Of course you have. Saw the guy I was working with this weekend swing a hammer right into his own wrist. Ouch. I grimaced, but he just kept right on like it didn't even happen. So what's the worst you've hurt yourself out there?
fell off a ladder tossin the seat frames from the 54 up in the rafters a couple years ago... landed square on a portable toolbox full of junk pulloffs from the boneyard... scared the shit out of me. couldnt walk straight for almost three weeks after that one. made me a believer in a decent ladder i can tell you. the next nastiest thing was one that never really happened... was tearin down a flatty on a wooden bench... yea, the infamous wooden bench flathead incident. ask Tingler for details on that one, he seems to remember it better than i do, and i cant remember how i lied about it the last time i told that story
pulling the bolt that holds the cross pin from a chevy 12 bolt rearend someone had already messed up the bolt head....tapped a socket on the bolt head started to loosen it with a 3/8 impact and the socket split in two. sending one half directly into my un-safety glasses proteced eyeball....6 stitches in my eyeball for 6 months, permanent vision imairment in the left eye and a new found repect for safety glasses. short-stack
Not the worst I've done, but one of the dumbest...I was pushing on an engine that was resting on the motor mounts so that I could get it centered. Pushed so hard my hand slipped and I hit the corner of my eye socket on one of those stupid wing-nut style valve-cover bolts. One of the lamer reasons I've walked around with a black eye Another reason I'm not a fan of those bolts... Bryan
To me, the real question is, when DIDN'T I hurt myself working on cars? Must have been at least once....
my least favorite the last time this came up was the guy who got the sharp end of a test light stuck in his eye. The socket is a close second, now.
Have a couple of lessons learned in my young days about avoiding jagged edges. Also have a little reminder on one hand why you're supposed to wear gloves when you use a wire wheel. Oh and another lesson from my youth: Thou shalt wear boots when using the cutting torch. Tennis shoes make terrific funnels to direct molten slag to its not so natural resting place between your toes. Other than that it's just the usual busted knuckles and the occasional kick in the nuts to my pride.
I watched my brother drop a 3-ton floor jack on his big two. YEs he was bare-footed. and yes we are from Wv. A kid at a shop I used to work at dropped a full size chevy transmission from about 5-6 feet on his shin. I didnt see this happen, just the aftermath.
Hell, I have a big bruise on my shin from just trying to put parts away last week, I walked into part of this metal thing with little wheels on it - a trailer tongue dolly or something, I don't know, but it hurt like a bastard. Probably the worst one I've done lately was trying to get the dash out of a '58 Bel Air, a year ago August. Sawed it all around, it was getting dark, trying to get the last of it free, prying around with a lugwrench to try to find what was holding it up, slipped, drove my pinky finger straight into the lip where I'd cut it with the sawzall. Right under the nail. Damn near ripped it right off. If the car hadn't already been blue, it would have after the blue streak I cussed it out with. This was out in the field no where near anything except what was in my truck, so I ended up pouring some rubbing alcohol over it - by then the adrenaline was going so I never noticed any pain from that - wrapped some paper towel around it, added some duct tape, and finished pulling the dashboard out of the car. Took about 6 months to heal up, eventually the nail did fall off and grow back. Not a big deal, but ugly to look at for a long time.
Just this weekend doing a bunch of welding on the gasserkids roadster, chunk'o mig between my ring and finger , damn that hurt, got the rig off three real nice burns damn near to the bone, started wearing my gloves after that!
fUCKIN' dislocated my shoulder today. Was stepping over the frame of my truck in my OH SO huge 1 car garage. Tripped on the torque tube and went to catch myself slip. pop, squeal like girl and now I have a shoulder that reset itself and I am about to cry while I type this. HAHAHA gotta LOVE it
pain fades, chicks dig scars, cool lasts forever but yea,,, some of these are gettin a fuckin 12 of 10 on my sphincter pucker scale
never weld wearin shorts, sneakers and no socks... i dont care how fuggin hot it is outside... spatter is hotter... dont ask me how i know this, just ask to see my feet next summer when you run into me at a show somplace
I put a pair of needle nose pliers in my left eye while working on my sons ATV brakes on Memorial Day weekend Saturday in 2000 at 11:30AM. My safety glasses were on the ground because I couldn't see out of them, they were covered in sweat and putting on this last spring then the brake drum and I would be done and out riding at FLat River. Kinda shot the hell out of that weekend. Four surgeries, a lens implant and cornea transplant and I am at 20/200 in my left eye. I still paint cars as a hobby to afford my car habit.
