OT Safety Glasses

Caryc

Well-known Member
I was watching an old episode of Mountain Men today. The guy names Jason was working on a small forge and making a set of fir irons like the kind one hangs kettles from over a camp fire.

He's hammering out something on the anvil and a piece of hot metal flew up and hit him just under his eye and burned his eye lid.

So he complains and holds his eye a while and puts some cold water on it. Then he finally goes right back to work hammering on that anvil. Not a very smart guy. In the first place he's not wearing safety glasses and has a piece of hot metal just miss his eye by a fraction of an inch so what does he do? Right, he goes right back to hammering again with no safety glasses.

What a fool. I suppose you guys again will think that I'm too picky about safety glasses. Go ahead and flame away.
 
I certainly wear them. I see dummy?s all the time using a string
trimmer without wearing safety glasses, all it takes is that one
time to lose precious eye sight, I guess you can?t fix stupid.
 
What the world really needs is a kind of
safety glasses to prevent people from
watching such pathetic programming - then
using it to chide others.
No offense of course but your description of
that show makes me glad that we don't own a
TV.
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I wear safety glasses and hearing protection for just about everything. Wife even bought me two trick pair with the earplugs contained on short lanyards that retract into the earpieces.
 
UD,

Thanks for that great cartoon! We unplugged our TV when our kids were born in the 90's. They seemed to grow up normal enough without it - both are engineers.

I wear safety glasses outside on the tractors and when mowing. Annoying at times, but every so often they block something that would hurt.

Doug in east TN
 
You are not too picky. I've seen guy's weed eat, get something in their eye and after they get it out start weed eating again. That is one rule I don't bend on in our shop.
 
My son is a safety manager, always has a number of pair of safety glasses in his truck,

Told me when he is out and about, sees a guy weed eating and not wearing eye protection, he has turned around and at least offered him a pair of safety glasses,

Most take them and at least wear them until he drives away, may pull them off at the next rest break and never wear them again, but that is their call,
My eyes must be magnets for dust as I can get something in my eye even wearing safety glasses,
They can be a pain to wear sometimes when you are sweating, but then so is the pain and irritation of something in your eye,

Ear plugs, I do not wear them mowing, guess I should, my wife has loss some hearing and must wear hearing aids, so I have personal knowledge of how hearing loss can affect your life and those around you,
Be safe out there,
 
(quoted from post at 02:34:28 07/15/18) What the world really needs is a kind of
safety glasses to prevent people from
watching such pathetic programming - then
using it to chide others.
No offense of course but your description of
that show makes me glad that we don't own a
TV.

You don't know how many times I've heard holier than thou people like you preaching how their life is so much better than mine because they are smart enough to not own a TV. Well, goody goody for you.

TV is entertainment. It has nothing to do with my life. It's something I do when I want to relax and watch other people make fools of themselves. Or I can sometimes come here and see the same thing. I'll bet you would have done the same as the fool on TV did. My bet is that you don't wear safety glasses because you are above all that stupid stuff.

Some people with a little intelligence would have watched that program and seen why it was a good idea to wear safety glasses, but not you, oh no, because you are above it all. Get off your high horse, it doesn't become you.
 
[i:654c4848f0]"You don't know how many times I've heard
holier than thou people like you preaching
how their life is so much better than mine
because they are smart enough..."[/i:654c4848f0]

I wonder how many times I've heard similar
types preaching how everyone should do and
be and think like them - about safety issues
or tractors or sway bars or chainsaws or
blacksmithing.

[i:654c4848f0]"TV is entertainment. It has nothing to
do with my life. It's something I do when I
want to relax and watch other people make
fools of themselves."[/i:654c4848f0]

I think that way about debating with people.
It's just entertainment. Especially when
it's with someone who is so cocksure they
are right about everything and they like to
rehash old arguments and tell people what
they should or shouldn't do when it is
really none of their business what others
do.
It's my way of relaxing.

[i:654c4848f0]"I'll bet you would have done the same as
the fool on TV did. My bet is that you don't
wear safety glasses because you are above
all that stupid stuff."[/i:654c4848f0]

I'm not much of a betting man.
Maybe if I put it this way;
Do you have ROPS on your tractors?
What if some guy insisted everyone have ROPS
and use a seatbelt on their tractor?
Would he be wrong?

What if he harangued and called dumb anyone
who doesn't have rops?
What if he didnt want to let the issue rest
and rehashed it from time to time?
Wouldn't you want to tell him to myob?
If I was a betting man I'd lay odds you'd
want tell him you'll use rops or safety
glasses when you think they're needed but
not when HE thinks they're needed.

PS, You darn right I'm glad I don't have a
tv.
I'd rather lose an eye to a weed whip than
be intellectually crippled by too much
television which is what much of America has
become.
 
(quoted from post at 15:45:24 07/15/18) [i:dd5602bb21]"You don't know how many times I've heard
holier than thou people like you preaching
how their life is so much better than mine
because they are smart enough..."[/i:dd5602bb21]

I wonder how many times I've heard similar
types preaching how everyone should do and
be and think like them - about safety issues
or tractors or sway bars or chainsaws or
blacksmithing.

[i:dd5602bb21]"TV is entertainment. It has nothing to
do with my life. It's something I do when I
want to relax and watch other people make
fools of themselves."[/i:dd5602bb21]

I think that way about debating with people.
It's just entertainment. Especially when
it's with someone who is so cocksure they
are right about everything and they like to
rehash old arguments and tell people what
they should or shouldn't do when it is
really none of their business what others
do.
It's my way of relaxing.

[i:dd5602bb21]"I'll bet you would have done the same as
the fool on TV did. My bet is that you don't
wear safety glasses because you are above
all that stupid stuff."[/i:dd5602bb21]

I'm not much of a betting man.
Maybe if I put it this way;
Do you have ROPS on your tractors?
What if some guy insisted everyone have ROPS
and use a seatbelt on their tractor?
Would he be wrong?

What if he harangued and called dumb anyone
who doesn't have rops?
What if he didnt want to let the issue rest
and rehashed it from time to time?
Wouldn't you want to tell him to myob?
If I was a betting man I'd lay odds you'd
want tell him you'll use rops or safety
glasses when you think they're needed but
not when HE thinks they're needed.

PS, You darn right I'm glad I don't have a
tv.
[color=red:dd5602bb21]I'd rather lose an eye to a weed whip than
be intellectually crippled by too much
television which is what much of America has
become.[/color:dd5602bb21]

Wear your safety glasses and you probably wouldn't lose that eye. Just a suggestion. You have a right to lose an eye if you want too. :mrgreen:
 

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