Dangerously Greasy Gun

Milwaukee grease gun for high pressure experiments.

[@tiredoldmechanic1791]

I got grease injected into my hand trying to grease a kingpin on a Jeep pickup. The owner was a regular customer and the left side was always difficult to get to take grease. I was using an air operated greaser with a compounding gun that multiplied the pressure when the handle was released and squeezed again. The tip wanted to pop off the fitting so I held it with my hand and the hose blew shooting grease in near the base of my thumb. They didn't seem to know what to do at the emergency room and were going to send me home. I had read an article about a man who lost his left arm after injecting undercoating into a finger while trying to clear a tip. I told the emergency room staff and they found a doctor who was familiar with injection cases. He showed up and told me that immediate surgery was required. I was in the hospital for 3 days with IV antibiotics. I have about a 3 inch long scar in the palm of my left hand, but I still have the hand.

[@5roundsrapid263]

Good thinking, and good doctor. It could have been much worse.

[@jesusisalive3227]

Most hospitals have zero idea what to do with high pressure injection. Our hospital went through training because of the high pressure hydroblasting that happens in the area.

[@fordsure]

Jeep wanker!

[@theyeah132]

Happened exactly the same way with a friend of mine, he got a hydraulic injection when a hydraulic pipe broke on a tractor and got an injection in his knee. They cleaned it up at the ER and got some of the oil out then sent him home. When his wife, who is a nurse, came home saw it she rushed him back to the emergency room. They had to do extensive surgery on the knee to get all of it out. Luckily the knee was saved so he can walk even run albeit with some discomfort.

[@monsterjam56]

That's crazy that they were just going to send you home... We learned about how dangerous injection injuries are during my college program which included a hydraulics course

[@jonsey3645]

There are some folk in this ole world who were reared without benefit of a patriarchal presence. I'll let the snickering abate while I say thanks for showing things that are probably general knowledge to most. Without a journeyman in one's formative years, many things are not passed along. You are so truly intelligent and confident in yourself that you offer a lot of wisdom lesser beings take for granted or don't know to begin with. I'm sure to be bollocking this up but Thank You for this consideration.

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

Shucks that's very kind of you to say. I've had the benefit of working with many old hands; each one teach one type deal. I appreciate the nod.

[@92powerdiesel61]

@@arduinoversusevil2025 Seriously, I'm working with diesels as a hobby in my spare time and had no idea what all the fuss was about. Now I know, and I will be very, very careful. Thanks for saving me from a potential injury.

[@markajoseph1980]

As an m+e engineer 2 things scare me hydraulics and the stroboscopic effect of rotational machinery.

[@cambroe]

I bruised a finger pretty good once poking an invisible spinning object... stroboscopic effect is definitely scary

[@jeffreysidden1832]

As an avionic mechanic, well, shit, flare buckets, high voltage cabling, and 3000+ PSI hydraulics.

[@AndyFletcherX31]

Seeing 10k psi jetting into an apple absolutely terrified me and made my whole body tingle. You really don't think about this sort of thing most of the time. These systems are often closer than expected. My old Citroen BX car ran about 2500psi in the high pressure system for suspension and brakes and I frequently worked around it without giving it a moments thought. Also my old Silverardo ran something like 5k psi on the fuel injector at idle, both these would give you a very bad day if there was a minute leak.

[@peterzingler6221]

Yeah VW had a problem back then with loose injectiors that shot through the hood

[@ttiization]

Also, rusty injection lines on diesel. Sometimes they have tiny hole in then. The mechanic go fire it up for a long time and bam, forked

[@RubixB0y]

The only thing worse than a minute leak is a second leak.

[@ttiization]

@@bosstowndynamics5488 Lots of pressure and tiny holes. I'm just not sure how deadly diesel would be, since apparently the big problem is the zinc in the hydraulic fluid

[@FrancisR420]

It's like this big pressure tanks you never imagine how much power there is when the regulator flies off until you see it fly through a solid brick wall 5 feet away without even slowing down

[@PedroDaGr8]

The dye is likely fluorescein based on the color. It is dirt cheap (

[@saberxzero]

Would you mind if i ask a couple of question about fluoreacent? I have a bit of an obsession in using it for art projects/crafts

[@PedroDaGr8]

@@saberxzero Sure, ask away. Hopefully, I can answer your questions.

