okay heres another chance for ********ting about your mistakes so others don't do the same! okay so muching around with a big breaker and ****ty old imperial bolts on a truck, using metric sockets- first this isn't a wise thing to do in the first place! secondly my wisdom teeth had been ***ming through fo a while and the local dentist told me that he was booked up for the next month- so anyway laying on the trolley pulling on this bar,(towards my head) jumping around trying to get the bolt to loosen, suddenly something hits my jaw with a crack and then followed by a warm liquid filling my mouth, I then realised at the same time as the pain hit me that I'd just smacked myself with the bar and that my top wisdom teeth had punchered through my bottom gum cracking my bottom wisdoms that was yesterday so drove to perth and this morning I had all my wisdom teeth (4) removed. so be carefull, and think tyler
I fired a 7/16" wrench into my forehead tightening a brake line under my daily. I was working over my head with about 4"s of clearance and it slipped ...pow cut on the head. I was working on a mitsibishi front suspension. I was breaking the bolts lose that hold the axle in and I had my weight on a breaker bar suspended under the wheelwell. I slipped and hit face first in the suspension. I knew I was hurt. I raised up asked my brother is it bad? He goes damn...blood running off my eyebrow, I still have that nice scar.
Scar on my cheek when a flex impact socket came off of an impact gun at full throttle as well as a scar across the bridge of my nose from a rusty 55 Merc hood that came down unexpectedly.They had to glue my nose back together Michael Jackson style!
I have two of them but, I will give my most recent... I had this POS 1985 Cehevy Celeberty I was using as basic transportation. Anyway, I am driving home from work and the alt takes a ****. I make it to the parts store and pick up a new one but, I know I couldn't make it home. I had a handful of tools i nthe trunk including a crowbar. I decided to use the crowbar as a prybar for the serpentine belt. As I am pulling it towards myself, I thought "man, if this slips, I am gonna get a faceful." Sure enough, it slipped and cracked myself right in the head opening me up. Someone saw me and started to scream "Someone call 9-1-1!!!" I asked him to stop and just go inside and ask the manager for some rags and a first aid kit. By this time, I was covered in blood. The manager came outside with the first aid kit and some paper towels. I stopped the bleeding the bast I could and continued to work on the car (I had to get home right). with blood running in my eyes. I finally got it together and drove myself to a walk in clinic. A bit of cleaning and some glue and I now have a nasty scar.
I work on car's daily as a tech, so my injuries are many after 18 years. I have 4 finger's that the print's are all screwed up on thanks to multiple cuts. Had an impact swivel come off a gun at full speed and hit me on the right side of my nose pretty much knocking me out..That one scared the hell out of me. Pain was unreal, couldn't see..i thought i lost my eye sight in my right eye.(safety gl***es from there on out). Tore something up in my left knew last year pulling a F550 dual wheel of the back of a dump truck..Heard "POP" then felt something like a knife being shoved into my knee..Still feel that one from time to time.. When i chopped the top on my 53 chevy, i still wasn't used to getting in and out of it, and one time as i was getting out after doing some grinding i slammed my head into the roof in the door opening..nice cut, blood, and a headache that would make you puke....Hmm, that might explain a lot come to think of it..... Oh well, part of the trade i guess. As long as they are small and not often i can deal with it..It's the big one's i can do without and hope to not have to deal with. Tony
1)grinding excess metal off the outside of an engine block-metal splinter in eye (yes, I had safety gl***es on), must have ***led head and looked over gl***es! 2)breaking bolts loose to put new motor in chevy pickup (daily driver), the 1/2" breaker bar slipped off bolt and hit myself in the mouth. Spit out the pieces of two teeth-wife made me go to dentist right then. 3)bought a wrecked cruiser at the police auction for the motor-helping friend load on roolback-hand slipped off steering wheel in the shattered windshield-trip to ER for 12 s***ches-left a nice scar. Luckily missed all the tendons! There's more, but this is all I want to share!
