After spending 2 hours in A & E yesterday afternoon and the rest of the day and night in total agony, I would strongly suggest that no matter how much of a hurry you in to finish off that last little piece of grinding, Wear Goggles !!!
I am very guilty of the entire subject, however after having a lump of steel removed from the centre of my eyeball, I shall be investing in more goggles which will be placed around my garage so as there is no excuse.
Believe me the Pain is not repeatable on here !!
No castigation or wisecracks please :-( but you can all laugh quietly to yourselves.
I sometime wear goggles even when just working under a car after having to have a spec of rust scraped off one of my eyeballs last year, it hurt like hell!
I don't think wisecracks or 'I told you so' comments are at all helpful, however I would thank you for making the post - if only to just level the ground a little. I guess we've all done similar at one point or another, and only by reading such a posting are we reminded that a 'quick job' is often where we will perhaps neglect safety.
I recently got my hair caught in the crawler. It did look a sight - with goggles, gloves, full overalls... Had to call Charlotte on my mobile phone (she was only in the house) to come and help free me. I'm the one who always bangs on and on and on about safety, too!
I hope you make a full and speedy recovery. It sounds like you were fairly lucky (not that it will seem this way at present I guess).
And to be fair, the police have been monitoring this Newsgroup for several years and as such realise the full facts of yourself as a character. Lets face it, it's hardly rocket science is it. I bet they can't wait to see you when you pop into the local station, have you got them on your "friends and family" along with your solicitor and probation officer?
Oh, not again. Will you two take your personal vendetta elsewhere, or f*ck off completely. I think I speak for the majority of a.f.l readers when I say I am completely sick and tired of this.
And Neither of you are to respond to this post with your whining, petty, pathetic, sniping comments.
Did it two years ago. Woke up in the recovery position as I passed out as the nurse approached with a hypodermic needle to remove the blob from the surface of my eye. Didn't ask if they carried on with me passed out, just so glad that the rust was gone and that my was less itchy!
I absolutely detest needles, pain and blood. I had grand visions of becoming a dentist until I went on work experience during my A Levels. I woke up about half an hour after the dentist had started the extraction on the patient he was looking at... They all thought it was amusing. I didn't, as I chipped a tooth on the way down.... Talk about ironic. Still, he didn't charge me to fix it though, which was good!
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No, I am not exagerating. I gave a full statement to the police today, at their invitation, about Martyn. And if anyone else wishes to cause me to do likewise about them........
The thing that really frightens me is how far the wires of the wire brush attachment on my angle grinder travel when they break, and how far they stick into stuff.
Personal 'stuff in eye' experience is limited to squirting brake fluid out of a (previously) jammed brake master cylinder that miraculously un-jammed as I was pressing hard on the piston whilst peering into one of the outlet ports.
I prefer to use 'helmet plus visor plus ear defendors' when grinding. It's good for the ears and face, and when you're under something and forget the limited head room it's quite good for the head too. My 3 year old nephew thinks it's great and that no one can hear him when he is wearing the ear defenders ;-)
Why not visit the north of scotland? I'm sure you'd enjoy a game of tug-of-war between your nuts and my nato tow hook. If I had my way, people like you would be publicly stoned and then the bits fed into a steel mill's rollers! For what it's worth, these are my own personal thoughts aired for all to chuckle at, speaking as a father. It's a natural animal kingdom instinct to protect your young and by god, I'd protect mine! Feel free to make stupid, inane comments at my posting, secure in the knowledge that I'm too far away to bother you, as that's what cowards do! Badger.
Ok Ok you got me bang to rights, Misuse of mole grips, Driving without EP90, Making off without petrol, Deception (It never really fitted that engine, I just manipulated the pictures) ....lead me to the judge it's a fair cop.....
I told you both to shut up. My Comment was not an invitiaion to snipe at each other under the guise of being "just the good guy making a comment".
