What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman
accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw
it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what
unfortunately went wrong.

On Sep 8, 4:52 pm, Ken hotmail.com> wrote:

A very predictable accident:
Elderly man has free-standing scaffolding 10 feet high. Puts ladder on
scaffolding plank and leans it on the side of a house and climbs
ladder.
The base of the ladder pushes the scaffolding sideways. Elderly man
falls on to pile of bricks on ground where he put them.
He survived OK.

On Sep 8, 12:52?am, Ken hotmail.com> wrote:

my old neighbor wanted to put in a new bathroom floor, finding loose
boards he accidently rain a nail thru a water line. bringing down his
kitchen cieling:(

so he decided car repairs would be better, removed the air cleaner,
gunned the engine, metal air cleaner assembly fell into fan went thru
radiator:( new fan, radiator, and air cleaner assembly his wife
decided he shouldnt fix anything.

he actually was relieved.

Serious, sobering stuff...

http://www.amgron.clara.net/circularsawbenches/accidents.htm

Ken kirjoitti:

I have heard this one from a man who saw this happen in his yard in the
60´s.

A man had a homemade circle saw, (diam about 1,5 meters) with a
hydraulic table to move the log back and forth. He and his son run a
service to cut the timber of the customer so the machine was movable.

The father was operating the machine and the son was at the other end
piling up the ready cut timber.

On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 04:52:53 UTC, Ken hotmail.com> wrote:

Let's guess...you're researching for another of these dumbed-down,
sensationalist TV programmes?

On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:52:53 -0700, Ken hotmail.com>
wrote:

The guy who owned the house two doors over from me was going to paint
his house himself. He first decided to do a bang up A-number one job
of stripping the old paint by blistering it with a torch and scrapping
it to the bare wood.

So I am sitting in my den with the windows open when this big cloud of
thick smoke blows past, I go "wtf was that?", and step outside to
see............ta da.......he has set his house on fire and the roof
is fully engulfed.
Dave

Ken hotmail.com> wrote

This has just happened in my town, to people known to me.

The first one was a classic agricultural accident, the individual
was wearing a coat that got caught in the tractor PTO shaft.
By himself, not much left except mangled remains.

Then at the wake, another was silly enough to climb the
TV tower because the antenna wasnt working properly.
The tower collapsed and he was killed in the process.

"Ken" hotmail.com> wrote in message
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This happened to my boss some years ago ...

Ladder up against the house; leaned over too far and ladder slid; he fell.

Then the worst part ... he landed on a picket fence and drove a picket up
through his chin and out his mouth. He survived and was back at work
in a week or two, though his face looked pretty gruesome for quite awhile.

Ken wrote:

Not letting the router spin down before moving it smartly into my jeans
and JUST missing my femoral artery.

Lighting bonfire with petrol, from a distance if 15 feet on a hot still
day, intending to throw the ball of lit paper at the fire from a sfae
distance.

Petrol vapour travels a long way at ground level.

My then Irish neighbour who called the fire brigade and the ambulance,
claimed that HE knew of a man who picked up a small rotary lawnmower by
the cutting deck in order to use it as a hedge trimmer.. ;-)