Anybody ever hit their face with a ratchet?

[dirtwarrior17]

needless to say, i have a neat scar, with a funny story, and a stool that i use to get into the engine now.

I got a chair now

my scar still looks like its 2 weeks old... lotta left over blood that never drained out.

 

[camiswelding]

I have one of those permanent purple nose marks... you know,, the one you get when you knock yourself out under the truck....
momma knew I was hurt because I wasnt swearing anymore

now I wear glasses and use those wimpo gloves that protect hands

 

[gone huntin]

Back about 15 years ago I was working at a Wal-Mart in the automotive dept. I was putting shocks on a Dodge Diplomat and the bolts were rusted to hell. The Crapsman 1/2" ratchet I was using broke and hit me right between the eyebrows. It broke my glasses in half and my eyes started stinging. The floor was painted red so I couldn't tell that blood was pouring down my face. I just thought I couldn't see due to my broken glasses, didn't know it was due to the blood in my eyes. I went to tell the manager and he told me to finish the car, then go get first aid. I still have a "C" shaped scar and a red dot about the size of a BB with blood in it.

 

[JK5]

When I was 16 or 17, I was working on something in the garage and got frustrated, so I threw a 1/2 drive ratchet with an extension and socket on it REALLY hard at the floor.
Somehow it deflected off of the floor, then the work bench, and smacked me in the forehead.
Next thing I knew, I was laying on the garage floor with blood everywhere. I have a small scar in my left eyebrow from it. Lesson learned.

LOL!!!!

I'm glad you learned your lesson..you could have lost an EYE!!!

Myself...when I used to throw things...
I just took out windows..I was lucky I guess.

You really missed a cool meet in Clinton after Summit's Lame Truck Fest.
I rolled my rig.

You should think about going to Yankee Lake before the season is over.
They're having a Halloween Party the 29th.
Call me if interested.

 

[Bluekrow]

Back when I was 18 I had a chevy half ton pickup and I was doing the rear brakes with a pair of needlenose pliars, Well they slipped of the spring I was trying to get hooked a went right for my bottom lip! Needless to say my mother made me go get stitches and the little (feltlike a wire) brush they used to clean my cut hurt worse than the stitches . I have since bought brake pliars.

 

[cybrfire]

I hit myself in the head with a ratchet. Under a friends van trying to help her out with exhaust problems and slipped off the rusty nut on the exhaust clamp. "Smack" I saw that flash of light and climbed out from under the van to stop the flow of blood. Sucks when that happens.

 

[ratzila]

I took my old blazer to get the a/c repaired. The mechanic there did not know how to release the tensioner. Next thing happens the ratchet hits the guy right in the forehead. He fell off the truck like a bag of rocks. He was out like one of Tyson's opponent.
It was several minutes before the guy regains conscience. He ended working the rest of the day. He will never forget that day

 

[3 on the tree]

Back when I was young and dumb, I tried to do a brake job w/o the proper tools. I'm pulling a return spring back in place, when the pliers slipped. Put the handle end right in my right eye. Almost lost the eye, but eventually back to normal. Now that I think about it, time to dig the drum brake tools out-my old Blazer is due for a brake inspection(4 wheel drum).

 

[Leper]

A few months ago I was doing the lift on my Blazer. I was loosening a shock bolt with a long craftsman 1/2 drive ratchet. I knew that the head of the ratchet was going bad, but I was using it anyway. Well, I found the bad spot again. All my strength pulling the ratched toward me and the head gives out. I fall backwards untill I hit the first metal object with the back of my head, while my arm at the same time hits the shackle hanger and the momentum of the ratchet makes it come loose from the nut it was on and lands on my nuts. This all happened in .0023 seconds. I couldn't even cuss. All I did was sit there motionless for a few seconds while my body decided what hurt the most. Then I grabbed my nuts and rolled out from under the truck.

 

[Emmettology 101]

I smacked myself right between the eyebrows with a 3/4" drive ratchet. Was either tightening or loosening(dont remember which either do to the impact or casue it was a while ago) a nut on the rar axle yoke while it was still under the blazer.... Luckily I didn't bleed, but man that freakin hurt!!!!

 

[jekquistk5]

Slipped off when I took my Tcase off. Knicked the side of my head not really hard, but enought to go.... I need another beer!

 

[diesel4me]

Been there....as recently as yesterday!..

I have injured myself nearly every time I attempt to do anything to my fleet..

Just yesterday--I was feeling crappy from having a bad case of bronchitis-all the way to the doctors office and back my front right brakes dragged--pads were smoking by the time I got there,and when I got home...I HAD to do something about it--so as much as I didnt want to even LOOK at the F'n thing,I jacked it up,and took the tire off..

