Got a generac portable generator? Got all your fingers?

[WhatExit?]

Generac recalls portable generators after 24 people got fingers cut off​

Generac recalls portable generators after 24 people got their fingers cut off

Generac has recalled over 300,000 units of their power generators sold in the U.S. after receiving 24 reports of people getting their fingers cut off and five reports of "finger crushing."

www.masslive.com

 

[Jed-O]

Generac recalls portable generators after 24 people got fingers cut off​

Generac recalls portable generators after 24 people got their fingers cut off

Generac has recalled over 300,000 units of their power generators sold in the U.S. after receiving 24 reports of people getting their fingers cut off and five reports of "finger crushing."

www.masslive.com

Glad I went cheap and sprung for the Pedator 6500

 

[monkeyswrench]

Yes...and no, no I do not.
Totally unrelated though!


I assume this is from people having their hands in the pinch point, and someone else lifting the handles. If you grabbed the handle and did it to yourself, it would be like sticking your finge in a bolt cutter

 

[Yoshiro]

I've got one of those, from Costco. I remember almost hurting myself with the way that handle moves.

 

[Ultra...Good]

Screw Generac, I give them the finger.

D'OH !!!!!!!!!

 

[shunter2005]

That's the exact reason I had my Generac installed and will have them do the service on it. Years ago, I lost my thumb to a garage door spring. Had it re-attached, but I learned a valuable lesson.

 

[RIVERBORN]

I hate loading stuff with swinging parts that are heavy. It’s always a finger getter.

 

[RIVERBORN]

That's the exact reason I had my Generac installed and will have them do the service on it. Years ago, I lost my thumb to a garage door spring. Had it re-attached, but I learned a valuable lesson.

 

[shunter2005]

^^^ I see what you did there!!!

 

[monkeyswrench]

I hate loading stuff with swinging parts that are heavy. It’s always a finger getter.

Folding engine hoist...about 40 ways they bite

 

[Ultra...Good]

Folding engine hoist...about 40 ways they bite

Worked with a guy, years back. He was missing about half of his left index. I would always address him (in the voice of Sylvester talking to Tweety) well well well, my four fingered friend. We got it, nobody else did. One day he showed me how his gloves, or left glove did not get dirty where there was no finger. So after that, anytime he took his gloves off and left them around me, I would cut that part off. Hell, he did not need it. I would draw faces on the piece, put them on the dash of his truck, pretty much anywhere and it was always good for a laugh.

Those are the things I miss being an employee. Anytime I screw around like that now, it is money out of my pocket. And the people I work with too.

 

[monkeyswrench]

Worked with a guy, years back. He was missing about half of his left index. I would always address him (in the voice of Sylvester talking to Tweety) well well well, my four fingered friend. We got it, nobody else did. One day he showed me how his gloves, or left glove did not get dirty where there was no finger. So after that, anytime he took his gloves off and left them around me, I would cut that part off. Hell, he did not need it. I would draw faces on the piece, put them on the dash of his truck, pretty much anywhere and it was always good for a laugh.

Those are the things I miss being an employee. Anytime I screw around like that now, it is money out of my pocket. And the people I work with too.

Roofers tend to be thieving bastards, mostly lunches, knives and...gloves. Leather gloves aren't cheap when you're paying for them. After I lost my ring finger, I'd fill the finger on the glove with caulking.
Also a blast to screw with the new guy...coil gun that finger to the deck and ask to borrow their flat bar
Priceless!