garage injures (my bad guys not thinking)

Don't Weld in Sweats....

grinder wheel caught, bounced, shattered, dropped the grinder which grabbed my pant leg, cut my leg, swung the grinder around and hit my knee cap and dropped me to the ground. small cut but heres a pic.

i have so many storys in 10 years of building minis i wouldnt know were to start.lumps on head,grinder scars,weld burns,scared up knuckles,several cuts,broke a vise once and had a 1 1/2 tube bounce off my skull, dunno how it didnt fracute my head , but it was a nasty cut, still ahve a scar and im sure there will be more.always use jackstands

Umm, I had an 86 Coup DeVille fall on my leg once. I was doing the front brakes and the damn caliper wouldn't come off the disc so I was prying on it and it came off the jack stand and the bitch landed on my shin. I still have a dent in my leg from it. and dont weld in flip flops and shorts. I had a piece of slag in the top of my foot for like 6 months.

In our shop we have a saying "If you aint bleeding, you aint working hard enough", and over the years, ive pretty much found that to be true. It comes with working on any vehicle.

busted knuckles all the time from breaking ubolts lookse and the wrench slips so i punch the driveway sideways.. i finished welding a the top side of a 8 piece notch one time, and wasnt paying attention.. went to stand up and used the notch as something to support myself, my hand fried and blistered in my palm alot of other burns, gas sprayed in my eyes. on my friends hardbody i worked on last, a 18v dewalt drill with a full charged battery, the drill bit got caught and it spun the drill.. pinched my hand to a sharp part of the bed and my finger was pressed to the trigger still.. it smashed/cut into my hand. all kinda of smaller stuff too.. everyone be careful!!

a few weks ago I was cuttin down my wheel tubs to size, using a cut off wheel, then ground the burs off and not thinkin grabbed it with bare hands...ouch still got blisters.

I ripped my thumbnail off trying working on my wheeltubs. I was trying to break a tack weld that i had made. well the weld broke as i wanted, but unfortunately when it did i lost a fingernail in the process. i had a shirt caught fire when i was using the grinder to cut off an exhaust pipe. i was under the vehicle at the time. i thought i was being safe cause i was wearing: gloves, eye and ear protection. i didnt take in account that i was wearing a flammable shirt. i scooted out from under my truck as fast as i could to pull off my BUTTON DOWN shirt asap. i laughed after the fire was put out. and i have scars around my ankles where stuff falls down in my shoes and burns the crap out of them.

man this shits funny. i had to write in this one.. brings back some serious memories.... 1 working on my blazer, cut out the rear door jambs for the tires to come up in, got inside the blazer and cut the f*ck outa my right arm from hitting the super sharp shet metal i just cut.. 2 how about that good ole sawzall? how many times have you had it in a position where you were like dang "if this blade sticks this is gunna hurt like hell...." hehe done that, scars on back of hand to prove it..lol ok im done, i could go on and on.. but thats what you get for painting naked in your driveway

Originally posted by onelowmini



Don't Weld in Sweats....



or nylon socks.... they melt