Stupid Mistakes

[Aderhammer]

Share some of those stupid and embarrassing mistakes you've made pictures help unless they're too gruesome

I'll start off, my grizzly DP has a switch for the light and a switch for the motor, they're both the same exact switch, my left hand was on the key in the chuck and i thought my right hand was turning the light on, man was i wrong! That motor kicked on and i watched my hand start to wrap around the chuck! Somehow pulled it out of their with little to no injury.

 

[RonSchmitt]

Originally posted by Aderhammer

Share some of those stupid and embarrassing mistakes

You mean like when the headband on my face shield broke?
Hmmmmm,
I can fix this,
Little (too much)C A,[B)]
Wait a few minutes,
put back on head,
cut hair to remove repaired shield.

 

[wdcav1952]

Well, I bought this bowl blank from Woodcraft.........[}]

 

[SuperDave]

Originally posted by wdcav1952

Well, I bought this bowl blank from Woodcraft.........[}]

Stop, I'm dying laughing!!!!!

Oh, how I needed a good laugh!!

... you are exactly why I triple check everything I post...

 

[SuperDave]

Does spitting with your face shield down count as gruesome?
How about a sloppy sneeze?

 

[karlkuehn]

Was cleaning out worm holes with my Dremel the other day using a carbide cutter bit.

After cleaning 30 blanks or so, got a little careless and the bit climbed off the blank and ran over my thumbnail and put a 1" gash on the top of my thumb up past the first knuckle. Bandaged it up and 20 minutes later, I jabbed the dang thing right into the tip of my middle finger. That one's gonna leave a good mark.

Needless to say, I gave the wormies a break after that.

Speaking of worms, I ran into a live 1 1/2" long white grub hiding in one of the holes. The Dremel bit grabbed it by the tail and rolled it up tight around the bit.

You know how you roll the toothpaste tube up to make the toothpaste come out? Yeah...like that, only at 28000 RPMs and grub-paste all up in my face.

Tastes like chicken.

*shudders* [xx(]

 

[GoodTurns]

currently nursing a likely cracked thumb. "i don't need no stinking clamps...how often does a blank catch on a drill bit?" once is enough! whipped that clamp around but I was able to stop it the second time it came around! Blue and green are a couple of my favorite colors anyway.[B)]

 

[TellicoTurning]

Jon,
I didn't crack the thumb, but nearlly knocked the nail off.. at least that's how it felt..it's been 6 or 8 months and still have little or no strength in that thumb.. haven't learned yet, because yesterday I was "clamping" a blank in my left hand while pulling a 25/64" drill bit down in my little ole HF DP...

 

[Mudder]

Originally posted by karlkuehn

Speaking of worms, I ran into a live 1 1/2" long white grub hiding in one of the holes. The Dremel bit grabbed it by the tail and rolled it up tight around the bit.

You know how you roll the toothpaste tube up to make the toothpaste come out? Yeah...like that, only at 28000 RPMs and grub-paste all up in my face.

Tastes like chicken.

*shudders* [xx(]

C'mon Karl,

When I was in survival school we gathered up a bunch or grubs and fried them. Served them over a bed of wild rice and boiled and mashed tubers. mmmmm-mmmmmmmm- Good!

Besides, It puts hair on your chest [8D]

 

[karlkuehn]

Originally posted by Mudder

Originally posted by karlkuehn

Speaking of worms, I ran into a live 1 1/2" long white grub hiding in one of the holes. The Dremel bit grabbed it by the tail and rolled it up tight around the bit.

You know how you roll the toothpaste tube up to make the toothpaste come out? Yeah...like that, only at 28000 RPMs and grub-paste all up in my face.

Tastes like chicken.

*shudders* [xx(]

C'mon Karl,

When I was in survival school we gathered up a bunch or grubs and fried them. Served them over a bed of wild rice and boiled and mashed tubers. mmmmm-mmmmmmmm- Good!

Besides, It puts hair on your chest [8D]

I'll have to remember to cook up some rice and tubers next time I'm cleaning out holes. heh...maybe that'll help.

