Lathe accident (please activate subtitles)

[Floradawg]

I like your aphorisms.

[WmRMeyers]

I like your aphorisms.

I started collecting them when I took over the ISR (in-school restriction) classroom at the local high school a couple of decades ago. One of the previous teachers aides there was a retired Army Lt. Col., and he'd posted a bunch of them in the room. I didn't take any of his down, but did add some of my own. I worked there for nearly 5 years while I was getting the prerequisite classes out of the way before starting my teaching program. If they had ISR when I was in HS, I'd have probably been in it a bunch. I was trying to help the kids figure out other ways to avoid getting in trouble. I'd been in enough myself. I've been out of the teaching field entirely for over 8 years, now, but still collect aphorisms. I'll probably be putting some of them on the wall in my shop once I get to the point it's not bare studs.

Bill

[machining 4 all]

Common sense for what?

[WmRMeyers]

Common sense for what?

I believe you have just proved my point.

Bill

[machining 4 all]

Floradawg is right: "Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed..."

[WmRMeyers]

Floradawg is right: "Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed..."

And somebody in that video got a bunch of non-fatal experience! Some of the folks who saw it probably learned a few things, too. Intelligence is that which allows you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Wisdom is learning from the mistakes of others.

[NeiljohnUK]

https://safetyrisk.net/workplace-saf...y-don-merrell/

I have one on my office pin-board (old school tech), as a reminder not to 'look the other way'.

[marksbug]

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.....yes I stole that little tid bit....but oh so true.

[Floradawg]

When I was studying machine tool technology they had a sign on the wall in the shop stating that. Needless to say it made an impression on me.

[dbat74]

I've been a machinist all my working life and have operated shapers the size of a pick up truck and horizontal boring mills that ran on tracks 5 ft down in a pit, but
never a little one like that. Almost wish I had one, but I'm into wood turning and enjoying that.