Grinding Bucket Surprise

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rwn2000

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Has anybody ever found anything LIVING in their grinder bucket? The high temp today near Charlotte was 93 and it's at least 10 degrees hotter in my shop so I planned on hand sanding a blade in the house in the AC this afternoon. I saw a place I needed to touch up on the grinder, so I go out to the shop and as I walk up to the grinder, I hear a big splash. WTF was that? I didn't see anything so I just figured that one of my push blocks fell off the grinder table into the bucket. SO I get the belt I need and start grinding, throwing sparks into the bucket. After about 20 seconds all hell breaks loose and a FROG jumps out of the bucket at a speed of approximately Mach II, and onto a nearby shelf scaring the crap out of me. I know frogs can live in nasty water but in my grinding bucket, really?

Anybody else ever have something like this happen?

randy
 
hahahaha. poor little guy. this has me laughing good. as far as the survivability of that little sucker, if they can live in swamps, they can live in your bucket. besides, he was probably using that as a place to hide until the sun went down and he could book it out.
 
Sounds like the creature from the black lagoon! I bet you jumped almost as far as that frog when it shot out of there, I know I would have! Crazy stuff.


-Xander
 
That is a good one, That would have made me jump a bit also. I wouldn't want to eat the legs off that frog.
 
I think if that happened to me I would have been able to build a brick outhouse afterwards, if you know what I am saying:P
 
Laugh Out Loud!!! That would make a great candid video. I put a piece of cardboard over my bucket after finding dead bugs in it.
 
93 degrees?You lucky dog.I find dried up frogs in my shop once in a while that couldnt find there way out..Been well over 100 here here lately.My bucket would probably cook the little guy.Mmmm froglegs.
 
Guess his doctor told him that he needed a little more iron in his diet.
 
Seals said:
93 degrees?You lucky dog.I find dried up frogs in my shop once in a while that couldnt find there way out..Been well over 100 here here lately.My bucket would probably cook the little guy.Mmmm froglegs.
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calling for 100 tomorrow and Wednesday, if that makes you feel better. :)
 
Good one! That would make you jump for sure. No frogs yet in my grinding bucket but lots of June Bugs this year. -Burton
 
A long time back I was Campmaster at Pipsico Scout Reservation, and was heading up a work weekend. On Sunday afternoon, everyone was cleaning up and getting ready for lunch before heading home. All of a sudden we heard blood curdling screaming coming from the shower house in the middle of the main field. We looked to see what was happening, and Iris C. came tearing across the field in a bra and shorts heading for the cars. While some of the women headed to help Iris, we men ran to the shower house, expecting an axe murderer wearing a hockey mask. We looked around and saw nothing, until I looked up and saw a big old blacksnake laying up in the rafters. Seems it was hanging down from the rafters when she was getting dressed, and she saw it behind her in the mirror.
I told her it was a good thing she didn't see it until she was at least half dressed....she replied, "It wouldn't have made one bit of difference if I was in the shower or getting dressed."

In the smithy, now and then a raccoon will waddle past while I am working. They look at me sort of like, "What the heck is he doing here?" It's really cute when there are kits following mom. They want to run and see what I am doing. Mom will have none of that.
 
Great stories!

Squirrels stole my buffing compound, raccoons are trying to get my old quench oil... deer cruise by in the day and bears at night. I actually had a deer scare me a couple of days ago when I was grinding.
 
Hmmm. The only critters I've had to deal with are prairie tarantulas, daddy long legs, wind scorpions, and the random stray cat or dog. I have been working with the door open only to catch a very strong whiff of skunk a couple of times, after which I promptly closed the door. Of course, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see a coyote or bobcat wander past.

I think if something ever jumped out of my slag bucket while I was grinding, you would be digging a hole 8 feet long by 6 foot deep and lowering me into it.

--nathan
 
I bet you can catch that frog with one of those pick up magnets on a stick :)
 
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