Injuries while working on your landrover.

[Wanderer]

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  
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sharpshooter



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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 1:42 pm    Post subject:      

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Ouch.  

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.  
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90HTDT



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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 1:51 pm    Post subject:      

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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!
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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 1:51 pm    Post subject:      

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snapped a spanner whilst changing a doortop and landed cheek first on the heater controls with no ends on them - scrapes the bone nicely
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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:12 pm    Post subject:      

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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)
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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 2:26 pm    Post subject:      

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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..................................
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dazzawhipple



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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:06 pm    Post subject:      

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rust in my eye working under my old 90

I had my eye scraped to get it out
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defenderdan



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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:07 pm    Post subject:      

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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.
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Fat Bloke



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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:09 pm    Post subject:      

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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.  
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.
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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 4:29 pm    Post subject:      

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nearly cut my toes off with a grinder  

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
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timberdog



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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 5:52 pm    Post subject: injury      

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

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!!
 
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isle of man



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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 5:53 pm    Post subject:      

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


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yer auld aunt nelly



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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 6:11 pm    Post subject:      

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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
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nigel purnell



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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 6:13 pm    Post subject: injuries      

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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
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wing nut



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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 6:28 pm    Post subject:      

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

scaffold pole on head seperating a skip from another

 
and almost chopping my finger off in a lawnmower

oh and the wife made ME leave  ... all seems so long ago now  
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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 8:13 pm    Post subject:      

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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.
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chuggaman



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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 8:29 pm    Post subject:      

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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  


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Priglet



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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 8:36 pm    Post subject:      

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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  
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There you go peeps.

[clips]

thankfully then, the closest ive come to vechicular injury is sliding  a minibus door over my finger tearing the nail off.
 oh and mud in the eye like everyone does, and getting out from under the landy and banging my head on the door i forgot was open although thats getting far to regular for my liking

[POTASH]

had eye scraped at hospital metal in it ] twice :oops:
nearly cut my finger off using an air chisel
stuck under vehicle with a gearboxon top of me heavier than i thought] :oops:

[POTASH]

had eye scraped at hospital metal in it ] twice :oops:
nearly cut my finger off using an air chisel
stuck under vehicle with a gearboxon top of me9 heavier than i thought] :oops:

[Bush Tucker Man]

Can't compete with that lot :lol:  :lol:

The worst I've done is pick up a soldering iron by the wrong end, it had a very stiff flex & rotated itself.... then I reached out for it

I had the imprint of the 'vent holes' on my palm for over 6months

[Wanderer]

Trying to catch a piece of falling glass isn't a good idea.
Nor is rapping your knuckles on a tow bar on the back of a dumper truck while trying to get it started.
The scars are still there. It took out all 4 knuckles on my fingers.


You shouldn't laugh but I was in stitches earlier reading all of this lot  :twisted:   :twisted:   :twisted:   :twisted:

Oh we had a grinder disk fail and it flew off with about 6 pieces. They managed to embed themselves in the BWSOW (caravan).
All along one side. I was gutted.

Stick on reflectors help to hide the damage.

[FAT BOY]

I was drilling holes in the rear tub of by 90 and the drill slipped and drilled through my finger that hurts when all the skin is wraped around the drill bit 5 stitches :(bigcry):

[MK-90]

I managed to crush one of my fingers when removing a towball from the front bumper. :(bigshock):

Bones well and truelly mashed....nail fell off....took two months before the thing started growing again and another three for all the signs of injury to dissapear :(bigcry):

[Bush Tucker Man]

Whilst not happening on a Landie,  I saw a patient the other week who'd degloved a finger (with his wedding ring) when it got caught during loading the roof-rack & he slipped :shock:  :shock:  :shock:

[jjsaul]

lots of scraped knuckles etc but nothing too major.

trapped my knee with a 2.25 engine we were moving once (the day before going skiing!!!) but that wasnt too bad, just a bit swollen.

put a nail (the metal type) through my finger once in D+T at school  :shock:

also once dropped an LT95 gearbox on my foot - no injury - glad i usually wear safety boots!

[Xtremeteam]

oh,i chapped my left knee between the front cover on my engine & the pas box when i fitted it the last time round,wonder what injuries i can pick up this time round

[thermidorthelobster]

I make a point of always cutting my hand when doing car / DIY work.  If the police ever need a DNA sample from me, they'll find my blood all over the house and the cars.  In fact, I cut my finger open this morning, just sitting in the 101.

[Range Rover Blues]

Mine would be my top lip.  Socket wrench slipped off whilst tightening the rear radius arm, split my lip almost through to my teeth, 2 stitches, teeth survived.  Came home and finished the car :roll:

[barmiebrumie]

About 8 years ago I was drilling out a door aperture on a tressel from a Ford Transit, the frame slipped so I did what most of us do when we drop things ---- tryed to catch it with my left hand while the drill was still going in my right hand,  Result was big hole in the palm of left hand, plastic surgery to repair the tendon thingy's & muscle's in my hand leaving a 'z' shaped scar & 20 stiches in my palm 3 months off work & 12 months pysio,




John.

[ty]

once took my nose off with a starting handle for a sludge pump, it came out of the slot and instead of letting go i kept hold of it, the last thing i remember was my brother saying  was i said you'd fxxxxxg do that. plus all thet usuall things that go with farming and heavy plant engineering, but my the biggest injury is to my pride and joy its currently parked up on the drive after i lost control coming off a roundabout and tipped it on its side and sliding it down the road for about 50 yard or so into on coming traffic, oops  :(bigoops):

[thermidorthelobster]

Not mine but I thought this was amusing.

Friend was working on his Defender on his drive and disconnected the brakes.  Then he realised he'd not chocked it.  It started to roll down the drive, so he ran after it, crossed *in front of it*  :shock: and leant in the driver's door to grab the handbrake.

At this point the truck ran into the tree at the end of his drive and stopped abruptly.  He didn't, and ran into the door, breaking the door off and bruising all down one side of his chest!  :lol:

I think it was the same guy telling me of a stonemason friend of his who dropped his angle grinder, and tried to catch it.  I don't think he was a stonemason for much longer.  :x

[prowler]

When I first started welding, the Foreman said to me," if you get a bit of weld splatter go down the back of you overalls, fold your arms and lean forward, it will only burn you in one spot" YEAH RIGHT........This bit of splatter was the size of a pea, I leant forward like I was told, but it burn't so much I stood up and the splatter went down my back and stopped between the cheeks of my a'#e leaving a blister on each cheek the size of plumb.
None of you have seen me yet, but I have a beard, well sort of beard, it reaches my belly button {ZZ TOP Style}. Many years ago I was grinding away at some welds on a prototype, when the grinder caught my sweatshirt and was winding its way up to my throat, luckily enough a worker was approaching me and see what was happening and pulled the plug on the grinder stopping it dead. 1 inch from adams apple. didnt have the beard then thankfully, otherwise, well