Dude's Home Improvement tip #317

[Dude]

When building walls in your basement, be sure to use tools such as levels and chalk lines to lay out walls. Further, do not use your hand to hold up a 12-foot wall section, especially if a) there is only 1/2" between the top of the wall and the steel support beam; and b) if you want to avoid having the entire section collapse and wedge your finger in between the beam and the board, resulting in a nasty gash at the tip of your finger (with visible bone), excessive blood loss, a trip to the ER, 7 stitches in said finger, and a vicodin high that lasts two days.

Next week we'll cover tips on proper use of compound miter saws. :up:

[JJamezz]

and b) if you want to avoid having the entire section collapse and wedge your finger in between the beam and the board, resulting in a nasty gash at the tip of your finger (with visible bone), excessive blood loss, a trip to the ER, 7 stitches in said finger, and a vicodin high that lasts two days.

Good thing you had that ShamWow! :phew:

[hydro]

Did I miss tips #1-#316? :headscrat

[clumping platelets]

Can't wait for next week's tip! :nod:

[Dude]

Did I miss tips #1-#316? :headscratYes.

[northernbillfan]

I just downloaded a cool ap for my I-Pod touch. It's a level with a plumb bob.

[hydro]

Yes.

damnit! :mad:

[Dr. Lecter]

What kind of moronic idiot would not know this?

[MikeInRoch]

I have an auto repair tip from this weekend. When using a wrench to loosen a nut to pull your car battery, don't drop the wrench such that it bounces and gets stuck in an inaccessible place under the battery - especially if you have not completed loosening the nut that you need to pull the battery.

[shelby]

:crap:

[Dude]

There is a positive in all this - my copay on 15 Vicodin is only $2.33. :up:

[Mr. Miyagi]

There is a positive in all this - my copay on 15 Vicodin is only $2.33. :up:
I'll pay you $5 for it.

[Mr. Miyagi]

I have an auto repair tip from this weekend. When using a wrench to loosen a nut to pull your car battery, don't drop the wrench such that it bounces and gets stuck in an inaccessible place under the battery - especially if you have not completed loosening the nut that you need to pull the battery.
You should have multiple tools anyway.

[chernobylwraiths]

You should always have help for these big jobs. Like someone to hold the wall and if any of this happens, it happens to THEM.

[The last buffalo fan]

:bow:

[RockStar36]

http://husbandsanddads.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/tim-toolman-taylor.jpg

[MikeInRoch]

You should have multiple tools anyway.

I have multiple wrenches for each English measurement size. I only had one that was 10 mm, which was what I needed.

[Mr. Miyagi]

I have multiple wrenches for each English measurement size. I only had one that was 10 mm, which was what I needed.
So you ended up using an adjustable wrench?

[MikeInRoch]

Yes. Had to find it, tho. Too much crap on my work bench.

[Dude]

You should always have help for these big jobs. Like someone to hold the wall and if any of this happens, it happens to THEM.It's not all bad - I get out of doing dishes for the next week.

[chernobylwraiths]

It's not all bad - I get out of doing dishes for the next week.

are you gonna be able to bowl with that hand?

[Mr. Miyagi]

It's not all bad - I get out of doing dishes for the next week.
How are you going to wipe your ass?

[Dude]

are you gonna be able to bowl with that hand?I'm right-handed and I hurt my left hand, so yes, I can still suck at bowling. No worries.

MM, I doubt I could get my wife's assistance in that department so I was thinking I could get one of those ass-wipers that really excessively fat people use. Even though my right hand is fine, it would still be cool to have one. I could get it out at parties. :up:

[jamze132]

Here's another home improvement tip...sort of. Don't let your wife go to the pet store and get two hamsters of the opposite sex for your kids. Before you know it, you will have 18 hamsters, 3 cages, a crap load of bedding material, food, hamster wheels, a pissed off dog, and a nagging wife that wants YOU to clean out the cages.

If you follow these simple instructions, your home life will be much improved, otherwise, you are in a world of ****. Seriously, they crap everywhere.

[chernobylwraiths]

Here's another home improvement tip...sort of. Don't let your wife go to the pet store and get two hamsters of the opposite sex for your kids. Before you know it, you will have 18 hamsters, 3 cages, a crap load of bedding material, food, hamster wheels, a pissed off dog, and a nagging wife that wants YOU to clean out the cages.

If you follow these simple instructions, your home life will be much improved, otherwise, you are in a world of ****. Seriously, they crap everywhere.

Sure, let her get two male hampsters so that you kids will see either wild kingdom in action (one eating the other) or a little alternative sex education!

:ill: I hate rodents and will never let my kids get them in my house.

[Dude]

Here's another home improvement tip...sort of. Don't let your wife go to the pet store and get two hamsters of the opposite sex for your kids. Before you know it, you will have 18 hamsters, 3 cages, a crap load of bedding material, food, hamster wheels, a pissed off dog, and a nagging wife that wants YOU to clean out the cages.

If you follow these simple instructions, your home life will be much improved, otherwise, you are in a world of ****. Seriously, they crap everywhere. Hmmmm .....

use of power tools
blood/limb loss
cursing :check:
nagging wife :check:

50% home improvement

[mybills]

resulting in a nasty gash at the tip of your finger (with visible bone), excessive blood loss, a trip to the ER, 7 stitches in said finger, and a vicodin high that lasts two days.
Hubby cut the tip of his on a table saw..it was so hacked up they couldn't stitch it. I heard the blood curdling scream from the basement..before he went into shock. :ill:

[hydro]

Hubby cut the tip of his on a table saw..it was so hacked up they couldn't stitch it. I heard the blood curdling scream from the basement..before he went into shock. :ill:

Too bad he wasn't using this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHrmvQKevfI

[chernobylwraiths]

Hubby cut the tip of his on a table saw..it was so hacked up they couldn't stitch it. I heard the blood curdling scream from the basement..before he went into shock. :ill:

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[Dude]

Was that Thurm?

[Dude]

Too bad he wasn't using this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHrmvQKevfI :shocked: holy ****!

[mybills]

Too bad he wasn't using this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHrmvQKevfI
I saw that on tv..my son watches that show all the time. Unfortunately, it was invented after it happened. :ill:

[mybills]

video
That's a girly blood curdling scream.
Hubby's was a horrific blood curdling scream. His finger was all chopped up. :puke:

[jamze132]

Hmmmm .....

use of power tools
blood/limb loss
cursing :check:
nagging wife :check:

50% home improvement
Sometimes when I look at the petting zoo we now have, I want to take a dremmel tool to my fingers so I have an excuse not to clean the cages. I feel like that Jack Hannah ***.

[Dude]

She'd just make you put a baggy on it.

[Mr. Pink]

I have an auto repair tip from this weekend. When using a wrench to loosen a nut to pull your car battery, don't drop the wrench such that it bounces and gets stuck in an inaccessible place under the battery - especially if you have not completed loosening the nut that you need to pull the battery.


Better tip...

Do not allow said wrench to slip and end up touching both the positive and negative terminals while still in your hand. I am not sure of the exact results outside of a gouge in the terminal but if you ask Mski he'll be able to fill you in on the exact details of the experience!

:rofl:

[Mski]

Better tip...

Do not allow said wrench to slip and end up touching both the positive and negative terminals while still in your hand. I am not sure of the exact results outside of a gouge in the terminal but if you ask Mski he'll be able to fill you in on the exact details of the experience!

:rofl:

that did not feel the greatest :ill:

[schubbard]

You should have multiple tools anyway.
only if you're a Klingon...