[@AlexKall]

Someone told me about a worker who got hit with high pressure hydraulic, was a small hole in a hose, it shot into his arm, just a small puncture but he had to go into surgery to clean the inside of the arm, they had to open up the whole arm surgically all the way up to the shoulder. High pressure hydraulics are scary things!

[@andyreid7274]

Steam too

[@dj280z]

Lots of pictures on Google, pretty sure one was a firefighter using a rescue cutter or similar, pin hole in the hose.

[@C2H5OHist]

I work with high pressure paint sprayers and the guy who had half his butt amputated for sitting on a armed gun still takes the trigger guard and nozzle guard off as soon as I give him a new gun..

[@Anterak123]

Thank you for the video. I am now officially scared shitless of anything with pressure ...Better that than experiencing it....

[@AgentLokVokun]

5:22 "Beautiful Canadian grown Pink Lady!" *also pointing at the TWO stickers that say USA* Made my day.

[@trippieau]

Back in the 90's I worked in can making setting a tinplate slitting machine, the cutters were an interference fit with the main shaft and used 7,000 - 10,000 psi oil to stretch the steel hubs to adjust the cut width. One of the other guys doing the same job was setting a machine one night when the hose that connected to the hubs to move them got a "pinhole" in it and injected oil into his finger, he initially thought nothing was wrong as there was no blood so he wiped off the oil replaced the line and kept working, about an hour or so later his finger was about 3 times its normal size and he was taken to hospital, 18 hours of micro surgery later they basically had to open his hand from the tip of his finger to the base of his palm to remove the oil. End result was 18 months off work and he lost ~15% of the movement in his hand.

[@waffalobill]

Old boss was in the air force as a jet mechanic. Seen a guy put his finger over a hydro leak. Didn't think it got him. Week later his hair fell out and he got real sick.

[@garageguychris4256]

Red shmoo, time to go see the doctor.... On a side note heard about Embolisms long time ago, never knew about Injection injuries, Thanks for the PSA on that one!

[@Sigurdinus]

This invokes good memories of the old days when you did most of the metalworking "manually". Watching you goof around with the good old Milling machine and lathe was far, far more entertaining. The CNC-Machine is very impressive, but in the end its a robot. Precise, robotic work makes for a lot of extremely similar videos. I would welcome to see more of the old stuff!

[@app6072]

Did anyone else enjoy this type of video alot more than they should have? Ave for the safety video remakes 2021

[@srpacific]

I didn’t expect to see Lee’s mentioned on KZbin ever. As a very young lad in the 80s I remember walking by with my parents and wanting one of the free old circuit boards in the bin out front. Maybe it wasn’t Lee’s but it was one of the many on Main Street in those days. That one piece of junk unfortunately jump started my obsession with taking stuff apart...these days it’s vegan restaurants and coffee shops in that ‘hood and Lee’s has been forced over to Fraser

[@JamienM]

Great demonstration. This would make a great training video next to the grinding wheel and the ham

[@MatthewHill]

I never felt so sorry for an apple before.

[@Gazpalli]

I used to test aircraft pressure switches rated at 28,000 psi. Always felt nervous running that pressure up with only a basic leather apron and a shitacular face shield.

[@johnahnefeldt3671]

That Milwaukee pump hot swaps right into the HAAS. Saved $9,200 not paying for the 1K TSC option. 10 times the power for 100th the price! That’s.....sorry, I went to public school and it was before common core.......1, 2, 3 zeros......!!That’s 1,000 times the value!! What a steal!

[@sithus1966]

That money shot ending though.

[@hammerarmament]

Those apples know what peter norths costars feel like.

[@davelewis2174]

Sad to say but I lost a Friend to Hydraulic Injection . A leaking Hose you couldn't see the stream that hit him in the side of his leg. Laid in the Hospital for 3 days before his painful passing.

[@tekvax01]

informative and terrifying at the same time...

[@nathanpuffenbarger5423]

You were having way too much fun with the end of the video... lol

[@Martin-kv3th]

'I've said too much'

[@AlexanderEddy]

I think I heard a twang of Burr in that "pink LADY"

[@keithjurena9319]

ZDDP prevents cold welding.

