My third year burning and I still haven't learned.

I still break my "dont load the stove with out the welding gloves on" rule once in a while but for the most part I stick to it.

:lol: I love these threads.

Same here - about three good sizzles on my right top forearm - same exact spot from touching the top edge of the stove opening. I have the same rule to always put on the long fire gloves, but.........seems that every time I don't follow the rule I get burned! I'm getting better though! Cheers!

oldspark said:

I still break my "dont load the stove with out the welding gloves on" rule once in a while but for the most part I stick to it.

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A "rule" I also try to follow . . . chicks may dig scars, but my wife says my burn marks simply make me look like an idiot who forgot to put on his gloves.

buy the welding gloves with the extended 18" arm length. They've saved me a few times already this year. They cover up to almost my elbow. My old gloves covered just past my wrists and I would get burns on my forearms all the time. These fix that problem.

http://www.amazon.com/US-Forge-403-18-Inch-Welding/sim/B00164QVI4/2

...and don't forget your hockey helmets with the full face guard. :lol:

kenny chaos said:

...and don't forget your hockey helmets with the full face guard. :lol:

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Dont forget the cup, nothing worse than burnt nuts.

kenny chaos said:

...and don't forget your hockey helmets with the full face guard. :lol:

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Don't laugh. Earlier this year I bought a thermocouple probe for my IR thermometer to check the outer temps against the inner ones. When the temp hit 1295º (limit on the probe) I pulled it out of the pipe. Obviously, at that temp it was glowing bright cherry red. At the same time, I began to smell a weird burnt plastic smell. I decided to sniff the probe to see if that was the source. Got a little too close.... ZAP! It didn't just sizzle, it actually popped so loud it startled me.

I walked around with a dark brown line on the tip of my nose for about a week. :red:

oldspark said:

kenny chaos said:

...and don't forget your hockey helmets with the full face guard. :lol:

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Dont forget the cup, nothing worse than burnt nuts.

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Ha, ha! Almost done that a few times as well. One of the downsides of top-loaders is the need to stand back a bit and bend at the waist when working from above. Forget to do that once and you'll never do it again, I can assure you. ;-)

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Battenkiller said:

kenny chaos said:

...and don't forget your hockey helmets with the full face guard. :lol:

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Don't laugh. Earlier this year I bought a thermocouple probe for my IR thermometer to check the outer temps against the inner ones. When the temp hit 1295º (limit on the probe) I pulled it out of the pipe. Obviously, at that temp it was glowing bright cherry red. At the same time, I began to smell a weird burnt plastic smell. I decided to sniff the probe to see if that was the source. Got a little too close.... ZAP! It didn't just sizzle, it actually popped so loud it startled me.

I walked around with a dark brown line on the tip of my nose for about a week. :red:

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:lol: :lol: :lol: STOP IT! Don't stop it! You're killing me. :lol: :lol:

kenny chaos said:

:lol: :lol: :lol: STOP IT! Don't stop it! You're killing me. :lol: :lol:

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When your face turns red and there's no one else around, you know you really blew it. :roll: ;-)

Battenkiller said:

I walked around with a dark brown line on the tip of my nose for about a week. :red:

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Years ago, I was working on a pipeline slash job and given the task to tend the large fires. The boss told me to cut off the logs that were sticking out and toss them into the fire. What did I know, I was a feller. Anyway... I was doing as I was told... facing toward the fire cutting off a log when the exhaust of my chainsaw blew a bit of hot coal/ash up which landed on the tip of my nose. I instictively brushed it off with the backside of the mitt of my left hand. Little did I realize that the back of the chainsaw safety mitt being thick with several layers of kevlar was actually hotter than what I was seeing cross-eyed on the tip of my nose. Anyway... the skin on the end of my nose stuck to the back of the mitt. DOH!

Anyway... back to regularly scheduled programming... while I own a nice pair of three-finger Winter welding gloves, the wife thinks they don't fit the decor and always hides them on me, so I invariably load the stove bare handed. That reminds me... I need to find those gloves.

There are always a pair of gloves right by the firebox door of our stove. They also get used every time we open the door....unless the stove is cold. However, that does not mean we don't sometimes get burned, it just means we rarely get burned now. I've gotten my one time already this year.

I don't use the removeable handle on my stove so I always have my welder gloves on to open it.....I won't even grab a piece of firewood in the house without the gloves on so it keeps me from doing something that I'll regret later.....at least stove related :shut:

I have a grand total of 0 burns and this is my first year with the stove. My wife however has several scars and fresh burns. She even burned three of her toes when she went to move the ash pan with them. I swear the police are going to show up some day since it looks like she is being abused from all the marks on her hands/arms.

For my "special" friends; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjjPab3gwQc

wrong thread

I've nailed myself pretty good on the Timber Ridge (NC-13) 3 times so far this year. Wasn't wearing gloves. The Dixette has 2 pair I bought her. Was I wearing them? No. Not even after telling her to wear them every time. She didn't listen either, having gotten nailed twice so far.

Gloves for both stoves are right on the hearth, now. Gotta pick them up before touching anything.

I've got new skin forming, I'm happy >:-(

I was loading more wood into a very hot top-loader, holding the lid up with a tool rather than raising it enough that it stood on its own.

You know what happened, but I'll tell it anyway. Tool slipped off the lid handle and the lid dropped on my bare forearm. I still have a scar there on the arm and this was 15 years ago.

By the way, it hurt.

I really must be doing something wrong. :lol: :lol: :lol:

I use a high intensity probe light that has a flexible stem about 12 inches long. Just for fun, and to confirm my level of genius, I stuck the light into my nose and turned it on. Thinking it would simply illuminate the nostril and get a laugh. Thing I forgot was that the small bulb on this light gets extremly hot, almost instantly. My eyes watered plenty.

Good thread and some excellent advice for avoiding injuries. So far, I have only one burn & blister this year. Guess I'm learning.

This year, I forgot to put on the gloves when I attempted to cut the air intake. The lever was very much over room temperature!

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I use a high intensity probe light that has a flexible stem about 12 inches long. Just for fun, and to confirm my level of genius, I stuck the light into my nose and turned it on. Thinking it would simply illuminate the nostril and get a laugh. Thing I forgot was that the small bulb on this light gets extremly hot, almost instantly. My eyes watered plenty.

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I needed to clean my screen any ways