Dumba$$ of the week.

The garage door on my shop was in need of repair because of rotting boards.
I got the bottom panel off and made my repairs but couldn't the the bottom
bracket back on because of the tension of the springs.
Now I've never worked on garage doors and have only hung one in my life.
So I start taking the nut loose on the right side spring, grab the spring tight
and it popped off and the door dropped 6 inches onto my saw horses.
Why I thought this is beyond me so I guess it was just a brain fart,
well the door fell so the tension is off the left side, WRONG-NOT-DUH.
I loosened the left side grabbed the spring and it sprung harder than the right
side, flew back hit my 4' flourencent light the light came loose on one end
came back and hit me, one bulb fell to the floor (and didn't break) and I
got 3 separate cuts, one was pretty deep shouldn't need stitches.
I fixed myself up and got the bottom panel back on but will wait to put the
springs back in place. Talk about bad thinking, I'm thru for the day
before I git kilt.

>I'm thru for the day before I git kilt.

Good move, time to step back for a while and regroup :)

Garage door springs do NOT play nicely.....

We all have had those days !!  I will say that these days, prior to starting a job I am not familiar with, I will do a little Internet research to learn the "look out for this" items. 

Glad you are OK !!

Brian L.

Yes, glad you weren't hurt.  Those things are on my "Danger" list.   

Another is using your arm to roll-up an extension cord - with it plugged in.  I've seen it done many times.  Problem is you can't get away from it when you wrap a nicked cord around your arm - HOT.  Ask me how I know and I'll share it with you!

I think that I am at a safe distance to tell you that I had to laugh at your adventure with the garage door... My wife tells me its a bad habit that I have.  In all seriousness, those big tention springs on the garage doors scare the heck out of me and I treat them with a lot of respect. I'm convinced that they COULD  kill you !  I have this one customer who repeatedly runs into her garage door, which so far, means replacing the second panel from the bottom... I'm getting pretty good at it. 

I'm glad you are OK... really.

Pat

Long ago, friends, and myself, decided to play tarzan in the barn. We climbed up into the hay loft at one end, where a rope hung down to the floor. I grabbed the rope, jumped out and did the tarzan thing.

There was one small flaw in this plan.

It had been probably 3 decades since anyone had used the barn to store hay, and the rope was at least that old. It promptly snapped and I landed flat on by back on the dirt floor. Somehow i managed to not break anything.

The tarzan sounds were, however, very authentic for a few seconds...

> There was one small flaw in this plan.

Oh, did I that one coming!   Same thing happened to a friend of mine.

There was a series of pictures a while back online titled "Why women live longer than men."  I think my favorite was some fellow who had a fork lift that wouldn't get him as high as he needed.  No problem.  He got a bigger fork lift and used it to lift the first higher.  And there he was, on the forks of the first lift with an electric drill, and when your eyes followed the cord on the drill, you saw that it was submerged in the standing water under the second fork lift.