Folks, wear your PPE.

Safety related, never take someone else's word that the breaker is off for electrical connections. I knew this and let it slip about 10 minutes ago. I asked, he said yes, zap! Got the crap knocked out of my hand. Probably tingle all day now!
 
77GreenMachine said:
Safety related, never take someone else's word that the breaker is off for electrical connections. I knew this and let it slip about 10 minutes ago. I asked, he said yes, zap! Got the crap knocked out of my hand. Probably tingle all day now!
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Try installing equipment on a 460 volt dish machine when the breaker box is on a different floor and all you have for a lockout tag out kit is a zip tie and a paper tag. Really have to have faith in people's ability to read and not mess with your stuff. After I finished up, a Mexican "electrician" brought my tag to me asking why I put it on "his" panel. I said, because I really didn't want to be electrocuted today. I asked him why he removed something that OBVIOUSLY says "Do not remove". I was so glad to be done with that job.
 
justjeepin86 said:
I remember in the early 2000's when I worked at 4 wheel parts in Charlotte, we decided not to mount a new set of 49" irocs on new weld wheels. We got them for the truck we were gearing and sent them to a truck shop to have them mounted. The wheel blew apart when the tire popped on the bead. If I remember right it blew both his hands off. Remember thinking that could have been one of us.
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When my dad was younger he worked for a freight company working on the trucks. He said his job was to change the tires on the trucks and he hated it because it was so dangerous. The guy who changed clutches hated doing that so he talked my dad in to changing jobs with his, which he gladly did. He said not long afterwards, the guy got his fingers blown off in a tire accident.

Not long after that my dad went back to college and got a job inside in the office. :lol:
 
Here at work a guy had an adjustable speed belt driven grinding wheel setup upright on a spindle. He set his drive belt up on the wrong pulleys and spun a stone rated for 3500rpms at 33000rpms. Needless to say the stone failed, and he had taken the guard off his equipment. The exploded stone sent chunks into his arm and broke his humerous. He also had multiple areas requiring stitches. It was a nasty little accident.
 
ManglerYJ said:
Try installing equipment on a 460 volt dish machine when the breaker box is on a different floor and all you have for a lockout tag out kit is a zip tie and a paper tag. Really have to have faith in people's ability to read and not mess with your stuff. After I finished up, a Mexican "electrician" brought my tag to me asking why I put it on "his" panel. I said, because I really didn't want to be electrocuted today. I asked him why he removed something that OBVIOUSLY says "Do not remove". I was so glad to be done with that job.
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Thats why i always keep a master lock that has DO NOT REMOVE in spanish
 
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Black Bear said:
What are yall doing about dust / ventilation. Grinding for hours at a time in a garage cant be good for you long term.
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I buy those green 3M face masks from the medical supply store. If they are good for TB they are good for me! I also crack the garage door. If it gets really hazy then I just open the door all the way for a while. Sucks in the winter.

I also agree on the face shields. It is nice to be able to stick your face into the spark shower to see if you need to. And I wear some nice Peltor ear muffs to go with it. I have been listening to a rining in my ears for over a decade, I do not want it to get any worse.
 
An old squirrel cage fan or even an old shop vac can be made to pull out fumes and dust from where you are working.
 
Bringing this back because of a picture I found whilst perusing the interwebs this afternoon. Leave the guards on your damn grinders, people!

ai.imgur.com_0EmlKaO.jpg
 
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