Last year November, was cutting open some electric motors with my Milwaukee batter 18v grinder, didn't spin up like a corded one, so I figured it would be ass aggressive,.
So with cigar clenched in my teeth in began cutting the outer shell off to expose the windings, after the tenth one, I got sloppy,MIT kicked, I F'ed it off and kept going, she kicked again, this time it kicked out of my hands and up to my face.
As I leaned away from it (I was kneeling on the ground cutting outside on the grass) it arced at my face, missed and ran off into the grass. I F'ed it off again and reached of it with my left hand, that's when I noticed that I'd opened myself up on my forearm.....m3 inch cut,you could see the fat and muscle, I could fit my pinky inside of it. Blade was so hot I didn't even feel it, cauterized the skin instantly.....
a trip down to the H, in the emergency room,wait almost three hours for three **** staples that took 30 seconds, he didn't clean it and I don't like "a local" so I took the pain and got stapled up.
Even now, I still have hard little bits of dead skin, metal and whatever else pushing its way out of the scar tissue, it's healed up nice but will leave a black scar, reminding how much of an absolute idiot I was.
Broke so many of my rules in that one instance, but sometimes it's good to be bit, it teaches you to "simmer down and pay attention" as the next one might not just be three staples.....
p.s. No hand guard, no gloves, no googles, and no hand grip.... All of which are affixed now. And I frigged up a good cigar....
"Haste makes waste" and "children and fools shouldn't play with sharp tools" ring to mind....
Originally Posted by BDAScrapper
Bookmarks