cutting weird shit with the miter saw. Plastic, soft metal etc. with my hands close to the blade. Material grabs and shoots the work piece into oblivion at the speed of light.
Bonus points for things you regret since they could have easily ended very BADLY
none, maybe breaking ABS supports off without safety goggles. Nothing that would have killed me outright rather than poking fingers etc. I did lots of dangerous stuff but not while building anything.
Easy. Welding machine made from a bucket of salt water and two wires straight from the electric panel, no breakers at all. The welds held up surprisingly well.
I built my own table saw using a tile cutter motor, completely out of mdf. Part got stuck between the fence and blade, fence came loose, motor started wobbling, it was just launching pieces of mdf at me and couldn’t stop it because the on off button was too close and the motor itself was getting loose. I pulled the extension cord eventually but it was just seconds from becoming just a motor with a saw blade that would just dance around the workbench
Replacing a service mast and wiring without having the power company de-energize the service drop. Couple decades ago and I can't remember the reasons behind doing anything that stupid other than that the girl living there had really spectacular breasts.
i built a diy 30ft tall pole antenna and put it on the front of my house
the construction of the pole is three 10ft sections of 2in EMT tube
they are joined by taking a 4th piece and cutting it into thirds
I then took the 3.3ft piece and cut it lengthwise so theres a big slit and used it as a big slip on coupler for the sections. clamping it all together with tons of self tappers.
I then attached it to the house on an exposed gable face by just clamping a 2x4 either side of the wall sandwitching a few studs, one at the base and one 3ft higher, then clamping the pipe to that mess using unistrut.
the whole thing is just bolted to the house and supported by those studs with a 10:1 leverage ratio kek.
I moved a 9 foot tall steel cabinet by myself with a dolly that was way too small. When I predictably lost control and it fell the force of it caved in the steel door on another tool cabinet and ripped the fricking handle right off.
>taking down a 40 year old crusty welded steel pipe carport >standing over a bent pipe section on a ladder with a angle grinder with switch locked on and guard removed like a real man >obviously the person who built this thing used a pipe bender and didn't just weld one side at at 30deg angle and then just pulled down and tacked in the other end, right? >last 1/4" of the cut left >notice the pipe starts twisting on it's own >bring my face close to observe the peculiarity as I continue to cut >whips up and smacks me right in the forehead >?????? >find myself on the floor with the grinder still running next to me
Still got the job done, so I guess all is well.
climbing trees to take down christmas lights
using unsecured 40 foot ladder with no training or spotters.
i almost fell like twice so i quit the job.
i asked the other dudes if they almost fell, they said 'yeah, but gotta make that money' >$15/hr ten years ago in California ...not that much money. also obviously under the table
>clear cutting with brother and dad >20s and doing huge strength training >getting pretty strong but still moronic >cutting down huge tree, 3 feet wide maybe 150 feet tall >gets stuck against another tree while falling >in my head think if I get under it and lift it'll free the base up and it'll fall >climb under about to engage moron strength >brother sees me and screams at me WTF ARE YOU DOING YOU FRICKING IDIOT >we use pry bar and knock it loose >falls entire way makes a huge dent in the ground
100% would have been crushed to death
Most risky because I suck it into my lungs but to be honest, there's not /much/ that can go wrong here. I am using it right now, rate my vape made from the original's parts after it got fricked up
not so much a job as me being lazy with diy shit
the previous owner for some reason had hardwired the range hood, but it was broken anyways
i cut off every breaker labeled “kitchen” and put on leather gloves, then used my rubber handled wire strippers/cutters to cut the wire as fast as i could
of course it was still active and unlabeled on the circuit breaker, the wire flashed and smoked everywhere, the wire strippers have a big chunk blown out of them a few mms wide
but i didnt get hurt because at least i knew better than to just cut it with kitchen shears or something
>then used my rubber handled wire strippers/cutters to cut the wire as fast as i could
Did you...think you were going to be fast enough to avoid the electricity?
about a month ago we got new janitors and new jannies are always power grabbing leftists who use their unpaid position to punish wrong think. Also, the slower a board is, the easier it is to get banned for racism because your post stays up longer and therefore increasing the chances of some butthurt homosexual seeing it, reporting it, and a janny seeing the report and actioning it.
Had to make a bunch of 24V l-ion batteries that could be connected in series up to 120V for work. Nothing dangerous except the boss didnt want to spend any actual money and just "use what we got" ... so nickel strips that werent even close to the current rating we needed, doubling up connectors and wires, and just raw dogging it with no bms. i left that job very shorty after, and i hope to god he was smart enough to bury those b***hes in a pit of sand.
