Rumors

[unforgiven]

This new kid thats the RO where I shoot said the company whose pressure cooker was used in the Boston bombing was going to take it off the shelves because of what happened.Then he said some idiot was selling that type describing them as pre-ban.Anybody heard of this stupidity.

[OFP2651]

No it just sounds like a money scam though. There is really no valid reason to take them off the shelves though if that is what you are looking for.

[planeflyer21]

He must be pulling your leg.

 

If half the butt-sniffs in politics or media had 1/10 the inkling of making household products into weapons that some of the people I know do, they'd try and ban us back to the stone age.

 

Trucks drive around here all day every day, with chlorine and ammonia in the back.  Pressure washers are all over now.  Look at the warnings on a can of Raid sometime.

 

I could take a '72 Buick, give it the A-Team "tank treatment" and put some runflats on it, and wreak more havoc in 3 hours than ALL the mass shooters in the past 50 years.  Local PDs and sheriff would have nothing to say.

 

They'd have to borrow an A-10 from D-M.

 

Jon

[unforgiven]

I hear ya brother,it was crazy talk as it came out of his mouth.If that were the case plumbers would have to go through a backround check.

[Goofball310]

http://www.carolinashootersclub.com/threads/136177-Pre-ban-high-capacity-pressure-cooker

[unforgiven]

That is fukin hilarious <lmao>  <lmao>  Thanks bro I needed that.I really like the FDE remark. <thumbsup>

[shepp]

I hear ya brother,it was crazy talk as it came out of his mouth.If that were the case plumbers would have to go through a backround check.

I'm no plumber but I carry WW1 chemical warfare in my van. The byproduct of burnt refrigerant is phosgene gas, that poop is nasty eye burn replaces oxygen in your lungs and to much will burn your lungs. Got into alittle today changing a coil in a cooler case poop will F u up!! Then there's the oxy acetylene torch :D

[texas30cal]

Check this out, http://www.brewracingframes.com/id75.htm concerning the dangers of phosgene gas.

[BLKSHEEP]

A good friend of mine works for BASF where they use phosgene gas for making some of their products. One whiff of that "industrial" phosgene and you'll be meeting your maker in a couple minutes! :ugone2far:

[unforgiven]

All that stuff displaces oxygen,Halon will hurt you to.When working with an elevator outfit cutting out springs the trash caught on fire.There was only a couple of feet below car for egress.When I hit it with ABC extinguiser just about choked me out gums started to bleed.

[Rsquared]

Halon will kill you. It displaces oxygen. ABC extinguishers are a "dry chemical" type. That stuff will gag the S H I T out of you in a confined space.

 

Ain't it amazing the amount of trash you find in a elevator pit?

[planeflyer21]

Dude I went to highschool with died working on elevators.

 

Someone distracted him, he thought the elevator went by, stuck his head in to see how far down, and the car decapitated him.

 

Jon

[unforgiven]

That sucks happened to a apprentice downtown.Similar deal, was an opening in the door he stuck his head in to look for the skip and before anyone could say something skip came down and took the kids head off.

[Rsquared]

Most people have no idea how dangerous the jobsite can be. Stuff that guys in the trades do all day.....without a second thought......can be deadly when you take it for granted.

[unforgiven]

Amen to that brother.Before you can say oh s h i t  it's over.I had a bundle of metal studs hit me from 5 floors up.Lucky it was with the flat side and not the end.

[Rsquared]

No S H I T! That was pretty damn lucky Rene. Those are the kinda accidents that happen, that most people never even think of.

 

Who woulda ever thought that you'd be lucky to be hit by a bundle of studs in "just" the right way?

 

Or......your just one BAD-ASS!     .........................or lucky...........or BOTH!

 

My money is on the "both" part.

Edited May 12, 2013 by Rsquared

[unforgiven]

Just lucky brother,It tore my pouches off and bruised my shoulder and back.We were using Johnson bars [long levers w/steel tounge] to position some A/C units.I was prone over the bar to give that little bit it needed,well the bedwetter with the other bar let his go.My bar came up and threw my 10ft. into a pile of cutoff ciderblock.Took me awhile to realize I didn't have my sunglasses on.Had a chipped tooth ,a mouse on my eye,and it punched a hole in my hardhat where my mom had gave me a flag to put on.And people say tradesmen make to much money,their isn't alot left after 30 yrs..The majority don't get more than a handful or two of checks before they punch out.Helping build American has been and will always be my proudest moment.

[Rsquared]

A tip of the hat to you my man. I've been involved in all aspects of the building trades. From the construction side.....to the dealing with the finished product.....to re-fitting older (commercial) buildings. It should make you (us) proud to see what our sweat and determination have built. Even when nobody else even notices.

[unforgiven]

Fuk yea my brother what we have done will stand the test of time,or at least till the next re-model.Majority of my work has been commercial,then industrial.Very little residential.

[Rsquared]

Yeah, me too. Not anything on the residential side. Except for my own s h i t.

[shepp]

Just lucky brother,It tore my pouches off and bruised my shoulder and back.We were using Johnson bars [long levers w/steel tounge] to position some A/C units.I was prone over the bar to give that little bit it needed,well the bedwetter with the other bar let his go.My bar came up and threw my 10ft. into a pile of cutoff ciderblock.Took me awhile to realize I didn't have my sunglasses on.Had a chipped tooth ,a mouse on my eye,and it punched a hole in my hardhat where my mom had gave me a flag to put on.And people say tradesmen make to much money,their isn't alot left after 30 yrs..The majority don't get more than a handful or two of checks before they punch out.Helping build American has been and will always be my proudest moment.

I was lifting a glass door freezer unit (like you'd see in the frozen food isle) with a Johnny bar. I has the bar on the rail of the case when it slipped off then the lip of the bar caught another part of the case launching it back up at my face hitting me in the jaw. I split my chin open (5 stitches) and bit thru my tongue in three places. It launched my hard hat 20' away, never knocked me out I saw a few stars but granted it hit me in the sweet spot I'm lucky it didn't KO me. Those damn bars are dangerous!!

I do all commercial work, did res hvac for two years my senior year of hs and a year after, F that noise!

Edited May 12, 2013 by shepp

[Rsquared]

I do all commercial work, did res hvac for two years my senior year of hs and a year after, F that noise!

 

I hear ya. Screw that residential stuff. You always seem to be jammed into a little tiny closet......or wedged into the smallest space imagined. I much prefer the big commercial stuff. At least in something like a chiller plant, you can stand upright. I'd much rather be working off of a 10 foot ladder to get on top of a centrifugal chiller, than be jamming my ass into a little tiny closet "called" a mechanical room.

[shepp]

I hear you there, I do mainly grocery stores. Not only is res cramped, you gotta work in someone else's shitty mess, home owners are a pain in the ass to deal with and up here house building normally slows here from dec-April and in the past 6-8 years its pretty dead