Careful With That Axe, Eugene [warning: graphic imgs]

[themccannman]

OH I WANNA PLAY
or like the time i was riding a dragon in space comet fishing when the sun blew up and singed my hair up, then while falling back to earth, hitler in a helecoptor sliced my head off and played frisbie with my brain!
... do i win?

You win...
10wins

[tuna777]

I'm a BIG fan of carnage photos. This stuff made me giddy, and you should all be more careful with power tools. I tend to do myself out playing.

Or the time I finished a big carving deck and took it straight to the local skatepark untested. I've since decided that old guys and big carving decks don't belong on ramps of any kind.

Been off it a month, just starting to ride again. New board is great.

[Daniel M.]

ouch man thats some serious swelling. I've done my ankle in like that but not quite as bad. Hope that feels better those are a bummer.
My injuries have all been from skating pretty much... this was my first ever time cutting myself with a powertool. I'm pretty careful but this was a good reminder and I'm just glad it wasn't anything more serious.

[SoloRider]

I don't have any good carnage photos but lots of good carnage stories. Three of them involving architecture interns on the jobsite...

[tuna777]

I don't have any good carnage photos but lots of good carnage stories. Three of them involving architecture interns on the jobsite...

Alright Solo, give up a story. I'm sure there is a story to that broken board that is your avatar.

[benmasters]

that board isnt broken?

[atomicturtle462]

...

yeah. Or like the time I fell face first after getting the speed wobbles and split my lip open.

I did the same with my chin.


And I do not see a broken board in his avatar?

[scratch]

All joking and war stories aside... glad you are alright man.

[Blaximus]

I did the same with my chin.


And I do not see a broken board in his avatar?

I split my top lip on the inside, and outside. Busted my bottom lip, got a black eye and roadrash on my forehead.

[[(Erik)]]

when i first read the title of this thread i thought itd be abt how someone hurt themselves doing slalom, but then i saw it was under board buildind......

[SoloRider]

Funny thing is that the board is actually broken a little bit. The padauk turned out to be a really bad choice, it's a very stiff wood but also brittle and the board is flexy so it's developed a ~3" crack running from the center of the deck forward and has increased the flex of the deck beyond where I'm comfortable with it. The bamboo, walnut, carbon fiber, and Kevlar are all in great shape still. This whole thing makes me wonder if you already knew that Tuna and how you found out.

Anyway, on to tales of carnage.

1. I had an architecture intern on my jobsite about ten hours a week for one summer about 8 years ago. He and a laborer were staging trusses getting them ready to be rolled as soon as I got around to joining them. I rounded the top of the stairs just in time to watch the intern throw a cordless drill up to Randy(the laborer). Randy missed it and the inter reached out to catch it on it's return to trajectory. The 6" bit holder and phillips bit attached to the drill went clean through his palm all the way to the chuck, just like the jesus. There was some crying on the way to the emergency room.

2. By far the most gory thing I've witnessed on a jobsite thankfully wasn't on one of mine. I was visiting a site to see the work of a sub I was thinking about using and I witnessed a guy on the fourth floor reach out to grab an extension cord being thrown to him from an adjacent condo across a courtyard. As he reached out to grab it the temporary railing he was leaning on gave way. He fell head first toward the courtyard, about ten feet from impact the extension cord he was holding onto pulled taught and snapped him upright for the remainder of his fall. He hit the ground about 20 feet in front of my truck. He shattered both of his legs and his pelvis and did enough other damage to earn a 5 month hospital stay.

[spoctopus]

HOLY #### THATS BRUTAL
sdn

[tuna777]

Funny thing is that the board is actually broken a little bit. The padauk turned out to be a really bad choice, it's a very stiff wood but also brittle and the board is flexy so it's developed a ~3" crack running from the center of the deck forward and has increased the flex of the deck beyond where I'm comfortable with it. The bamboo, walnut, carbon fiber, and Kevlar are all in great shape still. This whole thing makes me wonder if you already knew that Tuna and how you found out.

