I think we should have a "scar-off". Winfred--can you match Bill?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill R.
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I think we should have a "scar-off". Winfred--can you match Bill?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill R.
hand, i'm left handed, its quite a bit more scarred up since i use it more.. Then again for that romantic asphalt rash stuff, there's a friend of mine with burn scars over 40% of his body , funny car engine fire and he couldn't get the escape hatch open before the fire crew got there.. or my oldest brother who has road rash over about 20% of his body from when he got ran over by a dragster back when he was about 21... 6 inch circles on his knees, elbows shoulders, all over his back.. yeah the hot chicks really dig that..... not.
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Originally Posted by Gayle
Bill you have had more opportunity to develop your own unique marbling, but you strike me as very careful. Winfred on the other hand strikes me as crazy and more risk taking. (No offense Win--you know I love your craziness. I am one of your biggest fans.) And Winfred is such a competitor. I am not so sure you are going to be that far ahead of Winfred.
But thanks for the mention of the dominant hand. We want apples to apples comparison.
I never get seriously hurt, because I take what I am doing deadly serious.
I have burned a knuckle so badly on a turbo manifold bolt (just brushed against it) it never even blistered just sizzled. After 3 months there is still a red dimple mark on the knuckle.
I did have a ramp shoot out when a friend was easing a car down off it and give me a 6 inch long scrape about 6 months ago. I jumped to try and clear it (I was about 6 feet away) and it just grazed my leg thru my jeans, but it could have broken it if I hadn't been alert. That one finally healed up but I'll have that scar for the next 10 years or more before it goes away.
Just another reminder to stand well back when driving off ramps and to wear jeans, long sleeves, gloves etc when working on cars.
i had a friend who welded in shorts and a t-shirt. I said to him, ah? what the hell are you doing. of course he knew better.Quote:
Originally Posted by attack eagle
he got 1st degree burns that day just from the welding. then again i would surprised if he is still alive, i don't help him with jobs anymore he is a reckless idiot. once he was pulling out a fuel tank, but he didn't think it necessary to drain it. he is the kind of idiot that thinks it'll never happen to him and next thing he is dead.
ps i don't have any battle scars but then again i wouldn't have anywhere near the exposure to it as bill or winfred would.
i was taking a rear wheel off a dust cart about 4 years ago with an inch drive air gun and the air hose blew off at the connector whipped back up and broke my nose but thats the worst thats ever happened to me, i have seen several idiots reverse 10 ton lorries off bottle jacks while there have been no wheels on the front, just not paying attention to what they're doing, luckily no one was hurt, funny though
this has nothing to do with cars but i remember at swim practice we were doing stretch cords and one snapped and caught my coach... it was a 4" thick rubber band that had been stretched 30 yards it was so fast no one saw it, we were all like why is mike on the ground? the welt on his leg was about 2 feet long just missed his nuts
there's all sorts of stories doing the rounds, there's one i heard about where a lad was fitting a 13.6-24 tractor front tyre , it was a loose wheel and he'd almost finished the job and was inflating the tyre , he had it flat on the ground,and was standing on the rim in the centre, which is a no-no and tyring to get the beads out onto the rim, if you stand them upright it takes about 14 p.s.i to get them on the bead, this guy had roughly 80 p.s.i in it, suffice to say that the pressure blew the rim out of the tyre, straight up in the air , through the roof ,came back down again and the rim cut the guy in 2 , killed instantly, i've had one blow out through the sidewall on me when i was blowing it up , luckily for me it was still on the tractor, **** did it ever go with a bang
my dad works at chrysler in auburn hills, while halfway under a car someone was backing a pt crusier out of the garage and ran his leg over up to his knee, he also had a car lowered on his knee, my worst yet is badly scraped knuckles kock on wood
the time I was installing tool boxes on my pickup. I had made my own mounting brackets and was drilling 1 of them with a dull drill bit that broke. The broken bit in the drill went thru the back of my index finger and out thru my finger nail. That hurt for over a week. I threw out all my old drill bits after that.