Posted by paul on February 12, 2015 at 07:00:18 from (76.77.197.114):
In Reply to: Stupid Hurts.... posted by Bryce Frazier on February 12, 2015 at 06:36:25:
Running the old Owatonna swather many years ago, drove through a plow furrow and the head bottomed out, the wheels were spinning. The head lifted with a hand lever, later years the lever could slip upwards, but mine it would lock in place. Anyhow I'm not able to describe that well; the lever catch was pinched hard, holding the machine weight.
I got the crank and used it as a hammer, to pound the lever catch up.
When it came free.the lever flew back fast, real fast. Hit my hand holding the crank, that the crank flew through the air 30 feet. My middle finger swelled up double size. Hurt like heck. At least it was just bruised, nothing broken. Took a while for that to go away. Lucky it hit on the middle parts, not a joint or otherwise, as my hand was the cushion between the lever and the crank, and launching a heavy crank that far takes some force.
Then, afterwards, I hear of people doing that with their head in the way of the lever, and the results being deadly. And I can sure see that, would have been very easy to have my head right about there as I pounded.....
Hope we learn from our mistakes, and they aren't so bad as we can continue learning.
Thanks for the message, we all need to keep thinking.
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