Who's in charge of carving the turkey?

Off to work in 20 mins. I'm scared now  ,  ,  .

Hope to be able to type later. We'll see.

Cheers weave 

  me with my diamond bladed grinder 

Stay safe!!!
10 working digits on hands
10 toes in boots
2legs in trousers
2 arms in sleeves
1 head in hard hat and visor

Make sure you come home with the same!!!!!

You are, of course, assuming that's what he's starting the day with.

He's been self-employed for years. Who knows what he has left.

There's the old one about the dim factory worker who lost two fingers in an accident.
He didn't notice until he was saying goodnight to the foreman 

Well 2 weeks on, stitches have literally just been taken out, the 15 internal stitches have all dissolved and these were the top 8. Everyone happy with how everything came back together and healed.

I am now back to work and driving everything with no dramas. A short hard slog run in to Christmas now to get everything sorted so we can have a few days of not doing much, apart from the layout!!

The NHS doesnt get the recognition that it truly deserves and we only ever realise that when we need and use it.

Faultless every step, I'm hoping some of our forum members are NHS professionals who will take some thanks from me!!!

Glad to see you're on the mend. I fully agree with you on the NHS.

Now all you need to do is get it tattooed with a zipper pull at one end.

Only just caught up with this thread... Oooer, it made me come over all wembley.

Sounds like you were lucky a) that it wasn't worse, b) that you had a mate on hand. Hope you continue to heal up quickly.

Keep safe!

Cheers,

Chris

Thanks Chris, the consultant who had a poke around in it reckoned I was probably about 25mm from femoral artery and I'd of not made it off the roof, but we didn't so basically I've had 2 weeks sat in the house not being able to do much hence the push on with the layout,.

Every cloud and all that 

I´ve nearly done the same thing twice.  Just managed to stop the grinder before it made contact.  Just a few weeks ago I was joining two pieces of wire together and without looking grabbed the wrong end of the soldering iron.  I didn´t half say flipperty gibbert!  Same day I was trying to de-solder something and use the soldering iron as a lever.  You got it.  Iron slipped and the newest, pointiest tip I own went into the skin between two of my fingers.  Said oh bother at that. That seemed to cauterize it´s self. Don´t know if it´s an age thing or what but I told the other half I was getting too old for DIY.  Didn´t tell her one incident involved N Gauge trains

Quote from: David Asquith on December 06, 2019, 07:56:43 PM
Same day I was trying to de-solder something and use the soldering iron as a lever.  You got it.  Iron slipped and the newest, pointiest tip I own went into the skin between two of my fingers.  Said oh bother at that.

Another common one when soldering - especially knocking up circuit boards on veroboard - is picking up the reel of tinned copper wire instead of the solder.
The general train of thought is "Hmm, why won't it melt....yeeeeow!" 

I hope you're on the mend. 

This reminds me of when I decided to use an angle grinder when I was 16.  I was cutting through concrete blocks in the garage, ready to fit a double glazed window, when the grinder shot out of my hands.  I stupidly grabbed the cable to pull it back and it came back towards me like a pendulum of a clock, going past my thigh (just like yours)!  I couldn't look down from fear for some time, but eventually I looked down and.......nothing!  the back side of the grinder must have brushed against me!  I've never forgotten that moment and hold on tight whenever I use an grinder!   

All the best to you.

@Tank fighting fit thanks Tank, a stupid mistake caused by rushing, a very long time ago someone once told me "we haven't got time to short cut" and that is so very true.

I have full mobility and nothing more then a bright purple scar line on my leg and 18 spots where the top 9 stitches came through.

The only good thing that came out of it was 10days sat solidly working on the layout 

Glad to hear it!  I hope you've been able to use an angle grinder since.