FWIW, I don't like hair on my chest. It gets all clogged up with sawdust. Now, if eating grubs would prevent hair from growing out of my ears as I get older, we'd be getting somewhere. I swear, I go for a few days without grooming, and my ears start looking like I got Chia pets for brains...

 

[Jarheaded]

Figures, you army guys have to cook your food. We were taught to eat them raw and chew them well. I still lke deep fried crickets.

I was always good for driving a screw gun tip through the back of my hand.

 

[Aderhammer]

I had this pressure pot one time and I was trying to...
Cav trust me you have something coming ur way[}]

 

[Mudder]

Originally posted by Jarheaded

Figures, you army guys have to cook your food. We were taught to eat them raw and chew them well. I still lke deep fried crickets.

I was always good for driving a screw gun tip through the back of my hand.

Duh!

Aren't deep fried crickets cooked?

 

[Dario]

Stupid mistakes...

Mine happened a long, long time ago when I was around 9 years old.

I am playing with lead (mistake #1) by melting them and casting my own ninja throwing stars. Yeah I also make my own knives from broken hacksaw blade, darts using needle, wood and feather, etc. Anyway, I was melting the lead using an old pot propped up with 3 stones (on the ground) then pouring them in pre-made wood molds.

After I finished, I looked at my embers (from scrap wood and mostly coconut shell). I noticed that the 3" nails (from the scrap wood) are mostly glowing white but the broken 7-up (green) bottles didn't change color and just dusty. Not sure what came to me (maybe inhaling all the lead fumes?) but I picked it up (mistake #2). My fingers didn't have time to blister....just turned into pop-corn like instantly!!! [:0][xx(]

It happened so fast, I cannot recall feeling any pain. The weeks that followed is another story.

I healed well, no scars to show mistake #2. Mistake #1 however, is (again) another story LOL.

 

[TellicoTurning]

Dario,
While I wasn't a slow learner in school, there are somethings I just never seem to learn.. forstner drill bits that have gone 8-10 through hardwood, end grain are HOT.. yet I will reach up almost every time and wipe it off and pull it out of the drill chuck with my bare hand.... I've hit every wall in the place when I sling them out of my hand.[:0][:0]

 

[wdcav1952]

Originally posted by Aderhammer

I had this pressure pot one time and I was trying to...
Cav trust me you have something coming ur way[}]

I'll look forward to it, Andrew. I admit I deserve a shot. It was just toooooooo good to pass up!! [}]

 

[wdcav1952]

Originally posted by Mudder

Originally posted by Jarheaded

Figures, you army guys have to cook your food. We were taught to eat them raw and chew them well. I still lke deep fried crickets.

I was always good for driving a screw gun tip through the back of my hand.

Duh!

Aren't deep fried crickets cooked?

Be gentle, Scott. He already confessed to being a Marine. [}]

 

[Mudder]

Originally posted by wdcav1952

Originally posted by Mudder

Originally posted by Jarheaded

Figures, you army guys have to cook your food. We were taught to eat them raw and chew them well. I still lke deep fried crickets.

I was always good for driving a screw gun tip through the back of my hand.

Duh!

Aren't deep fried crickets cooked?

Be gentle, Scott. He already confessed to being a Marine. [}]

Yes, I know.

Early on I asked him if he still had the hole behind his left year. That's what is left from where the Corps sucked out his brains and replaced them with Jell-O [:0] [}]

 

[GBusardo]

Oh man, I forgot more of my stupid moves than most people make. I started a thread once about me opening a CA bottle with my mouth, while laying down. I won't go back there. Then there was this time I reached around a machine to grab a 15 watt soldering iron, grabbed the tip like a pencil.... OUCH [V][B)][xx(]

 

[Jarheaded]

We may have had our brains sucked out when we went in, but at least they returned them in good working condition. What is your excuse?

Mudder, yes deep fried crickets are cooked....very good observation. We were talking about raw grubs, not crickets. Try and keep up next time. I have also confessed to nothing other than drilling too many holes in the back of my hand. Being a Marine is a privilege and an honor.