[@sojunx]

I was hoping this was going to be an injection molding video, but still very good info.

[@Bibibosh]

Hey Ave . Heard a story of a guy dying because of this. His face went pale and 30 seconds later , dead GLASS PRESSURISED OIL ELECTRICITY

[@RBGlider1970]

So finding a hydraulic leak with your finger is a bad idea?

[@jdhtyler]

One lad we knew saw a hydraulic tiny squirting leak on his dump truck and put his finger on it ??? after a few visits to the hospital were they kept slicing a bit off his arm, they eventually did a cut above the elbow because the oil was dirty.

[@rotaryenginepete]

Money shot at the end!

[@mynicknamerockss]

googled images of hydraulic injection injury after watching this... holy shit...

[@norass411]

So how do I redo the hydraulic lines on this crusty old Bobcat I bought without my hand getting William Told all to frig?

[@thetransitofvenus8927]

I shazamed the fuck out of that song/backing track.

[@SnareX]

Next time test with polish sausage. Really hammer the danger home.

[@TucsonHat]

My dad's seen a guy inflate himself with a while cleaning himself off with the "shop special" air nozzle. Imagine that with a grease gun...

[@KarstenSeidel]

13:39 the money shot

[@318SixPack]

I thought it was said Baaaakman way up yonder?

[@diversdown2116]

u need to do one on high pressure air. like around 2500 - 3500 psi like in a scuba tank

[@danielesilvaggi]

I like the Schmoo!!!!!

[@trucko8857]

easter eggers hard boiled eggs are very easy to peel compared to any other chicken breed i tested 6 other popular breeds and easter egger eggs shells dont stick to the boiled egg as much just my observation while we are in this fucked up covid situation which is so overblown

[@hillie47]

A strangely satisfying video. I may need to rewatch it wearing my "release the schmoo" t-shirt. And a supply of kleenex and hand lotion at hand, for obvious reasons...

[@mansongothman]

Your buautiful canadian grown apple *literally* has 2 USA origin/variety stickers

[@toastpoint]

oh, this is horrifying

[@camneilsen8234]

Only 2 advertisements on this one 😲

[@robertkeime4907]

Great video

[@rodneytaylor6261]

Yep had that happen to me in a open wound ( cut on sheet metal). At LOW pressure 120 ish psi. Hurt like f@$k ........I went back to WORK never went to doctor never had a problem (yet) 5 years ago..........but 1000+ psi ya might be f&#ked......hi from Australia stay safe take care and get out there and make something....

[@timfagan816]

How is everyone's comments a week or more old, when this is 13hrs old??

[@fechten]

thx for the info

[@HydraulicPressChannel]

How large opening did your valve have? It might generate quite much pressure loss already over that. I think best/worst case would be damage some hoses slightly and then pressurize them until they burst. I got terrified already on the first video with that grease gun and pressure meter going all the way over. I have been somewhat afraid of injection injuries already long time but couple years ago we had 44 000 psi pressure washer for videos and I did some research for that project and saw some unpleasant stuff :D

[@peterzingler6221]

You should burst some tubes on your channel :) maybe with the thing you made the homemade Nutella with. Just Totally overpressure hoses on slowmo

[@AKAtheA]

@@peterzingler6221 2nding this! You have the space to do the really dangerous stuff and all the high speed video capabilities. btw with water @ 44k psi I'd be more worried about my hand being cut/torn off by it :D

[@dankeebler6171]

I remember watching those pumpkin chuckers and they were always very concerned with how fast the valve was opening compared to pressure. Would it be more effective to have a faster valve?

[@microbuilder]

One of my favorite channels posting on one of my favorite channels.

[@dougsundseth6904]

@@dankeebler6171 They're working with a tube something like 8"/20cm in diameter, so 40,000 times the surface area of the largest hole here. And since they don't have reservoirs the size of a house, they have a very limited time to raise pressure and a limited reservoir of air. Different constraints. Here you can see the pressure drop even at normal speed, so the constraint is at the nozzle rather than at the target. There, the transient pressure spike is extremely short in duration, so getting the most energy out by using a fast-opening valve is crucial.

