OT - Bonehead Of The Week Award

I dropped a router on my head once

A.J. Hamler

Wasn’t running, though.

Still, needed five stitches.

A.J.

Re: anbody ever install a band saw blade backwards

AZ in Colorado Springs

One time I installed the dado set on my table saw, and got all the chippers backward. When I turned the saw on there was an unusual buzzing sound. I hadn't used the dado for a while at that time, so I thought maybe I just wasn't remembering it too well. There was no unusual vibration.

So I tried cutting a dado and couldn't hardly push the board forward. I wondered how the whole thing could suddenly get so dull.

Then I turned the saw off and took a closer look.

Whoops!

This ought to give Ellis plenty of ideas for WW.   

Re: Everyone gets One,,,chainsaws

Barry Irby

Hit a hunk of metal hidden in a tree with my chainsaw. Ruined about 8" of chain. The shop repaired it and replaced the damaged part of the chain. Next time we used the saw my son put the chain on backwards, I turned it around and it was still backwards. The shop had installed the 8" piece backwards. They fixed it at no charge.

Re: OT - Bonehead Of The Week Award

Jerry Nicholson

When I was 20, many many decades ago, I decided that my 1950 Ford needed dual exhausts. I bought the proper kit and when I looked under the car I discovered that the existing exhaust pipe went through a hole in a frame member. I also noted that the frame member did not have a matching hole on the other side, where the new pipe would go. So I borrowed a 1/2 drill from my boss and a fly cutter from the physics lab workshop at school and proceeded to create a hole in the proper location. The fly cutter was dull so this involved a few hours on the cold ground under the car (it was winter). Got the new exhaust pipes out of the box, crawled back under the car, and discovered that there was a joggle in the pipe, right around the frame member. No hole needed! Car sounded real good after I got the new pipe installed though.

Not my first bonehead maneuver -- and I have added another 64 years worth of bonehead maneuvers since then.

Re: Everyone gets One  @Barry Irby

Tom Dunlap

Barry

THAT is the #1 Chainsaw bonehead move!

Well...tied for #1

I always bought saw chain by the spool and made my own loops. I showed one of my employees how to use the chain breaker and rivet spinner. He made up a few loops...then realized he made them inside out! If the loop is long enough it can be turned inside out. These were for pruning saws so the loops were short. He had to break and re rivet.

He got ribbed for about a year for that one!

Murphy’s Law never sleeps.

Re: OT - Bonehead Of The Week Award

Jerry Gibbs

Don’t stand under your cedar strip canoe while hoisting.

Re: OT - Bonehead Of The Week Award

Jesse Cloud

I didn't actually make this mistake, but its a funny story (though not exactly PC).

Two blondes decided to build a house. They were nailing up framing when one saw that the other had thrown away half of her nails. She asked her friend what the problem was.

"Those nails were made backward, the pointy end was pointing at me."

"Well, dummy don't throw them away - those go on the other side of the house!"

Re: OT - Bonehead Of The Week Award

al morgan

always read the directons....but similarly done things .