The Official Brain Fart Thread

[T4TWO]

Post up any of your Brain Farts.





I'll start by saying,

Once with a hand saw, cutting a 2x4. The saw jumped off the 2x4 and right on one of my toes. Not good, still got the toe.

Another time I was working on one of my trailers and the pins which holds the tounge in place (because its a tilt bed trailer) came out. Dropping the 200 lb tounge from about 4' high right on my big toe. In a cast for 4 months and re hab another 3 months, + they could only give me two stitches. As the rest of my big toe area was too mangled to stitch.

Just yesterday while working on my build. I was swinging a 3 lb hammer to knock off the spring perch. After I was cutting it with my plasma and bamm. The hammer just wanted to meet my shin, blood everywhere.

I now wear steel toe shoes and long pants (when I remember to), and next time I'll just use the plasma a little longer. So, I wouldn't have to take such a big swing at whatever I'm trying to remove.

 

[Martin]

Just HATE the sound of that, seen it way too many times People sticking their fingers in table saws, band saws, jointers, saw a guy get his finger stuck in an end sander once, sanded it off almost to the first knuckle, YUCK!! Fortunately so far it has not been me. I used to work with a guy that was about 70 years old when he left the end on his finger laying on the table saw, oh well he said, when you work around this kind of equipment for long enough something like that is bound to happen. I hope he was wrong!!

Hope it was nothing a little cleaning and a stitch or two wouldn't fix.

PS this was meant to go in Davids thumb thread, I cant figure out how to move it though....

 

[old round fart]

I band sawed a piece of 1/8" piece of aluminum strap about 6" long and 3/4" wide and went to the belt sander with 40 grit paper on it to straighten the edge. The gap between the table and the belt was 3/8". As soon as the strap touched the belt it sucked the strap down leaving my fingers to contact the moving belt! My two longest fingers were QUICKLY sanded to a 45 degree taper for a couple of weeks. The two blood racing stripes left on the belt was a good reminder not to do that again. It has been 30 years and I remember it like it was yesterday.

 

[Duke]

I was showing a guy that worked for me, how to use a cutting torch to make a clean cut. He asked a question and I lost my concentration. Ran the torch over my thumb, the nail curled up into a little ball. OH the pain, the pain.

 

[Francis Blake]

You guys are makin me hurt! Ouch.. Francis

 

[HAceT]

I was using a 6" disk sander,Air Tool, to trim some wood down for the bucket. Well as most of the air sanders I've used over the years it looks like a high speed drill and it sands great. The sander was doing good and suddenly it caught the wood just right and the disk came loose. 1st the lock rig flew across the room at Mach 1 and landed next to Tom's feet and the disk dropped and jabbed me in the leg where it then exploded and flew into 3 junks. One of the chunks cutting my finger deeply. I paid my leg no mind because the last pain I felt was my finger bleeding every where. I went to the bath room and washed and wrapped it.(I needed stitches but electrical tape works wonders). I looked down at my pants and noticed a tear in the pants. So about 5 minutes later I felt something wet on my leg and decided that it must of scratched me. When I got home 5 hours later and started to shower I noted that it had to cut me wide open in a perfect "L". To late for stitches and it took 4 weeks for the scabbing to go away. I hate air sanders.

 

[norseman]

Been awhile for me and a saw accident but heres what I did. i was cutting slabwood out back of my parents house, we heated mostly with wood in the winter. The chainsaw kicked back, and came down on my leg, cut thru my jeans, thru my long underwear and I did not get a scratch. I gained alot of respect for chainsaws.
At my work is another story. I work in a large steel mfg plant where we build most anything. One of the sandblasters was flipping a big frame, might have weighed around a half ton on some similar weight sawhorses in the paint area. The load got kittywompus and tipped the sawhorse over onto his leg, needless to say his leg was mashed to hamburger and we couldnt pull it off him till the ambulance got there. A combat vet will know the screaming sound, eerie..He lost his leg.
We also have a roller setup called a roundo, handy as heck but you have to have your head on straight to use this stuff, steel doesnt care. He was rolling some rebar into 12" loops and his glove got caught, he shouldnt have been holding onto it in the first place. Anyways he panicked and he had the machine stopped then acidentally hit the forward redal instead of the reverse pedal, lost his fingers from just below the index finger to about halfways down below his pinky thru the palm. He failed a drug test at the time of the accident.
Ive been fortunate but I always keep my eyes and ears peeled for and about whats happening around me...........

