There's no way that this should be an unpopular video. These are words of wisdom from one who speaks from years of experience but the young always feels invulnerable or impervious to harm and take greater risks.
Thank you! I was walking by a tech today as he was replacing a transfer case and he was planning on manhandling it by himself, I nipped that right in the bud!
I was grinding and the next day my left eye had extreme pain and was very light sensitive. After a waste of time and $900(5 minutes with nurse, cotton swab and tetanus shot) at the emergency room, I went to an Ophthalmologist where he saw specs of rust that had formed in my cornea and they put my head in a brace, deadened my eye with some drops and the doc used what looked like a fancy dremel with a burring bit to grind the rust specs out. The procedure to fix was $450 and about 25 minutes in the chair. I always wear safety glasses now when doing anything with flying metal.
Safety glasses are a definite. I just put them on as I walk into the garage. It's like putting on your seatbelt, second nature. Saved my eyes many times.
Graduated from tech school in 2002 an we washed our hands in the solvent tank just like you said. I started wearing gloves back then and didn't get a whole lot of shit for it. My dad, who's 70, on the other hand still doesn't wear gloves to this day. In his defense his hands are so fucking big we haven't been able to find him gloves that are worth shit yet but I'm still looking. I've got to admit wearing hearing protection is the hardest thing for me to do. I just don't remember to grab them, something I'm still working on. Great vid, even better message.
Best info ever! I an a 50 year old body man who has had a scratched cornea, carpal tunnel surgery and now I have a hard time breathing. It's tough to be a working man!!
Flat Rate Master , I think a job that is better paying and less stressful on your body would be better for a younger person out of high school. Why end up with shot knees, back and shoulders / hands when they can work a white collar office job?
Don't overlook breathing protection. Grinding away on gasket materials, brake dust, and even hot coolant steam is bad for you. I once read an article on a tech that breathed in the fumes from brake cleaner that was on a surface that he was torching. It completely wiped his nervous system OUT! It was a pretty sad story actually.
I like this video because everything you said is true. When i was young and started working on cars i thought i was invincible. I was strong as a bull and could install some manual transmissions over my head without a jack. We would carry an engine block across the shop to see who would drop it first. I breathed brake dust and chemicals because in those days we didn't really know they were harmful. Today at 67 my back, and shoulders are torn up. I have arthritis in most of my joints. I live in pain most every day but at least my brain still works, somewhat. I still work part time because i have to. I used to be able to see a fly take a crap at 100 ft. and hear it grunt too, but not anymore. The only thing i could never do and never will is wear gloves, i just can"t work with them on.
Great video man!! I couldn’t agree more!! I can remember back in 2000 when I first started at the dealer you could smoke in the shop! Crazy I know. I remember I was doing a brake flush, looking down at my hand with brake fluid on it, while smoking, thinking this can’t be good for me. I was 20 and invincible. Anyhow I quit the smoking 10+ years ago, but on almost every job I have on my rubber gloves, dust mask when doing brakes, always have my knee pads when racking a vehicle, I also use the rolling the tire up the leg method, saves the back. I’ll usually throw on a full face shield when grinding, torching, etc...
One of the reasons I went to work on motorcycles less twisting your body in weird ways that always ends up pulling something or being bent over a hood for hours
This a good video man! I am a master tech of 20 years and it’s almost a year that I got hurt with a tire at work and and I have a few discs that are damage now and doctors says I may need surgery and the pain is horrible
I am surprised this video does as well as it does as far as views, it is an important video, I cannot stress how important it is to young techs to take care of their body, and I really hope some listen. I am sorry you got hurt Hope you get better, a friend of mine was out of work for 1.5 yrs due to a back injury, he just got back to driving trucks again, he was never a tech but it is not hard to have something like this put you down for a long time or life
I can tell you about the knees, had to have a replacement a year ago. It was a old injury but just got worse. All great tip, good video !! Oh and Super Feet insoles for your boots really help !
