▲ 649 ▼ I had a neighbour friend who was not a mortician but embalmed his own wife. (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world 312 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago (2 children) I've never worked with a lathe, but PTOs on the farm were terrifying. I was taught to be afraid, and I was. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Basically the same ideas for safety, but those PTOs tend to have way more horsepower behind them. I don't care how cold you might be, loose clothing is bad. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago My cousin got his arm ripped off by a tractor PTO when he was a kid. Some quick thinking by his dad got him a tourniquet and his detached arm on ice in a cooler, drove him to the hospital and they were able to reattach it. He doesn't quite have full function with it but you'd never know. This would have been around 1990 so pretty impressive medically. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) PTO? Is that the spinny thing on the back of the tractor I would attach the mower/seed spreader to? If so, thinking back we never had much concern with it. Now I'm rethinking the wisdom of the adults in letting us preteens use it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago Yep. Preteen seems a bit young without supervision. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Basically the same ideas for safety, but those PTOs tend to have way more horsepower behind them. I don't care how cold you might be, loose clothing is bad. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago My cousin got his arm ripped off by a tractor PTO when he was a kid. Some quick thinking by his dad got him a tourniquet and his detached arm on ice in a cooler, drove him to the hospital and they were able to reattach it. He doesn't quite have full function with it but you'd never know. This would have been around 1990 so pretty impressive medically. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago My cousin got his arm ripped off by a tractor PTO when he was a kid. Some quick thinking by his dad got him a tourniquet and his detached arm on ice in a cooler, drove him to the hospital and they were able to reattach it. He doesn't quite have full function with it but you'd never know. This would have been around 1990 so pretty impressive medically. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) PTO? Is that the spinny thing on the back of the tractor I would attach the mower/seed spreader to? If so, thinking back we never had much concern with it. Now I'm rethinking the wisdom of the adults in letting us preteens use it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago Yep. Preteen seems a bit young without supervision. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 1 point 2 years ago Yep. Preteen seems a bit young without supervision. permalink fedilink source parent