 

[Mudder]

Originally posted by Jarheaded

We may have had our brains sucked out when we went in, but at least they returned them in good working condition.

Well Johnnie,

In your case I have two possible conclusions.

1. You must have been damaged beyond repair when you went in.

2. They lied to son.

Originally posted by Jarheaded

We were taught to eat them raw and chew them well. I still lke (sic)deep fried crickets.

In one sentence you speak about raw food and then you say out of the other side of your mouth that you like cooked crickets. Was double talk part of your indoctrination training?

You see Johnnie, they taught you jarheads to eat your food raw because the Corps didn't think you possessed sufficient intelligence to allow them teach you to make fire. [:0] In survival school they taught us many different methods to make fire. [8D]

It's ok though; since you served our country when asked I consider you to be my brother. You're the 'special' one that we used to keep locked in the attic

 

[loglugger]

It would probably not be the time for a Navy vet to open his mouth would it. All we had was fish, well done.[:0]
Bob

 

[Firefyter-emt]

OK, what the heck... Stupid moves, Eh? How's this one for you. NEVER, and I mean NEVER stand on a roof and lift a ladder to move it over a few feet. The pawls will unlock and collapse when you push the ladder to "set" it.

Moral of the story: You look stupid doing a head dive off of a two story roof! And... it hurts like hell when you land! [:I]

 

[Verne]

Does this qualify? 40 ft up a TV tower trying to add another 10 ft section to the existing tower. Had to remove the top section. Tied off a jin pole on the top section, jacked up the top section, it came loose and swung down pinching off about 1/2 inch of my pinky finger. 30 feet up the tower, blood gushing out of the end of my finger, (thanks, I had a safety belt on), and the swinging top section. Seems I had tied off the section below center, of course when it came loose the top and bottom switched postitions. Don't know how I got down. Do know that the fingers have lot's of sensory nerve endings. A very painful few weeks followed. Lesson learned but can't hardly climb a 6' ladder now. Doh! Vern

 

[Rojo22]

Never eat a garlic ladden lunch, and then return to your Triton rig to finish an afternoon of turning....

 

[Chasper]

I was at the top of an extension ladder, cutting dead limbs off a tall jack pine, when one leg of the ladder slipped away, and then the ladder twisted (the straight top step of a ladder doesn't hold well on a round tree trunk). There wasn't much time to turn off the chainsaw so I threw it as far as I could while trying to jump clear of the ladder; not that I actually considered my options.

I guess I didn't quite throw the saw far enough, after I landed and rolled twice, my forehead bumped into the bar of the chainsaw; somehow the break had engaged after it hit the ground. And then the ladder landed. It nipped my ear as it passed. It probably would have ripped my ear off if it hadn't landed on the chainsaw. No harm to the chainsaw or ladder; small scratch on my ear.

 

[BruceK]

Another dumb ladder story. Was pressure washing the cedar siding of the house. The ladder was on the slightly sloped gravel driveway. Engaged the pressure nozzle and the force somehow kicked out the bottom of the ladder. I rode the ladder down (only about 10 feet or so) with one foot on a rung the other below. End result - a broken right heel. Luckily it didn't pulverise it like a crushed egg which I hear often happens with broken heels. I don't do extension ladders anymore......

 

[Jim15]

I once got a few drops of CA glue on the face mask of my Trend Airfilter, in a brilliant moment I thought Acetone removes CA glue!!!!. Plastic and Acetone don't like each other, changing the plastic face shield on the Trend is no fun.

 

[bitshird]

Trying to listen to 5 or 6 students while helping one get a part set up in a milling machine, the student I was helping handed me an oily handle dead blow hammer, I was holding the square piece of steel down with my left thumb, lucky it was not my 3 pound dead blow, Still waiting for the thumb nail to come off. funny thing was I didn't use any expletives.. [:0][:0]

 

[Jarheaded]

Muddy,
You hurt my feelings and now I am all upset. It's all your fault you big meany!! Just because your'e funny looking and smell bad doesn't mean that you have to take it out on everyone else. It's nice to know that they taught you how to make fire, was that before or after they taught you how to walk upright?


