little steps eh little steps Im sure everything will work out for you.
Keep a positive attitude and dont let it get you down, you have
your Patrol family here if you need to Vent or ask anything
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little steps eh little steps Im sure everything will work out for you.
Keep a positive attitude and dont let it get you down, you have
your Patrol family here if you need to Vent or ask anything
Thanks TD.
I am taking those little steps.
Now that I have driven a little I am getting more confident.
I was helping an elderly person clear up their garden, as a good dead.
They feel terrible about what has happened.
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Holy shit mate..... frightening when its something like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by ova50
As for eyes I have had moments when I was a second away from losing and eye or only moments before put my sunnies on to have a large bug (and I mean large) hit me right in the middle of my glasses.
This comes with years of riding motorcycles and also being a postie.
It has me beat how Tony[ex-Prez] drives with one eye, but he still goes touring around the country
as well as frequent trips into the High Country, He never let it beat him and a good support team [wife]
Daryl,Quote:
Originally Posted by ova50
I guess it was just a one a million chance, especially wearing glasses too
I feel for you, as I have had some close shaves and have always to date been lucky .... Murphy's Law - nothing ever usually seems to happen to me when I wear safety glasses - only when I don't...
I hope that there is some avenue for improvement for you.
Mic
Wow, that's was very lucky not to lose it completely. Glad your on the mend and hopefully improvement will come.
I had a friend who lost his eye in a knife accident where the blade of a knife nicked his eye ball ( didn't touch any skin or the eyelids, just the eyeball) but lost his eye and now has a glass eye replacement and loves popping it out and putting it in people's beer.
I think most eye accidents happen when ppl are wearing safety glasses.
A friend I know up HAY his son was swinging a folding pocket knife on a piece of string.
Got distracted turned back and blade went right in his eye[lost]
@ OVA if you have an eye patch have you asked for Pirate sex yet,
my missus declined when she had her cataracts done bummer lol
AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH matey
At the optometrist yesterday, a lens correction to my glasses will improve the blurred vision to a degree, but not completely.
New glasses should be ready on Tuesday next week. The rest I will have to live with.
(Will have to wait another week till I try out the welders I bought.)
To Threedogs,
I still have the pirate patch but don't need to wear it to get the "AAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH matey "
Hot blooded Italian wife :wink::wink: .
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AAARRRGGGGHHHHHhh same here my wife is Italian too.
As for welding even if practicing wear some kind of eye protection.
even reading glasses will deflect the arc flash.
Trust me you dont want "Flash" I had it a few times over the years and most times I was not welding
but I come see the arc in the corner of my eye, worst flash to get BTW.
straight to the eye and ear hosp for some drops to deaden the eye , it is sooo painfull.
Welding if you're melting steel and blowing holes turn the welder down, the pkt the rods come in will
have ball park amps to set the welder to, be wary chipping slag too its hot and will stick to what ever it lands on
eg an eye lid, OH and make sure sparks cant start a fire anywhere, strike the rod like a match to start the arc and dont hold it too far away
from the job. You'll pick it up easy enough, its the position welds that are a bit trickier
Thanks for the tips TD.
Have got some off cuts of steel to practice on.
May post up some pics when I try them out so you can bag out my crappy workmanship. LOL.
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