Actually- i did this weds.
working alone, roofing a front porch.
air hose catches on something- i give it a yank.
oops- that thing it was caught on was the ladder
the ladder which was not tied off
the ladder which has now fallen over and is lying in the bushes.
now i am stranded on a roof.
luckily—( this has happened to me previously! LOL)- I knew what to do.
took the gun off the air hose– tied a good sized loop in the end with a single half hitch.
lassoed the end of the ladder–carefully pull the hose snug—and pull the ladder back up. whole thing took less than 2 minutes.
really stupid thing—is that i actually had a length of rope in my nail bag that I use for tieing off the ladder 99% of the time—really got to make it 100% of the time.
BTW- this happened to me previously–way back in the pre-cel phone era.
Sooooooo,— what stupid thing did YOU do today????
stephen
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Yesterday.
My weedwhacker caught a small section of underground dog fence wire that comes out of the ground up the outside wall about 8" into the side of the garage. It ripped about 25' out of the ground and made a giant rats nest onto the end of the weedwhacker.
I blamed the kids of course.
The wire is in a piece of plastic conduit now.
"I never met a man who didn't owe somebody something."
yeah, something like that.I was mowing the lawn and going past the dog chain - the same one I have mowed past piled next to the post all summer - and got it grabbed up in the mower.That was kind noisy
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OK one more stupid thing. Do you know how fast a snowthrower can eat a dog chain? And do you know how hard it is to get a wedged in dog chain out of a frozen up (literally) snow thrower? Well, I do.
I can beat that, by a MILE.
12 years old ( so, OK it wasn't TODAY) I had a Chaparal mini bike, like small enduro or Kawasaki 125 size..zipping around the back yard got boring so I decided to chase some cattle in the next farm over across the neighbors yard.
Whingg, whingg whinggg...I nailed it across both yards ( neighbors out at a picnic table watching sort of) and headed at the cows...at about 35 mph, I was almost there..then I saw a REAL THIN SILVER WIRE...at teh same time my brain said " Electric fence you idiot" wham! I hit the ground like some one lassoed me..
My head bounced up and I saw the cows running away from a dirt bike with NO ONE on it..tails all a flying. I had a Bell helmet luckily, cuz a rock in the field punched a hole in the back of it..woulda been the end of me.
I looked at my chest, and I had a cut across it just under both nipples ( still can see the scars) and right across both arms at about bicep level..bleedy and all..other wise, jst my pride was broke. I never felt the shock.
The worst was DAD making me re install the fence posts I had yanked out, and apologizing to the farmer.
Needless to say, I never did THAT again.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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My cousin got clotheslined on his. Got a NASTY rope burn across his neck and a bruise to match. Clothesline had a heavy wet rug on it making it hang low.
I clotheslined myself on a real clothesline chasing somebody when I ws about 12 YO.
I remember wondering why my feet were off the ground out there in front of me.
Then laying on the ground, I was wondering why I couldn't breathe - had the breath knocked out of me.
Then forthe rest of the week, every body in town wondered why I had the world'ss biggest hickey covering the whole front of my neck
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Hey - I've got a hickey story - visiting a friend's wealthy dad in Memphis (a builder and, well, "daddy buys and sells things . . .")
Anyway, huge hottub room in December; lots of us in there after some cotillion party late one night. Dad's bragging about the big 'ol pump he's got installed; he steps on the floor intake to startle whoever's near the water level intake. Uses both feet.
Well, it's me, and we're packed in, so I'm leaning against the whole intake opening. All the inertia of the water going to the remote 7-horse pump stuck dear old dad and me to the intakes for a moment; he had a perfect grill pattern of blood blisters on the soles of both feet,
And I had an honest license-plate-sized and shape black mark across my back for weeks. Looked like black paint!
And dear old dad? Years later, someone machine-gunned the front of their house (with the koi-pond hallway) in a drive-by; he runs out, gets a couple minor ones, but dies from a heart attack.
Interesting guy.