We don't. However, there is thing thing in Netequittete called "Being On Topic" This is a newsgroup for people with an interest in Landrovers, and as such any posts relating to your personal vendetta should not be appearing on this newsgroup. If you wish to pursue such discussions, you should post a RFD setting up your own newsgroup.
The continued rubbish you two are spouting is upsetting, distracting, and impolite, and the readers of a.f.l have no wish to hear it.
To all those other users who are fed up with this group straying off-topic, I say to you that there is a facility to deal with this problem, and that is to ignore any threads which do no pertain to the topic of this newsgroup. Let us act together to ensure that this ng stays on topic, otherwise the only way to prevent this kind of thing is to take the newsgroup over to a moderated one.
No laughing from our direction. I have had to take Bruce down in similar circumstances, when he got some brick in his eye and not wearing goggles. I've had a couple of serious eye injuries also, the last one was a rock that Joanne, my youngest daughter let go of too late, hitting me in the face. My eye was a mess by 11pm that night and the doctor at the hospital susspevted I may have detached the cornea. I hadn't as it happened, but I couldn't open my eye for three weeks while it healed. Spent the first week in bed, so I didn't have to move it. It was agony.
i think it is just rather dissappointing that the longest threads over the past couple of months have all revolved around this f****it tony luckwill. i think it would be the best option just to ignore him and eventually he will go away.
the police are watching this newsgroup are they?? i reckon that's bullshit. surely they would have much better things to do than watching over us blabber about landies. and if we assume for a second that they are actually watching it, they would realise how much of a provocative d*****ad this luckwill character really is. he should have realised by now that everyone here, besides himself and any other aliases he uses, also thinks he is a d*****ad, and most will not respond favourably to his posts.
your constant threats of police intervention are getting rather tired and very transparent. and i can basically say what i want here because i live in aus, not that living in the uk would in anyway temper my comments. we do have an extradition treaty with our motherland, but i doubt either country would be too concerned about me calling you a d*****ad.
anyway, like i said at the start, if only we could all get this excited about responding to genuine (well, they don't really have to be genuine) land-rover concerns. just ignore the prick, or even better, shut-up tony.
Just got back from a weekend at Chipinge staying at Tanganda's New Years Gift Estate - lovely area of the country. Did a drive to Haroni Forest - about 40Km as the crow flies, 70km by road, and it took over an hour and a half! The Discovery didn't seem to mind.
Pete Jenkins is sort of around. He is competing in the SA Off Road championship at the moment, and doing very well - came in top 5 in class I believe in his first year. He has built a couple of "Strange Rovers"! Essentially a cut down 110 chassis, Range Rover V8 and a clever suspension on the rear. Essentially, it uses radius arms from the front suspension turned around, instead of the A-Frame and ball joint of the standard 110. This gives extra articulation on the rear. Add twin diff locks and fiddle brakes, and it's a very competetive machine.
He won the extreme trials at the Bulawayo 4x4 Jamboree last week.
Couple of years ago was working as a Shotblaster when a high pressure hose split. At the time i had finished blasting and had removed my fully enclosing helmet.Being in the constricts of a fully enclosed shotbay the result was a highly powered pressure pipe snaking around on the bay floor. Hence i was sprayed from head to tail with spent shot.Yes you guessed it, I got some in my eye. Straight to Kettering hospital where in a matter of minutes i was whisked through Triage and into a side operating room. I can remember waking up in a hospital bed. I can't remember much else about it, but a speciel cheer and thank you to all the nurses and doctors for what you did....
That comment was, even for me, bang out of order. As was the entire post really. No excuses, anger, frustration and irrational knee-jerk to the keyboard do not count as anywhere near valid reasons for such a response.
I withdraw the comments without reservation and without qualification and hereby offer my sincere and personal apology to you Alex.
I would also offer my apologies to everyone else for allowing this to get under my skin again. I'll try to ignore Luckwit in future, but do please try to be tollerant of the times when my head is suck so far up my arse that I can't see clearly.
Again, Alex, I really do regret firing at you like that.
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