The least intelligent and most unsafe task I ever undertook was hauling the exterior half of a ductless HVAC unit up a 12 foot ladder by adding backpack straps to it. It got near the top and the unit attached to my back was causing the ladder to sway every time I lifted my foot up to the next rung, which was rotating my hips, back, and the extra 50 pounds behind me that was hanging way off the ladder. By the time I reached the top of the ladder I realized there was no way to get the unit off my back without tipping the ladder and myself. Going down would cause just as much or worse swaying of the ladder, so I was frozen in contemplation of how to proceed without making the situation worse.
I end up with only possible outcome being to just very slowly lean myself forward over the top of the ladder until I was face planted against the roof, with the 50 pound load mostly over the roof. I then had to slowly roll and lower the load off my back without dumping it hard enough to dent the roof, or jerk the ladder out from under my legs. I then had to wriggle one of my arms free enough of the straps that I could transition more of myself off the ladder and onto the roof. After writhing around on the edge of the roof for a while and dragging the unit away from the edge I took a long break from that project.
I got away with some really sore muscles in my back, and abrasion on my nose and check from having to smash myself face-first over shingles.
In future I'll end up using a hoist or or a telehandler. But in that circumstance it would have been way smarter to just pull the unit out from a window on the second floor.
On friday I was up on the roof again with no safety gear or even a spotter. If I lost my balance or slipped, and fell, it would be certain serious injury if not death.
cutting weird shit with the miter saw. Plastic, soft metal etc. with my hands close to the blade. Material grabs and shoots the work piece into oblivion at the speed of light.
what's really funny is the demon core incident technically happened twice
>your own scientist
the absolute heights
none, maybe breaking ABS supports off without safety goggles. Nothing that would have killed me outright rather than poking fingers etc. I did lots of dangerous stuff but not while building anything.
wait, i shouldnt cut pvc with a miter saw?
it must've been in the late 90's
welding with my DIY TIG welding setup.
I put an object with a non-flared base into my butt
Did you loose it or were you able to push it out?
>Did you loose it
Oh he definitely loosed it...
Butt (see what I did there) did he lose it???
Easy. Welding machine made from a bucket of salt water and two wires straight from the electric panel, no breakers at all. The welds held up surprisingly well.
Installing roof shingles on my own garage, I almost fell off twice.
I built my own table saw using a tile cutter motor, completely out of mdf. Part got stuck between the fence and blade, fence came loose, motor started wobbling, it was just launching pieces of mdf at me and couldn’t stop it because the on off button was too close and the motor itself was getting loose. I pulled the extension cord eventually but it was just seconds from becoming just a motor with a saw blade that would just dance around the workbench
Roofing my house or climbing a big alder to section it down without gear. I’m afraid of heights but super cheap.
Replacing a service mast and wiring without having the power company de-energize the service drop. Couple decades ago and I can't remember the reasons behind doing anything that stupid other than that the girl living there had really spectacular breasts.
i built a diy 30ft tall pole antenna and put it on the front of my house
the construction of the pole is three 10ft sections of 2in EMT tube
they are joined by taking a 4th piece and cutting it into thirds
I then took the 3.3ft piece and cut it lengthwise so theres a big slit and used it as a big slip on coupler for the sections. clamping it all together with tons of self tappers.
I then attached it to the house on an exposed gable face by just clamping a 2x4 either side of the wall sandwitching a few studs, one at the base and one 3ft higher, then clamping the pipe to that mess using unistrut.
the whole thing is just bolted to the house and supported by those studs with a 10:1 leverage ratio kek.
its stood for three years
I moved a 9 foot tall steel cabinet by myself with a dolly that was way too small. When I predictably lost control and it fell the force of it caved in the steel door on another tool cabinet and ripped the fricking handle right off.
>taking down a 40 year old crusty welded steel pipe carport
>standing over a bent pipe section on a ladder with a angle grinder with switch locked on and guard removed like a real man
>obviously the person who built this thing used a pipe bender and didn't just weld one side at at 30deg angle and then just pulled down and tacked in the other end, right?
>last 1/4" of the cut left
>notice the pipe starts twisting on it's own
>bring my face close to observe the peculiarity as I continue to cut
>whips up and smacks me right in the forehead
>??????