I was cleaning a carburetor out on a weedeater, and I stuck the straw in one of the ports and sprayed into it. Turns out, that port makes a U. Carburetor cleaner flew out like a water jet and went straight into my right eye. It was some of the worst pain I have ever experienced. I thought I would never see out of that eye again. Thankfully, I was able to wash the cleaner out quickly so I had no lasting effects. It could have been much worse, and it could have ended any hopes of becoming an auto tech in the future (I am 17). ALWAYS wear safety glasses when using any chemical that could get in your eye!
Wish I would've had this talk 20 years ago...lol... Days of carrying a 350 them across the shop, knees on gravel, used oily hands, both corneas scratched, brake fluid in the eyes(wow burns and feels like sand)
Brake clean in my eyes..... only time I was sure I was going blind. also recently had a severed finger reattached when a subframe came down and chopped it
Iron man! I had a bearing explode as I was pressing it off a hub, knocked my safety glasses up and hit my eyeball, though I had lost an eye, but it returned, I would have lost the eye if not for the glasses!
Just a tip on the gloves, it seems you can get the best deals for single boxes and in bulk from tattoo supply shops online, at least that's what I've found... not something I ever considered before stumbling upon it.
Custom molded ear plugs a wise investment and prescription safety glasses and especially well made knee pads and safety shoes are needed to work on machines.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't shops RESPONSIBLE for providing gloves / safety glasses for their employees? Like legally. I was under this impression from school I believe.
Nope, Only safety glasses if required by company policy that they must be worn at all times, at least that is my understanding, this is the first shop I have worked in that provided gloves
I be safe as well as go to the gym once a week and use the machines that work out my lower back and stuff. Don't go crazy or take creatine or anything, but it keeps me like I was in my late teens early 20s pretty well too, not a bad investment either.
I wear gloves all the time now. Theyre great at protecting your hands. I almost never have to wash or use soap. My hands are clean; I dont have to hide them under the table when I go out to eat. Theyre almost a second skin. I get a lot less cuts than I used to. If a glove rips no biggie go get another pair.
lots of good info in this video! A few things I practice on a regular basis, some I knew but tend to not use and a few others I hadn't considered but will try to remember from now on. On a side note, have you thought about trying to improve your audio quality? I know you're in a big echoey shop, but maybe a lapel mic or something to help eliminate that muffled sound. Keep up the great vids!
If you update this sometime, please include breathing/fumes and hernias. I know 4 people including myself who got hernias on the job. Its like 1 in 6 guys.
Im old and still wont wear them goofy latex gloves except when working with adhisives. I suffer from arthritis now i can blame most of it on using my hands as a hubcap mallet back on the day when cars had real hubcaps. Also like you o have knee problens there os a company out of denmark called mascot they make the best kee pad work pants i have ever seen i own 2 pair now and am getting more this is the only way i can crawl atound on tracks or rocky ground now days. I would suggest doing a reveiew in them
been a tech for almost 10 year.not a day with out glove my hands dont look like a mecanics hands..2 advices use inner shoes gel sole and please no jewrly specialy rings..and what brand of glove are those??look fit good..
We have a tech out for back injury. Just years of abuse. Just rolled out of bed one day and that was it. He is 50. Im guilty of man handling transmissions and transfer cases my self. Its a speed thing. Unfortunately ill pay for it in the future. Ive always been good about wearing safety glasses and using a kneeling pad. Ive already had a knee injury so i have to use a pad the concrete kills my knees.
