Your suppositions and assumptions about the hazards of carrying a scrench simply aren't equal in weight to the combined hundreds or maybe even thousands of years of lived experience represented by the people on this forum.
You'll understand when we don't take your whining seriously.
Yeah. Sure. Carrying screwdriver-like tools that can impale you while running chainsaws is enormously less hazardous than carrying them while building houses, working on heavy equipment, doing metal fabrication and such. Virtually never happens, right? Glad to hear it. Because I've seen people in all of those trades get stuck with tools. Exactly what is it about chainsaws that confers immunity from punctures from tools? I never claimed that ERs are overflowing with victims of scrench wounds. Just that carrying them unprotected seems like a bad idea to me. But lots of folks here seem very offended by that idea and keep deflecting to arguments that don't actually prove that it's a good idea.
I expected a more sensible answer from somebody who evidently likes practical stuff like old MB diesels and Toyotas. I do too. And I'm not unreasonably afraid of screnches. I just think carrying them on a string or in a pocket without some kind of sheath is a bad idea, because I've seen people get unnecessarily hurt by similar things. People slip and fall down.Tough guys can scream really loud with a chunk of metal through their hand. But some folks here seem antagonized by that idea. I really don't get it.
Not suppositions and assumptions. Real-life experience, and ability to learn from seeing other people bleed. Nope, I've never seen someone impaled by a scrench. But when you see a mechanic with a chunk of metal in his bleeding eye because he thought safety glasses were for sissies when he was only hitting a punch with a hammer, or a carpenter with a nail through his foot because he disabled the safety on his nailgun because it slowed him down, and just momentarily lost his balance, Or another mechanic looking down in disbelief for the fingers that were in the kitty litter on the floor, you learn to extrapolate, and think hard about how a tool can likely hurt you.
That last mechanic always said that all that safety crap was for sissies and fools, and all you have to do was pay attention. But one day while working on a running Chevy with a flex fan and no fan shroud, he apparently got distracted or slipped. I saw all of those.
Pretending that something is safe just because you've gotten away with it so far or nobody has yet seen it hurt you isn't a great idea. Any reasonable person knows that carrying a screwdriver on a string or in your pocket while doing strenuous work on uncertain footing isn't a good idea. But folks here keep vociferously defending the equivalent for some reason.
Oh yeah. We picked up Jay's fingers just before the shop dog got to them. Brenda put them in a carton of cold milk and the ER doc sewed them back on. A few years later, he had some feeling and could bend them about halfway. Good thing it was his left hand. But he worked a lot slower and didn't make as much money.
So maybe I have a little different viewpoint about tool safety. And maybe I'm not wrong, or a sissy, or an idiot.
