Did something dumb today.

doc henderson · February 15, 2022, 10:50:41 PM

I have a conveyor for my log splitter that runs off 12 V and I charge it off the motor on the splitter. I used to use a 20 foot set of cables my dad gave me in my 20s to go from the splitter battery to the one on the conveyor. I also had adapted to the exhaust and ran a pipe to a small car muffler that shoots away from the splitter. one day the cables got against the exhaust, and before I could do anything, the terminals mostly melted away. I have now replaced it with fleet wire connections and cable that is fastened down. I can charge from the splitter, or the front or back of my truck. I could also jump my truck off the splitter or the conveyor. tuff times.

WV Sawmiller · February 15, 2022, 10:54:11 PM

Doc,

I feel your pain. A year or so back I melted the lead terminal on a lawn mower battery and the cable terminal in a similar fashion while jumping it off.

doc henderson · February 15, 2022, 10:55:06 PM

Crossroads · February 15, 2022, 10:55:41 PM

The best one I've seen was when I was an EMT there was a guy walking with a framing gun, with his finger on the trigger. His heel came up and bumped the safety, sending a 16 penny nail through the back of his boot and into his foot.

doc henderson · February 15, 2022, 11:02:21 PM

Quote from: WV Sawmiller on February 15, 2022, 10:54:11 PM
Doc,

I feel your pain. A year or so back I melted the lead terminal on a lawn mower battery and the cable terminal in a similar fashion while jumping it off.

I felt bad as these (jumper cables) were a gift my dad gave each of us three boys. the clamps were kind of toast. the cable was good and I used it on the revamped conveyor application. I have had them over 40 years. It was a stop gap to use them between the splitter and conveyor as I always planned to do the universal connections like were on my truck. I used them on the front and back of my truck and could also put my winch on the front or back 2 inch receiver. so I guess I can run the winch off the log splitter of the conveyor as well. we are all lucky to be alive. it is a fine line to almost harm ourselves and learn in the process. or take no chances and know nothing, or die trying stupid stuff.

doc henderson · February 15, 2022, 11:04:15 PM

Quote from: Crossroads on February 15, 2022, 10:55:41 PM
The best one I've seen was when I was an EMT there was a guy walking with a framing gun, with his finger on the trigger. His heel came up and bumped the safety, sending a 16 penny nail through the back of his boot and into his foot.

that is a dance you do not see too often. ED docs need to smile on occasion too!

doc henderson · February 15, 2022, 11:08:19 PM

we had a scout meeting tonight, in prep for a winter camporee. there will be competition. one of which is fire starting. so we practiced many including the 9V battery and steel wool, with dryer lint ect. ect.

Southside · February 16, 2022, 12:01:57 AM

Quote from: doc henderson on February 15, 2022, 10:40:43 PM
Quote from: Crossroads on February 15, 2022, 09:26:56 AM
I'm back 🙈 I was working with a friend yesterday and was hold a board in place with my right hand and running the nail gun with my left. (I'm right handed) anyway, the first nail hit its mark, but I got a bonus that was about an inch off and at an angle that was in perfect alignment with my thumb. Thanks to my cat like reflexes, I was able to rip it out sideways 🙈 will be sore for a few days, but shouldn't slow me down any on my way to posting here again 🤓
I have had about 3 patients come in that shot a framing nail through their hand and into the 2x, and the team had to cut a few feet of a 2x4 off the wall. the pt. comes in with the nail still holding the wood to their hand. local and systemic pain meds, and some pliers.

Was just texting about such an experience the other day with another member. Managed to do that to my left index finger up on a ladder one time, no insurance, but had pliers and the phone number to a corpsman buddy from days gone by. He tells me to start reading off what I have so I look in the cow meds fridge and go bottle by bottle, lets just say after telling him how much his choice in antibiotics stung - THEN, while frantically laughing, he tells me I could have mixed lidocaine with it to take the edge off, had not made it to that bottle before he said "yup - use that, it might sting but you won't get an infection."
Luckily that never happened again.

@Nebraska LA200

Crossroads · February 16, 2022, 12:05:46 AM

That sounds like fun! There are a lot of creative fire starters around, one that caught me by surprise was walnuts, they lite easy and burn quite a while. The one I carry in my hunting pack is cotton balls saturated in petroleum jelly. I cut straws into about 1 1/2" sections the burn and crimp 1 end then stuff a saturated cotton ball in, then burn and crimp the other end. When you need to use it, cut the end and feather out a few strands and hit it with a metal match.

Crossroads · February 16, 2022, 12:10:05 AM

Dang SS, with friends like that who needs enemies lol one things for sure, if it stings , ya know it's doing something.

terrifictimbersllc · February 16, 2022, 07:01:24 AM

In my college days i worked at an RV factory. Helped get my roommate a job there one summer. He nailed two fingers together with a framing stapler. I drove him to the country doctors office a few miles away. Doc Abel opened a drawer looked like could have been from my dads shop got out a side cutters and pliers cut the staple in two and pulled out the pieces, only difference was he had some pain killer too. :

firefighter ontheside · February 16, 2022, 07:26:40 AM

@doc henderson I went to Oreillys Autoparts hoping to find a connection like that to use. They didn't have anything remotely close. I will order something and have some connections sort of permanently mounted to the battery and winch and maybe even the charger to make it more fool(me) proof.

Nebraska · February 16, 2022, 07:52:02 AM

Oh boy that would burn....

