each.

 

Slight overkill I know, but that incident scared the bejaysus out of me. And I look nails in the kit.

[Richard]

Never mind your leg, it's cut your face into little squares. Would you not have been better with proper chainsaw gear? It looks to me as if the chainsaw would just slide along that stuff till it found a soft bit, the proper kit has padding that jams the chain.

[ashmicro]

Never mind your leg, it's cut your face into little squares. Would you not have been better with proper chainsaw gear? It looks to me as if the chainsaw would just slide along that stuff till it found a soft bit, the proper kit has padding that jams the chain.

That's what I was going for originally, but I'm not a big guy, and all the stuff I tried on before when I was thinking of getting some another time was too big or I couldn't move!

[pbottomley]

 

Mate sod the gear on your body, whats up with ya face, you all squared off... I would go see a doctor as it looks like you got the pixal flu

[Milford Cubicle]

Never mind your leg, it's cut your face into little squares. Would you not have been better with proper chainsaw gear? It looks to me as if the chainsaw would just slide along that stuff till it found a soft bit, the proper kit has padding that jams the chain.

They aren't infallible - the material isn't even rated for the maximum chain speed of most saws.The kevlar chainsaw boots are quite easy to cut through too, one of my colleagues cut through his, into his sock, but just missed the flesh!