injuries you've done working on your land rover

[muddy_90]

well mine is i struck a screw driver in and out the other side of the skin between my finger and thumb and i done it today. It hurts like hell  :( :shock:

[Sharpshooter]

Ouch.  #-o

I pulled the half shaft out of my 110, forgot to chock the wheels, and ran over my foot. Luckily i had good boots on so my toes were ok, just the rest of my foot that hurt. :(bigcry):  :-#

[Rangie3.0LtrDan]

LOL well not me, but whilst fitting an lpg kit to a rangie me mate drilled through his thumb!  I am lucky, only ever had the usual scraped knuckles and taking bits out of me hands when doing stuff!

[Andy the Landy]

snapped a spanner whilst changing a doortop and landed cheek first on the heater controls with no ends on them - scrapes the bone nicely

[Xtremeteam]

nearly sliced my arm off using a 9 inch grinder when the disc snapped cutting a 300 disco front pipe off,buffed my knuckle down to the tendon whilst fabricating a transit tipper body,opened my face up nicely whilst changing radious arm bushes on a 90 with a long ratchet,had to get my eyeswashed out after changing a fuel filter on a p38 which was blocked & the pump had been running for 45 min (some pressure in there i can tell you)

[prowler]

Mig welding an engine mounting  bracket to a motorcycle frame yesterday when the wife brought in a cup of tea and the hot wire went straight through my glove/forefinger, and out the other side,had to cut the wire with blunt side cutters and pull the wire through with a sharp end on it. Then picked up another bracket I had just welded----with my bare hand.{ the same one I had just welded through}.
Not doing any welding today..................................

[dazzawhipple]

rust in my eye working under my old 90

I had my eye scraped to get it out

[defenderdan]

I dropped a chassis on my toes once, I didn't realise how bad it was until my foot turned red. My big toe had popped under the pressure, I couldn't walk for a week. It tought me that you shouldn't work in trainers, i still do though.

[Fat Bloke]

A few of these sound familiar, makes yur bum go all funny just thinking about it ! Plenty of grinder and welder mishaps in the past myself.
I remember the funny ones although they hurt like hell at the time.
1. cutting out the floorpan on my RS2000 (ok not a landy) and wanting to do it so you couldn't tell from outside i decided to cut inside along the middle of the chassis rail so the join wouldn't be visible from under the car.Picture me sitting in the footwell with the grinder between my legs working towards me when the grinder dug into the kink in the rail and nearly pulled my wrist out of place, i let go and the grinder was dancing up and down flat out with bits of disc flying round like missiles.i put my boot out to stop it and managed to cut through all the laces,tongue and sock before digging a groove into my foot. :oops:
2. A few mishaps with the old mig but the most painfull was trying to fill a hole with weld rather than a plate over it and it got that hot a piece the size of a marble burnt through and fell down,yeah you got it landing on my foot again, straight through my 10 hole airwair boot ( worn for safety !!! ) into the flesh stopping at the bone. It was so painfull, and the boot seemed to take forever to unlace so i ended up putting my foot down the toilet and flushing it to cool it down. Left a bit of a scar but at least i can laugh when i think back.
3. Plenty of others but you will probably start to think i am a jinx so we won't go there today.
See the description below and you'll realise they are all in the boxes because i haven't got enough limbs free at any given time to bolt it all up.  :)

[the loon]

nearly cut my toes off with a grinder  #-o

cant remember what I was doing but grinder sliped and hit my boot. Should of been wearing steels I know but fortunatly where good quality canvas walking type boots and not trainers  

Its amazing how many land rover owners I know though who seem to be short either a finger or part of a finger - at least 4 I can think of off the top of my head

[timberdog]

Well how about Drilling your Ankle with a Drill whilst trying to Remove a Bleed scew.. :oops:

I had delayed shock and the first thing i asked was were was the Other half of the drill bit ??
I manged to sit their and reverse the Drill back out of my Ankle i did that in August last year and i am still having Pysio on it.

Pain not half!!

[isle of man]

my truck is a wrangler so i guess you know the only injury is my wallet...and that really hurts.


peter henry

[yer auld aunt nelly]

Arc eye three times (before you say it i know eye protection and all that)
had to have eyes scrapped to many times to count whilst grinding etc,nearly
crushed by a 109 and aunt nelly.And was throughly doust in petrol whilst changing my rangey fuel tank (needing my eyes washed out).Oh and chinned
 myself with a starting handle on me 88   :roll:

[nigel purnell]

Whilst working on my Discovery in 2001 My wife left me ? This wasnt an injury to me only my wallet ps Any ladies looking for a hot rod let me know??????   Nige

[wing nut]

snapped my leg in half (both bones) getting off a jcb  :oops:   9 months out of work doh

scaffold pole on head seperating a skip from another

 :x
and almost chopping my finger off in a lawnmower

oh and the wife made ME leave  :shock: ... all seems so long ago now  :lol:  :lol:

[suzota]

Drilled through both wrists.
set fire to my wedding tackle with the grinder sparks.
big dent in my head, dont jump up when lying under the truck, even if you get weld down your neck. was unconsious for about half hour.

[chuggaman]

well nothing yet apart from the odd bang on the head(touch wood)

but i remember when i had a car valeting business one of my staff managed to crash a customers vauxhall vectra(which he had sold and was due to be handed over that afternoon)inside the unit.it was an auto and he ploughed straight through the office wall.
at the time i was getting out of a car and slipped and lost my footing completely and hit my chin on top of the door.

knocked myself clean out.came around saw the bedlam around me and passed out again!!!

but i can laugh about it now :lol:


mike

[Priglet]

Apart from some serious damage to my wallet I've done nothing worse than a few scrapes and cuts. I suppose that means I haven't been doing enough work on my own motor :lol:  :lol: