Just Could Not Watch Anymore

[weecalf]

It was one of those Repair shop spin-offs I was watching but had to switch over .Nice people nice articles and very skilful workers .The problem was for me the people who were doing the fixing were when using a bandsaw not wearing chain mail gloves or goggles .I worked with a band saw for over thirty years and would never have taken any chances.If I had not used chain mail gloves I was in danger of losing fingers and also in danger of losing my job .

[davebro]

I woulda kept watching to see the fingers fly! Which program was it?

[Spicerack]

They probably knew what they were doing, weecalf. ;-)

[Mamyalynne]

Sounds rather like Jay's Yorkshire Workshop - lovely programme.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000yxk7

[weecalf]

Saved and repaired think it was .

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tq6m

[barry1010]

I watched a tv programme showing a blind man (Blind Dave as he is affectionately known) using a circular saw with no gloves or guard as far as I could tell. I had to switch over.

[Ken4155]

Are you sure it wasn't the opening 5 mins of Casualty :-))

[weecalf]

Knew what they were doing no problem but health and safety are just as important .

[barry1010]

I watched a documentary recently about British social history and it stated that between 1890 and 1940 the majority of amputees were not wounded in war but were victims of industrial accidents. Made me sit up and think, that's for sure

[Spicerack]

I like those Docs about skyscrapers and bridges being built in the old days. Casually strolling on a six inch beam in their old raggedy gear.

[barry1010]

Spicerack, I have to watch those with my eyes closed for a lot of the programme - my stomach turns as if I'm stood alongside them.

Can't stand that very famous photo of workers eating their lunch sat on a girder, either.

[Peter Pedant]

eek !
my neighbour had a scrached cornea
which became infected

(and of course I intervened!)

I said later to the girl-friend, I thought he was going to lose his eye and she said - - so did I

[ I think they had left something in, and it required re-cleaning ( or else cleaning properly for the first time)

[davebro]

I worked part time (after school) at a small business making firewood (kindling). I was watching our new sawyer cutting some wood and saw the circular saw blade moving up his hand between his thumb & first finger! I yelled him to stop - there was much blood. Fortunately he hadn't gone far enough to damage any important structures & the local doc stitched him up.

[Peter Pedant]

// I woulda kept watching to see the fingers fly! Which program was it? //
er I think they build in a time lag, in this case a few weeks

[Peter Pedant]

// between his thumb & first finger!//

eek there is an artery there
mine is just under the skeeen...artery to index pollicis - sqad will know the proper name. I lack the muscle branch that protects it

eek, I wouldnt like to lose it - I couldnt type this for instance

[davebro]

Brilliant:

[andy-hughes]

barry - // Can't stand that very famous photo of workers eating their lunch sat on a girder, either. //

Me too - gives me the heeby-jeebies!!

Apparently a Native American tribe, the Mohawk, have a genetic glitch that means that they don't suffer from vertigo, which makes them idea for high-level construction, a lot of them worked on the original skyscrapers in 1930's new York.