My early is making me ill!

[VWAIRCOOLED]

After doing about two weeks of welding to my van before vanfest,finishing the last bits Friday night,I got loads of hot metal balls rolling down my sleeve then burning my elbows in little craters.And then last week my elbow got infected and my arm was swollen twice it's size :shock: In the end went to doctors and got some anti biotics etc.We seem to be spending a lot of time together recently,me and early.Neglecting my normal work.
Anyone else got any injury stories from fixing there buses?

 

[Araon]

Just scalped knuckles nothing severe, though had a close call with the black widows i awoke whilst stripping out the interior... :shock:

 

[ProfessorWheeto]

Just scalped knuckles nothing severe, though had a close call with the black widows i awoke whilst stripping out the interior... :shock:

We had a red back who'd had a lift over and set up home in the radiators in the spray booth! Always have the hoover to hand when I'm stripping a van now :lol:

 

[Snakey]

Set myself on fire a couple of times when welding....thought the acrid smell was the underseal burning off

But fookin' poisonous spiders... :shock: :shock:

 

[BigG]

Decided to fit chrome trim on my windscreen rubber without the proper tool last week :roll: Both thumbs still numb

 

[easy]

Checking something under the van and got me head stuck :roll: couldnt remember which way i had turned it, to look at what I was doing :roll: not much room under there at the best of times so I ended up with a scrapped face and feeling like a massive knob! :wink:

Have now sorted this by making the van even lower so no chance of a repeat performance :wink:

 

[slammedkustom]

removed a steering box from a bay window, it was stuck so i started wiggling it, stopped wiggling it but the bus was still moving... rolled out from under it just as it came crashing to the ground! :shock:

brown pants time!

 

[bushyboy]

cutting some of the interior floor out to repair the top hats when the grinder gripped and shot across the bus, it danced about the van until i managed to turn it off. Close shave to my leg, still didn't hurt as much as waxing!!!

 

[Araon]

No no no, thats just not right....bushyboy.......and it doesnt matter where neither......

 

[VWAIRCOOLED]

removed a steering box from a bay window, it was stuck so i started wiggling it, stopped wiggling it but the bus was still moving... rolled out from under it just as it came crashing to the ground! :shock:

brown pants time!

That was a lucky escape,where the wheels still on so you didn't do damage when it hit the deck?

I remember years ago when I was an apprentice I took a car up in the air to change a ball joint. Then put a length of scaffold bar under the lower arm then let the car down onto it to pressure the taper so I could undo the nut.Undone it ok but instead of pressing the up button without thinking I pressed down and the scaffold bar ended up pushing the whole car up then it went enough to loosen the grip from the ramp then it fell to the floor from 6 foot up!

 

[Ands1]

removed a steering box from a bay window, it was stuck so i started wiggling it, stopped wiggling it but the bus was still moving... rolled out from under it just as it came crashing to the ground! :shock:

brown pants time!

That was a lucky escape,where the wheels still on so you didn't do damage when it hit the deck?

I remember years ago when I was an apprentice I took a car up in the air to change a ball joint. Then put a length of scaffold bar under the lower arm then let the car down onto it to pressure the taper so I could undo the nut.Undone it ok but instead of pressing the up button without thinking I pressed down and the scaffold bar ended up pushing the whole car up then it went enough to loosen the grip from the ramp then it fell to the floor from 6 foot up!

I,m a garage equipment engineer, beleive me you are not alone :lol: you won,t of been the first & definatly won,t be the last :lol:

 

[slammedkustom]

removed a steering box from a bay window, it was stuck so i started wiggling it, stopped wiggling it but the bus was still moving... rolled out from under it just as it came crashing to the ground! :shock:

brown pants time!

That was a lucky escape,where the wheels still on so you didn't do damage when it hit the deck?

I

no wheels as the beam was off, bus was a scrapper so not a worry, gave me a shock tho!

also had the pin in an axle stand shear while doing the brakes on my own bus, bus came down and if i hadnt had the jack under it as well it would have trapped my legs, if id fitted the new brake disc it would have removed my foot as it was directly under where the disc should have been.
almighty crash, both my dad and my neighbour came running out as they thought there had been a crash

always chuck the spare wheel under where your working as id rather lose the sill than a limb :shock:

 

[VWAIRCOOLED]

I recently got four new axle stands the heavy duty U shaped locking pin for double protection.Good idea to put a wheel under when you're working.I remember one time I was doing some work to a F*rd Fies*a and for some reason I needed to start the engine,the back was in the air and on stands but it was in gear so when I cranked it it duly fell off the stands and fell to the floor!

 

[slammedkustom]

we all crazzzzyyy!

 

[Araon]

Checking something under the van and got me head stuck couldnt remember which way i had turned it, to look at what I was doing not much room under there at the best of times so I ended up with a scrapped face and feeling like a massive knob!

sorry but PMSL :lol:

 

[Clem]

First time I took an engine out of a T25 I didnt know/think the gearbox was not supported, so I undid all the brace car bolts with the van jacked up above me. On the final bolt the engine and box crashed down next to my head missing me by an inch!

Ive had to have some metal surgically removed from my eye (head in a vice etc) after grinding in my specs .... the shrapnel flew in from behind the lense. A day on and it starts to rust in your eye .... :wink:

 

[Snakey]

Me too with the shrapnel in the eye thing, used to work in a machine shop so was always in A&E getting it dug out.

Long story short, later worked in a hospital as a biomed engineer. Before being allowed in to the MRI scanner room one of the health & safety questions was " Ever had metal objects in you're eyeball". Loads I said, "why".

"Cos the magnetic field around the scanner is so strong even the smallest piece of swarf would be ripped out the eyeball" :shock:

Shit me-self when I first went in :lol: