I royally messed up guys.
I've been excited with the warmer weather and spring poking its head around the corner. Been busing getting both of my ponds ready for the new season. Using sump pump to take grime out of the bottom, "weeding" extra plants, moving rocks, fixing some rat damage to the liner, cleaning out bog filters, cleaning pumps, and working on aesthetics around the pond. Unfortunately, that has now all come to a grinding halt for at least 2 weeks or so.
One of the small projects that I was working on was to creating a stacked flagstone standalone bubble water feature for the front yard pond to switch it up a bit. Well I was using my drill with diamond rock core bit to drill the pipe holes and a messed up big time. I improperly vised down the sample and the drill jammed up in the rock and grabbed onto it, transferring all rpm's into the rock itself and breaking it out of my poorly placed vise. The flagstone while rotating at who knows what speed got away from me when it broke loose and impacted my right leg. Quickly followed by my left leg/shin. End result is not as bad as it could have been, thankfully no broken bones, that I know of. But, my right leg as a cut across the front and swelled up something fierce. My left shin was not as lucky and had a nickel sized gash put into it all the way down to the bone.
I was able to doctor it up that evening and the following day went to a clinic to get a tetanus shot and have them clean it up and put a steri-strip on it to help it heal. But I was in crutches for 2 days to keep pressure of and am pretty much bed ridden when I get home from work to allow swelling to go down and let the wound air and heal.
Sooooooo all my projects are on hold for a bit. And I just got 500 lbs of river stone to go in the bottom of my pond. Everything has to wait now. I definitely cant be getting in the water with the open wound so that limits me on all work on my large backyard pond. Hopefully this time next week I am up and about. I just feel stupid for not properly vising down the stone.
LIVE AND LEARN.....
I've been excited with the warmer weather and spring poking its head around the corner. Been busing getting both of my ponds ready for the new season. Using sump pump to take grime out of the bottom, "weeding" extra plants, moving rocks, fixing some rat damage to the liner, cleaning out bog filters, cleaning pumps, and working on aesthetics around the pond. Unfortunately, that has now all come to a grinding halt for at least 2 weeks or so.
One of the small projects that I was working on was to creating a stacked flagstone standalone bubble water feature for the front yard pond to switch it up a bit. Well I was using my drill with diamond rock core bit to drill the pipe holes and a messed up big time. I improperly vised down the sample and the drill jammed up in the rock and grabbed onto it, transferring all rpm's into the rock itself and breaking it out of my poorly placed vise. The flagstone while rotating at who knows what speed got away from me when it broke loose and impacted my right leg. Quickly followed by my left leg/shin. End result is not as bad as it could have been, thankfully no broken bones, that I know of. But, my right leg as a cut across the front and swelled up something fierce. My left shin was not as lucky and had a nickel sized gash put into it all the way down to the bone.
I was able to doctor it up that evening and the following day went to a clinic to get a tetanus shot and have them clean it up and put a steri-strip on it to help it heal. But I was in crutches for 2 days to keep pressure of and am pretty much bed ridden when I get home from work to allow swelling to go down and let the wound air and heal.
Sooooooo all my projects are on hold for a bit. And I just got 500 lbs of river stone to go in the bottom of my pond. Everything has to wait now. I definitely cant be getting in the water with the open wound so that limits me on all work on my large backyard pond. Hopefully this time next week I am up and about. I just feel stupid for not properly vising down the stone.
LIVE AND LEARN.....
