Topic: Power tools are dangerous!

[Mrs Ava]

Forgot to post this, but listen closely all you peeps who like to wield power tools.  On Sunday Ava was up the ladder trimming next doors conifer  >:(.  He was balanced precariously atop the ladder and asked me to pass him the electric hedge cutters.  As I picked them up I grabbed the trigger and vroom, they whizzed into life, and cut clean through the cable!  :o  Thankfully they were plugged into a power breaker so the fuse blew and I was unharmed but imagine if they hadn't been.  So beware gardeners and DIY enthusiasts everywhere!  If you are using somthing that whizzes and whirls thanks to electricity, plug it in with a power breaker and be careful!

[Plocket]

Hi EJ - Wow you were lucky! Thank heavens for power breakers.

[TrailRat]

Thanks for the advice EJ. No leccy here in my power tools. All petrol, MWhahahahahah ;D

All joking aside just as dangerous.

TrailRat

[Roy Bham UK]

A wise old saying... Electricity is a good master but a bad friend. :o
We could start a new thread on these...A little bit of what you fancy does you good... :P If at first you don't suceed suck summat else... :-X ok i'm back in the padded room. ;D

[tim]

You don't need power to damage yourself - TWICE, at the end of a tiring period of digging, I've slammed the fork into the ground & tried to walk away.
Difficult,with the prongs though your foot!! We will never learn. = Tim

[Moggle]

Glad to hear that you are OK EJ

[busy_lizzie]

Could have been nasty EJ, glad "all's well that ends well".  Power tools terrify me.  Mike (my hub) has lots that are really scary.  For Father's day our children bought him a circular saw that looks like something out of a horror film.  Good advice to be ultra cautious with them.  

Gardening generally has got its hazards, as we have discussed before.  I am very clumsy and always falling over things at our Plot.  So take care all of you - wouldn't want to lose anybody!   :) busy_lizzie  

[Iain D]

You're so right EJ and, like most things, you never think it will happen to you until it does! I was cutting my mother's hedge last summer when I cut through the cable. I felt really foolish but I was lucky that's all I was feeling as I wasn't using a power breaker. Needless to say - I always do now!

All best, Iain

[Doris_Pinks]

Friend of mine who uses hedge trimmers daily, (he is a professional gardener) managed to trim his hand :o Ended up having to have it sewn back together in hospital and a few months out of work! So you were very lucky EJ.
 I hate it when Mr Pinks does the hedges and often leave rather than see him cut off any of his extremities!
Dad once flymowed his cable, made a rather large bang! Rather loud swearing emitted from Dad!
And Tim I too have pushed a fork through my boot,how I missed my toes I shall never know! Next pair was thinking of buying them with steel toe caps!