My friends, please understand that this is just friendly banter between a Marine and an Army soldier(with a squid breaking the surface once in a while). We are just kidding around and we are not serious. This type of friendly rivalry has gone on for a long time and hoprfully will continue to carry on. While we may have joined different branches of the military, we are all bonded by our service experience. That includes the Marines, the Navy, the Air Force, the Army, and the Coast Guard. I respect everyone that has served. I am not limiting this to the US as anyone that has served their country should feel proud and be respected. I hope that anyone that was upset by our little jabs understands this and can overlook it. If not, blame it on the Mudder...LOL

 

[wdcav1952]

Johnnie, I'm with you my brother. Although I am in "Uniform Services Light" (US Public Health Service) now, I still consider myself as a Navy man. I have had my lazy butt protected by Marines, and although I pick on them I want the Marines on my side if things get unpleasant! Thanks for your service.

Signed, The Squid

 

[fiferb]

Originally posted by Jarheaded
My friends, please understand that this is just friendly banter between a Marine and an Army soldier(with a squid breaking the surface once in a while). We are just kidding around and we are not serious. This type of friendly rivalry has gone on for a long time and hoprfully will continue to carry on. While we may have joined different branches of the military, we are all bonded by our service experience. That includes the Marines, the Navy, the Air Force, the Army, and the Coast Guard. I respect everyone that has served. I am not limiting this to the US as anyone that has served their country should feel proud and be respected. I hope that anyone that was upset by our little jabs understands this and can overlook it. If not, blame it on the Mudder...LOL

Amen!

Anyone want to hear some good Marine jokes?

 

[Dario]

Originally posted by wdcav1952

Signed, The Squid

LOL

 

[Dario]

Originally posted by Jarheaded

Muddy,
You hurt my feelings and now I am all upset. It's all your fault you big meany!! Just because your'e funny looking and smell bad doesn't mean that you have to take it out on everyone else. It's nice to know that they taught you how to make fire, was that before or after they taught you how to walk upright?


My friends, please understand that this is just friendly banter between a Marine and an Army soldier(with a squid breaking the surface once in a while). We are just kidding around and we are not serious. This type of friendly rivalry has gone on for a long time and hoprfully will continue to carry on. While we may have joined different branches of the military, we are all bonded by our service experience. That includes the Marines, the Navy, the Air Force, the Army, and the Coast Guard. I respect everyone that has served. I am not limiting this to the US as anyone that has served their country should feel proud and be respected. I hope that anyone that was upset by our little jabs understands this and can overlook it. If not, blame it on the Mudder...LOL

Johnnie,

Glad you clarified...some are not used to these banters (especially new members) and might think otherwise.

Thank you all for your service...though I for one hope no one need to use their trainings needlessly.

 

[alamocdc]

Boy, I'm glad I didn't bring up my few years w/the AF. But someone has to represent so I'll step up. So why is it the best branch? We let our officers take all the risk.

But back to the topic. What's all this talk about stupid mistakes? I don't make stupid mistakes. If you don't count a few small things... like the time I had a small spindle chucked up in the pin jaws of my scroll chuck and tore the end of my thumb off on the jaws. So I got a little close while sanding... it happens. Or the time I got CA in my eye back during my RC days. Or the time I was cutting a piece of plywood w/my circular saw and piece of a knot flew up and cut the cornea of my eye across the pupil (now I ALWAYS wear eye protection)... and the two eye injuries were less than one year apart. DOH!!![:0]

 

[Mudder]

Originally posted by Jarheaded


My friends, please understand that this is just friendly banter between a Marine and an Army soldier(with a squid breaking the surface once in a while). We are just kidding around and we are not serious. This type of friendly rivalry has gone on for a long time and hoprfully will continue to carry on. While we may have joined different branches of the military, we are all bonded by our service experience. That includes the Marines, the Navy, the Air Force, the Army, and the Coast Guard. I respect everyone that has served. I am not limiting this to the US as anyone that has served their country should feel proud and be respected. I hope that anyone that was upset by our little jabs understands this and can overlook it. If not, blame it on the Mudder...LOL

Friendly Banter?

