Projects It ain't truly yours until you bleed on it

Goes for darn near anything with wheels and an engine.... pulling parts off a donor car and poked a hole in my hydraulic system (stabbed my hand a bled a bit)...
That cut things short for the evening.

 

Been there.

 

Who me? Never

 

Blood Sweat And Pay Checks...

 

I very tentatively opened this thread with my squeemish eyes barely open expecting to see human carnage.

No blood for me today. Substituted with a coolant shower, the red stuff. Sticky.

Chris

 

It aint really yours until you fall off a ladder onto it............. Just ask @Roothawg ......
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/roothawg.1308818/

 

I've bled at sometime on every build! And darn near broke my neck on one when the fluorescent lights above the car went out and I needed light, but couldn't move the car. I sat a ladder up close to it and stretched way out to get to the lamps and the ladder went out from under me. Luckily it was a 6 ft. ladder, and the car broke my fall a little.

 

Wasn't gonna post the carnage; too many old folks on here that might suffer a coronary at the sight. Lost count of the times I've thumped the shit out of my left hand using a chisel... which is why everything gets cut off with a whiz wheel now. I figure a whiz wheel will not hurt as bad if it DOES take a finger off... unlike that big blue-black thumb aching for a week.

 

You know that's right.

 

If bleeding makes it yours, I should claim a tax deduction on every one of my cars as a dependent

 

That's a great photo. It reminds me of a time many years ago when a number of my co-workers were doing an engine swap on the weekend in the heated loading dock bay at work. They had to have the job done before Monday morning. They too had lifted the engine/trans using a come-along. It jammed with the engine/trans suspended high above the car. They couldn't lower the engine/trans. Every action they took resulted in the engine being raised one click higher. After assessing their situation, one of the would be weekend warriors declared that he had figured out their problem. He explained that up to this point, they had been using a come-along, and what they needed now was a "there-you-go". True story.

 

Can’t get a drive line u-joint out of the yoke.Laying on my back beating, prying cussing…repeat. Took a break to catch my breath and the SOB literaly falls out and hit me in the lip before I can even react. Split my lip wide open.
My wife heard me howling, saw all the blood and called 911.
Once she saw it was just a busted lip, she called the 911 response off, but it was too late…ambulance and fire truck responded anyway.
Good Times!

 

^^^^^ My brother in-law worked for Firestone some years back. Other mechanic removed caliper and castle nut from rotor. He bent over to pick up something and got skull bongo’d by the rotor that slipped off the spindle.

 

Blood??? Nothing that can't be fixed with some duct tape and a McDonalds napkin.

 

Or until you've set your shirt on fire while welding & grinding on it.

 

It's a christening of sorts!

 

What dance do you do when that happens? I do a cracking version of "The Stomp".
Does putting the pointy end of the needle nosed pliers through your eyelid when pulling on a headlight retaining spring and it suddenly snaps, count? Luckily it went above my eyeball and just put a hole in the eyelid. That was about 45 years ago, I now wear my face-shield a lot more.
Masking tape is great for labeling wires and holding flesh together.

 

I prefer paper towels and green 3m painters tape myself.

 

Years ago I was using a cutting torch under a car and had melton under coating dip on the under side of my arm. Still have a nice star shaped mark to remind me

 

Or arc welding in the rain and the water pours down your butt just as you strike an arc.

 

Cutting out 3/8" gusset plates with a fire wrench, wearing canvas tennis shoes and drop a ball of slag on top of your shoes, it;s doesn't take long for the slag to burn through the shoe and melt the sock to your foot, I've learned to were proper footwear when playing with fire! HRP

 

Ha ha ha ha ha ha

Some events could make for a story book.
There was a time, the nurse in emergency looked up and said "What happened now? Tom"

 

The fun part is leaving a DNA sample on the hood safety catch

 

Back when I had my shop we got white shop rags from a local service all nice and clean every week. They made the best bandages held on with painter’s tape, so good in fact we hardly ever got into the first aid cabinet with all the proper stuff.

 

I don’t care how careful I am , when welding for a long period of time , a piece of slag will get down inside my glove and to the finger tip of the glove and burn until it cools off

 

Say what?

 

Wooly bugger in the ear while welding

 

Had my water cooled tig torch set up hoses across my lap when welding car parts. Long story short water cooling stopped and I began to melt the hoses and the power cable started to melt right on my jeans. Did not realize this until my legs started to get hot. Lifted my helmet and saw melted hoses in my lap and found it burned thru my jeans into my leg. Yes a nice scar and from it. No I do not lay the cables on my lap anymore!

 

Guy's... bleeding's one thing, but, just avoid leaky gas tanks whenever possible.

 

neighbor was welding and had a bb go through a hole in his glove and attach itself to his wedding ring. gold being an excellent conductor, he came away with an instant ring shaped burn around the circumference of his finger.

talk about your ring of fire, and it burns burns burns....