Tree work is dangerous, be careful with yourself. There’s a tiny, tiny voice that warns you when you’re about to do something dumb. It only sounds for a second, small and faint, and then it disappears. Learn to seize and amplify it, come to a complete stop and listen, and then adjust what you’re doing, instead of continuing on “it’ll probably be fine.”
It was the one that told me to “stop torquing now!” When I ended up breaking a crossed bolt off in an awkward blind spot on the side of my engine…so now the VTT solenoid is held in by a little epoxy. Because otherwise the engine would have to be removed and a machinist would likely need to just destroy and rethread that thing.
Oh, the shame…
No I’m not a mechanic, I’m just not “pay a mechanic $600 to install a $40 part” rich. :D
But this is exactly why I won’t get into something like electricianship or other dangerous stuff. ADHD sometimes just squelches that little voice and I’m left asking myself why I did something so stupid and wishing I could go back 10 seconds.
If the consequences were life or death? Yeah no way I don’t need a sudden brain-lapse killing/maiming me or someone else.
Sounds about right.
Tree work is dangerous, be careful with yourself. There’s a tiny, tiny voice that warns you when you’re about to do something dumb. It only sounds for a second, small and faint, and then it disappears. Learn to seize and amplify it, come to a complete stop and listen, and then adjust what you’re doing, instead of continuing on “it’ll probably be fine.”
Oh I know that voice!
It was the one that told me to “stop torquing now!” When I ended up breaking a crossed bolt off in an awkward blind spot on the side of my engine…so now the VTT solenoid is held in by a little epoxy. Because otherwise the engine would have to be removed and a machinist would likely need to just destroy and rethread that thing.
Oh, the shame…
No I’m not a mechanic, I’m just not “pay a mechanic $600 to install a $40 part” rich. :D
But this is exactly why I won’t get into something like electricianship or other dangerous stuff. ADHD sometimes just squelches that little voice and I’m left asking myself why I did something so stupid and wishing I could go back 10 seconds.
If the consequences were life or death? Yeah no way I don’t need a sudden brain-lapse killing/maiming me or someone else.