[SEL] Safety First

[Arthur Buchanan]

You are young and can get through all of it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Wilson" <wilson at stny.rr.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 12:47 PM
Subject: RE: [SEL] Safety First


> Glad you got through it with minor pains.
>
> I am not for hurting anyone or having anyone hurt themselves
> but be careful with the "safety first" comment. Our government
> would like to make it so you can not even tough your engines.
> Every law they make takes away a little more freedom. We do
> not want it all gone. And I personally would like to have the freedom
> that my ansestor had when he "killed himself by the driving wheel
> of a steam engine" as is written on his tumstone.
>
> Again, glad you made it through it with no major damage.
>
> PS - on another note - 4 days ago, I had about 8" of my large intesene,
> or colon removed due to it was infected with diverticultus. I am healing
> quickly and will soon be on a waiting list to get a kidney. Then - fairly
> normal physically again :)
>
> Glenn Wilson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
> [mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com]On Behalf Of Charles R
> Bryant
> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 3:27 PM
> To: SEL List
> Subject: [SEL] Safety First
>
>
> Posted on the SEL by a fellow collector in August 1997
>
> "Hello List member. I had a narrow escape last Saturday morning and
> thought I should pass it on to you all since several of you  are getting
> large engines.
> I had been waiting for a friend to come and help start my 35 HP Superior
> which
> we had done several times before .Earlier in the week I installed a new
> propane
> regulator and done some maintenance. In the process I tightened two bolts
> that held the main
> bearing that supports the front of the side shaft, which in turn raised 
> all
> the cams up
> this making the magneto fire quicker before piston got to dead center.My
> being an old
> timer I did not think of all this. We got on each flywheel and the engine
> had just a little
> too much compression to reach top dead center., so I got up higher on the
> next spoke
> with BOTH feet when it fired going in the wrong way.I discovered how it
> feels to be
> shot from a cannon.. The last thing I remember was seeing the top of the
> exhaust
> pipe. I landed about 20 feet  luckily on my right side and back. After 
> about
> 15 minutes
> I discovered I was still alive no broken bones but not sure my kidneys 
> were
> in the right place.
> They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks but I sure learned one. 
> NEVER
> PUT BOTH
> FEET ON THE SPOKES. I would be a good buyer for an air starter if anyone 
> has
> one"
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