Just took carb cleaner to the eye!

[shawbagga]

yeh I wear a long sleeve shirt, broad brim hat with flap on the back, sunnies & ear plugs but then don't bother with footwear at all when mowing! am very cautious when pulling mower backwards however. tend to favour the above mention of not putting any body parts into rapidly rotating blades! worst part is the soles of ya feet stay dark green for 2 days after mowing from all the grass(cellulose?) staining. its liberating to mow with no footwear on though I might try duggoey's style & mow in a G-banga to tan my white hiney!

no more thong/flip flop bashing either you mob, theyre a national bloody icon down here!

 

[duggoey]

yeh I wear a long sleeve shirt, broad brim hat with flap on the back, sunnies & ear plugs but then don't bother with footwear at all when mowing! am very cautious when pulling mower backwards however. tend to favour the above mention of not putting any body parts into rapidly rotating blades! worst part is the soles of ya feet stay dark green for 2 days after mowing from all the grass(cellulose?) staining. its liberating to mow with no footwear on though I might try duggoey's style & mow in a G-banga to tan my white hiney!

no more thong/flip flop bashing either you mob, theyre a national bloody icon down here!

Like * 2 especially on the sun protection. I am half a degree off being albino.

 

[juicypips]

Does your hat have corks on string threaded to the brim?
Why do they do it?

 

[duggoey]

Does your hat have corks on string threaded to the brim?
Why do they do it?

So we can pick the tourists more easily.

 

[shawbagga]

^ yeh that & to keep the flies away. you got no idea how bad the flies can get here in summer especially up north. like to the point of near mental break down from the little bastards constantly getting in ya eyes, ears, nose, mouth! incredibly annoying/stressful I shit you not

 

[juicypips]

Well am visiting the land for a month in may/june will buy a cork hat straight off the plane.

 

[airrider]

Back to eye protection....I have a Bridgeport milling machine in my garage and sometimes friends will come over with a small project they need me to reshape. Whenever I offer them eye protection, they always say 'naaaa'. Then I tell them they have to leave the garage. I guess they have to prove that they're manly enough to not need them. They eventually put them on.

 

[shawbagga]

yep id rather be able to see for the rest of my life than to look 'manly'. they don't grow back! I cringe when I see blokes take their goggles off cause theyre fogging up or dirty(I admit im guilty of it occasionally when it rains but stop asap to clean & put back on)

juicypips please don't do that, buy a stuffed koala bear or drink fosters beer. they'll deport you on sight!

 

[Jimmy250]

Back to eye protection....I have a Bridgeport milling machine in my garage and sometimes friends will come over with a small project they need me to reshape. Whenever I offer them eye protection, they always say 'naaaa'. Then I tell them they have to leave the garage. I guess they have to prove that they're manly enough to not need them. They eventually put them on.
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Much agreed!

 

[justintendo]

I hate Flip Flops and everyone in my house makes fun of my for not wanting to wear them ! lol

you are not alone, i refuse to wear sandals. i always seem to get involved to try doing something physical when i wore them. very inconvenient

 

[Rickyticky]

Yes I was wearing saftey glasses. They did not help if your wearing them hanging on your shirt. And yes I was doing the same thing 100 times before without incident. Sucks it take a injury to teach you to wear those saftey glasses all the time.