Forrest
Sounds like a couple scenes from the Sapranoes
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I cut a tree down saturday, it fell on the house. does that count, it still there, do I get extra points, have no idea what to do, how about know. and did it all without a chainsaw. like slow motion, slllllloooowwwwwwww motion.the tree was saying in the wind, stupid, stupid, stupid and when it hit the house all I could say was "yes, I know".BOB is always right, ALL HAIL BOB
you sure it wasn't the wife you were hearing?;)
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OK, that one needs it's own thread - with pictures! Any luck gett'n it off the house?
Good thing that wire wasn't a foot higher up or the world woud have been missing a lot of stories
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I did something like that once.
I was painting a machine shed roof once when the ladder blew over. No one else was around, but I figured someone would be by eventually. So I kept painting.
Eventually I ran out of paint and no one had showed up. So I walked around trying to figure out what I could do.
Off one corned of the shed was a tree about 6' away. It was a moderate sized pine tree with a trunk about 6" in diameter at the height of the roof.
I walked out to the corner, and briefly considered making a leap over to the tree. But I just couldn't bring myself to make that leap, so I went back up on the ridge and sat down to wait.
A couple of hours passed, and still no one had showed up. I made a few more treks down to that corner of the shed and kept eyeing the tree. But that was a LONG leap, and I wasn't sure I could hang on to it once I made it that far.
Eventually I got tired of waiting. I edged out to the corner roof the roof as far as it felt good and solid. I summoned up the nerve to go, and made the leap.
My chest slammed into the tree trunk, but I managed to avoid smacking my face or balls as I wrapped my arms and legs around the truck. I took a few seconds to get my breath back, then worked my way down through the scratchy branches.
I'm also a lot more careful about tying off ladders now...
tennis shoe, chaulk line and metal roof, enough said..BOB is always right, ALL HAIL BOB
Roar!
Good one Boss, quite a visual.
I was laying roofing shingles with a nail gun. I got in the habit of holding the trigger down and bouncing the gun along.Just finished a shingle and was reaching for another(with my finger still holding the trigger),tip of the gun hit the plank I was sitting on and I nailed my shorts to the plank.I was lucky it was only my shorts!
Another time I was on a ladder drilling holes for a blown-in insul. job.Drilled a hole and let the drill hang down while it was still turning and the bit grabbed the leg of my shorts and turned it into a tourniquet real quick.I used to go through work clothes like crazy.
>> ... the bit grabbed the leg of my shorts and turned it into a tourniquet real quick.That reminds me of a story I read back in the usenet days about a fellow using a router. He got to the end of a cut, picked up the router and turned it off, but didn't wait for it to stop. Then he bent over to look at the work, and then he realized the peculiar sound he was hearing was the router bit chewing on his zipper. He said he laid the router down, went in the house, and shook for thirty minutes.
I just had that happen with a drill too. Was drilling hole in studs to run a new outlet. Bored a hole, removed the drill and forgot that it was still spinning when it caught my jeans right on the inside of my thigh. Man that scared the **** out of me. Good thing I was wearing jeans, otherwise it would have bored a nice 3/4" hole into my thigh. Still have a bruise 3 months later.
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Boss
If you had a movie camera with ya we could be sitting here with $10,000 from AFV right now! Come to think of it if your willing to repeat that darring feat I think we could sell tickets! You would be wearing your bibs right, U-tube here we come.
I had a ladder blow down once, I wasn't all that far up but I had broken my back about 2 years prior and the jolt of dropping even 8' down scared the hell out of me - luckily I had my cell phone and Jose wasn't all that far away, he still laughs about it!
Doug
"Come to think of it if your willing to repeat that darring feat I think we could sell tickets!"
You'd have to give me a pretty big piece of the action to make me want to repeat that. I was a lot lighter, younger, and stronger back then.
Q: What has four legs and an arm?
A: A happy pit bull.
Putting up kraft-faced insulation batts over my head - stapled my finger...
I know that scarcely counts, but it hurt, & occasioned blue language of the milder sort...
What???
How on earth can you make a post like that and not share the pictures?
Lol...
Had a delivery of metal studs to the jobsite, forgot to request stocking. One guy shows up and drops it on the street. About 1500 pieces. At least it was all light guage and for the first floor. We borrowed a pallet jack and humped all in in about 45 minutes.
Mike
Trust in God, but row away from the rocks.
air hose catches on something
Thought you were a hand nailer.........
