[TheForge] Shop Communications

[Jerry Frost]

From: <PlumDon at aol.com>


> In a message dated 2/28/2008 6:43:52 PM Eastern 
> Standard Time,
> lp.brown at verizon.net writes:
> In case you do something to almost kill yourself  you 
> might like to have it.
> As I get older I don't bounce as well and things 
> seem to sink in deeper. I
> use a cell phone as they work almost everywhere I  am 
> and I still can't hear
> it, over the welder most of the time ;-)  but  I can 
> call out.
> L Brown
>
>
> Really a good point, Larry. As I roll up to that 
> three score and ten I  have
> to recognize the increasing likelihood of serious 
> injury through  general
> ineptness, decrepitness, stupidness and general 
> brainlessness . I  am usually in
> the shop by myself for hours at a time. No one ever 
> checks. I  could be out
> there bleeding all day and no one would know. I 
> wonder how many  others of us are
> similarly vulnerable and what we are doing about it.
>
> Don Plummer
>
>


My #1 eason was needing a phone while we were building 
the house. It just wasn't practical to go hang out at 
the local quicky mart pay phone if I needed a call 
back.

Since the house was finished enough to have land lines 
we kept the cell for emergencies. Working for DOT road 
maint meant being places the radio wouldn't get out but 
cell would. It also meant that the more dangerous the 
roads were the more imortant I was out there driving on 
them.

Now I keep it in case I fall off something, etc. I've 
already done the , "help I've fallen and my arm's all 
floppy!" bit and it wasn't as much fun as it looks in 
the movies. If I hadn't been able to get up and get 
myself out where the other guys were I probably 
would've laid there an hour or so till noticed.

Except . . . I had my cell and could've called for 
help.

Now, hang up and drive! <grin>

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.