>find myself on the floor with the grinder still running next to me
Still got the job done, so I guess all is well.
how much did it hurt
It got worse as the night went on, 40mph car crash kind of feel. Probably slept for 12h.
climbing trees to take down christmas lights
using unsecured 40 foot ladder with no training or spotters.
i almost fell like twice so i quit the job.
i asked the other dudes if they almost fell, they said 'yeah, but gotta make that money'
>$15/hr ten years ago in California ...not that much money. also obviously under the table
>clear cutting with brother and dad
>20s and doing huge strength training
>getting pretty strong but still moronic
>cutting down huge tree, 3 feet wide maybe 150 feet tall
>gets stuck against another tree while falling
>in my head think if I get under it and lift it'll free the base up and it'll fall
>climb under about to engage moron strength
>brother sees me and screams at me WTF ARE YOU DOING YOU FRICKING IDIOT
>we use pry bar and knock it loose
>falls entire way makes a huge dent in the ground
100% would have been crushed to death
Most risky because I suck it into my lungs but to be honest, there's not /much/ that can go wrong here. I am using it right now, rate my vape made from the original's parts after it got fricked up
homosexual
not so much a job as me being lazy with diy shit
the previous owner for some reason had hardwired the range hood, but it was broken anyways
i cut off every breaker labeled “kitchen” and put on leather gloves, then used my rubber handled wire strippers/cutters to cut the wire as fast as i could
of course it was still active and unlabeled on the circuit breaker, the wire flashed and smoked everywhere, the wire strippers have a big chunk blown out of them a few mms wide
but i didnt get hurt because at least i knew better than to just cut it with kitchen shears or something
You know you can test a wire to see if it's live before cutting it?
>then used my rubber handled wire strippers/cutters to cut the wire as fast as i could
Did you...think you were going to be fast enough to avoid the electricity?
its not gonna kill him
I tried to make a dish washer out of a Colman cooler by duct taping an orbital sander to the lid, yep I'm an idiot.
Cutting metal and not wearing glasses.
I had a piece of metal shoot right at my face and miss my eye by like 2 inches.
Always wear eye protection with any kind of cutting. Always
can't i just squint?
eye pro and face shield.
ouch
If city legislators and regulators were not such turbo Black person israelites I would wear body armor and do that.
Okay but why does this board delete all slightly racist posts. Is this the only board that follows global rule 3?
about a month ago we got new janitors and new jannies are always power grabbing leftists who use their unpaid position to punish wrong think. Also, the slower a board is, the easier it is to get banned for racism because your post stays up longer and therefore increasing the chances of some butthurt homosexual seeing it, reporting it, and a janny seeing the report and actioning it.
play stupid games, win stupid prizes
PrepHole has been r*ddit-lite for years.
Had to make a bunch of 24V l-ion batteries that could be connected in series up to 120V for work. Nothing dangerous except the boss didnt want to spend any actual money and just "use what we got" ... so nickel strips that werent even close to the current rating we needed, doubling up connectors and wires, and just raw dogging it with no bms. i left that job very shorty after, and i hope to god he was smart enough to bury those b***hes in a pit of sand.
The least intelligent and most unsafe task I ever undertook was hauling the exterior half of a ductless HVAC unit up a 12 foot ladder by adding backpack straps to it. It got near the top and the unit attached to my back was causing the ladder to sway every time I lifted my foot up to the next rung, which was rotating my hips, back, and the extra 50 pounds behind me that was hanging way off the ladder. By the time I reached the top of the ladder I realized there was no way to get the unit off my back without tipping the ladder and myself. Going down would cause just as much or worse swaying of the ladder, so I was frozen in contemplation of how to proceed without making the situation worse.
I end up with only possible outcome being to just very slowly lean myself forward over the top of the ladder until I was face planted against the roof, with the 50 pound load mostly over the roof. I then had to slowly roll and lower the load off my back without dumping it hard enough to dent the roof, or jerk the ladder out from under my legs. I then had to wriggle one of my arms free enough of the straps that I could transition more of myself off the ladder and onto the roof. After writhing around on the edge of the roof for a while and dragging the unit away from the edge I took a long break from that project.
I got away with some really sore muscles in my back, and abrasion on my nose and check from having to smash myself face-first over shingles.
In future I'll end up using a hoist or or a telehandler. But in that circumstance it would have been way smarter to just pull the unit out from a window on the second floor.
I once towed a car 40mi with nothing holding it on the trailer except the winch.
On friday I was up on the roof again with no safety gear or even a spotter. If I lost my balance or slipped, and fell, it would be certain serious injury if not death.