If It's Hot, Drop IT !!

Mark Williams

Mark Williams

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I just grabbed some 1800 degree steel :mad:

Thta's gonna leave a mark!

Thank God it was my weak hand.
 
Mark, I suggest a modification to your philosophy, learned in my old college welding class Sure am glad I got me some college!. If It's Hot, Don't Pick It Up
 
I want to know how fast you dropped it and what you were thinking about before you grabbed it. :eek:
 
Mark,

Sorry to hear bout your oops! :eek:

That happened to me down at the Blade school...I was fine as long as the water was running over it...once I left the water..I broke into a sweat for sure...

Went to the little store down there...and bought a pop...clenched it all the way to the Walmart...where I tried to walk inside holding the cold can...the security guy actually put a pink tag on it..

I found some green goo from solarcaine...it had some kinda a numbing stuff in it...the pharmacy tech came over...said it worked good...so I just shot some on there...she bout freaked...said I'd hafta pay for it...ok...I says...could you get my wallet outta my back pocket...so she did...

So there I was in the Hope Arkansas WalMart...a three hundred plus pound man...sweaty...beard wearing...crazed look in my eye...one burnt hand...clenched around a can of pop with a pink tag on it...dripping green goo...some strange gal feeling around in my pants for money....and I was thinking ...there's a punch line here some where...

I have never told that story before..and doubt I will ever again...

Hope yer hand gets better soon....

BTW...I freeze big chunks of aloe vera oplant for just such occasions...slap it on and don't that feel good!

Shane
 
Sounds like the brilliant thing i did back when i was working at the aluminium foundry. We dealt with one-of-a-kind castngs (made in sand) as well as regular series and we got some less common orders every now and then as far as dimensions go. Obviously each of thse special cases required a new whaddayacallit steel thingy that contains the sand (the frame thingy). In this particular case the frame was really big - the largest one i've ever seen, approximately a 2x2 meters square (7'x7'), about 25 centimeters (10") in height for each half of the frame, all steel, with added "teeth" on the inside to hold the sand better. It took three of us to carry one half of that frame thingy around (we figured that out when the first half of the frame was welded together). Anyway, so the other half got welded together as well, i stood on one corner and the other two guys stood at the opposide sides (in the middle of them). We lifted that thing and started moving it when i felt this burning sensation in my right (strong) hand. Oh yeah, i was dumb enough to grab exactly at the spot where the very last weld was done with my right hand so the pattern on the steel frame (nice "st. Andrew's cross" pattern) burned into my palm and wouldn't go away for a couple of months. I didn't burn myself enough to kill the nerve endings but just enough to brand myself for my stupidity/carelessness so i spent one agonizing night afterwards, melting ice cubes as if my hand was emitting heat :confused: I've had 10-20 fractures and many other problems in my life but rarely did anything come close to that burning pain which wuldn't go away. I don't recommend that to anybody :D

Moral of the story: before picking something up always[/b[ make sure it's (A) of suitable temperature and (B) not under electric current (another story for another occassion ...) - use the tip of your fingers or the back side of your fingers to verify either of those - don't use the bottom side of your fingers (finger muscles are easier to contract than to stretch and electric current will cause them to contract either way so if yu touch a live wire with the front side you stand a decent chance of frying yourself whereas the tip or the back side would just twitch away).
 
Gee, Mark... ouch!!!

I burned several fingers last month and duct taped a plastic gallon pitcher of cold water to my waist so I could walk around with my hand in it. Neighbors looked at me kind of funny, but no more than ususal. :D

- Jim
 
Mark Williams said:
I just grabbed some 1800 degree steel :mad:

Thta's gonna leave a mark!

Thank God it was my weak hand.
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Sorry for your hand :( . It is the real "maker's mark" after all :D and we all have such these marks.
 
Mark, sorry about the hand.

Whenever someone at work grabs a hot skillet at work. Everyone at work all together says..."Funny, It didn't look hot".

We keep a damp towel frozen in the reach-in freezer for such moments.

Shane you just know someone in security is watching a tape of that and laughing thier butt off!. I'd just like to see it on the net!

Be careful guys, it's easy to forget just how quickly and how badly you can get hurt with this knifemaking stuff.
 
think thats bad, ever burn your hand with half-molten lead? all you can do it sit and wait for the lead to cool so you can peel it of the burnt skin. i learned my lesson, and now cast bullets with gloves on. gloves, who woulda thunk to use them while around lead and propane?
 
severtecher said:
Mark, I suggest a modification to your philosophy, learned in my old college welding class Sure am glad I got me some college!. If It's Hot, Don't Pick It Up
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One that I was told by my welding instructors back their in ol' 1973, "Treat every piece of metal as though it were HOT!" :eek: .

When I'm working hot steel, I always wear leather gloves, when you smell leather burning or fell that heat coming through the glove, you flip it off real fast, but if you're not wearing protection, well....you know what happens.

Sorry that you had to learn the leason that way.


Larry T

Member of NECKA & NCCA
 
Kim Breed said:
I want to know how fast you dropped it and what you were thinking about before you grabbed it. :eek:
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ROTFLMAO!

Mark I feel for you, that has to hurt. Reading through the rest of the replies I couldn't help but think of all those folks in burn wards with third degree burns over much of their bodies from explosions or whatever. Nothing scares me quite so much as a bad burn.

I hope you heal quickly! This is certainly one we've all learned a permanent lesson from.
 
I did that with a really hot rock once. We were out on the Blackfeet Indian reservation in Montana and after a long day of seeing patients at this temporary clinic we set up (we were students on a mission trip of sorts... 19 students, 3 clinical days, over 2,000 patients seen!) we had a nice campfire going at our camp. Someone moved a really toasty rock out of the fire and about a foot away from it. I came up and thought "Gee, that's a nice rock. It would make a great addition to this fire ring..." and picked it up to move it. I was already dropping it by the time my brain registered what was going on (thank God for reflexes!), but I had trouble sleeping that night because of pain. To my surprise, though, I woke up the next day with no pain, just a thick, leathery feeling on my skin (from the nerves I torched, probably). I was lucky!
 
you know mark
1400 deg steel is very heavy and doesn't look it.
I'm surprised that you could pick 1800 deg steel up :D

heal fast Buddy..another lesson learned I'm wondering what you were thinking too? ;)
 
Hope you heal up real quick. That reminds me of a quote from Clint Eastwood from the movie Outlaw Josey Wales, "If you get hit, slap iron to it." :) Good luck with that hand.
Scott
 
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