I was putting my motor in my 1952 ford truck. Motor got stuck on mount pushed with my hand and fell.hHand got stuck under motor for two hours got found by father at 10pm. 18 stiches
Pullin the front lower A arms off the Buick. Removed all the nuts and the studs still had 'er held tight. Figured a nice big crow bar shoved between the mounts and the crossmember oughta break it loose. Nope, not a budge. Grab the BFH and my buddy says he'll swing it to break it loose. After some hammerin, he gives up. I take a few good whacks at it and still nothing so my next swing is gonna be the swing to end all the trouble... cept I missed the end of the crow bar and landed the hammer full on my left thumb joint right where it meets my hand. Before I could roll out from under the car I was in so much pain all I could do was grab my hand and toss back and forth on the creeper not makin a sound. LOL Both my buddy and girlfriend knew something was up cuz typically I'll let the offending tool know exactly what I think about it's heritage, mother and family but I couldn't even get the words out it hurt so bad. Of course the first words out of everyone's mouth is "let me see" so when I finally decided holding my hand wasn't gonna reverse nor help the incredibly hot pain, I released my hand to find a perfect hammer print dead center on the joint and already huge with swelling. Pretty sure I did some serious damage cuz I couldn't pick anything up with my left hand for 5 days. After that it slowly got better but even now, almost a year later, that joint still hurts if I put any stress to it. Ended up finishing the suspension mods and doin the brakes that weekend but the left hand wasn't a helluva lota help. Ever try putting drum brake springs back in with one hand? UGH! Moral of the story : When you get it in yer head that yer next swing is gonna be the one that Guinness will wanna put in their book, make sure yer aim is dead nuts on!
I was watching a friend tighten a bolt on a Cadillac intake manifold. He was in a tight space and was using a short extention on the socket wrench, so he was really pushing hard. The wrench slipped and he ending up tearing a big, deep gash about two inches long in that meaty part of the hand just below the thumb. He went into the house and got a sewing kit, threaded a needle, and sewed it up with some black thread. He just squeezed the wound together and started s***ching with his free hand, tied the ends into a knot and went back to work.
Was using a hammer and a drift trying to punch out a bearing race. Gave it everything I had and missed and hit my hand. Hurt so bad I needed to hit something. Hit the tire on my fenderless T. As the hammer was going down, started to think, hey that is going to rebound. By the time I got the thought out it already had rebounded off the tire and got me square in the forehead. Almost knocked myself out. Didn't know whether to laugh or cry as it really hurt. Got to learn to control my temper. hahaha. Pat.
Had a '67 GTO rearend roll off a coffee can and smash my big toe,on my left foot,in High School. It still looks like ****! Why I NEVER go without shoes...
This incident reminded me of a sad case of what NOT to do. A fellow here in the city I live in; was working UNDER his truck. He had removed BOTH wheels off the one side. The frame was being held up with a single concrete building block. The block suddenly collapsed, pinning him under the truck. The frame resting on his chest. NO ONE was around to help him. The autopsy later showed he SUFFOCATED to death, and that it took 3 hours before he died.
I never got hurt, but, I was changing the front struts on my Honda 600 sedan. Never did one before. Don't know how I got the old strut out, but I did. Couldn't fit the new strut in without collapsing it. Light bulb went off in my head and I made some "J" straps, nuts and bolts. Used my Father N' Laws truck, put the strut against the bumper and collapsed it against a brick wall. Smart huh? I put the "J" straps on, bolted them together (idiots spring compressor) and backed the truck up. As I was walking the strut to my car, to my horror, the "J" straps were uncurling. Ran to the car, struck the strut in and "BAM", the "J" straps let go. Miracles of miracles, the strut seated itself. Now, I make it a point to use the proper tools. When I saw the straps uncurling, all I could think of was "grenade". LOL
Worst one for me was when cutting ally bar on my hi speed mitre saw, I always kept a file for deburring nearby, Did a cut and heard a bang, Then felt my fingers on my left hand went numb or worse missing, Eventually had a look and they were all there covered in blood, rushed to the sink to wash under cold water, Whilst cringing through the pain i noticed a file handle sticking out of my stomach !!! Pulled it out, it was in 3-4 inch's, Then nearly p***ed out :-( Went to hospital but all ok
I've had a flywheel explode on a Honda powered go kart and tag me in the shoulder pretty good. I've caught on fire three times, but only have once scar to show. And I've dropped a MoPar starter on my head from a height of about 6". No blood or anything, it just really hurt, and punching the K-member didn't help in the slightest. And all before I'm 24. Haha.