Hmmmm....... Yea, that's the ticket.


Johnnie is correct. This is just friendly banter. He has my utmost respect, especially since I found out that we probably chewed some of the same dirt.

The only thing I have to disagree with I the order in which he listed the services. If you think back to the old commercials I believe they were listed by order of importance.

Remember the old song?

Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines,
What a great place, It's a great place to start!




OK, Here's my stupid story.

I think it was 3 or 4 years ago. Momma bought me a Nova mini chuck for Christmas and I was ecstatic! I went down to the "shop" to try it out and in my haste I didn't use any tail support. I flipped on the switch with an out of balance bowl blank in the jaws and the thing spun up and spit the bowl blank off the back of the lathe. This blank bounced off the bench, hit the side wall of the shop, careened off the ceiling and bonked me square in the forehead. I think I should also mention that I skipped my usual face shield for just a pair of safety glasses so I took the brunt of it square on the old bean.

About then things started to get a little grey and I decided that I had better lay on the floor until it passed. Well, I guess that momma heard the blank bounce around in the shop since it is right below the bedroom and thought I had knocked on the ceiling to get her attention.
She came down to investigate and found me lying on the floor with the bowl blank right by the door and thought I was dead because she let out a shriek that would curl your hair.

Since that day, my absolute minimum for bowl turning is a full face shield. I moved the lathe further from the wall and set a piece of wood up at an angle so that if it chucks a blank it will not bounce back at me but is deflected to one side, and I use the tailstock until the last possible moment. I need to do all I can to protect my three remaining brain cells

 

[GBusardo]

Originally posted by Mudder




OK, Here's my stupid story.

I think it was 3 or 4 years ago. Momma bought me a Nova mini chuck for Christmas and I was ecstatic! I went down to the "shop" to try it out and in my haste I didn't use any tail support. I flipped on the switch with an out of balance bowl blank in the jaws and the thing spun up and spit the bowl blank off the back of the lathe. This blank bounced off the bench, hit the side wall of the shop, careened off the ceiling and bonked me square in the forehead. I think I should also mention that I skipped my usual face shield for just a pair of safety glasses so I took the brunt of it square on the old bean.

About then things started to get a little grey and I decided that I had better lay on the floor until it passed. Well, I guess that momma heard the blank bounce around in the shop since it is right below the bedroom and thought I had knocked on the ceiling to get her attention.
She came down to investigate and found me lying on the floor with the bowl blank right by the door and thought I was dead because she let out a shriek that would curl your hair.

Since that day, my absolute minimum for bowl turning is a full face shield. I moved the lathe further from the wall and set a piece of wood up at an angle so that if it chucks a blank it will not bounce back at me but is deflected to one side, and I use the tailstock until the last possible moment. I need to do all I can to protect my three remaining brain cells

Is it polite to laugh? [B)]
I would like to see a poll in which it asks if anyone has NOT done a similar thing

 

[karlkuehn]

Mudder, I couldn't help it, I laughed too. Nice image you gave there, I have this television version running in my head of all that happening in a split second and I even added the obligatory 'coconut' sound. I'm still sitting here chuckling all by myself.

Who needs Benny Hill with all of us knuckleheads running around loose? heh

 

[GoodTurns]

just gonna lie here until the birds stop twittering.....

 

[Mudder]

Originally posted by GoodTurns

just gonna lie here until the birds stop twittering.....

That's Classic!

Almost choked on my coffee. You should enter that in the photoshopped category of the mug contest, you might win a prize.


And Gary,

Usually it it NOT polite to laugh but this is an exception. When the "birds finally stopped twittering" In my mind's eye I could see my grandpappy standing there shaking his head and saying 'how stupid iz you boy'........

Karl:

Even though it probably happened in a split second I can still remember every microsecond and it seems to have taken 20 times longer that actual time for it to happen.