[@PurpleVidaar]

9:29 - I paid for the entire pressure gauge, Im gonna use the entire pressure gauge

[@kenkeilman3811]

I used to service the refrigeration controls at the Beautiful "Canadian Grown" Pink Lady controlled atmosphere apple storage facility in the Beautiful Canadian state of Washington.

[@sergeigontcharenko3476]

Hey Ave, you should put a UV/near-UV blocking filter in front of the camera. That way you'll only pick up fluorescein fluorescence, giving you much more contrast.

[@peglor]

Any non-Chinesium sunglasses will do the job. Polycarbonate in most forms is an excellent UV blocker too.

[@ArcadiyIvanov]

5:40 > Canadian-grown Label: "USA"

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

Made in Canada with globally sourced parts.

[@jamesclark3119]

Down here in the real Vancouver we buy Canadian tomatoes year round. Must be a lot of surplus greenhouse capacity since herb is legal on the entire left coast.

[@stompinmcallister1312]

Like 5$ in apples gives no fucks

[@majormojo]

Ate in Canada

[@aussiebloke4601]

Pink lady apples come from Australia originally.

[@JA-pb7oz]

An entire episode dedicated to realising the schmooo, sir, you spoil us .

[@JA-pb7oz]

Big Crunch good point, I see what I've done there.

[@ytwdh]

I was thinking the exact same thing!

[@-greenheat-]

Even more fun when it's an invisible gas. Wave a broom handle around until it's severed in two. Found yer leak.

[@mfbfreak]

I've heard superheated steam is really scary. Invisible. Walking around the boiler room looking for the hiss, and suddenly your skin's being boiled/blasted off

[@5roundsrapid263]

LimaVictor There was a guy fixing a steam cooker at a tuna cannery a few years ago and got locked in. I’m not easily creeped out, but man...😳

[@Broadpaw_Fox]

HPHT steam... anyone that's been on a nuclear powered navy vessel knows about it. And a leak is a terrifying thing - but sleeping under the pipes as they run around under the flight deck is the worst. You just have to hope you won't even feel it if one pops a leak...

[@andrewostrelczuk406]

I’ve seen on a channel somewhere before that a Navy sailor posted a story about a high pressure steam leak. In the Engineering space around a new engine of some sort they have a protocol that you instantly freeze in place and don’t move until it is determined that you are safe. I don’t know what the details are, but like a lost Army Butter Bar with a Broken compass. A newly released ID10T was ignoring the order and he found the leak. Cut him clean Half in two within feet of the bulkhead door. Bad way to go ...

[@martinayton6674]

My first job was on a power plant and there was a rack of broom handles at the bottom of the stairs to the control room. When I asked why, the guy showing me around too a handle and waved it up and down in front of him as he went up the stairs. About 2/3 of the way up, as the broom handle got to about 5' off the ground, the top 6" just fell off. There was a high pressure stream leak and the operators used the broom handles to locate it so they could duck under it on their way to and from the control room. It had been that way for weeks. Fortunately, it got fixed the next day, but it scared the crud out of me.

[@mikedrop4421]

Arggggghhh... Bad memories! I almost lost a finger last year from a High pressure injection injury I got from an airless paint sprayer with the tip reversed so it sprayed out in a fine jet. Spent a week in the hospital and a had my hand sliced open and the bones scraped of paint. Still hurts, can't feel my fingertip and can't close my hand. Be careful people, if it wasn't latex I'd be done.

[@djscottdog1]

I nearly lost a finger to a hole saw last year

[@chrisa.9032]

God dam thats terrifying. My stuff is all xylene and toluene based. If I get bit, best case scenario I lose the hand.

[@davidfalconer1402]

One of my mates lost a thumb when a hose split on an airless sprayer. They later took his index finger off and attached it as a thumb and made it work.

[@johnt1815]

@@chrisa.9032 And a bonus round of cancer later lol

[@IvoTrausch]

I have come to treat my spray guns like loaded pistols. I think I sound like a 'nam vet sometimes, "give these things respect man, I've seen some shit."

[@Airsoftforall]

Had a friend walk by a hydraulic line with a pin hole. Never knew what happened and has a spot in his arm a bit bigger than a golf ball that had to be debrided.

[@MrIh8hondas]

Growing up on a farm with a lot of older equipment with correspondingly old hydraulic hoses, I was always scared of this happening.