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I was born in a crossfire hurricane..........shooby dooby do
I keep the various wood glues I use along with a similarly sized and shaped bottle of pneumatic tool oil, all together in a plastic Arco bin...yesterday I don't know where my head was, but I almost lubed my nailgun with Titebond 3. I was shocked back to reality just as the glue oozed out of the bottle, I jerked the gun away.
Another minor blunder narrowly avoided...then after doing something that goofy...with nobody watching...I tell everyone at BT about it. What a doofus. <g>
It wasn't today, but I heard about some doofus that poured bar lube into the fuel tank on his chainsaw. I'm talking FILLED it UP. Sheesh, some people.
Greg
Edited 10/5/2007 3:15 pm ET by GregGibson
There was a princess here whose hubby bought here an antique VW 'cause it was SOOOO CUTE!I think it was a kharmin Ghia convertable.Anyway, first time she went to fill it up, she put the gas in where the oil cap is.Didn't take much - well I guess these things are good on gasoline mileage.Few minutes later the fire dept showed up
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Been working on a remodel where the wind seems to blow almost constantly. I was siding the gable end almost three stories high.
Had scaffolding setup and had the 8' stepladder off the deck to get me to the scafffolding. While on the scaffolding, the wind takes the ladder over.
I'm stranded- had to use the cell phone to call the homeowner to re-set the ladder. Luckily she was home at the time.
Not a big deal, but I always feel dumb when I have to ask a client to help me. I am supposed to be the professional.
I am supposed to be the professional.
Emphasis on "supposed". Which is why a client give me this shirt after doing something they (correctly) thought dangerous.
Yesterday I managed to get my sole chainsaw hung up while limbing a large tree I'd pushed over. Had to drag 70' of tree back 50' to get it free. Gravity always works, eventually. Love that tractor. PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Didn't do it today, but a couple of ladder stories. Was trimming back a long walnut branch a few years ago. Cut off one end and suddenly the rest of the branch the ladder was resting on started rising from the missing weight. Stopped about 2" short of the tips of the 20' ladder resting against it.
The other was to check the roof after a hailstorm. Pulled the new ladder out of the garage and noticed the safety rope wasn't attached to the rungs. Tied it off at the last minute and set it up. Near the top the ladder came unhinged and immediately began riding down. Luckily the rope kept it from going down the whole way. Probably the longest 2 seconds of my life.
My favorite story is the guy who has to replace roof shingles so he ties off the ladder by throwing the rope over the roof of his cape house and fastening the rope to the bumper of the car. Wife comes out and drives off...dragging him and the ladder over the roof.
I replaced some rotten soffit on a neighbor's house when i reroofed it. Between cuts, their big orange tomcat crawled into the soffit area to explore, then i nailed it in by mistake. The cat kept quiet all day while the Big Bad Roofer was working, but that night it started meowing and woke up the owners, who got up there in the dark with a flashlight and pry bar to spring the cat.
So much for my PETA credentials.
I dropped a Boztits narrow crown stapler..broke the safty doo hicky and found that a single leg of a staple jammed in the tip "Just so" would trick it into thinking it was depressed (that sounds funny?) and in my always curious mind, I thought " I wonder if it will shoot?" so I had it in my hand and LOOKING right at the newly installed jammer in the nose, I squeezed the trigger.
POW! Yup, it worked, and if my finger weren't over the nose as it was, I'da shot my self in the face..instead of the finger..LOL
Owwwllch.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
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not recent, but still good ....working with some framers, a rough bunch ..coffee truck came to this subdivision ever' day, at lunch ...nieghbors cat came too, to clean up the left overs everybody fed himcarpenter #3 cuts hi finger off on the table saw, just before lunch ..they duct tape the stub, and jam off to the hospital20 min later, my cell phone rings ..." Dude, find .... his FINGER ..."
i'm lookin' in the sawdust .. no finger ...look up at the porch ...dam cat ...had fresh meat for lunch that day ...
Bwaaahahhahahaha ...still a good tale ....
Using my BIG Husky timber saw to cut firewood the other week. Louvered cover for flywheel is missing a coupla louvers. 1/2" hole, just big enough for the wayward drawstring on my shorts to snake into and get caught on the 10K + RPM flywheel.
