TR: Small boy, smallmouth (long)

(who's found some amazing things you can do with a 10 horse power
rototiller)

Nothing to do with personal grooming, we hope. * * * *

I was going to volunteer "dentistry".

Well, if you have a bum shoulder, just don't duct tape the "go" safety
handle down on one of these things, 'cause duct tape is really hard to
remove on a bucking, self-propelled killing machine. Then again,
ground woodchuck makes good fertilizer and I found out that the
neighbor's german shepard is not so vicious after all. I now believe
he's part greyhound. As I told the owner, the bobbed tail look is in
this year.
Frank "slightly removed from suburbia" Reid

On Aug 12, 9:53*pm, Frank Reid © 2008 wrote:
(who's found some amazing things you can do with a 10 horse power
rototiller)

Nothing to do with personal grooming, we hope. * * * *

I was going to volunteer "dentistry".

Well, if you have a bum shoulder, just don't duct tape the "go" safety
handle down on one of these things, 'cause duct tape is really hard to
remove on a bucking, self-propelled killing machine. *Then again,
ground woodchuck makes good fertilizer and I found out that the
neighbor's german shepard is not so vicious after all. *I now believe
he's part greyhound. *As I told the owner, the bobbed tail look is in
this year.
Frank "slightly removed from suburbia" Reid

A great deal of luck is required to get away with a lot of things. My
next door neighbour taped the "Dead man´s handle" down on my motor
mower, which he had borrowed to cut a rather rough patch of grass
behind his house, apparently simply because he got fed up with holding
it. This of course prevented the mower from shutting off
automatically. He had also taped the cut-out on the seat, which
otherwise also cut the engine when one dismounted.

He is still a little hazy on the details, but apparently he did
dismount in order to free a polythene bag which was jamming the
cutters on one side of the mower, in which endeavour he was also
successful, but, as the bag came free. the slipping clutch engaged,
and the blades proceeded to whirl at high speed, taking three of his
fingers along with them. In his shock, he grabbed at something to hold
on to with his other hand, which happened to be the stick shift,
causing the tractor to shoot away across his backyard, where it
demolished a small greenhouse, shredded its way through a vegetable
garden, and finally came to a watery grave in his garden pond, where
as we discovered later upon trying to extricate it, the oil and petrol
running into his pond killed all his expensive Koi fish.

Perhaps I am simply less adventurously inclined, but if it says
"Safety handle", or something like that on something or other, I have
a very strong tendency to leave it alone.

Even though the engineers, designers, and manufacturers of these
things may just have put it there to annoy me, forcing me to re-start
the mower after dismounting to empty the grass bags, it may also be
that they simply don´t want me to lose my fingers?

Whatever, I have a very very healthy respect for all power tools,
especially anything motor driven, like chain saws, concrete cutters,
hedge trimmers, etc etc You get the idea?

I have used these things for a very long time, also professionally,
and I don´t have a scratch anywhere. I attribute this, among other
things, largely to my assuming that the people who installed such
safety levers, automatic cutouts etc etc, did so for a reason, and my
consequent unwillingness to tamper with them.

We only found one finger, his left index finger, and it was sewn back
on at the hospital, but he has never been able to use it since.

I stopped lending him my mower after that as well.

TL
MC