A little reflection....
Yeah, I've done some things that COULD have gone horribly wrong.
Looking back I am not at all sure why they did NOT go wrong.
There is superstition, there are probabilities, there are risks/chances we take.
If I do something that I am not entirely sure about I do it very cautiously, slowly if possible and try to have my "back outta this" strategy at the ready.
If I do it more than maybe 4 times and nothing goes wrong I probably start to regard it as "safe", although at some intellectual level I may know that it isn't.
I probably get lax about it, MAYBE it will be one of those things that catches up with me one day.
Then I reflect on all the posts we have about "safety interlocks", guards and warning stickers.
Yeah, I'm tired of some of them.
"Including, but not limited to; injury, dismemberment, damage to property or death"
Heck, they didn't include loss of library card or Gym membership ?
Last year I got "bitten" twice by ratchet binders.
This isn't hard to think through and it can SEEM like a very simple and safe process.
I use them as tourniquets to get small tires back on their rims.
It takes quite a lot of tension to get a tire ON and OUT far enough for air pressure to take over.
What I have problems with is releasing them when the air pressure in the tire has added a lot more tension.
Yes, I learned the first time - but I still thought I could beat it the second time.
There won't be a third, I will take the wheel and tire to my corner garage and have him do it with the right tools.