[@saltysteel3996]

This looks like an interesting torture device. "Tell us who you work for or we'll release the schmoo!" Edit: On a side note, common rail fuel injection on diesel engines can reach 30K PSI of fuel pressure. Don't check for leaks with your fingers!

[@peterzingler6221]

Lol that's why they go through the hood if something is wrong

[@deckname5794]

But thats how you really get diesel into your blood.

[@300DBenz]

Deck Name Really? I guess I’ve been going about it all wrong. **pours diesel/banana smoothie down the sink*

[@jothain]

You should always be careful with them, but realistically speaking they don't need much of an leak and that pressure is nowhere near what they're rated running in normal conditions.

[@JamienM]

@@deckname5794 and diesel is the worst fluid of all for eating away at your flesh is it not? Or does it just get real deep!?

[@crackedemerald4930]

"you are the softest meat in the shop" I don't know if i should be flattered or insulted

[@rehoboth_farm]

Pro tip: The male ones don't lay eggs.

[@andyreid7274]

Not true, they lay double yolked eggs!

[@buddersthepuunk]

Explain this If the rooster didnt lay the egg.. how did his dna get in there

[@SeeDMT]

@@buddersthepuunk high pressure grease injection

[@dadillen5902]

Unless it is a trans-canadian chicken. New day, new way. We did not tell him he was a cock because we needed the eggs. "He's everywhere, he's everywhere "

[@calvins1837]

Cant roosters identify as any gender they want these days?

[@trustmeppl]

Wife peaked over during the last slowmo schmoo shot, triggered her PTSD.

[@kristofferbeder]

Hydraulic injection is no joke

[@KevinReinartz]

There is real danger working on modern Diesel engines... the high pressure fuel systems are capable of 30,000+ PSI!!!

[@2009dudeman]

Common rail can get up to 60,000psi. Working around those really requires gloves and a face shield. You also never run your hands over the lines or fittings unless you have already verified they are not under pressure. Use cardboard to check for leaks, just running the cardboard around will show you.

[@BrandonJones-wv9mv]

Every common rail diesel class I've attended has had this safety warning before/during/after class. Diesel pickups easily reach near 30k psi and even the gasoline direct injection cars are getting to +5k psi injection pressures.

[@MF175mp]

@@BrandonJones-wv9mv gasoline is becoming the new diesel 40 years behind because of the so dangerous emissions of diesel engines. If it doesn't need spark plugs to ignite anymore, the process is diesel already

[@VictorGalayda]

@@MF175mp i think only mass produced compression ignition gasoline engine is made by mazda and it still has spark plugs. Rest of direct injection gas motors still spark ignition. Also diesel is a fuel not an engine. There are turbojets that can operate on diesel fuel. Just like compression ignition Cummins motors could operate on cng or lp gas

[@MF175mp]

@@VictorGalayda yeah but soon it may be mainstream and some will start removing the spark plugs as they would become useless. Rudolf Diesel invented the engine, not the petroleum product that only is named after the engine it's used in. Diesel engine can burn anything flammable from coal dust to crude oil if the proper injection system is added.

[@DjBigRed1000]

Grounds Keeper Willy: ACK! Turn off the noozlel! Nelson: The noodles? What noodles? Grounds Keeper Willy: The NOOZLE! At the end of the HOOSE! ACK!

[@dcrog69]

I'm constantly saying noozel and hoose, my wife and child think I'm retarded lol.

[@EM-fi2qg]

On airless paint sprayers, they actually have a warning card- surgeon advisory, in case you puncture your body and inject paint. 🤢

[@FrancisR420]

Another guy talking about how he almost lost his finger and had to get the paint scraped off his bones

[@--_DJ_--]

Not two weeks ago, I said I would never buy that battery operated grease gun. Today standing in the blazing sun around 1:30 at 35c plus the humidex, putting the track back on a mid sized excavator I was reconsidering my stance on that thing. I only use an air grease gun in the shop, and my truck doesn't have on board air. Nobody was around to help me load a decent compressor so I grabbed the Honda generator and a small pancake compressor. Took 5 times as long to tighten the track as it did to get it back on the machine. The last bit of tension took forever, and of course no hand grease gun in the 100 thousand dollar machine. Maybe one more team red tool wouldn't hurt. She might put out even more pressure with a HO 6.0.

