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| BamaSuzy |
Posted - Apr 16 2006 : 8:00:52 PM
I was reading a thread in the garden section about someone who cut the end of their finger off with garden pruners and she was cautioning everyone to be careful!
So I thought of what happened to me last year and thought I'd pass this word of caution along.
I was using my husband's more-powerful battery-powered drill to drill a larger-than-usual hole in a creosote post that was to be the gate post for one of my goat fences or dog fences...
The drill hit something hard and I was holding it so tightly that by the time I had let go of the drill, it had twisted my arm badly. I found out later that I was lucky, that several people had actually broken their arms when such drills hit a nail or some other hard spot in something they were drilling in!
I've always thought that battery-operated tools were safer so I just wasn't expecting this! So now I use extra care!
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| frontierlady |
Posted - May 23 2006 : 06:18:57 AM
With any tool, use caution!
My husband had his hand on the board that he was screwing and the drill slipped and he drilled his hand.
He was lucky, he only drilled the skin between his thumb and first
finger. It went straight through but like I said he was lucky and
didn't hit bone.
Boy, was there lot's of blood.
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| Duchess |
Posted - May 20 2006 : 08:33:02 AM
Another neat thing I have learned, thank you so much for sharing. This is something that would not have occured to me. |
| akcowgirl |
Posted - Apr 16 2006 : 10:52:34 PM
Be careful with all drills. When we built our house my dear other half would hover over my shoulder every time i would use the drill because he was afraid i would do the same thing as PP. I thought he was being a worry wort till i saw a friend of ours do just what PP did. Now i am supper carfull wiht the drill. Just don't hold to tightly to them.
Valerie
Yes, I live in my own little world. But that's ok they know me here.
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