Strong drawstring, pulled the saw straight towards my groin, and shorts down at the same time. Lucky it stalled the saw about the instant it slammed into me.
Scary Stupid.
Yesterday, I was ripping cedar shingles into 2" shims. Got complacent after about the 50th one. Had a shim kick back and got hit in the gut, just below the belt buckle OUCH! Anyone have any idea what the speed of a kicked back piece of wood is off a 10" table saw? I have a bruise the size of a walnut. Glad it wasn't in the face.
Just a couple of days ago I started to reside a stucco wall on this condo complex. As I was using strapping for the vinyl siding I was confused that wherever I drilled through the stucco I could never find the plywood behind it to fasten the straps. I soon discovered that there wasn't any plywood behind the stucco only tentest. I haven't seen tentest for years and definitely hadn't factored that I now had to be like a woodpecker to drill and find every stud.
So now I start siding. My pile is at the other end of the complex and I have to walk past many condo units that were a combination of stucco and vinyl siding.
Different owners came by and are really impressed how the new siding looks better than the old stucco. I'm motoring on and I'm up about 5 feet and go an get another arm load of siding. As I'm walking back and looking at the older white siding it suddenly dawns on me that the older white siding is not.................I say not the same white as I'm installing. It turns out to be Linen and not white.
I end up taking back everything that wasn't used which was reaky fortunate. I ate that cost.
It could have been worse. I could have finished it and then someone say " It looks great Roger...............................but it's the wrong colour".
roger
A buddy /H.O. and I bent up all the fascia wrap and assorted trim pcs. for his house, standing in full sun, white coil stock, and sunglasses on.
I noticed an "Oddity" the coil stock was white both sides ( I expected brown /wht.) Well, we burned thru the first coil, and went to hang the rake...brand new white vinyl siding was already up.
I noticed the "white" coil stock seemed a bit off..WTF?
Looked at the box, sure enuff, wht/grey....arrrggghhhhh...bent it all inside out. Being as I was the one that was supposed to know better, I ate that roll. It was really close, but his wife is an artist, and she woulda nixed the idea of leaving it as it was.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"If you want something you've never had, do something you've never done"
Aren't all women like that. They can look at anything and tell if it is a different colour or style. Just look in their closet and they can justify all and I mean all their clothes, shoes, purses, handbags and make up and say they are all different.......................................................................and need more.
roger
yesw--they can tell you the difference between white,off white, beige, creme,sand, vanilla,taupe,bone etc.
isn't it all the same??????????
stephen
Anyone have any idea what the speed of a kicked back piece of wood is off a 10" table saw?
Yes, very fast!
I've heard of people dieing from the kickback from a table saw, probably a much heavier piece of wood then that 2" shim but still..........
BTW, you can buy the shims already cut. :)
Doug
Re: kickback...
I took a good hit from a 5/4 length of Ipe a couple summers ago. If you haven't worked with Ipe, it's hard as rock and denser than water.
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Edited 10/10/2007 5:01 am ET by canoehead2
<Anyone have any idea what the speed of a kicked back piece of wood is off a 10" table saw>
Whoo, yeah! My scariest shop moment was a kickback, making some dish dividers for kitchen cabinets - 6x8" of 3/16" ply. One shot back and got me in the lower abdomen with a corner - really thought for a while all my insides were ruptured and I was going to die as I lay there squirming on the floor.
Didn't, though.
Forrest
We had a 7.5HP 3ph 12" Powermatic tablesaw in a training shop I taught in. One of the students was making drawer sides using a crosscut sled that hundreds of students had used. Somehow he got it bound up and it shot off the saw in an upward trajectory, topping out at about 10 feet off the floor and landing 30 feet away.
My personal best... I was hooking up a little Inca tablesaw in my shop about 15 years ago. I didn't have any twist-loc plugs so I decided to hardwire it to the wall. All of the wire nuts, small parts, and electrical tools were sitting on the table as I worked. When I was done I could not find the metal blank cover plate for the electrical box... I swear I just saw that thing... but oh well it's nowhere to be found. So I fire up the saw and the cover plate comes slinging out of the blade slot, screams past my head, and lodges in a sheet of plywood leaning against the wall behind me, like a ninja death star. It almost hit me in the face. I would have looked like a poster for a horror movie, a dude with a split head.
using a crosscut sled that hundreds of students had used. Somehow he got it bound up and it shot off the saw in an upward trajectory, topping out at about 10 feet off the floor and landing 30 feet away.