[@robertwittjr1198]

thanks for watchin', keep you chicks in a box.

[@intelbreak]

ahahah missed opportunity :D

[@supra392]

* thanks for watchin, keep yourself in a chicks box

[@satchmodog2]

Made my wife Coq au Vin and she loved it. She asked what the name meant and i told her it was her two favorite things.

[@notalizardperson]

Wine and Au?

[@Jangus]

Cock with wine.. I prefer to use chicken.

[@thechumpsbeendumped.7797]

“It was a bit more volume than I was expecting”. That’s what she said.

[@bikelife828]

Hahaha

[@ptgtdcr]

All the juice

[@kevhouse55]

We'll she's never said it... But I'm always hoping she will 😁

[@RustyorBroken]

At his age he's still got it. Even I was impressed.

[@jeremysmith8990]

I was wearing my AvE carefulling T-Shirt watching this and nothing happened to me!

[@52Ford]

That just means you didn't try hard enough.

[@dethmaul]

That means it works! Scientific method, right there.

[@Graham_Langley]

Full marks for correct spelling of carefulling, unlike the T-shirt.

[@jeffreysidden1832]

But did you have safety squints on?

[@m1stertim]

missed opportunity for "keep your schmoo shooter in a vice" methinks

[@deroffi1572]

Where's the meat target? Oh, wrong channel...

[@sjoormen1]

Paul Harrel approves...

[@insederec]

Uncle bumblefuck is NOT what you would call, an expert. Try this at home.

[@coyotepete1619]

You be the judge.

[@jamesbromstead4949]

I don't mean to be telling tales out of school..... but has anyone ever seen AvE and Paul Harell in the same room at the same time... Just wondering....

[@5roundsrapid263]

Don’t talk about his better 3/4 like that... 😀

[@stevegroark2034]

That's a morning after stream. Either sit down or aim for the tub.

[@darkonedbc]

Or just go outside lol and hope the wind is favourable

[@georgemcmillan9172]

😆😆😆

[@ahensley63]

Fun fact: Most places that sell "Ameraucana" chicks are actually just Easter Eggers, which is a mutt bred to lay blue eggs. Actual Ameraucana are very rare. Learned that first hand. Looking at you, Tractor Supply.

[@technoman53]

I routinely work on hydraulic systems, diesel engines, and other high pressure fluid systems. This is my number one nightmare.

[@johnt1815]

I would be curious to know how far away from the leak you need to be to be safe from injection. We have a LOT of hydraulic systems where I work, but inspite of having a very thorough safety program, we don't give much attention to the risk of hydraulic injection. I have not heard of many hydraulic injection injuries in steel mills, but then again we tend not to be right up against equipment while it's running. I would imagine that the oil looses it's velocity pretty quickly upon exit of the system. Would you by any chance be willing to shoot your schmoo at a greater distance? For science!?

[@peterzingler6221]

@@-tr0n people have died from pressures air. Even had a case in my training where some guys thought they act funny and aimed the air hose at someones a hole and pushed it. Blew his intestines up. He has a bag now (edit : sounds like I made that up but no I didn't. Germany 2012)

[@mfk12340]

Usually I think it's inches. But in certain cases I've heard people say it can be dangerous from several feet away.

[@peterzingler6221]

@@mfk12340 hardly depends on the nozzle size

[@Gkitchens1]

I would assume that it looses velocity PRETTY fast, but its probably still dangerous at least within a few feet, but as pressure goes up and viscosity goes down, the danger goes up as far as danger distance goes. beyond a certain point the material comes apart and can't maintain its shape, or stream as it were, which really reduces velocity quickly. I'd guess that 5 feet you would be perfectly safe from injection from his rig.

[@2009dudeman]

@@kilianortmann9979 We used cardboard or paper for leak checking common rail stuff. Diesel injection pressures between 20,000 and 60,000psi. We were warned specifically in training to never put our hands near the lines unless they were dead and depressurized. Also best to wear a face shield when cracking lines. I've had several times gotten squirted at when opening up lines.

