GARAGE SAFETY TIPS AND HORROR STORIES

[drogers]

Incident 1 was using a grinders to cut a cunk of 3x4 thin wall tube . well i didnt think the pants i had on had a few hole in the bottom . it a few sec i lost about a 1/4 of my right pant leg. ( not the first time ive sent my self on fire )

incident 2 . me and one of my buddy where puting is 87 ford 7.3 ext cab ext box  on one of the older underground air lift . it got 3/4 way up the rear right sliped off . the hole truck missed me by a few and my buddy by a foot or so . we bent the trans crose member and broke a bunch of stuff . it was fun explaning this to the owener of the truck .

[old school truck dude]

FIRE! so easy to start, so hard to stop! Keep the flammable things AWAY from the welding area. A grinder can start fires pretty quick too, dont let the stream of sparks go on you, itll burn your clothes up and you too! Be real mindful of where ALL the sparks are goin.

[OHEARN.2012]

FIRE! so easy to start, so hard to stop! Keep the flammable things AWAY from the welding area. A grinder can start fires pretty quick too, dont let the stream of sparks go on you, itll burn your clothes up and you too! Be real mindful of where ALL the sparks are goin.

fire cabinets work well for storing flammables or store them in an outside shed

[Hammerlane]

Note to self:

Dumba$$ -
put the big (cardboard) can of Pyrodex away BEFORE using the grinder!!!!

[Bigolcummins]

probably one of the best ones i have heard is simply keep the shop area clean dont leave tools laying around. You can easily trip and fall or slip. And wen they are put away in a toolbox it makes them so much easier to find.\

Draw strings on hooded sweatshirts can get in belts, pullys, anything that spins. Cut them off the hoody you work in and avoid loose fitting clothing.

Creepers are not skate boards

[old school truck dude]

Skateboarding on a creeper..?

[gator82]

probably one of the best ones i have heard is simply keep the shop area clean dont leave tools laying around. You can easily trip and fall or slip. And wen they are put away in a toolbox it makes them so much easier to find.\

Draw strings on hooded sweatshirts can get in belts, pullys, anything that spins. Cut them off the hoody you work in and avoid loose fitting clothing.

Creepers are not skate boards

Skateboarding on a creeper..?

Think I would pay money to see that

[Bigolcummins]

ive seen people do it lol, usualy does not end good

[BigFrank]

this might have been said already but  when using a ladder of any sort leaned against a truck tie or strap it off so the bottom cant kick out when your standing on it leaning over and stuff  happened to sam /4x4fun/ on the front of my truck darn near broke some ribs

[old school truck dude]

That was pretty bad, I was standin right there and he hit real hard 

[Jthomas]

Here's 2 good welding ones:

So when I first started welding it was with the ole Lincoln stick. I hated the hood, so I would just squint so I could see in dark places. Woke up the next morning and had sunburnt face and eyes, oh god my eyes hurt. So the next day I baught an auto dimmer.

#2
so again with the stick welding, I was under a home made trailer welding supports, and I was just going right along and dropping the little end of the stick and replacing it, not paying attention to where the hid rod was dropping, I felt this EXTREAM pain on my nads, started hopping around like there was a fire in my pants, cuz there was, I fianly made it out from the trailer and the rod managed to drop from my sack to in my shoe. So yea, that was great. I now invested into a wire feed.

[old school truck dude]

When you bring a vehicle indoors that has been settin up outside in the cold, be prepared for the bees and wasps when they get warmed up

[Flexpipe]

Don't try to siphon gas out of your gas tank with a garden hose I was changing my fuel pump in my old chevy truck and because the tank was full and I was by myself I had to get some of the gas out so I could lift it back up into place I tried siphoning some gas out with an old garden hose and swallowed some after that I was burping up the taste of gas for a couple of days

[old school truck dude]

When you are going to lift something with a ceiling hoist or similar device in order to "flip it over" , turn it upside down, remember that at a certain point in the lift the object will "break center" and gravity is always always always workin. It will free fall for a second till the chain, cable, or whatever catches it. What if the hook comes undone? 

[Wicked Willys Fab]

My friends wife was helping him service truck was using air grease gun she didn't realize it had a hole in hose pushed grease under skin of her finger  this picture is after 2 surgeries still does not know if she will be able to keep it

[old school truck dude]

HOLY CRAP THATS REALLY BAD!!

[Merc09]

Owww. Thats making my finger hurt. I hope she can keep it. That would be horrible.

[Hammerlane]

One of the greatest garage horror stories ever told...

Winter 2014
Has kept me outta my garage for 3 months.

Just sickening!

[old school truck dude]

Nobody got hurt on this one, floor gave way to the basement and the trackhoe slid down a beam into it .. Its wedged between the 2 basement walls pretty tight right here, took quite a bit of fartin around to get it outta there

[old school truck dude]

Ok so I slipped in a puddle of water that was on an oily spot. On the way down, I scraped my elbow on a rust spot of the truck. Moral of this story is keep the floor clean and dry