Machinebuilder · February 16, 2022, 08:38:47 AM

Quote from: firefighter ontheside on February 16, 2022, 07:26:40 AM
@doc henderson I went to Oreillys Autoparts hoping to find a connection like that to use. They didn't have anything remotely close. I will order something and have some connections sort of permanently mounted to the battery and winch and maybe even the charger to make it more fool(me) proof.

They are commonly referred to as Anderson Power Pole connectors.
They come in several sizes rated per amperage.
Where I have seen them most is in battery connections on things like electric fork trucks, floor scrubbers etc.

Don P · February 16, 2022, 08:40:07 AM

My BIL branded his wedding band to his finger jumping the dead car on their honeymoon :D.

After a few nail incidents at work with others going to the doc, if it's "just a flesh wound" I've not gone in. I've hit bone but never gotten a nail stuck, it did knock the feeling out of that finger tip for a long time. We sent one in when the nail penetrated the bone. It didn't shatter which was our fear at the time, the bone was porous enough to act more like wood. My best man hit one of the main nerves in his hand, that did some damage. Those are the ones to go in for. A couple of times the glue from the nail has worked out of me later, itchy, whoo boy. "cc sinker" cement coated sinker, its a thermosetting glue. Punctures always bear attention, you're sticking dirt in deep but that glue and gun oil must be pretty clean.

doc henderson · February 16, 2022, 08:47:42 AM

I got the first set at a diesel pickup place I use, and had them installed for and aft on my truck. you can get them on amazon, and I agree with getting a good brand like Anderson. that is what I have. I also got covers to keep them clean when not in use. my jumpers in the truck have an end replaced with one, and I do not need to raise my hood to jump myself or others. I just plug in. it is best to have a resettable breaker, incase of a short. the short end off the cables have one also so I can plug it back onto the long end, and have a regular set of cables with a clamp on both ends.

beenthere · February 16, 2022, 10:35:14 AM

Quote from: firefighter ontheside on February 16, 2022, 07:26:40 AM
I went to Oreillys Autoparts hoping to find a connection like that to use. They didn't have anything remotely close. I will order something and have some connections sort of permanently mounted to the battery and winch and maybe even the charger to make it more fool(me) proof.

Orion Motor Tech Wire Connector 2 Pack, 50A Wire Harness Plug Kit for 6 to 12 Gauge Cables

Found on Amazon
Edit: removed link for reason doc henderson noticed about a link. And his amp selection may be better.

doc henderson · February 16, 2022, 12:18:14 PM

I used the 175 amp. the breakers that came with my winch, are wired under the hood of my truck to protect the system.

I put the link on but it looked like it had our account logged in. you can find them on amazon, and if you ordered in 7 hours, at the time I looked, you would have them by tomorrow.

search Anderson 175 amp connectors.

Old Greenhorn · February 18, 2022, 05:31:57 PM

OK, it appears to be my turn in the hole...again. Last week we had some snow and I plowed but it wasn't a lot so I plowed a couple of spots in the back I didn't hit when we had the bigger snow because I had to get the Mule out back to take mushroom logs and clean up the big leader that came down on my drying rack in the ice storm. Anyway, I plowed over the area where I have a temporary air line running along the ground from the shed to the shop because the shop compressor blew up (motor) in July. I forgot about the hose until I was right over it, but looked down and it was still not visible under the snow, so the plow, I figured, went over it. I forgot about it. Well I have been sick in the house for 3 days and the temps warmed up and stuff melted. Today I ventured out and when I came around the back of the shop I found this.

Guess I didn't miss it after all. >:( Glad I had shut that compressor off during the really frigid temps. Maybe this will encourage me to bury a proper line in the spring. Maybe.

Chuck White · February 18, 2022, 06:33:11 PM

Cheap temporary fix though, short piece of copper tubing and 2 hose clamps!

rusticretreater · February 18, 2022, 06:35:32 PM

You may call that doing something dumb, but that falls in line with my average daily mayhem.

trapper · February 19, 2022, 12:56:58 PM

Had an appointment last night. While there started snowing and blowing. Going home made it fine until driveway. About 2 mph blowing so hard couldnt see road and slipped into ditch. Got ATV and gave wife ride to house. No problem call AAA in morning. AAA came and pulled car out no damage. Window was cracked open a bit and windshield frosted up inside over night. Too impaient to let it clear completely there was a crack open about 3 inches at the bottom and drove home once in yard turned too soon and caught bumper on guy wire of power pole. Broke a portion of front bumper off.

rusticretreater · February 19, 2022, 01:37:48 PM

Yeesh. The school of hard knocks is always in session. An impatient man at the age of 78? Go figure.

chet · February 19, 2022, 01:45:00 PM

Quote from: trapper on February 19, 2022, 12:56:58 PM
Had an appointment last night. While there started snowing and blowing. Going home made it fine until driveway. About 2 mph blowing so hard couldnt see road and slipped into ditch. Got ATV and gave wife ride to house. No problem call AAA in morning. AAA came and pulled car out no damage. Window was cracked open a bit and windshield frosted up inside over night. Too impaient to let it clear completely there was a crack open about 3 inches at the bottom and drove home once in yard turned too soon and caught bumper on guy wire of power pole. Broke a portion of front bumper off.

Look at it this way, Trapper. Catching that guy could have been MUCH worse, and costly. Spring is coming.