[@christhirion9474]

After 6 months stuck on a mine in the DRC I also have blue eggs

[@christhirion9474]

Some of the blokes are busy developing a bit lopsided especially their right biseps.

[@thegavelissoundgavel9849]

In the Navy we taught guys to look for HP leaks on energized systems with the straw end of a sweep 🧹.

[@richardhunter607]

Interesting, My dad was in the Air Force and told me he was taught to use the other end.

[@AuxiliaryPanther]

@@richardhunter607 are we still talking about checking for leaks?

[@AuxiliaryPanther]

But seriously, I remember in the Navy seeing machinists swarm a high pressure air leak while waving sheets of paper at it. Looked like a congregation of shitty wizards.

[@richardhunter607]

@@AuxiliaryPanther Yes I was talking about leaks, but I imagine he had plenty of experience using one for it's intended purpose.

[@skunked42]

Had some of the old BTs tell me of looking for leaks on the old 1200psi boilers with broom handles. When it got shorter you found the leak...

[@dodgewrench7221]

I'm currently learning to be an emergency physician, this was pretty interesting to see, I'm glad I learned this

[@jimsmith7475]

The world needs more emergency staff who are trained in industrial emergency situations.

[@lom2981]

Spread the word. Almost any town in North America has people working with high pressure fluids, especially hydraulics. Every class I’ve been to tells the horror stories and shows the pictures and tells us to insist that surgery be done

[@The_Hairy_Farmer]

@AvE - I was skinning a sheep and nicked my pinkie finger on the joint. Cellulitis is BAD and spreads FAST!!! I ended up on serious antibiotics and still have issues over a month later...(Do not try this at home..)

[@Eric998765]

Dang I feel lucky, two years ago I cut myself skinning a deer and about two months later cut myself skinning a pig. I just wrapped it in a paper towel and kept going

[@andrewwarfield6223]

Man that brought back memories of doing wellhead. Using a Hy-Torq everyday and telling the green hats not to ever put your hand behind the wrench and always make sure your fittings are tight. I have seen hydro poisoning and man it is not pretty!

[@silent_bob_]

Sorry not a native English speaker: What do you mean by having your hand behind the wrench? What do you mean by behind?

[@andrewwarfield6223]

@@silent_bob_ the hydro wrench works by using hydraulic force pushing against another object (usually another nut and bolt) so you never put your hand in that space. Look up hydraulic torque wrench and you will see what I mean.

[@matkurcher9469]

I've always wondered why all hydraulic torque wrench hoses dont have a clear plastic safety hose over them. Where as tensioning hoses do (specifically tentec). I've had tensioning hoses blow up around 24k psi and I'll tell ya, that external safety hose is a lifesaver. I'll never use bare hoses again.

[@yotafan174]

I don't miss using Hy-Torq's especially getting in well cellars. I did wellhead for 5 years for Cameron.

[@matkurcher9469]

@@yotafan174 I'm more of a rad gun type of guy. Unless they wont fit, then I'll jump to hytorq's stealth heads

[@ants114]

Went for some waterjet training last year. 50k psi through a .015 orifice. The horror stories of those injuries. Getting garnet surgically removed a foot away from where the jet pierced skin.

[@BrianChristmas]

Yeesh...that's horrible.

[@darkwinter6028]

That’s the other tool that scares the @$^%#3%&9& out of me. (first one is a table saw) 😬

[@gizmoguyar]

At least with a waterjet, you know you need to go to tho ER because your pinky is bobbing in the tank.

[@cambroe]

@@darkwinter6028 Most of my learning on tablesaws happened in highschool, where we had 3 of the industrial size SawStops, definitely reassuring. Obviously doesn't help if you get kickback, but I find it pretty easy to not have any particularly important parts of me in the line of fire, standing off to either side depending on width of cut

[@mrahob275]

Drive a big diesel injector with it and show it on an apple 🍎 😁

[@TravisTerrell]

I think citrus fruits might be best for simulating skin. Tattoo artists practice on grapefruits. (Also, hydraulic injection has always terrified me.)

[@vacuousvoid]

That last bit reminds me of a German movie I saw once. Maybe twice.

