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26th January 2006, 11:40 PM #61
Working fatigued
1. Rushing to correct a mistake in a change table project before my daughter was born. Too few shed days and a fast pregnancy (Only 37 weeks).
I was chopping the last of the mortises, and my left hand was in the tool path. Of course the freshly honed (8000 grit) heavy pig-sticker chisel found its way at high speed into my left hand. I felt it hit the bone.
2. Helping out the chippy I hired to finish off my attic. On a ladder, reflexively trying to catch a hammer (of all stupid things) that he had tossed my way. Came off the ladder, fell with my outstretched hand finding his toolbox, with his trowel point up. Tool surgically removed from my left hand.
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27th January 2006, 03:10 PM #62
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27th January 2006, 05:43 PM #63
Greg,
Methinks that you need to do WW with your right hand only - the left one seems to cop a lot of flack...
I hope you fired that burk that tossed you the hammer - what a dopey thing to do...
Cheers!
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27th January 2006, 05:52 PM #64
That guy was an excellent carpenter, except for a serious depression problem, and some other issues as well. That WAS the last straw for me. Prior to this, I noticed him resting his still-winding down circular saw on his thigh after every cut. Obviously one day the blade guard was going to hang up and he was going to open up his leg. That scared me.
The other thing that chills me to this day was him clearing a nail gun jam while on the roof. He got that done, then held the nose piece down and fired a nail. I am not kidding about this: That nail found my neighbour's cat, right in the meaty part of her leg. Between Vet and Doctor bills I would have been better off to hire a real builder.
Greg.
Oh, by the way, between chisel and trowel scars, the amateur palm readers at work sputter out some pretty good theories!
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27th January 2006, 06:01 PM #65
That's odd. I don't remember doing any work in Templestowe!?
- Andy Mc
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27th January 2006, 06:15 PM #66
That was when we lived on the other side of town.
I have a knack. I could start a service: If I hire a tradie, black ban him. Announce it to the world. Every guy I have ever hired has instantly turned weird. The one and only sparky I hired insisted on disconnecting my power until he installed four (Yes, 4) earth stakes. Hence the genius of strong handgun laws in this country. I kept my power and he his hide, but he had lots to spare.
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28th January 2006, 02:56 PM #67
My dumbest thing happend half hour ago I just finished spraying the second coat on a coffee table, and as i want to hurry up and thickness some boards before i pull stumps for the day, i grabbed the nearest blanket and threw it over the coffee table to protect it from dust:eek::eek: :eek: what a f*%^#* idiot i am
Blowin in the Wind
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28th January 2006, 03:05 PM #68Banned
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Originally Posted by redwood
A greenie on the way for a very entertaining tale
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28th January 2006, 03:58 PM #69
i peeled it of straight away and its stuffed all that effort ill let it dry and totaly strip it upside is im havin a stubbie an hour before i had origanaly planed to celerbrate the fact im a goose
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28th January 2006, 04:02 PM #70New Member
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Just opened my first shop, had a new company name that was a blend of my last name & part of the gentlman whom helped me do it's last name. Spent $2,000.00 for a stall in the biggest trade show of the year, had a beautiful slab of fiddleback Spanish Cedar (like mahogany) 96" x 28" x 1 1/4", a real showpiece. I planned for a month to make this into a sign that would astonish people, worked on it from 6:00am to 11:00 pm, routed the name (13 letters) & Woodworking Inc. Did filigree corners, inverted pyramids, white maple inlay, the whole shebang. I was a proud man! Janet (my lady at the time) stops by to drag me out for a couple, so I just have to show her this work of art. . .She looks at it, says it;s beautiful but why did I spell the name like that? Well. I ain't got college, only the miltary as a formal educashun. Boy whatta putz. The sign never made it the show, it did however become a nice work plank.
I got a few more, this is enough though.
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28th January 2006, 04:22 PM #71Banned
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Originally Posted by redwood
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28th January 2006, 04:24 PM #72Originally Posted by redwood
Congratulations
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28th January 2006, 04:27 PM #73
Carpntr,
welcome and don't feel too bad mate! I used to work in graphic arts and used to see a lot of king sized typo's. The trouble when signwriting is that you don't look a the whole word like you do when writing normally, you tend to draw the individual letters as objects or pictures, rather than write them in a group as a word. Also, even when working with smaller text of a size nearer to normal writing people often can't see a mistake as their brain sees what should be there rather than what is really there.
Mick"If you need a machine today and don't buy it,
tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."
- Henry Ford 1938
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28th January 2006, 04:28 PM #74
theirs a thought. i could sell it as contemporary art:confused: do a few more and maybe get a government grant
Blowin in the Wind
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30th January 2006, 06:08 PM #75
One day not long ago, I had a blonde moment (no offense to blondes, just a figure of speech). Anyway following a bit of a hail storm in brissie, the light bulb in one of those $18 outdoor Par38 light fixings was smashed by the hail. So, coming off about 6 hours sleep in almost three days, I go out there, pull the whole light fitting off the post it was screwed to (to light up the pool area) and throw the whole thing in the bin.
Of course, what i should have done was just take the smashed lightbulb out and replaced it with a new $4 one instead of chucking out a perfectly good $18 light fitting
A made a mental note to get more sleep over the next few daysHow much wood could the woodchuck chuck if the woodchuck could chuck wood?
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