[TheForge] Tim Ryan

[Bob Ehrenberger]

Dann,

The first time I lit my home made gas forge I was really shaken, but then 
when it lit and ran like a champ I felt better about the design.

When in highschool I used to work for farmers during the summer.  If the guy 
needing help was missing body parts I wouldn't take the job.  Most of the 
time they got hurt trying to clear a jam without shutting off the equipment, 
not a chance I was willing to take.

My father was a machinest for 40 years, never got hurt on the job.  He spent 
most of his time in the model shop so he used a variety of equipment making 
prototypes from blue prints, it kept his mind engaged, no autopilot.

Robert Ehrenberger
Shelbyville, Mo.
eforge at centurytel.net

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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