My first Cobra injury.. Any others?

[Merv and Sharon]

I fully agree Colin. Reminds me of an insulation scheme where people used foil and nail guns ...

[mic n gill]

Just the usual snake bite to the right hand calf for me, and the left for the wife.

[Rob. Smith]

OH & S ha ha ha. I have been working in the power generation industry for 90 % of my working life. I'm 52 and since they introduced mandatory wearing of hard hats I have belted my head on things numerous times....simply because the hard-hat prevents me from seeing hazards from above. We also wear glow in the dark clothing...doesn't make much difference when your are the only bod walking around at 2:55 in the morning.

[stephen low]

I can still recall and cringe at my dear old Dad's solution to fixing a painfull injury.

He was a tough SOB Scotsman with a very high threshold for pain but clearly not high enough after one sleepless night due to a throbbing thumbnail. He had jambed the finger between timbers the day before fixing the family fence.

Whole nail was purple so must have hurt like hell, but the solution was to have number one son (me) hold the power drill switched on atop a bench with a small drill bit whilst he proceeded to drill through the nail.

I expected to see the drill bit appear through the other side of his thumb but fortunately it didn't. When it did cut through the nail I still also recall the spurt of blood as the pressure released, it must have been under considerable pressure.

Same man wrote off Angina attacks as intigestion until a couple of heart attacks then foreshortened his lifespan.

Personally I plan to try and live beyond 63 but I still miss the silly old coot!

Stay safe fellows!

[Rick Parker]

Fine or Coarse thread?

[Rob. Smith]

Yeah, I bought the Cobra early just before Mike Moylan sold his RMC company. I had three cars in the shed. I was restoring a 73 Mach 1 Mustang for my cousin and the cobra was stored in a tight spot. The shed was a total mess so i decided to clean up "Before I broke my neck falling over some thing" I was moving crap when I had one foot wedged between a car battery and the lawn mower and the other foot rolled on an air hose. I fell and sat flat on my arse. Didn't hurt...the fall was pretty slow as I landed against the Cobra and slowly sat on the floor. Then I looked at the right foot. It was 90 degrees to the left and still wedged between the battery and the mower. It looked really weird. So I stood up and removed the foot from the jamb and then manually put the foot back into it's correct position. It only hurt when I put weight on it....I had broken five bones in the ankle and became a test guinea pig for "Ultrasound Surgery" ...no cutting. Just manipulating whilst watching a 'Radar' screen. All fixed so I crawled around the shed with a giant 'Tight' cast and stuffed around with the cobra for a couple of months. I couldn't do too much heavy work but I made lots of measuring and planning. I didn't get the shed sorted either.