Be careful out there

[Gary DiPietroSr]

I'm sure all of you know the dangers of using a snow-blower. Well, my friend's son did not use his head. I gave my friend my old Ariens snow-blower . When he came over to pick it up, I gave him a demo and said, " DO NOT PUT YOUR HAND DOWN THE SHUTE!" Well, you guessed it, his 20 yr. old son didn't get the same instructions that I gave to him. He came very close to loosing two fingers. From what we were told, the impeller went to the bone. Now they are waiting to see if an infection happens. I'm so upset that he wasn't around when I gave his dad instructions on how to use the damn thing. Live and learn I guess.

 

[gary s]

gary,



the snow we got overnite was thick/heavy. as my son had to do today, was clean it out more then usual as it got packed in.

my message as well as the one on the blower, make sure it is SHUT OFF before putting your hands near the blades/chute. i guess some just aren't thinking or are short cutting.

hope all is well with your friends son.

 

[Mike Dziubina]

I pull the spark plug too.

 

[WILL E]

It's not your fault. That's not something you should have to tell someone.



And don't stop the lawn mower blade with your foot either.

 

[Robert Caffyn]

Fingers and hands in the winter, feet and toes in the summer. It happens every year(like clockwork) for us in the Operating Room. Bob :smack:

 

[Don Pertz]

Natural Selection and Evolution at work..

 

[Thomas Rogers]

That's why though my 15 and 17 year old sons want to use our snowblower rather than shovel, they get to shovel, and only run the blower when I am there to supervise.



They are smart, they know better, but there is something about the reckless abandon of youth that makes one do things with no real fear or consideration of what might/could/will happen.



TJR

 

[Mark K 2]

In all my years of nursing in Wisconsin, I've never had a patient who was victim of snowblower dumbshittedness. Had a couple of lawnmower patients, however. One was an 8 year old run over by a riding mower driven by a 10 year old brother. The other was a dad who tried to stop a push mower from backing over his son on an embankment. The kid couldn't push it up the slope and got "stuck."

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Mark,



That's fortunate that you haven't seen that much.



My nightmare is that I do something stupid and hurt one of my kids (on accident, of course).



Recently in the news there was a local dad that while mowing the lawn with a lawn tractor accidently backed over his toddler. The child bleed to death.



There but for the grace of God...



Even though we don't have kids that small anymore, and when we did they were not allowed outside while I was mowing, and even then I always looked back before backing up, and was always alert...there but for...



**** happens, and it only takes a split second.



Like I said in the other thread...control is an illusion. We think we can keep all this bad crap from happening, with warnings, and such...and we should remain deligent, but alas, we can't totally avoid all harm.



TJR

 

[Timmy-The-Ute]

We had close to a foot of snow last night here in northern Utah. Was using the snow thrower this morning. Didn't have trouble with the shute because the snow was still fresh. It takes day old snow to clog the shute. On my snow thrower it is really hard to get the augger to turn unless you are actually throwing snow.

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