I was using a cheep coil spring compressor (the fork type) while lowering a 2003 Chevy pick-em-up. Everything was going OK till I set the dam spring on the ground while still compressed. The fork shot out like a missile causing the spring rebound into my arm breaking my wrist. After all the commotion and pain set in I look up to see my brother-in-law on the ground hunched over. The fork had hit him in the stomach taking him down like a hore on dollar night (6'3" 270 built like a **** brick house). After getting to the hospital for my arm they checked him out since he was still in considerable pain finding out that he had bruised intestines. Since then I only buy MAC or Snap-On For Sale coil spring compressor only used on one spring.
man I have sooo many but here are some of my favorites.. 1) I was working as a carpenter at the time and had just bought a BRAN SPANKIN new Eastwing 32 oz. California Waffle Head Framing Hammer and I was nailing in a 16 penny nail. I set the nail once and then came down on my left thumb with the head and tore m thumb, nail, and my tendons all to hell... **** still has the scar 7 years later 2) was working in a car shop and one of my techs was under a late 70s car with the hood hinge spike underneath it. Boss comes up scares the hell out of him knocks out the bar holding the hood up and blamo the hood spike comes down on his spine. The guy is still paralyzed 12 years later. I dont know about yall but I would be suing the ****in piss out of that guy .... but then again thats me and my all time favorite happened yesterday.. 3) went to dallas to go and pick up my 63 cadillac eldorado after some brain storming of how to get it up on the auto transport me, my brother, and my brother in law decide like idiots that we are going to push the caddy with my bro in law drivin it, my brother pushing it in his toyota stick shift, and me guiding him. well my brother put too much gas on it, got the caddy up onto the auto transport and then blam-o the brakes went out. **** drove about 2 1/2 feet off of the transport and we had to call the tow truck to come and get it up. No one was hurt fortunately but after we got a grip on what just happened, especially me cuz im the owner and im also bi polar lol,we just laughed about it.. heres a picture
The one that stands out for me was when I went down the back of my index finger with a cut-off wheel. After my dad and I played with it for a few minutes (the bone looked freakishly white compared to my greasy fingers), I decided to superglue it shut. Dad held the cut together while I ran a nice bead of superglue the length of my finger. After giving the glue time to set up, we discovered that dad's fingers were glued to mine. By the time he got his fingers ripped loose from mine, I had just about ran out of blood. On the second attempt, I just layed down a couple of small tacks while he held it together. Then when he moved his fingers and I gorilla welded it. About a week or so later I removed the glue with some thinner, and the scar looks better than any of the others that I let a doctor sew up.
Trimmed 1/4" off the tip of my FU finger whilst ****ing around with one of those stainless steel flex fans. Bled like hell.
While working at my Dad's wrecking yard when I was 14 or 15, I had jacked up the back of an Olds (late 60s? I dont recall) to get the rear axles out. We used a high lift jack and we would stuff wheels and tires underneath for jack stands. Of course out in the mud and dirt you cant use a real jack stand. Well, after I'd been under there awhile the cars starts to shift a little and falls pinning me to the ground! I swear I thought I was gonna die. I was able by the grace of God to wiggle onto by back and the weight of the car was off me and I slid out from underneith. I got out of that one with a sprained wrist. Thats all. I've known guys killed that way so don't be an idiot like I was. From now on when I jack something up, before I get under it, I push on it hard to make SURE its not going anywhere. Be safe you guys.
cutoff wheel explosion to the forehead, progressive rate spring tot he knuckles. get this to stop the knuckles from bleeding i applied to proper specified amount of chasis grease. in turn it resulted in an infection the looked like quacamole and smelled like a burnt foot.
