I enjoy, like most people, the odd bit of D.I.Y., thing been i`m alittle worried by getting injured.

I`ve been lucky so far i guess as i can still see and i still have two hands (not that i need them both :o), but am i putting myself unduly at risk?? For instance mother always said it would drop off, and dad said i would go blind, any truth in it??


Rich.

LOL

Most injuries are down to complacency(sp?). eg not checking where the power cable lies when cutting something with a jigsaw, or drilling into walls without checking whats behind the plaster/wall paper.

Having said that, i am often like that, i made Chiark feel sick on sunday when i put my finger in the electric planer whilst it was still plugged in:eek:, my hand was well away from the power button though.

I have cut through a pair of trainers with a 9" diamond tip cutting blade before, whilst trying to cut some roof tiles very quickly.

You should always think 1st, but that is easy to say and not do.

Steven

As for going blind i would not know:D

Women are the most common reason for injuring yourself whether directly or indirectly. :D

apparently putting your socks on caused about 8 deaths a year

suppose it depends on how long it is before you wash them :)

Another common cause is being too lazy to get/use the correct tool for the job...

I think Richi was using "DIY" as a euphanism for some other activity ;)

Wrong tool for wrong job.

I almost chopped the end of my finger off with a stanley knife trying to do something it wasn't intended to do.

Stanley knifes are probably the cause of most injuries for this reason, IMHO :)

Don't watch TV while using one either. Wanna see my scar? :)

I think I speak for us all here when I say "no" :D

RichiW... I heard you injure yourself more by riding the bike and getting bored and doing wheelies :)

David

LOL!

Yeah, i guess you heard about the trip to the South of France then?? 40miles down the A1 i gets bored and decide to brighten everyones day up :rolleyes: .... one flipped Fireblade at 90+mph, and i'm been woken up by medics at the side of the road! Spent that night in hospital and the next six weeks with my arm in bloody plaster :D

Don't do it kids, its not big and its not clever!.. esp. when your off on holiday! :rolleyes:


Rich.

P.S. The way i recon it up though, Martins had more offs than me, just that i do it in style :p

LOL..

I could well believe that.

Think your probably safer with the evo..

Just dont go towards sherburn...

Mind you martin was telling my sister about when he smacked his knee on a cats eye.. :rolleyes:

David

I have found that most DIY accidents occur through stupidity. For instance last week I was chiseling out a rebate in an architrave. I had just sharpened the chisel to razor sharpness. I was holding the architrave in my hand as I couldn't be bothered to go downstairs to use the vice. The chisel slipped and I managed to cut the digital artery, nerve and partially cut the extensor tendon of my index finger requiring a trip to the plastic surgeons for a little reconstructive work. Did I feel stupid or what! I have also discovered how hard it is to get blood out of a newly sanded floor!

DoC... ouch, sounds very nasty!

David, i think he told me that one also, anyone with half a brain would have lifted their knee up though surely? ;) Having said that i dinted the front rim on my GSXR while lent over cornering hard on a cats eye that somehow got in the way :D Diditn half make the front end step out though :eek:

And whats this about not driving towards Sherburn in the Evo, he has`nt told you about the farmer spraying water on the road incident too has he?? :o


Rich. :D

something about going straight on when you really should have turned..

ahhh, no, now he's getting me confused with Bertie (or you are anyway) on his GSXR :D .... Though i did once do that when i was 16 on a Joe90 :cool:

he also mentioned racing you in a cavalier :p

Don't use an angle gringer outside in the summer:
There I was down on one knee grinding a doorskin when a wasp decided that it wanted to inspect the contents of my nose.
I began swatting and suddenly became aware of a pain in my knee....
Ruined my jeans it did.

Neil.

Must be falling thats causes lots. I for one know all to well about this. I have worked up and down ladders all my working life, and have always taken safety very seriously. Yet when using a pair of step stools, while replacing a ceiling rose, I managed to fall off the side, put my hand down, to break my fall, and broke that instead in 2 places. In plaster for 14 weeks......nice

I do lots of DIY and never get injured.... (other than hitting myself repeatedly with a hammer - works best on a really really cold day.... setting a grinder with badly worn disk down on a steel toecapped boot - generates lots and lots of heat - I mean A LOT of heat must have been about 4 million degrees in about 0.5 seconds.... falling off a roof while trying to tie off a 'dangerous' ladder to a chimney stack - fortunately I had wrapped the rope round my hand a couple of times so I didn't drop it - it stopped me falling onto the roof below and subsequently onto the soft pile of topsoil below - I am really lucky in that once they put my arm back into its socket it wasn't that sore)

FB, yeah, that sounds like you're really lucky :eek: ;)