 

[bentbaggerlen]

Brain farts... This one is not mine (But I've had a few)

We were building a crane body and I had one of "grommet's" cutting some braces from 1/4" steel plate on the Ironworker. The braces were just a triangle with a 3" base 6" tall, so they had a point to them on the one end.

He was using a paint marker to lay out the parts, his hands were full so he bit the top of the paint marker and held it between his lips. After he cut the parts he picked them up off the floor and went to put the cap back on the paint marker.... Stuck the part right in his eye, he was lucky he did not loose the eye. He could have ended up looking like this guy

Oh, and whare were his safety glasses? Safely on top of his head. I had to fill out the accident report, and there was just no way not to make him sound like a dink...

 

[engine24355]

I have too many to mention...:lol:

 

[iajjpop]

I recently read a want ad, it said '' For sale used table saw,near new , with work gloves, one missing 2 fingers'' I would guess there is a story with this ad....:lol:

 

[der Spieler]

I don't know if this is a brain fart or just plain ignorance. A few years ago a friend was working for a contractor doing some drywall work. He needed to cut a small piece to use as a filler and thought a 4 inch circular trim saw would make the cut easier and faster. To compound matter he thought it was be okay to hold the drywall in one hand and make the cut with the other. The saw caught, took a left turn and cut off the ring and pinky fingers of his left hand. He gives high threes now.

 

[T4TWO]

Ouch^^^


Hey this thread doesn't have to be about injuries. More along the lines of stupid funny things. Like "I turned on the oven to pre heat it, thought I put dinner in there. An hour later when we're ready for dinner. I open the oven door and wolla no dinner." I did that once. LOL

 

[speedkills502]

A Friend was turning a rotor put his finger against the side of the face to feel the finish and the silencer belt hung his wedding band and popped his finger off at the knuckle.

 

[Track T-4]

Anyone remember the old Saturday Night Live skit with two security guards (one was Billy Crystal). They would share similar stories and then say "Yeah, I hate when that happens."

 

[Todd]

Anyone remember the old Saturday Night Live skit with two security guards (one was Billy Crystal). They would share similar stories and then say "Yeah, I hate when that happens."

Yeah, I was playing around with an ice pick in my ear and punctured my ear drum. I hate when that happens.

 

[PaulR]

Mine involves my 2 wheeler.... Backing it out of the garage, going to pick up my son from school, not 2 minutes down the road. Remembered I had to put on the rear seat instead of the cover. Put the kickstand down (or so I had thought). Proceeded to get pinned to the garage door opening while getting off of the bike, all the while the bike is knocking the shelves down at the same time. To make matters worse, my wife and daughter, who were in the house not 30 feet away, went deaf for a short time! All in all, no one was hurt, nothing was damaged.

PaulR

 

[RexRod]

Here's someone having a brain fart. I love how he makes a mad dash for it, falls and keeps going:

 

[MRYoung]

Mine involves my 2 wheeler.... Backing it out of the garage, going to pick up my son from school, not 2 minutes down the road. Remembered I had to put on the rear seat instead of the cover. Put the kickstand down (or so I had thought). Proceeded to get pinned to the garage door opening while getting off of the bike, all the while the bike is knocking the shelves down at the same time. To make matters worse, my wife and daughter, who were in the house not 30 feet away, went deaf for a short time! All in all, no one was hurt, nothing was damaged.

PaulR

Ouch, I've been there. I pulled into my garage and stopped, kept my left foot on the floorboard while I was checkin th trip meter. I turned the key of and leaned it to the left thinking I'd put the stand down...WRONG...still had my foot on the board. Nothing like a 750+ LB motorcycle throwing you into the wall. Luckily nothing was hurt, although I was a bit bruised.

 

[T4TWO]

Here's someone having a brain fart. I love how he makes a mad dash for it, falls and keeps going:

:lol:

 

[blownt]

Betcha he's unemployed now..........