real stupid one . i was working on a 74 454 monte i had as a daily driver as the fuel pump had went belly up so i thought . well i put the new one on and still she won't fire . i had an unnamed ***istant who was there spouting their " educated " opinion, dump fuel into the carb when told not too , while i was spinning it over with a remote ****on . the car backfired , catches the can of gas on fire which he then throws on me . i ended up with 2nd and 3rd degree burns to the left side of my body and a whole bunch of missing body hair .you could see the nerve endings on darn near my entire left calf . painful lesson learned and someone i really wanted to hit in the head with a blunt object as he was not listening to me and caused me a great deal of pain . by the way the problem was that somehow the fuel pump pushrod got bent . still aint figured that one out .
A while back I was talking to a customer of mine into laydown enduro karting. He had just recoverd from a major accident breaking nearly every bone from hip to ankle on both legs. I made the comment that he was lucky. He said he'd seen worse. Really? Yea, a while back a guy called "Indian" had his long hair came out of his helmet at full speed. It wrapped itself around the rear gear and scalped him from under the chin back, all this at full bore. Makes me glad I'm almost bald. Pool
Last november while building my jeep I had the front axle (Dana 60) sitting alone on 2 jack stand and i had to lower it to the ground to slide it under the jeep. so i stuck the jack under one side and lacked it up then pulled the jack stand out and started to lower it down, while i was lowering it i grabbed the tie rod to keep it stable while lowering it. I got about half way down when the axle off the jack pad and fell in such a manner as to catch my left middle finger tip between the tie rod and the corner of my aluminum jack. i instantly yanked my hand back and looked down and seen nothing but red tissue where my finger tip should be. i then reached down and realized that my finger tip was still in the glove i had been wearing at the time. now i have 3 fingers on my left hand that are the same lenght and a bunch of guitars i no longer enjoy playing. heres a few pictures to make you think twice about doing something without thinking it through.
Lost three fingernails on my left hand after grabbing the fan shroud on a running 63 galaxie. Shorted out the entire garage circuit working under the same car when I laid my sweating in the 100 degree heat arm across an extension cord with a previously unseen bare spot. I jerked so hard from the shock I cut my head on the frame and bit a hole in my tongue.
Ball's point's to you for taking a picture in that situation. Mine is more of a mental injury. Back in high school me and a buddy were leaving the movies, he being the eternal smart *** jumped in his 56 chevy and locked me out he started to drive away so I jumped on the hood, we went a little ways with my nose against the windshield when he slammed on the brakes. I slid down the hood directly centered on the "bird" the upright's on the wing's cut through both legs of my jean's and cut through the waist band of my soon to be soiled underwear. I landed on my feet just standing there looking at my shreaded pant's and underwear, and not a scratch on me. My biggest concern then was my mom was going to kick my *** for killing a new pair of Levi's. Now I think about my 2 kid's that allmost weren't, and I sweat a little.
i used to work for a motorcycle suspension company i was putting the springs on a pair of rear shocks and the machine we used to compress the springs was a converted shot gun sheller. when i went to release the pressure and seat the spring against the collar my hand slipped and pinned my ring finger on my right hand between the spring and the collar. my boss came running over and released the spring so i could get my finger out. i made it about 2 feet before the pain hit and you could hear me yelling over the CNC machine.. lost my nail and all..
Push starting a sprint dirt car with a four wheeler. As the car started it bucked and the four wheeler bumper hooked on the sprint bumper. Had brakes on jerking up on handle bars nothing was helping or slowing it down. Just as we got on the straight I knew he was fixing to wail on it for a 100 mile per hour 4 wheeler ride. Would have been cool as hell til we got to the turn. So just as the reaper swung his sickle back and took a swing I bailed at about 45 mph causing him to miss. Landed on my left knee wich promptly came to pieces sending me rolling onto the track in front of oncoming cars. Got up and hobbled back to the pits. Looked down and my leg was making 45 degree turn towards my right leg. Hurt so bad thought I was going to puke. Now this dumb*** (me) will only push off with a pickup. Happened about a year ago, had surgery and it is finally quit hurting but still pops loud as hell every once in while.
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