Fires

[KYBOY]

No real fire issues but my body looks like a road map from welding and torch burns. I was up on a jenie lift once welding a 12" water pipe. A Miller 250 bobcat with 100' leads I made just for this job. I was welding a release valve on top of the pipe. Had the root weld finished and was starting the cap weld. I couldent get behind the valve so I had my 7018 bent at a 90% angle to weld the backside. Well I was leaned up and across the pipe when the genie lift shifted with me. The bent 7018 went around the valve and the crook went down inside my helmit I head a sizzle, smelled burnt hide and fell back in the lift. I was dazed for a bit when my prep man said "Dude, your heads burnt bad " The rod(fresh off the weld) had sizzled a line starting just above one eyebrow, across my hairline, ending back on my scalp...Dang that hurt

[ThomasPowers]

I know a smith who burned down his shop. He was trying to oil quench a blade in a plastic bucket with too little oil for the job so he had it tilted and the oil caught on fire and melted through the bucket and ran over the floor and burnt the place up.

He had just finished restoring a blacker triphammer too that was ruined in the fire.

I take this as a cautionary tale myself!

[rjbrash]

Well, when I was 7, a friend and I torched about 3 acres of grassland in a suburb north of Pittsburgh Pa. This was back about 45 years ago. Due to trauma, I don't remember very much. Or is that selective amnesia?

Bob Brashear

[hammerkid]

When my shop wasno done while i was workin in the front yard i caught the grass on fire quite often . I caught a rag on fire in my shop the other day when i was using the hot cut the the metal landed on the rag . Here about a month ago I was liting the forge and was putting coal on the burning paper and it was just smoking then it caught up super fast and burned a eye borrow , and one side od my hair on my head (which had just got cut and had jel in it ).