The sled went flying? Hard to imagine.
Last week I got Bertha (23k lb loader) stuck, driveway fill shifted and she dropped a couple feet on one side, couldn't back up. ####! No way to get my truck winch in there. Get out the collection of pullers/chains/cables. OK, convenient tree...
Looking good, she's moving. Inch at a time, but moving. Then not moving. But the cable's getting wound up? Oops, I'm uprooting the 40' tree, headed for Bertha.
Larger tree, way up the hill. Running out of chains, broke 2 on the little tree. No problem, aircraft cable (no idea why it was called that) available. Don't remember the load rating but it was high. Hooked 60' of cable to a 3 ton chain puller. Which broke the cable, sending it whizzing (mostly) past my left hand. Fortunately gloved, which meant I only had a nasty bruise for a week. Otherwise, emergency room. New gloves are cheaper.
Reset the cable with a 2 ton puller. She came back onto the road, needing only 6½ tons of combined pull. Whole lotta cranking. Gotta find some better cable. Previously, I've broken cable clamps. Had a couple very close calls then discovered load-rated clamps.
The pullers are not Taiwan/Chinese. Older US made, so maybe the ratings are conservative.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
I have a bruise the size of a walnut. Glad it wasn't in the face.
Bet you're even happier it didn't hit ya in the walnuts!!!!
Redford,
No idea of the speed of a kick back. I do know however that a sliver (maybe 1/4" x 3/8" x 10" ) of D.F.has enough force that it will penetrate a piece of 3/8" cherry plywood standing 6' behind me and in the direction a kick back travels and pass half it's length through the ply. Just happy my old man taught me to stand to the side of the piece being cut whenever possible.
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
Just happy my old man taught me to stand to the side of the piece being cut whenever possible.
Wish mine had. Lesson learned after lying on the floor clutching my parts. But you don't forget...PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Tom, At one time I was a partner in a cabinet shop. All custom work for the homes we built. One partner always stood directly in front of the blade and piece being cut when using the saw. Powermatic / 3 hp. I kept after him telling him there was a safer way. Walked into the shop one afternoon and he is sitting on a stool, looking very pale and shaking . Saw kicked out a piece of oak that had split off the board he was ripping, the "sliver" (about 12" long) was stuck into a light weight concrete block wall 15' feet behind the saw. It had passed between his left hand / arm and his body after tearing a large gash in his left thumb on it's way out of the saw blade. We left the "sliver" in the wall for quite awhile as a reminder of the power of the saw. I do have a nice scar in my chin from being stupid with a small Makita bench saw, it grabbed a piece of 4 x 6 about 6" long and flipped it up into my chin, edge of the piece cut me through to the bone and the impact left me woozy . Cut was so clean it looked like I had slipped with a razor. I felt like I had been punched by Mike Tyson on that one. They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
Edited 10/10/2007 10:46 am by dovetail97128
Yeah, currently use a 3 hp Unisaw, to be replaced by a Rockwell 12-14". There's a garage door in line with the infeed. It has a few dents. None from any close contact with me.
I set my Biesemeyer fence with a slight gap at the back of the blade. Which almost always works great, "almost" being the key word. I like figured wood, isn't always predictable.
No problems for the past 25 yrs. But I still vividly remember lying on that dusty floor in Denver. No other permanent injuries from the incident. Unlike the mangled finger from a previous smaller saw incident.
Still learning.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Yep. I have a pea-sized bump on one of my ribs caused by a chunk of 2x4 kicked back from a table saw. Been there over 15 years.George Patterson
Edited 10/10/2007 11:26 pm ET by grpphoto
I installed a new self-locking leverset on a customer's balcony and locked myself out. This is on our main street in town, about 12 feet above the sidewalk. After some initial panic, I realized that only the top flush bolt was latched (this is a french door pair). I was able to force the doors open just enough to release the bolt with my flat bar. Lacking that, I would have had to flag down a passerby to call the fire department to bring a ladder... and I'm ON the fire department.
Ut-Ohhhh,
Stephen has not returned to this thread...
