Way to signal the folks in the house if you get hurt?

L6steel

L6steel

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I was just wondering if any of you guys have some sort or remote signalling device rigged up that you can use to communicate with your wife or who ever is at home in your house when you're out in the shop?
Not only for general type communications, like it's dinner time or git your butt in here and help me move the couch around and such, but also in case you're goofing off and get hurt bad.
I have a cordless phone in my shop that has a paging feature with the second unit thats in the house but the dinger on it isn't loud enough that I'd want to stake my life on it in an emergency so I figured I'd post here and see what stuff you people had fixed up.
I know I could hard wire something but down here you need a building permit to cut a fart so I'd prefer to keep it wireless if possible. Thanks for any tips or suggestions you can give me!!
Take care peoples!
 
I have a bell hard wired to the house but it was for customers
coming in so if I was in the house I'd know..
I can trip it also if the phone rings and I answer it and it's
for someone in the house they know to answer it.
it also rings if I go out of the shop
so the wife don't have a clue to why the bell if the phone don't ring

so if I hurt myself and I ring the bell and the phone don't ring
before it..then I'm dead meat:( so mine don't work well for that purpose ...
I'd be out here for about 12 hours max before someone mite wonder where ole Dan is:( :confused: :eek:
 
Don't believe you need a permit to put a phone in.

I think my wife would check the shop maybe in a day or so. Alot of times I come in after she goes to bed and get out to the shop before she gets up. I usually make in the house several times durring the day. My shop is not a place she likes to visit. She's told me more than once that she expects to see me dead out there. Since thats where I spend most my time. I figure she's right.....
 
When I cut my index finger to the bone all I had was the land line. I was by myself working my first blade grind on one of those screaming fast harbor freight 1 X 30's. After a call my darling Linda came over and babied me. Then, before the bleeding stopped, she went back home to the cat.

RL
 
its just me and the doggie and the vagrants that come down the alley to dumpster dive! i keep my cell phone with me. if its that bad i will need a fast ride to the ER. a 12 gauge shotgun blast might get some attention!;) from a neilbor:eek:
 
Originally posted by indian george
I have a .357 and if I get hurt I shoot it thru the floor.:eek: :eek: :eek:
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Hah! Sounds like you and Geno are two of a kind George. In all seriousness he rigged a intercom system up between the house and shop that came from Radio Shack and it does have volume control, it's also fun to hear the lies, tales and fables at happy hour when his buddies come over and he forgets to turn it off. Be careful ya'll. Cavelady
 
I been thinking of installing a PANIC BUTTON on the wall next to my mill. I slap that and it rings a bell in the house, and they come a-runnin'. I'm superstitious though. I feel like if I do install something like that, then I WILL get hurt.

IG: If you ever come up my way sometime bring your .357. We can go out plinking. I'll bring my Steyr.
 
Jeff you'll shoot your eye out kid :D :D
from the Christmas story .:D

You can ways hurt yourself first and get it out of the way:rolleyes: :footinmou

The only way IG can hit anything with a 357
is to point it down.:D
IG don't plink he plunks:)
 
Mike, get yourself one of those marine/boating emergency kits with the flare gun and horn in a can. Them horn in a can things are real loud and if you have any fingers left you should be able to squawk that a couple of times and get their attention. If you have to wait till after dark you could send up a flare if it would make it through the roof of your shop. If not, it'll catch the place on fire and maybe the fire department will get to you in time. Otherwise, it'll end your suffering and put your name in the paper! And all that for only about $75!! :D

And since you brought it up, I had a kind of close call yesterday my ownself. I was pressing my mark into a blade on my 10 ton arbor press yesterday and it was kind of a hinky deal because I had to shim the blade to get it level for the stamp. Well, it got out of alignment and just as I was getting the last good from the ram travel the whole works blew out the bottom and there was a terrible racket as all the shims, my blade and the bottom setworks of the press went flying into the north wall of the shop. ACCKKKK!!! Took me a while to round up all the associated parts but I finally did. There was no damage to my blade and it had a perfect mark on it. Sometimes I get lucky.
 
IG "plunks" huh? LOL!

Hey here's an idea... How about one of those "I've fallen and I can't get up" devices?
 
Nope not blind yet I shot MY deer this year where's yours
when I aim I don't miss..:D they are going to redo my eyes though

I know guys that couldn't hit the broad side of a barn
while standing inside it they'd shoot their foot first..

I see a cop one time eject a shell from a 25 auto
(his personal Pistol)
then removed the clip, then pulled the trigger :eek:
good thing no body's feet were where the bullet went
through the floor .:eek: what a block head:D

he did that in the Police office hahaha :D
 
I have a first-aid kit duct-taped to my dog. And a cell phone.
 
Originally posted by L6steel
I was just wondering if any of you guys have some sort or remote signalling device rigged up that you can use to communicate with your wife or who ever is at home in your house when you're out in the shop?
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Hi L6,

This is a good post, you never know when something unfortunate is going to happen...it's good to have a plan. I keep my cell phone with me in the shop so I can call 911 if needed, but my wife and I have a set of those rechargeable FRS radios that we keep on the charger by the front door. Whenever I'm heading to the shop I'll grab one and give her one so she can reach me for dinner, and I can reach her if something ever goes wrong.

:)

-Darren
 
Dan: I had a chance last weekend to shot a BIGASS TURKEY from Brownsville ME but felt sorry for the featherless little thing.:p :p
 
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