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She musta seen me doing the same years ago. 🙃 Leetle duck tape and a couple paper towels’l hold most ‘cept an artery.😲
L’s!
Y’all take care,
Mike in FLA.
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May 8, 2026 at 9:13 pm
Electrical tape is what the J.O.B.s first aid kit consists of. A roll of TP and e-tape for the gushers. Shown a few Ive had that rqrd getting a zipper installed at the doc in a box.
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May 8, 2026 at 9:51 pm
Come in from the garage and sit down for supper and my wife asks, “What happened to your leg, it’s bleeding?”
Looking at the table I replied, “Mmmm…are these BBQ pork chops?”
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May 9, 2026 at 11:16 am
Yup, gotta be guts dragging on the floor to ruin the appetite on most jobs. That first injury is what sends the sissies running for the door.
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May 9, 2026 at 1:54 pm
I laughed my ass off because it’s TRUE! True story, in ’22 I was working on a house remodel. The nail gun double tapped (it was the old janky one, not the new functional one…) and the second nail skewered my thumb. I cussed. Loudly. Because my thumb was not designed to have a metallic object traversing it I removed it. One quick yank… I thought I busted a pressure relief valve off! Ok, I can handle this… Off the ladder and out the door to my truck while squeezing it. Blue disposable shop towel and a roll of electrical tape. Wrap and wrap. Done, wipe the blood off my other hand with the part of the shop towel I didn’t use, sit on the back bumper of my truck and light a smoke. By the time I finished my cigarette while holding the offended hand over my head I felt better. Crap, I still got bills to pay. I did it, so no lawyer gonna do anything… Back to work I go. Shop towel and electrical tape will treat 99% of work related injuries. If it don’t, tell the sissy to go sit on the porch with the womenfolk!
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May 9, 2026 at 1:51 pm
Most recent for me was a run in with Razor Wire at a local Jail. Had to adjust a powered gate, was up a ladder adjusting top roller and while swinging hammer (yes, legit adjustment method) love tapped that razor wire and split my finger from tip too back of hand. Could see the bone. This wasn’t one that tape and towel was gonna fix, but it did keep the offending leak at minimum until I could get to the doc in a box. 18 stitches and $166 lighter in pocket and one long ass scar on top of all the other scars my hands bear.
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May 9, 2026 at 2:11 pm
Mikee dam sure hatez it when he springs a leak with the red stuff coming out! Not so much if’n it’s the clear kind (even though that kinda leak is a-wasting al-ky haul!😉). That kind is only a bother when it drips on me spec-tackles and blurs me vision. A real PITA when yer under a welding hood in the middle of a critical X-Ray position weld (heli-arc) hangin by yer ass 50 feet above the dirt! MUCH cussin involved!!
A ways back, I hadda pry bar slip (my fault) and whacked me right at the top of my beak (with the chisel end, of course) right ‘tween the eyes. Few minutes later, go back to my area, and my foreskin says “holy shit, yer a-bleeding like a stuck pig” (job wuz in L.A. – that’s Lower Alabama). ‘Bout that time, a big drop plops off’n my nose and splashes on the floor. I looks, and sayz “dam it’s lunch time” when I spotted my watch. Coupla butterfly’s did the trick nicely.
L’s! Eyes open, head on a swivel!!
Y’all take care,
Mike in FLA.
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May 9, 2026 at 2:24 pm
Hot spat making it past your welding jacket into a shirt pocket makes for fun times! 😀 And that clear leaky stuff (I do believe thats calles SWEAT) is a real PITA when under hood. They put sweat bands on all the hoods now, but those only hold an ounce at best,,, I sweat buckets in the summer months and it messes up hoods, safety glasses and stings like a mother when it gets in the I-balls.
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May 9, 2026 at 2:29 pm
Try onea (or several) them hot bb’s getting down past yer belt line (yep! – right there🙄) when yer on a dam extension ladder. REAL creative kinda sorta dancing going on that day.
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May 9, 2026 at 2:33 pm