[@davmanderstrom]

I worked as a greaser in an underground mine for about 6 months predating mech apprenticeship. I had a scare with a lever style grease gun. I was reefing on it trying to coerce a boom to bucket pin to take a bit of grease after the bushing was damaged/worn when the # 4 hydraulic hose extension I had on my grease gun blew a pinhole. I was wearing the thin nitrile coated gloves and luckily never had any injection but it felt like someone hit me in the hand with the tip of a slag hammer. You are probably onto something with the non newtonian thing. I pegged a 5k psi gauge almost instantly testing a lever grease gun, I’d bet they hit 10k no problem

[@radio655]

In fact there still are stores like your Lees Electronics, just maybe not in Kanuckistan. Should you visit Singapore, go visit Koba Electronics in Peoples Park center. Paradise!

[@Deamoneta]

As part of a health and safety training course, we were shown an injury to a fireman's hand from a hydraulic burst when he was training with the Jaws of life. They had to amputate.

[@mattfleming86]

Reminds me if the time, when I was a kid, I got swiped by a pressure washer. Didn't look bad at first.. few minutes later water was "flowing" out if my skin... like it was pouring sweat. Then it turned pink.. liquid went from clear to yellow. Never bled a drop and had still a huge "nike swoosh" scar on my forearm for damn near 10 years. Damn glad it was tap water...

[@AChrivia]

Yeah, I remember seeing what high power hydraulic fluid does to a humans tissue internally. Typically that shit turns into little bb’s inside and causing immense internal damage to all the soft tissue under the dermis. Within 24 hours you begin to see severe swelling and pain begins to worsen, after 48 hours you’re in immense pain and if you haven’t already gone to the hospital you will be going by that time or you’re losing whatever was hit by the hydraulic fluid. I was taught to check for hydraulic leaks when I first started training for heavy equipment to use a stick to check the hose or area that we thought would be leaking or we would be likely losing a hand by results of the damage cause by high pressure hydraulic leaks. Yes, it absolutely will cause necrosis of the damaged appendage. This shit should absolutely be taken seriously as a warning to everyone, he’s definitely got some funny fucking commentary going for him but he’s absolutely fucking right, you can and will be seriously injured by fucking around with high pressure fluids in equipment. You never want to get injured by that stuff and all it takes is one mistake or a stupid act and you’re fucked in the most unhappy and painful way possible. He should show some demonstrations of injuries by hydraulic equipment like crush injuries. I had my arm crushed by my boss while I was using the equipment already and he decided to go mess with the operation station not checking for me when I had already told him I would be getting everything ready and to not mess with it without seeing where I was first. That injury was permanent as much as it was excruciating and I still feel it today.

[@drunkenbogan]

this is why lockout tags and isolation switches exist. and if its a plugnplay device, remove the plug and she wont play.

[@12gammagamma]

Should fed the chica the oil apples too, that way your wings fry from the inside too! thats how we do it with our shrimp along the Gulf of Mexico.

[@unknown-ql1fk]

Good video, happened to "a buddy" with a pressure washer. Lost a chunk of the calf muscle the size of a golf ball...good thing it was JUST water I guess

[@binnieismynamefasho]

"They" fear the indoor chicken farmer

[@hyperboloidofonesheet1036]

Any sane chick would be afraid of schmoo at that pressure.

[@Wave_Commander]

I just want to say that you make excellent and informative videos while also being uniquely hilarious. Keep it up AvE!

[@irpeach99]

As a peach, I feel threatened.

[@RustyorBroken]

How do you think Princess Peach feels?

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

Even when I was a little kid, dad would warn me about never putting my hands or any part of me close to pressurized hydraulic lines on the tractors. Expecially the old worn-out ones with no rubber coating left on them.

[@motorbreath5point0]

I love the high speed camera porn soundtrack for the schmoo! But on a serious note when I set up the waterjet at work, it has all sorts of super scary warnings about high speed particles of sewage bacteria from normal water that can be injected because of the 60k Pressure. Different book, same story. Bad stuff.

[@harezy]

Swarf fed chickens = no need for tin foil during cooking 🤣🤣

[@5roundsrapid263]

Don’t microwave the leftovers!

[@danielzukeran7625]

I remember safety videos in hydraulic class showing injection injury's, the oil is fat soluble and displayed pics of the doc scraping oil from the fat around some unlucky persons forearm