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Join Date: Nov 2009
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i hate fords!
so i work in a ford dealership. i pretty much do everything, mostly parts, mechanic, sales, service, wash cars. pretty much in 18 so i do all the b**ch work haha. its all good though cause i work with some amazing people. anyways we got a 89 f250 gas and a 90 diesel f250 pickups in and we needed to swap all the body parts over from the gas to the diesel so me and another mechanic got it most done so we just needed to swap the beds. so i was washing a pickup and the shop foreman was like chad grab this corner of the bed. so i came over and grabbed it and there was a pinch weld kind of digging into my hand but it wasnt cutting it so we were taking it off and a gas filler hose caught my index finger on my left hand and my finger sliced along the weld. so i yelled STOP PUT IT DOWN and in trying to get my hands out i cut the other seven fingers(not too bad but enough to bleed. so i got 8 bleeding fingers and three guys holding a bed up so i grabbed some rags and wrapped my hands in them and we took the bed off. so i was like wow im bleeding so i went to the sink and washed it off and one of the mechanics brought me some bandages so i sat down and was putting them on and joking with the mechanic about workmans comp. anyways i started feeling light headed and i was like wow its not that bad. so i stand up to get more bandages and as im walking out my vision goes black and im like colter i cant see! so we start over to the couch and next thing i remember is jake and colter looking down on me on the floor and there like dude u just passed out! and i was like ya right....hey im on the ground! so i sat on the couch for a few minutes and felt better so the boss looks at it and was like i want u to go to the hospital. so i went and my index finger on my left hand needed 4 stitches...workmans comp after all! only fords would have something stupid like pinch welds and gas filler necks! but ya it was so wierd to pass out like that. usually when i get a cut or whatever i just laugh and wrap it in a paper towel and electrical tape...or just leave it. so now i cant hardly do anything and it really sucks!
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Re: i hate fords!
consider that your initiation into the world of wrenching.
wanna have some fun? take a 95 E150 with the 4.9 and unplug the injectors so you can do a pressure drop, without removing the upper plenum!!! then take a GM minivan and do the rear plugs. finish off the morning by doing a timing belt on a PT cruiser. your hands will look like you stuck them in a garbage disposal.
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Re: i hate fords!
Maybe this is the wake up call you need to start using gloves where they're warranted.There's no sense in tearing up your hands when it can be avoided.I have woirked with lots of people who laugh because I use my gloves religiously.I just laugh back when their hands are too cut up to work efficiently.
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Re: i hate fords!
Wear gloves or suffer cuts and blisters. Pretty cut and dry.
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Re: i hate fords!
thats it? a cut finger jeesh hehehe
lifted a bed and my buddys got cockeyed and crushed me between the wall and bed.. thus smashing "my boys" with an 8ft bed.. that sucked... got ball punched by a truck bed.. that sucked.
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Re: i hate fords!
i hated the chemicals ,the old days when parts wash wasn't green water ,more like acid .to the point were your skin itched like crazy and would get that one Calais in the middle of your palm and finger tips
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Re: i hate fords!
no what sucks is when you clean the wheel bearing and dry them off with compress air and spin them about 100,000 rpms and the bearing cage gives out and one bearing take a nad shot .
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Re: i hate fords!
ohh man.. mine was the knuckle i remember it well.. got me right on the bony part hahaa..
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Both of you are damn lucky it didn't take your eye out like I witnessed years ago. After that I've fired three guys on the spot for doing it, It was for their own safety and others around them......
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Re: i hate fords!
I can't work with gloves on,but I can lift and carry all day long with them.
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Re: i hate fords!
I agree. The only time I use gloves is if I'm working with poop or some extremely harsh chemicals. I learned at an early age to make my hands callused. I hate wearing gloves, even the medical type of gloves, I cant feel anything, Im sort of old school, I do a lot by touch, not by what the manual says if you know what I mean. I have been wrenching my entire life. I have never sliced anything open(other people have sliced me open though), maybe I'm just lucky. Any type of work I do, razor blades, sheet metal, nails, screws, etc. I've tried to wear gloves, it's close to impossible for me to do.
There's my $.02
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