Anyway, on to tales of carnage.

1. I had an architecture intern on my jobsite about ten hours a week for one summer about 8 years ago. He and a laborer were staging trusses getting them ready to be rolled as soon as I got around to joining them. I rounded the top of the stairs just in time to watch the intern throw a cordless drill up to Randy(the laborer). Randy missed it and the inter reached out to catch it on it's return to trajectory. The 6" bit holder and phillips bit attached to the drill went clean through his palm all the way to the chuck, just like the jesus. There was some crying on the way to the emergency room.

2. By far the most gory thing I've witnessed on a jobsite thankfully wasn't on one of mine. I was visiting a site to see the work of a sub I was thinking about using and I witnessed a guy on the fourth floor reach out to grab an extension cord being thrown to him from an adjacent condo across a courtyard. As he reached out to grab it the temporary railing he was leaning on gave way. He fell head first toward the courtyard, about ten feet from impact the extension cord he was holding onto pulled taught and snapped him upright for the remainder of his fall. He hit the ground about 20 feet in front of my truck. He shattered both of his legs and his pelvis and did enough other damage to earn a 5 month hospital stay.

I didn't know it was broke. I was trying to make that deck the same as the one at the bottom of your post. I thought you shortened it in order to keep riding it.

Sorry for straying a little from the building theme. Story seemed to fit since it was my first time out on one I did.

Guy I used to work with nailed himself to a truss with a framing gun. Mister cool kept it. He asked his helper twice for the sawzall to cut himself free, before he got anxious and yelled at him. Pretty sure that man never cried about anything.

[mehbear!]

i'm in school and i couldn't resist. many ewws. that's awesome though. stitches?

[stringtheory]

You gotta get yourself some stylish chainmail gloves man. Prevent future accidents. =)~

[sappha58]

yeah routers are easily in my top 3 scariest tools list.

That's interesting. I give routers a healthy amount of respect and take all due caution with them, but they don't frighten me.

Now, table saws. THOSE fright me!

[8ftbed]

I had a brand new truck down in Charleston one time. Picked up some cool, swing arm side mirrors to mount. So there I am, holding the mounting bracket in my left hand, drilling through it with right. Shouldn't have been a problem. I already had the passenger side mounted.

Except I had a bad position with my left hand. The bit finally punched through the metal and right into the meaty part of the palm below the thumb. I reversed the drill to get out of myself. Bled like the proverbial stuck hog. When I got back from the ER and started cleaning up, I found a nice piece of meat on the drill bit and dried blood spewed across my nice, new, white F150.

One of my best entries in the dumbass contest.

[Maxx]

I had a brand new truck down in Charleston one time. Picked up some cool, swing arm side mirrors to mount. So there I am, holding the mounting bracket in my left hand, drilling through it with right. Shouldn't have been a problem. I already had the passenger side mounted.

Except I had a bad position with my left hand. The bit finally punched through the metal and right into the meaty part of the palm below the thumb. I reversed the drill to get out of myself. Bled like the proverbial stuck hog. When I got back from the ER and started cleaning up, I found a nice piece of meat on the drill bit and dried blood spewed across my nice, new, white F150.

One of my best entries in the dumbass contest.

Ugh, the part where you had to reverse the drill must have been gut-wrenching.

[unclewinkie]

You gotta get yourself some stylish chainmail gloves man. Prevent future accidents. =)~

If your gonna do that you might as well go with this:

ThinkGeek :: Chain Mail Shirt

And this:

ThinkGeek :: Chain Mail Coif

And if you want to be really safe, wear these over your chain mail gloves:

ThinkGeek :: Medieval Steel Gauntlets

[8ftbed]

coulda, shoulda, woulda

Now that geek sight is cool. Did you see the STFU Fish shirt? Oughta be a uniform item for members of this forum.

ThinkGeek :: STFU Fish