Tool Abuse

[GoodOld85BlueBalls]

I am scared of 1/2 or bigger drills. The biggest scar on my body is down the left side of my right middle finger. Was drilling out a hole on a frame to put on a lift kit bracket. The 1/2 inch drill bit hung up and the drill kept turning in my hand. Picked me off the floor and I swear it turned me around three or four times like a pretzel. The trigger on it cut my middle finger from knuckle to the tip before I could let go of it. Cost me 28 stitches, and my arm in a sling for a month. Now when I need a hole bigger I break out the torch.

Nothing like getting hurt and your friends laughing at you.

 

[Mark_88]

I learned the hard way that a screwdriver is not a pry bar...was trying to get my air pump off, was using a fairly new screw driver...when it let go my hand continued forward with full force and met the air pump casing at high velocity...

I trained martial arts for years and used to abuse my hands quite a bit...but that was the most punishment I had ever given it...

I now own a VERY big pry bar...

 

[adsm08]

I have a screw driver that is a very good pry bar.

 

[93_RangerSC]

i was doing roofing work with my buddys dad and when i was done with the nail gun i was carryin to the otherside and accidently hit the trigger. and in the process i nailed my foot to the roof.didnt hurt bad goin in but pullin in out hurt

 

[adsm08]

I knew a guy who nailed his hand to a roof trying to keep himself from falling.

Actually worked.

 

[TheTopher]

I knew a guy who nailed his hand to a roof trying to keep himself from falling.

Actually worked.

Depending on the roof falling may have hurt less

 

[GoodOld85BlueBalls]

Speaking of roofing. When I was 17 I worked on a roofing crew. This was in the days before air nailers. You used to use the roofing hammers that were part hammer/part hatchet. Well I was working with a guy who was real good and he would line up all the nails in one hand between his fingers. One hit to start it and one more hit to drive it home. I would stay ahead of him laying out the next and continuing rows. Well I was ahead of him so he started going faster to keep up. I remember feeling like someone had sprayed me with water. He had hit his index finger with a full force hit and smashed it flat. What sprayed me 15 feet away was the blood that came out the end of his finger. He shattered the bone and it took two pins and about three surgeries to correct it. Yuck!

 

[Snafu]

one time my step-dad was working on a 67 mustang we had, we were rebuilding the front end due to rust. there were some stubborn welded chuncks of metal on the front support, so he thought it would be a good idea to use a crowbar to pry the peices up, the crowbar slipped and nailed him right next to his right eye, he was going in and out of consciousness while standind in this engine bay full of sharp rusted metal. hes aright and didn't need stiches but it was kindof a scary thought.

 

[JohnnyO]

I just took a cracked socket back to Sears tonight. Bought that tool set 28 years ago, I think that's only the second one I broke.

I was using it to take off the rear lower shock bolts on my daughter's Jeep ('97, 149k, probably original) with a box end wrench on the bolt and wedged against the axle and a hydraulic jack on the end of the ratchet to turn the nut.

 

[adsm08]

Depending on the roof falling may have hurt less

Would have been a 3 story fall onto a concrete pad. I wasn't there but according to the mutual friend who told me the story, the fall likely would have been fatal.

 

[miles]

i heard a story on paul harvey,s radio show years ago about some guy in england up on his two story house fixing his roof with an air nailer he sliped and went over and as he went over he was flailing his arms around and actually put three and a half in roofing nail through the side of hie knee into the egde of the roof and he hung there till he was rescued by the fire department sounds painly lucky to me

 

[--weezl--]

I am scared of 1/2 or bigger drills. The biggest scar on my body is down the left side of my right middle finger. Was drilling out a hole on a frame to put on a lift kit bracket. The 1/2 inch drill bit hung up and the drill kept turning in my hand. Picked me off the floor and I swear it turned me around three or four times like a pretzel. The trigger on it cut my middle finger from knuckle to the tip before I could let go of it. Cost me 28 stitches, and my arm in a sling for a month. Now when I need a hole bigger I break out the torch.

Nothing like getting hurt and your friends laughing at you.

i've used this bad boy...

we were using it with a 5" forstner bit on it, it had some good spunk to it i tell you what!

i heard a story on paul harvey,s radio show years ago about some guy in england up on his two story house fixing his roof with an air nailer he sliped and went over and as he went over he was flailing his arms around and actually put three and a half in roofing nail through the side of hie knee into the egde of the roof and he hung there till he was rescued by the fire department sounds painly lucky to me

lol, i used to work for home depot, health and safety was part of my job, i wasn't lucky enough to be directly involved with this incident, but had to help implement new policies because of it... an employee in the tool rental department was demonstrating how to use a bostich coil roofing nailer, with 3" roofing nails. the employee then turned the nailer around, and bracing it on his stomach, attempted to show the customer how to adjust the depth setting, while in the process of this, the employee fired 3, 3" roofing nails directly into his stomach, he was rushed to the hospital where he made a full recovery... what i wonder is why he fired the second and third nails, he knew how much it was going to hurt after the first 2...

then of course there is this 1991 story that won an honorable mention in the darwin awards, which i might add, has been confirmed as a true story
http://darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid1998-10.html

 

[TheTopher]

http://darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid1998-10.html

With guys like that it's no wonder my ex girlfriend was jealous of all my tools.


I should've pointed out that I'm only 50% retarded. That's half the required amount to try something that stupid.

 

[Snafu]

[QUOTEhttp://darwinawards.com/stupid/stupid1998-10.html[/QUOTE]

dude... i don't really want dinner now

 

[Hopman]

I work with a community theater group building sets. The tools there get abused quite regularly by people who've never used them before.

We have six Craftsman 19.2 v (about three years old) drills that have been bashed, dropped from ladders, thrown against walls and workbenches, covered in paint (by accident), and other crazy stuff done to them. They still keep working like crazy, and I am amazed at how much abuse they can take.