Thread: DRILLLLLL!!!

Originally Posted by detroyt

Unfortunately I have lived.

LOL. I feel your pain. Literally.

And the thing about clutches, is that in my experience, it seems like the safety clutches and catches on power tools are frequently the first thing to fail. That's how I shot myself in the hand with a nail gun........

Originally Posted by VeeDubb65

LOL. I feel your pain. Literally.

And the thing about clutches, is that in my experience, it seems like the safety clutches and catches on power tools are frequently the first thing to fail. That's how I shot myself in the hand with a nail gun........

I knew a guy who once stapeld himself to a wooden crate through his thumb with an industrial compressed air stapler.

Btw, I have lived too.
It was a summer job. Granted, it was only 10 meters high, but insetad of having 1 long ladder, I had 1 long ladder which was basically 2 ladders of different widths cobbled together with rope.

My Dad actually nailed his hand to a post once, and it wasn't due to failed safety gear, it was failure to pay attention.

What was really bad, was that he was using 16 penny nails (too big to pull out by hand), was working alone that day, and because he way using a nail gun he wasn't wearing his tool belt, so his hammer and cell phone were both out of reach. (I always gave him a hard time about doing that, even before this happened)

He ended up being stuck to that post for over an hour until the home owner came home for lunch.

That wasn't the worst part though.

The worst part was that the home owner freaked out when he realized my dad was nailed to a post, and refused to hand him the hammer so he could pull the nail out. So, my dad had to wait another 30 minutes for paramedics to show up. They actually made him sign a form that he had refused medical advice with his free hand before they'd give him a hammer. As soon as the nail was out, he kicked them all off his job site and worked the rest of the day with tape around his hand.

This is the same guy who taught me to super-glue wounds closed, and a variety of medical things that would make most doctors cringe, and he didn't become a contractor until he got burned out working as an RN in emergency rooms after 20+ years in medicine.

Originally Posted by VeeDubb65

So, my dad had to wait another 30 minutes for paramedics to show up. They actually made him sign a form that he had refused medical advice with his free hand before they'd give him a hammer.

What was the medical advice?

Originally Posted by welshwizard

What was the medical advice?

The paramedics wanted to strap his hand tight against the post so the nail wouldn't pull through causing more damage, cut the post off below where he nailed himself to it, and take him to the hospital attached to a big chunk of post so a surgeon could cut the nail and remove it from his hand in an operating room.

My Dad's solution was to take a claw hammer and simply pull the nail out of the post and his hand all at once, which he did.

My Ex girlfriend's son was helping me put insulation in my house with a hammer stapler and stapled his thumb to the 2X4 stud. He screamed when he stapled his thumb. He screamed when he pulled his thumb from the stud and he screamed when he pulled the staple from his thumb. When he screamed his brother laughed at him each time.

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