I didn't even get the toolbox open before my first wound..it is a "hip roof" style carry about box--got it open,reach in for the tools I needed--and the fargone thing snaps shut like an alligator on my hand--thought my fingers were chopped off! --NICE!!--havent even BEGUN the job,and I'm wounded..!..I discovered it was a bad rubber brake line causing the caliper not to release--I tried loosening the bleeder screw--it wouldnt budge,and I felt it stetching like it was ready to snap off--I didn't feel good enough to dick with the truck anymore--I threw the tire back on and said Fugg it.. I'm in no mood for that aggravation now, being so sick..

I was changing a rear main bearing and seal in a 75 K5 I had years ago--the ratchet slipped,and I got smacked in the lower lip--and knocked part of my upper front tooth out,and the tooth went thru my lip!..I was very pissed off!..took months for it to heal,coldn't drink hot coffee or eat for weeks!..

I'm sick of JUNK CRAFTSMAN ratchets!--I have 4 that are JUNK ,and 2 of them were junk and skipping right out of the box! --I'm going to see if I can swap them at Home Depot for "Husky" ones--at least they dont have plastic levers to change from "on" to "off"..Sears USED to sell GOOD tools--now they are China CRAP evidently!..I cant fix my truck with ratchets that only have "neutral"!!-have to get new ones before I attempt to change my calipers and hoses..not even gonna try!..

You have to hold your thumb on the lever to get them to "catch" and work,or they slip and you mash your knuckles!..I'm NEVER buying any CRAFTSMAN JUNK ratchets again...their "lifetime gaurantee" isnt much good if your running to Sears every day for another one--last time they tried to tell me they can only "rebuild" my ratchet---I make a stink until th guy was ready to call the cops--and he finally gave me a new one!--I dont want a ratchet with a stripped head with new "guts" in it!! from now on I'm only getting free replacements on my craftsman tools--I'll never spend a nickel on most of Sears other tools..

 

[tiger9297]

A few months ago I was doing the lift on my Blazer. I was loosening a shock bolt with a long craftsman 1/2 drive ratchet. I knew that the head of the ratchet was going bad, but I was using it anyway. Well, I found the bad spot again. All my strength pulling the ratched toward me and the head gives out. I fall backwards untill I hit the first metal object with the back of my head, while my arm at the same time hits the shackle hanger and the momentum of the ratchet makes it come loose from the nut it was on and lands on my nuts. This all happened in .0023 seconds. I couldn't even cuss. All I did was sit there motionless for a few seconds while my body decided what hurt the most. Then I grabbed my nuts and rolled out from under the truck.

THAT is major pain. And like Eddie Murphy says, "you don't even have to hit nuts to cause pain. you can just graze nuts and it will hurt!". The thing about getting hit in the nuts is for whatever reason it's a delayed pain and you have that few seconds in there to anticipate how badly this is gonna hurt.

 

[paulmoon]

Back when I was 18 I had a chevy half ton pickup and I was doing the rear brakes with a pair of needlenose pliars, Well they slipped of the spring I was trying to get hooked a went right for my bottom lip! Needless to say my mother made me go get stitches and the little (feltlike a wire) brush they used to clean my cut hurt worse than the stitches . I have since bought brake pliars.

Same here! The needlenose pliers when into my cheek just below my left eye. Only 4 or 5 stiches.(Sad thing was, I owned brake pliers! ). The very next day I missed a step on a stepstool and fell facefirst into the corner of my rollaway. Cut a gash next to my right eye. There was NO WAY I was going to the ER a second time. I work at that hospital. EVERYONE knows me. They'd have never let me forget it. Hey....just a few more scars on the way to that hole in the ground.

 

[k5 krawler 50]

A couple years ago my buddy and i decided to put a lift on his ram charger. We go over to my grandpa's house (he has every damn tool in the world it seems like) to put it on. When we got around to taking off the old srpings on the front, my grandpa was jacking up the front axle with a hydrolic(sp?) floor jack. My buddy spike was getting ready to throw some stiff arms on each side of the frame, and as i go to hand him one of the stiff arms i got wacked in the face with the jack handle as my grandpa was jacking up the front. I didn't realize that my face was in such a possition to get hit. I got hit on the side of the nose and eye. It felt way good.

 

[dodgedude99]

i smacked my self in the face with the 1/2" torque wrench on sunday, that felt good hitting the jaw.

 

[86chevybanshee]

i was changing a fuel filter on a car at work today, i put my 20mm wrench on it and thought it could stay on by itself so i went to go put my 5/8 wrench on ther other end and the 20mm fell of and knocked my tooth back

 

[MNorby]

I was wrenchin under my truck one night and slipped and punched myself in the face and popped a contact lens out.

 

[destinbeachman]

A better question would be "Who hasn't bashed themselves with a wrench at least once?"
If we all had video of ourselves wounding ourselves (boy,that sounds stupid,kinda like Austin Powers) we could edit it out and make a short film-"When tools attack".

 

[3 on the tree]

A better question would be "Who hasn't bashed themselves with a wrench at least once?"
If we all had video of ourselves wounding ourselves (boy,that sounds stupid,kinda like Austin Powers) we could edit it out and make a short film-"When tools attack".

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