Oaktree
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Haven't done that (yet), but I did once "discover" a semi-buried tarp with my bush-hog. That was a joy to unwind/cut out.
Stupid Things I Have Done
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BravoXray
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I was working under the dash on my BX2230 installing a TinyTach, hooking up hot and ground wires. Somehow I got my watch band touching the positive battery post and a metal bracket at the same time. The band got really hot really fast, and it took a second to figure out what was going on. It's a Seiko titanium watch and band, and apparently titanium is a very good electrical conductor. So by the time I got it off, my wrist was burned almost completely around, except where the watch case was. It did burn through a couple of the pins in the band, but other than that it was undamaged. I fixed those and I had to wear it on my right wrist for a month or so until the burns healed.
The other wrist has a big burn scar where a 3/4", nearly red hot lock washer fell into the cuff on my work glove. That one stung a little bit.
The other wrist has a big burn scar where a 3/4", nearly red hot lock washer fell into the cuff on my work glove. That one stung a little bit.
Try unwrapping chicken wire from the drive shaft of your pickup... when you are just leaving home for the week and need to meet somebody.Haven't done that (yet), but I did once "discover" a semi-buried tarp with my bush-hog. That was a joy to unwind/cut out.
A friend told me that it isn't fun.
Oaktree
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I've worked with electrical equipment most of my career, and that's why I never wear any jewelery, including a wedding ring. Fortunately, the Mrs. is OK with that.
2LaneCruzer
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Wow! Looks like you got it bad. I had a similar thing happen many years ago; I was coming home from a date, driving my 1941 Chevy coupe. Hit the RR tracks, and the lights went out. No problem; it burned fuses all the time. I reached under the dash to pull the fuse, and got my wristband shorted on the heater switch. The watch came off super fast; left a blister about the size of a nickel on the inside of my wrist. Took me a minute or two to figure out what happened.
2LaneCruzer
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Friend of mine said a farm worker on his Dad's farm, lost a leg when the post hole digger on the tractor caught a buried strand of barbed wire, wound it up in the auger along with the worker's leg. Scary stuff.
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That's why I have a silicone wedding band, cheap on Amazon ($8-12 for a four pack?), non-conductive, won't deglove my finger if it gets snagged on something.
Aaron Z
BIL gathered pecans in a parachute in the bed of his truck. Flying down the highway, paracords wrapped around the driveshaft and about scared them to death when a million pecans went airborne after that chute wrapped itself up. Took several hours to get that chute cut off.
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About 30 years ago on a cross country trip I drove into Albuquerque to find a place for a quick meal. It was dark and snowing. I was a bit lost and found myself behind an old pickup loaded with furniture and household goods. A pillow fell off the back of the pickup. I can still see it in my headlights through the snow - kind of surreal - and I ran over the pillow.
A very short time later there was a racket that I cannot quite describe. I was sure something very serious had gone wrong with the car. I decided I had to stay the night and find a mechanic or garage in the morning and pulled into the first motel I saw. The next morning I found a garage and they put the car on a lift. I was waiting for some really bad news. What we found, however, is that a wire had wrapped itself very tightly around the U-joint with parts of it sticking out - thus the racket. Also found were remnants of a pillow within the wound up wire. It was wound up in there so tightly that he had to cut the wire out, small bit by small bit, with a pair of nippers. The pillow was one of the older kind with a wire around the edge.
I was a day late getting back to California but I had an excuse - but one I was sure no one would believe - I ran over a pillow.
A very short time later there was a racket that I cannot quite describe. I was sure something very serious had gone wrong with the car. I decided I had to stay the night and find a mechanic or garage in the morning and pulled into the first motel I saw. The next morning I found a garage and they put the car on a lift. I was waiting for some really bad news. What we found, however, is that a wire had wrapped itself very tightly around the U-joint with parts of it sticking out - thus the racket. Also found were remnants of a pillow within the wound up wire. It was wound up in there so tightly that he had to cut the wire out, small bit by small bit, with a pair of nippers. The pillow was one of the older kind with a wire around the edge.
I was a day late getting back to California but I had an excuse - but one I was sure no one would believe - I ran over a pillow.
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