What is the dumbest thing you've done while working on a project?

kcongel90
kcongel90 Posts: 95 Member
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This weekend I was doing yard work and hit myself in the face with a tree. Yes, an entire tree. I was not wearing safety glasses, and got lucky that it didn't do any real damage. One swollen eyelid and several scratches on my face taught me that safety equipment is important....and that my hand eye coordination is sub-par. I feel like a bone head for managing to smack myself in the face with a tree, so tell me your stories of projects gone awry :)

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  • Cameron_1969
    Cameron_1969 Posts: 2,855 Member
    My brother cut his leg with a chainsaw. .
  • Cameron_1969
    Cameron_1969 Posts: 2,855 Member
    I was throwing old lumber into the back of my new truck and tossed a 2x6 right through the back windshield. It all happened in slow motion. . I felt like I had a full minute to contemplate my stupidity as the board was flying through the air .
  • Cameron_1969
    Cameron_1969 Posts: 2,855 Member
    I was working in the attic and just stepped right through. . Fell down into the garage, caught my foot in the rungs of the ladder on my way down so I ended up landing on my back with a sprained ankle and a LOT of bruises. . .good times .
  • kcongel90
    kcongel90 Posts: 95 Member
    Ha! Oh man, those are all terrible. The 2x6 one sounds like something I would do
  • RebeccaLansdown
    RebeccaLansdown Posts: 101 Member
    When you put tiny pieces of live coral onto rock in a saltwater aquarium you usually use superglue. I was puttering around with putting several frags (tiny fragments of live coral) into the tank. As I turned to walk away I realized that somehow a blob of glue had landed on the bamboo rug in front of the tank and I had stepped in it barefoot. That's right, I superglued my big toe to the floor.
  • Jpinpoint
    Jpinpoint Posts: 219 Member
    I was walking up stairs to my construction trailer. My Safety Manager opened the door and held it for me to walk through. Some trailers come with additional tie down spots and we had one right next to the door frame.

    I ducked down to go under his outstretched arm and when I stood back up, quickly, I caught my shoulder on it. I basically put my body weight into it.

    I was so impressed that I didn't cry. Instead I stood facing a wall and counted. My SM went into panic mode. He wanted to take me to the ER because he could tell I was trying to hide the pain and the area bloomed quickly. I said no to the ER, yes to OTC Morin, which he monitored.

    Lesson learned is that when my trailers show up I remove anything and everything that could do damage.
  • nojuicejustjin_
    nojuicejustjin_ Posts: 238 Member
    I was jumping down off scaffolding when an aluminum edge protruding from the wall got caught in my bicep on the way down
  • Cameron_1969
    Cameron_1969 Posts: 2,855 Member
    nojuicejustjin_ wrote: »
    I was jumping down off scaffolding when an aluminum edge protruding from the wall got caught in my bicep on the way down

    OWWWW!! . .
  • Cameron_1969
    Cameron_1969 Posts: 2,855 Member
    I was building a loft and I had to build a post with dadoes and mortises all cut to very precise dimensions and chiselled by hand. . Took me a whole day. . Then. I went to install it and realized I had made it identical to the other post instead of a mirror image. . Then, on that same project I had to build this large carpeted box as a step up, but also large enough so that my kid could get inside it like a little hideout. . I built it then went to put it in his room but couldn't because it didn't fit through the door. .
  • kcongel90
    kcongel90 Posts: 95 Member
    RebeccaLansdown wrote: »
    When you put tiny pieces of live coral onto rock in a saltwater aquarium you usually use superglue. I was puttering around with putting several frags (tiny fragments of live coral) into the tank. As I turned to walk away I realized that somehow a blob of glue had landed on the bamboo rug in front of the tank and I had stepped in it barefoot. That's right, I superglued my big toe to the floor.

    That is amazing.
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  • kcongel90
    kcongel90 Posts: 95 Member
    Big toes are for the weak.
  • klkarlen
    klkarlen Posts: 4,366 Member
    I'm constantly getting injured during farm related activities, it comes with owning horses, so I won't even bother listing those. But my ex and his family had some beauties:

    1 - FIL wanted to install a radio in the wall of his master bathroom. took the saws-all, cut the hole, installed the radio, and then went to close the pocket door - that was in the wall that the radio was installed in - yes, you guessed it, he cut through the door too.

    2 - Was-band was installing cabinets in the laundry room of our brand new home. He used a stud finder to figure out where to put the screws, and then drilled through the main drain pipe from the bathroom above it - three times. He had to open up the wall to patch the pipe.

    3 - Was-band was trimming shrubbery around the house - cut through all 5 coax cables that ran from the satellite dish to the house - it took him 3 hours to get them hooked back up correctly.
  • JanetMMcC
    JanetMMcC Posts: 410 Member
    I can't even claim mine was a project. I opened the car door, put a computer bag on the ground, stood up, bent down and hit my forehead on the car door, right at the corner.

    The corner of the door. My head doesn't have them.

    Yet.

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