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butchlambert

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I called my buddy, Jay Lynn Gore, and asked how he was doing. As you may know he is fighting cancer and had a steel rod installed in his leg. He said, "Well I went to my shop in my pajamas and decided to take my heavy wire brush grinder and clean some rust off of metal". He said his grinder decided to wind up and strip away his pajamas! He said the grinder did a number on him and he was really bleeding. His shop is in the barn about 75 yards from the house. He said,"Aw sh$t I left my phone in the house". He started yelling at Brenda. Brenda didn't pay any attention as she thought was somebody on the adjacent property. Jay finally got to the house and Brenda took him to the hospital for 13 stitches.
I'm sorry I couldn't help but see an old naked man walking to the house with blood all over him!
Right now it is too funny!
 
Kind of like my best friend, more like a little brother, was on a combine and decided to grease it without shutting it off. Chain grabbed his shirt and he said he just braced his arms and legs against the combine. Said he woke up wearing his cowboy boots but nothing else and a bruise around his waist, the size of his belt.
Not the first time he did a boneheaded thing, but his luck did run out long time ago. He had just retired 3 months earlier

Glad your friend survived his "encounter"
 
Jay Lynn is the only person that I know is cheaper than Ed Watson. I could tie up this whole forum for a month telling you the incidents that I saw traveling and being with him.
Ain't a better buddy out there though.
Jay Lynn is a master leather craftsman. Mine that he did for me.
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He is an engraver and BR rifle builder.
 
I learned a long time ago when power tools are in play wear proper work clothes, a trip to the ER is always a possibility. Like, never arc weld without shoes on even if you see it on the Pakistani factory videos. Those guys when smelting and pouring cast iron show up in a bath robe and flip flops. OSHA must not be a thing over there.
 
Butch, glad your friend is mostly okay. That's a hard lesson for sure.

Eons ago just after returning to The World in 1968, I worked for Ma Bell. They had a training program that involved a short film about safety in the field. They showed a story (reenactment) of a guy wearing overalls working with a deep drill auger. The poor guy had the auger horizontal, running at slow speed. Instead of walking around it to get on the other side, he tried to straddle it and got his coveralls wrapped up by the turning auger......it wrapped him up so tight, it castrated his entire "package" and he bled to death. Message received! :o

That story made an impression on me thereafter. Soon after working in the machine shop around mills and lathes, that story remained in my head and I've never forgotten it. Still have 'my package' too.
 
Rick in Oregon said:
Butch, glad your friend is mostly okay. That's a hard lesson for sure.

Eons ago just after returning to The World in 1968, I worked for Ma Bell. They had a training program that involved a short film about safety in the field. They showed a story (reenactment) of a guy wearing overalls working with a deep drill auger. The poor guy had the auger horizontal, running at slow speed. Instead of walking around it to get on the other side, he tried to straddle it and got his coveralls wrapped up by the turning auger......it wrapped him up so tight, it castrated his entire "package" and he bled to death. Message received! :o

That story made an impression on me thereafter. Soon after working in the machine shop around mills and lathes, that story remained in my head and I've never forgotten it. Still have 'my package' too.
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Rick, My dad had to cut his uncle out of a old A john deere pto shaft . He tried to straddle with it running. Had an old pair of loose overalls on, you can imagine what was twisted up in the shaft. , killed the tractor. Newer tractors with more hp. would have kept running. Doug
 
Doug Casner said:
Rick, My dad had to cut his uncle out of a old A john deere pto shaft . He tried to straddle with it running. Had an old pair of loose overalls on, you can imagine what was twisted up in the shaft. , killed the tractor. Newer tractors with more hp. would have kept running. Doug
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That was a very fortunate uncle to have survived the ordeal.

I'm sure there are countless stories like these. Some lived to tell the tail, others.....well, not so much. It sure pays to be aware and to not take unnecessary chances around machinery. One careless moment........
 
Funny, but NOT funny HaHa. My Father and his five brothers were close friends with the only son of the farmer next to their place. WWII breaks out, and all six of them joined various branches of the US military. The only son next to them's Father pulled some strings and got him exempted on the only son basis. My Father and my five Uncles survived the war and came home safe. About a month after, the only son flipped a tractor and was killed. Goes to show...
 
This is a serious reminder to those who work around rotating equipment.

50 plus years ago, running the maize harvest to the local grainery I saw first-hand what careless action results in.

The brother of the farmer I worked for got turned into a "bag of jelly" by losing his focus for just a moment. He left three kids without a father and his wife a widow.

I'll never forget what I saw that day and how it impacted their family and the local community.
 
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