Stupid Things I Have Done

[hosspuller]

... but sometimes I think that the Amish have the right idea; it would be easier to buy a horse.

You would be wrong... Every horse is different, in looks, size, age, temperament, and most importantly training...

Except for James Bond's car... none has ever launched a person into the air. I personally have, multiple times, witnessed and experienced a horse doing this....

 

[Jstpssng]

You ever tried to change the fluids on a horse?



Bruce

No, but I learned not to ask that age old question; "If Jack helped you off a horse..."

The last time that I did, the guy said "Done it." His wife was big into barrel racing.

 

[BravoXray]

Luckily I only lost about a quart of fluid when I pulled the plug and put the gasket back on, but sometimes I think that the Amish have the right idea; it would be easier to buy a horse.

Yeah, but if you ever owned horses, you'd know they come with their set of challenges too.

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

This one my son did when he was a teenager. We bought him an older Toyota Cellica as a first car. It was high mileage and used oil so he had to check oil often. He came home one day and said he had oil all over his hood and it had been that way a couple day. Of course there was lecturing involved about driving it so long and not checking blah blah.

I went out popped the hood and there was the oil cap laying in a crevice on the engine. No oil on the dipstick. Car was making a lot of engine noise after. I decided to have a mechanic look at so about a week later we took it to a mechanic and the mechanic called and said the oil cap had been left off, he found it on the engine. I said, "what yeah that was what happened to it to begin with." He said it was laying on their just now when he opened the hood. My son had forgotten AGAIN to put the oil cap on.

The car was not drivable, had a lot of knocking and I sold if for $500 to an elderly man knowing what had happened to it and he still bought it. I had tried different additives but nothing seemed to work.

The other day we were finishing an oil change on his 2017 Rogue and he said wait, before we closed the hood, I have to touch the oil cap before I can close the hood, LOL! Expensive lesson for him.

My Dad made my younger brother rebuild the engine on Mom’s 69 Volvo, after he didn’t check the oil, and grenaded the engine. Went to the wrecking yard and bought a core, had it machined and then made him pay for everything and made him do all the work.

He was pretty religious about pre-tripping things after that.

 

[JethroB]

I failed to install the oil gasket in my 1954 Willys as a teenager back in the 70’s. It has a drop-in canister/cartridge on top of the engine. (Fram C-3 ) I can still see remnants of that goof under the hood almost 50 years later. Oil spewing everywhere thanks to the radiator fan whirring away.

 

[JethroB]

You ever tried to change the fluids on a horse?



Bruce

They did that on a MASH episode once to the Colonel’s horse. “Clean as a whistle “ came the reply.

 

[jjeff]

Pretty stupid, put my 13+k class C on my old "trusty" ramps ive had since cobbling my beaters together in high school there 30 or so years old. They have gvwr of 8k I guess not front axle weight. Cause I'm slightly less reckless as I get slower I put jack stands under the frame rails chock the wheels etc. Couldn't get one stand out noticed the one ramp bent and buckled resting the frame rail firmly on the jack stand ramp now rocks like a rocking chair and is a few inches shorter than it's companion sxs comparison. Lesson I learned was don't grossly exceed weight limits on tools and follow safety protocols as backup they work cause I'm not a pancake lol. Immediately bought 16k gvwr rhino max ramps for future repairs requiring me to crawl under something heavier than a lawn tractor.

 

[5030]

Pretty stupid, put my 13+k class C on my old "trusty" ramps ive had since cobbling my beaters together in high school there 30 or so years old. They have gvwr of 8k I guess not front axle weight. Cause I'm slightly less reckless as I get slower I put jack stands under the frame rails chock the wheels etc. Couldn't get one stand out noticed the one ramp bent and buckled resting the frame rail firmly on the jack stand ramp now rocks like a rocking chair and is a few inches shorter than it's companion sxs comparison. Lesson I learned was don't grossly exceed weight limits on tools and follow safety protocols as backup they work cause I'm not a pancake lol. Immediately bought 16k gvwr rhino max ramps for future repairs requiring me to crawl under something heavier than a lawn tractor.

Not good. After having bent a few steel ramps changing the flip shaft on my M9 cab and my 1 ton pickup truck adding to the deformity, I built my own from .60 retention 2" thick planks with 2" thick sides. So far so good but they are a bit on the heavy side. I like plenty of loft so when I swap out the pto shafts, none of the hydraulic juice runs out.

 

[Michiganguy]

One of the many stupid things I’ve done happened while cutting wood shed rafters with an old electric miter saw. I had been cutting for awhile while listening to the radio and just kind of had a rhythm going as far as cutting loading and unloading the saw. l mindlessly made a cut and reached in to grab the scrap piece and put my wrist right into the blade, as the plastic blade guard had broke off probably 20 years before.
I felt my wrist hit the blade but there really wasn’t any pain. I looked down and saw a huge gash with a nice saw cut part way through one of the wrist bones along with a whole lot of other stuff, before the blood started to flow.
I found out the artery going through the wrist pumps quite a bit blood! I ended up getting the bone, artery, 5 tendons and a bunch of nerves.
Ended up with limited wrist movement, some really stiff fingers, no feeling in a couple of fingers and limited feeling in two more.
Good thing is I still have both hands!

 

[5030]

One of the many stupid things I’ve done happened while cutting wood shed rafters with an old electric miter saw. I had been cutting for awhile while listening to the radio and just kind of had a rhythm going as far as cutting loading and unloading the saw. l mindlessly made a cut and reached in to grab the scrap piece and put my wrist right into the blade, as the plastic blade guard had broke off probably 20 years before.
I felt my wrist hit the blade but there really wasn’t any pain. I looked down and saw a huge gash with a nice saw cut part way through one of the wrist bones along with a whole lot of other stuff, before the blood started to flow.
I found out the artery going through the wrist pumps quite a bit blood! I ended up getting the bone, artery, 5 tendons and a bunch of nerves.
Ended up with limited wrist movement, some really stiff fingers, no feeling in a couple of fingers and limited feeling in two more.
Good thing is I still have both hands!

Id like your post but I won't because that is nothing to like at all... I watched my late dad cut 3 fingers off with a radial arm saw when I was a kid. I took the severed fingers and wrapped them in a paper towel with ice and mom took him to ER. They reattached 2 of the 3 but they were never the same and he got real bad arthritis in his hand after that.

It was his left and he was right handed but it really impacted his job. He was an analytical chemist and had to work around his disability.

So far I've been lucky with farming and managing my welding and fabrication shop but I'm always cognizant (or at least make an attempt to be) when working around machinery and welding equipment.