Femoral artery or family jewels?

[Nick67GT]

Either - you choose - both at risk as demonstrated by the roofer at work on the property adjacent to GT towers today.


Yes that is an angry grinder he’s using .

 

[Tangledfeet]

He may get both...

 

[slim_boy_fat]

He'll be a hero - until it all goes sadly wrong.

 

[Screwdriver]

Damn. Some people don't realise they can't escape the path of an out of control tool until it's too late.

I have a similar issue with folk who sit on their motorcycle while pouring petrol into it.

 

[Bryan Williams]

Damn. Some people don't realise they can't escape the path of an out of control tool until it's too late.

I have a similar issue with folk who sit on their motorcycle while pouring petrol into it.

Can there be a thread dedicated to 'out of controlled tools, people I have worked with' , please?

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Again, the evidence that the human gene pool has no guard watching the swallow end.

 

[8ob]

Is his name Darwin Dodger ?

Bob

 

[Robotstar5]

Damn. Some people don't realise they can't escape the path of an out of control tool until it's too late.

I have a similar issue with folk who sit on their motorcycle while pouring petrol into it.

I was reading the list of "do's and don'ts" while fueling at our local garage and one of them is about not sitting on a motorcycle while filling up

 

[DSR]

When I was an apprentice, I was cleaning up a burr on a job with a soft pad on an angle grinder when it dug in and split the pad. It flew off and hit my friend Michael in the chest. He had some protection from his overalls but he did say something along the lines of 'Ow, that really hurt, you nasty person of unknown parentage'

 

[jerrytug]

Is his name Darwin Dodger ?

Bob

Darwin dodger chopped his todger

 

[Screwdriver]

I was reading the list of "do's and don'ts" while fueling at our local garage and one of them is about not sitting on a motorcycle while filling up

I wouldn't want to be TOLD but given that the machine will be red hot when I pull up, I choose not to risk it!

 

[Cato]

Either - you choose - both at risk as demonstrated by the roofer at work on the property adjacent to GT towers today.
Yes that is an angry grinder he’s using .

That's genuinely at the mildest end of the scale of such behaviour you see driving around Birmingham. On the way home this evening I saw a bloke walking up a roof where they were fitting Velux windows as part of a loft conversion. No scaffold at all on the building, he came out of the dormer at the back and went up and over the ridge to get to the Velux at the front.

I've passed that job a few times, and to say it's rough is a massive understatement. There is no way in the world Building Control have been near it, but it looks like a rental property recently purchased by a landlord of a particular demographic. I can only imagine the horrors to be seen if you got closer than driving past.

 

[Cato]

I wouldn't want to be TOLD but given that the machine will be red hot when I pull up, I choose not to risk it!

Even if there isn't a fire, breathing in raw hydrocarbons isn't a recipe for longevity.

 

[Robotstar5]

I wouldn't want to be TOLD but given that the machine will be red hot when I pull up, I choose not to risk it!

OT, but this has just reminded me of a mate stripping and cleaning out the carbs on his Norton at the side of the road, petrol everywhere and a lit Park Drive hanging out of his mouth

 

[Tinbasherdan]

I wouldn't want to be TOLD but given that the machine will be red hot when I pull up, I choose not to risk it!

Do you think it will make the slighest shred of difference if you’re sat on it or stood 3” to the side if it went up? And precisely how many bikes do you hear about spontaneously combusting while refuelling? I’m sure if they can refuel a tt bike that’s just done a 132mph lap without it exploding, you’ll be fine

 

[DSR]

Do you think it will make the slighest shred of difference if you’re sat on it or stood 3” to the side if it went up? And precisely how many bikes do you hear about spontaneously combusting while refuelling? I’m sure if they can refuel a tt bike that’s just done a 132mph lap without it exploding, you’ll be fine

Normally done with a large funnel and bucket to get the fuel in as quickly as possible

 

[My Old Landy]

Do you think it will make the slighest shred of difference if you’re sat on it or stood 3” to the side if it went up? And precisely how many bikes do you hear about spontaneously combusting while refuelling? I’m sure if they can refuel a tt bike that’s just done a 132mph lap without it exploding, you’ll be fine

I was in the pits at the TT in June 1999 and watched Joey Dunlop come in. They spilled a load of fuel and he rode off at a goodly pace He didn't win that race but boy was he determined! Twin fuel caps to suck the air out as the fuel goes in.

 

[jerrytug]

Do you think it will make the slighest shred of difference if you’re sat on it or stood 3” to the side if it went up? And precisely how many bikes do you hear about spontaneously combusting while refuelling? I’m sure if they can refuel a tt bike that’s just done a 132mph lap without it exploding, you’ll be fine

Yes because you can't run away with the bike between your legs and your weight on your feet.
Standing astride a motorbike is a very awkward position to move from. Your first movement is up, through the flames!
Filling up astride is for racers, and morons trying to look cool, IMO, or maybe they just haven't visualised 'what if...' and how their lives would be changed by a random bit of fag ash blowing on the wind.
Lots of bike panniers and boxes makes it worse.
And what about people with pillion passengers sitting on the bike being refuelled? Not cool or clever.

 

[Miranda]

I wouldn't want to be TOLD but given that the machine will be red hot when I pull up, I choose not to risk it!

I am 100% totally, absolutely, completely with you.

risks I take are mine to take.

 

[Tangledfeet]

Is his name Darwin Dodger ?

Bob

In his case Darwin Todger seems more appropriate!