[TheForge] Tim Ryan

[dann at wctatel.net]

Bob,

I simply hurt for Tim Ryan.

Lighting any kind of fireworks is a hazard.  Even the trained fire
department guys that handle the 4th of July Fire Works events,  sometimes
have things go wild.

None of us are ever completely safe. Even simple things like lighting a
gas forge, or a gas BBQ grill this weekend, can injure us.

A life time ago, I managed a USDA county office. Most any given day, one
out of every 4 farmers that came in, was missing a  finger or worse. Some
were missing whole hands.  After a couple of years of noticing that.  I
was sharing my observed wisdom with  my father-in-law ... who had  worked
20 plus years in a machine shop in St Paul, Mn.   He told me at the time,
that nearly 100 % of the guys that had worked in his shop more than 10
years was missing "at least" one  finger.

Working long hours, working fatigued  with power equipment has its own
hazards.   I think that many  of us know first hand how something, can
quickly ... go horribly wrong.

For those of us that don't know, but continue to work with tools, that
wisdom may snap us like a mouse in a trap.

Dann

> I'm surprised that I didn't get a single comment to the post I put up
> about
> Tim Ryan getting injured.  I know that he is well known aroung the
> blacksmithing community, and most of you have an opinion about anvil
> shooting.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
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