Top tip

[Richard 003]

When cutting sandstone with a 9" angle grinder and a breaker, do not allow the grinder to skip, grab your building glove and drag the back of your hand into the rotating disc, slicing it open and severing tendons. Unless you want to be off work in a cast for 8 weeks or more, unable to renovate your house, ride a bike, drive a car or get the tops off Marmite pots.

Regards
Richard

[themoudie]

Argh!   

I sincerely hope the soft tissue heals Richard, I've always been told to "break it" rather than "slice or tear it". Chainsaws, wire ropes and weeding hooks! Don't ask! Things happen very much at their own pace and forcing the pace can slow the knitting process. Take care.

P.S. Put the Marmite pot in the draw, lean on the draw and use the good hand to twist the lid!

My regards, Bill.

[guest18]

Ooooh nasty 
Sorry to hear that mate, look after it and good luck with the healing process.

[Andy M]

Ouch! The description was enough for me. Can't stand Marmite!

Hope you are feeling better.

Andy

[Steve Lake]

No marmite for 8 weeks!! now thats a real bummer.....I'm sure club members can rally round and send you some marmite on toast through the post.

hope you make a speedy and full recovery

[Richard]

Look on the sunny side, no Marmite for weeks !

Sorry to hear of your mishaps, cheered to hear its not only me that manages stuff like that though.  If we didn't try to do anything very little would happen.

Richard

[guest27]

Falls into the don't ask me how I know I just do...  Trust it heals quickly and well.

Marmite - you can get it in those little foil pots that you can rip open one handed with your teeth - very Rambo.

Mind through the post sounds like a good idea - do you stamp the marmite or the dry side?

R

[Richard 003]

If we didn't try to do anything very little would happen.

Richard

My attitude exactly. What else could I do when someone popped up on Freecycle offering a "large quantity of mediaeval stone", that I couldn't lift? 

Thanks everyone for your good wishes. The worst was probably the two weeks on the antibiotic Metronidazole - they give this to recovering alcoholics, because it makes you throw up if you drink alcohol. However, I've finished that and am now enjoying a slightly surreal pain relief regime of red wine and Tramadol.

Hugely frustrating to have all this time at home and not be able to get on with anything 

Regards
Richard

[Richard]

"mediaeval stone"

S'funny, I thought stone would be much older.  Millions of years even.

Wheres that jacket, sure I left it by the door.

Richard

[guest27]

Remember seeing a stone carving for sale once - claiming to have been carbon dated to 15th C.  I did quiz the guy on how the limestone was so young and should it not turn up as millions of years not a few hundred, at which point he first became vague and then abusive, when I questioned the validity of his other ages on the stuff he was selling.

Mmmmmmm

R

[Richard 003]

"mediaeval stone"

S'funny, I thought stone would be much older.  Millions of years even.

Wheres that jacket, sure I left it by the door.

Richard

It's a fair point  Possibly the gentleman meant that it was cut and dressed for a mediaeval church window, which is what it was, before being re-erected in a garden as a Victorian folly, then partly falling down and finally being knocked over to make way for a garage. There was no prospect of identifying what went where, to re-erect it, and it had lost most of its detail, so I was concentrating on breaking it into two-man-liftable lumps, with enough nice faces to make a decent garden wall - though her indoors is keen for me to build some kind of folly of our own. Not that I'm in any position to build anything, for a while, of course... 

Regards
Richard

[andy230]

fuck.   not good.  what to say but get well soon mate

best,
a

[Steve Lake]

- though her indoors is keen for me to build some kind of folly of our own. Not that I'm in any position to build anything, for a while, of course... 

You could always build a hospital.....might come in handy









I'll get my trowel......

[guest7]

Electric 9" angle grinders are the one tool in my arsenal (this is national mixametaphor day isn't it?) that I dislike using. I'm told that petrol grinders are much nicer to use and more forgiving (slow start up etc.), but mixing any soft bit of you with the hard rotating bits of a grinder is always going to be nasty.

I hope the recovery goes well Richard. Sounds like a very horrid injury. Is Mrs Gerald the Hamster supplying lots of tea, hugs and sympathy?

GC

[Richard 003]

Electric 9" angle grinders are the one tool in my a***nal (this is national mixametaphor day isn't it?) that I dislike using. I'm told that petrol grinders are much nicer to use and more forgiving (slow start up etc.), but mixing any soft bit of you with the hard rotating bits of a grinder is always going to be nasty.

I hope the recovery goes well Richard. Sounds like a very horrid injury. Is Mrs Gerald the Hamster supplying lots of tea, hugs and sympathy?

GC

She is, she's a star