GrassBurner
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The headgear is the best I've ever worn. It has such a big footprint, that it really doesn't put pressure anywhere. Tell ya what though, as badass as this helmet is, fucker still won't keep beads out of your ear 
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GrassBurner
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DarkWeb
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The headgear is the best I've ever worn. It has such a big footprint, that it really doesn't put pressure anywhere. Tell ya what though, as badass as this helmet is, fucker still won't keep beads out of your ear
Isn't that fun lol
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GrassBurner
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I'd rather catch hands from Connor McGregor, ain't no way it could hurt worse
On top of that, you've got to listen to your ear canal cook for a few seconds.
Aeroknow
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This was the last hood I bought before the fire. Def wasnt the most expensive but was nice.
All my other hoods were the kind you snap onto a hard hat. Just like they used to make us do. Was bullshit. Like welding with a garbage can on your head. But they let the iron workers wear regular hoods. Lame!
GrassBurner
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Nice!! Anything auto darkening is a game changer. If I had to go back to a standard helmet I'd probably lose my balance and fall over
DarkWeb
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I had the original miller auto in that same paint. Was a good helmet but you couldn't replace the batteries.
I've got a few old minion looking ones from back in the day along with a few Jackson's laying around. At the shop someone left a esab auto.......the Ant-Man looking one.......odd I tried it and didn't like it as much as my Miller.
DarkWeb
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Nice!! Anything auto darkening is a game changer. If I had to go back to a standard helmet I'd probably lose my balance and fall over
I still flip down.....my boss busts my nuts every time he sees it. LOL habits
Dr.Amber Trichome
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That Rocks!
GrassBurner
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Yeah I never understood those bubble eyed helmets. You're still looking through a standard little opening in the helmet. The only way to increase vision is to increase the size of the hole you're looking through.
Aeroknow
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These are pretty much the same hoods we would get kicked down on jobsites.I still flip down.....my boss busts my nuts every time he sees it. LOL habits
My personal best with that hood was 3 of them in a day. Fucking stick welding in the rain. Dishwasher gloves under leather gloves and shit. I would get bit hard and throw that motherfucker against something and destroy it. Grab another one and repeat. I had anger issues back then.
Aeroknow
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My buddy died on a jobsite, Valley Med in San Jose, i wasn’t there that day, but was partying with him the night before.
Long story short, he grabbed the ground clamp from a buzz box on a steel column while my other buddy was welding overhead up on scaffolding.
Pooled up water on that level. Knicks in the lead. Faulty temp box. Dead!
They found speed in his system and totally nullified any possible lawsuit settlement to his wife and kids. Fucked up shit.
Long story short, he grabbed the ground clamp from a buzz box on a steel column while my other buddy was welding overhead up on scaffolding.
Pooled up water on that level. Knicks in the lead. Faulty temp box. Dead!
They found speed in his system and totally nullified any possible lawsuit settlement to his wife and kids. Fucked up shit.
GrassBurner
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I've seen and heard about some crazy shit on job sites. Gotta be careful out there.
DarkWeb
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These are pretty much the same hoods we would get kicked down on jobsites.
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My personal best with that hood was 3 of them in a day. Fucking stick welding in the rain. Dishwasher gloves under leather gloves and shit. I would get bit hard and throw that motherfucker against something and destroy it. Grab another one and repeat. I had anger issues back then.
Welding snowmaking pipe was when I learned to put latex gloves on under my leather. Fuck! That will light you up!
Aeroknow
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Yeah the story is allot longer than how i told it. But my buddy stuck his rod, popped up his hood looked down and our other buddy was bouncing on the ground.
i would wear dish washer gloves under leather and it def helped allot but when you get bit through that not much else you can do lol.
DarkWeb
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I never knew anyone that died on the job. But interviewed with a guy in the am one day that liked my work and he said meet me at the pool table tonight to go over everything. We shot some pool discussed pay and whatnot. Was going to start on Monday. I left, he left....a bad ass storm came through.
I think I've told this part of the story before.....but me and my rottweiler where outside and lightning hit so close we both went flat on the ground.
That dude ended up going fishing on his boat after pool and they found him the next morning......got hit by that bolt of lightning.
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GrassBurner
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Good friend of mine was almost killed on a job a few years back. Up in the bucket of a small bucket truck, torching off bolts for a big ass grocery store sign. Hydraulic control box didn't have a cover on it. Piece of slag found its way into the box, and sat on a line until it melted through. When it did, the line burst, and all the fluid coming out caught fire, and covered my friends upper body. He climbed out of the bucket, and started to shimmy down, but the fire was too much and he dropped. Landed on the corner of the truck box. Luckily there was snow on the ground, and a colleague put him out. 3rd degree burns on his back, numerous second degree burns, and where he hit the toolbox left a Cantaloupe sized knot around his ribs. Lucky to be alive.
doublejj
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I was subpoenaed twice as a witness in 2 murder trials and once as a defendant from work. The defendant was for issuing out the tool used in the murder.
manfredo
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Working at the prison?