Can someone please fetch his ladder???
Poor guy, it's gotta be cold out at night...and dewy...me thinks he sleeps on the ridge.
Lol...brrr!
no--- stephen started this thread----and then went racing---took a rare day off this year( concievably the last day off for about 9 weeks ,as i will be working 7 days a week now untill winter)
Went to watch my son run in the All Ohio race at Ohio Weysleyan.-- It's a great race-- because Every collegiate team in ohio is invited to run--NCAA or NIAA---teams like Ohios state--from a student body of what? 45,000 run at the same time as the smallest DIII teams--with maybe a student body of 900
It's a lot of fun for the fans( especially my wife and I)---gives us a chance to see a lot of the kids my son ran with in highschool---run again in the same race--just for different teams. close as we could count----saw 11 of Kevins former team mates yesterday.
weather VERY hot for October--pushing 90*----------at least 15 guys dropped out of the race--they were falling to the ground all over the course and dropping like flies at the finish line-- Kevin finished--but could not feel his arms and legs after the race----another good friend from highschool--and ALSO current team mate finished---but walking around semi incoherent and couldn't feel his legs---fairly brutal course--and pretty brutal weather.
stephen
"Sooooooo,--- what stupid thing did YOU do today????"
got outta bed ...
then stayed sober most of the day.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
or ...
bought exactly 4 sheets of 1/4 drywall to skin a wall ...
and for an inside measurement ... that I wanted to fit like a glove ... without a seam ... I "cut 10" ....
measured off the cab from the right ... made a tick mark at 10" exact ...
then measured off the wall on the left ...
then cut that last sheet exactly 10 inches too short!
even looked at it before cutting ... "man, that seems small ... "
Monday before paint ... looks like I'll have one seam to tape and mud in my otherwise perfectly skinned kitchen.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Was working alone in the house. Was standing on a step ladder screwing in metal U channels to fur ceiling joists. I put in a screw and the channel sucked in tight against the joist when I realized that my fingers on my other hand were stuck between the channel and the joist (I had skipped a joist for some reason). And I mean really stuck!
Then it occurred to me that if I dropped my screw gun I wouldn't be able to reach down to pick it up and would be stranded there while my left fingers turned white and blue from lack of circulation.
So. Very carefully I put my screw gun in reverse with my one hand. Good. Didn't drop it. Backed out the screw and took a 15 minute break while the numbness in my left hand (and brain!) subsided.
"what stupid thing did YOU do today????"
You mean before or after I logged in here?
Lmmeee go ask my wife. I think she has today's list
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Seems like I do so much stupid stuff, it aint funny. But I had my old 28' aluminum extension ladder extended almost all the way out and I try to lower it, but the rope jumped the pully and I don't look at it, just jerk and hang on the rope till it is wedged so hard between the pully and the doohickey it ain't comin out. I can't get the ladder down due to space considerations, if I cut the rope, then how can I lower it? Rats. So I had to fark around with it for like forever ya know? Finally got the rope loose. What a PITA, next time look up first!!!
I'm not telling any other stupid stuff so as to preserve my miniscule respect I get here. Most of my stupid stuff does not involve injury, unlike he who shall remain nameless. Thank God for small favors.
Wait a minnit !!You get RESPECT here ???How do you manage that ? I need to know the secret...;o)
Yeh... That'll work.
It's miniscule, not like its actual real respect.
Oh.Just like my deck...
Yeh... That'll work.
was nailing a 2 x 8 with a 3 1/4 acq nail in my paslode when the nail hit a knot and ricoched side ways just passing between my timex and my wrist , barely scratching my wrist
it took both pins out of the wrist band otherwise no real damage ( $2 repair)
homeowner standing next to me was almost in shock at the blood running
it made me realize what it must feel like to be grazed by a bullet , but you dont think abiut these things till later
it was yesterday and today
Yesterday I was pushing a piece of sheathing up a ladder and it flipped over, bending my thumb backwards. still hurts. today I'm cleaning out my lunchbox after I get home and swing the lid shut and managed to pich same thumb. how? who knows. did it hurt.my 7 year old witnessed my colorful language and promptly told me that they were bad words. sheesh.
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It's the feeling of falling further behind."
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