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Title: CABLE DANGER
Post by: saysflushable on January 15, 2010, 06:56:38 AM
     OH boy I was happy to get a new 125' cable for the old sewer machine yesturday.     I also got a new 3 foot leader.    Here is where the trouble started.   It was rapped in a loop and wired together.    I started cutting the wire I thought I was being careful and WAMMM that thing sprung open and cracked me on the forehead so hard I almost cried, almost.      I had and still have a knot on my fore head that is huge.        So be careful with the cable. 
Title: Re: CABLE DANGER
Post by: DUNBAR PLUMBING on January 16, 2010, 12:17:40 AM
I tell you how I always unroll cables; flat on the ground and get ready to jump/pull away on the last cut of the wire ties. They tight loop those for shipping and they are usually under a great deal of tension.

That had to suck though.
Title: Re: CABLE DANGER
Post by: saysflushable on January 17, 2010, 03:52:30 PM
     My eye has turned black and blue.       and I still have a huge not on my head.    Small children run in fright at the site of me.
Title: Re: CABLE DANGER
Post by: DUNBAR PLUMBING on January 18, 2010, 08:40:09 PM
Damn Mike!  :wtf: That's not good at all. Are you still working through it....because I'd be freaking out if you showed up at my house...!   
Title: Re: CABLE DANGER
Post by: saysflushable on January 19, 2010, 07:30:10 PM
    Oh yea I was back at work the day it happened.    I still look aweful.      Both eyes are black and blue.     and the knot on my forehead looks like a huge bug laid it's larvea in there.         I think I looked worse when I had poisen ivy,           I'm not the best looking chap in the best of conditions, but now :o
Title: Re: CABLE DANGER
Post by: DUNBAR PLUMBING on January 19, 2010, 09:27:16 PM
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Those customers have got to be freaking out!  My sister and I was jumping from picnic table to picnic table...she missed a step.

It was horrible.  She had black eyes for 3 weeks almost.