Thanksgiving weekend 1969, wiggle out from under car with a fourspeed on my chest. Rolls off onto my hand, crush the hell out of two fingers.
under the car welding the front brackets for the radius rods when i smell something burning yep thats my arm hmmm why doest it hurrrrrrrrttttt my buddy thought i was getting attached by bee's i was thrashing so much i almost knocked the car off the jackstands ahhh... memories tk
ok Ive got one.. A few years back, me and a buddy pulled the motor out of my truck. We were putting it onto this trailer that my dad let me use. It was a single axle trailer. so we were lowering onto the trailer with the hoist and the chain broke. The motor came crashing down onto the trailer and guess where i was standing. YEP, the tongue was right between my legs. trailer went down, tongue went up..... You know the rest.
I had a good one happen at work. I was walking through a shop area and tripped on a floor mat which cause me to stumble full speed ahead and my feet couldn't catch up with the top half of my body. I put my hands down to catch myself on the floor and before I could make it to the floor a big roll around toolbox was in my way and I ducked my head and hit it full speed. I do understand about seeing stars now. My head swelled up and I was dizzy, but too embarassed to tell anyone, so I loosened my hat so it would fit on my big head and went to my office and sat down until the swelling went away. I checked later and no dents in the toolbox! Man those Craftsman toolboxes are made tough!...lol
Burnt the crap outta my wrist when I shorted out the starter with my wristwatch,,,,,keeps getting hotter even after you jerk your hand away from the starter,,,,HRP
If I do that'll be the strangest request I've ever made of another man. Weldin splatter down the back of the pants into the ass crack. Good thing all that hair slowed it down before it reached the "exit".
Up here in Canada, we work in the cold a lot............Funny how, you smash your finger or something and it doesnt hurt until you go in the house and it warms up. Then, it stings like a bastard. Hot welding slag in the boot is always fun too....Its amazing how much room is in those boots when you gotta get those feet over to one side.
I was removing a starter once from underneath the car and it was so full of grease that it slipped out my hands and hit me in the head. I tried to moved away but it still caught me pretty good on the side of the head and I had to get a couple of stitches. Yes, I'm a dork!
When I was 18 I built my first of many Jeeps. I was swapping the motor and the pilot bearing would not line up. I had ahold from the front and was pulling and pushing when it finally decided to go together. WITH my thumbs between the trans and bellhousing. Fun trying to yell for a 13 year old TV addicted brother to come and help while lying on the intake of an engine smashing your own hands. After a while my thumbnails fell off and I was fine. Now they grow until there is about 1/16th of an inch of 'white' and then the split between the layers. I've shed the top layer about every 6 weeks for 20 years! Haven't forgetten, though.
Back when I was drag racing motorcycles, drilling a 3/16" hole in the handlebar to mount a switch in, drill bit broke and I drilled a hole through my left index finger. The drill entered on the palm side, hit the bone and exited on the outside of the finger. I still have those scars on that finger. You talk about throbbing!! My wife pulled up from work just as it happened, did not shut the car off and carried me to the hospital. The bad thing was, once I realized what happened, the first instinct was to jerk the drill motor back. When I did this, there was an inch piece of meat that came out with what was left of the drill bit. Once at the hospital, one shot of demoral and they cut the piece off and I was fine untill the demoral wore off!!
Remember this? Its always good to hear some new ones though ! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81682&highlight=Crazy+Insane+Shop+Accidents
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