This may not be a video that will get tons of views, but it is an important video for young techs to understand, the older you get the more you pay for your youth:(
I still have my hearing and always wear hearing protection.Once you lose your hearing,you don't get it back.I do this when using my die grinders,air hammer a lot.My dad knows about it,he has had partial knee replacement twice now 63 years old.These newer cars with the direct injection systems,better read the service manual how to depressurize them before working on them.Gas sprays out and can get blood poisoning if it is not depressurized first.Blood poisoning can be deadly if not taken care of right away.Some cylinder heads,a cherry picker is a must for removal and installation.They are very heavy,this is with the Dodge V10 and Jeep 4.0 heads including in heavy equipment and trucks.Caterpillar did come out with a safety video in 1980 and I remember watching it at vocational school I went to,this one: th-cam.com/video/v26fTGBEi9E/w-d-xo.html
I used to work with High pressure hydraulics, I am well aware of blood poisoning, not in person BTW, but have seen several training videos etc on it. Part of the reason I did this video is the mistakes I made as a young tech, 1 in impacts did not do my hearing much good!
my boss who is sort of training me has all sorts of physical problems, lungs, legs, fingers.. and his vision is shot. and often tells me how hes hurting and junk or asking me to verify small details, and do the heavy work.. well all the work really.. which is just fine i totally get it! but then he gets mad if i glove up, don a respirator or use eyepro. says it takes too much time that hes paying me for, and im not sure how to respectfully tell him that putting at most 5 minutes of paid time over a persons safety is a super douche thing to do xD between that and being asked to do something i am sure is dishonest ive said he would need someone else. now that i know the industry a bit more, i notice him telling clients all sorts of stretches or even flat out lies! i feel it is hurting business to be honest, it would be so much better to just level with clients about the situations, while actually providing quality work they cant get elsewhere. the stress and anxiety of dishonesty and low quality work around solutions and bandaid style temporary 'patches' just waste time because we wind up having to properly fix it again later instead of correctly the 1st. doing me a frustrate =| have you ever ran into situations like that? is it normal n junk and im just a fng whos way off? not sure what the best thing to do is... definately wanna be safe about things
I am sorry but this is not a How to channel, while I may do timelapse videos of my work and day in the life videos I do not have the time during work to film repairs.
well the real world doesnt allow half that . osha doesnt enforce anything and if you try you get fired. find a good place to work that supplies all the tools you need. lifts hoist dollies jacks etc.
Funny, several have commented about the poster, I was out of town, part of last week, and prefilmed this weeks videos but I did fix the poster on friday ,and I came in this morning and it was back hanging down, I think the poster will magically disappear before I film this week;)
Lol i always notice it in your vids and i always wish i could just fix it so i figured id mention it. Lol. Love the shop tour vid. A day in the shoo vid would be really cool if u had time
It has been like that for several years!, it was hung after another tech had a wheel fall off and it drooped the day after it was installed and honestly didn't even notice it until it was mentioned!
There's no way that this should be an unpopular video.
These are words of wisdom from one who speaks from years of experience but the young always feels invulnerable or impervious to harm and take greater risks.
Thank you! I was walking by a tech today as he was replacing a transfer case and he was planning on manhandling it by himself, I nipped that right in the bud!
1+ These vids need more views. New tech here, these vids are gold.
I was grinding and the next day my left eye had extreme pain and was very light sensitive. After a waste of time and $900(5 minutes with nurse, cotton swab and tetanus shot) at the emergency room, I went to an Ophthalmologist where he saw specs of rust that had formed in my cornea and they put my head in a brace, deadened my eye with some drops and the doc used what looked like a fancy dremel with a burring bit to grind the rust specs out. The procedure to fix was $450 and about 25 minutes in the chair.
I always wear safety glasses now when doing anything with flying metal.
When I scratched my cornea, chunk of plastic hit my eye btw, the Ophthalmologist, sad I have multiple scratches on my eyes. Thanks for watching!
Safety glasses are a definite. I just put them on as I walk into the garage. It's like putting on your seatbelt, second nature. Saved my eyes many times.
Can't go wrong wearing them!
Drink raw milk daily, take magnesium. Only eat quality food. Drink good coffee black instead of power drinks.
Graduated from tech school in 2002 an we washed our hands in the solvent tank just like you said. I started wearing gloves back then and didn't get a whole lot of shit for it. My dad, who's 70, on the other hand still doesn't wear gloves to this day. In his defense his hands are so fucking big we haven't been able to find him gloves that are worth shit yet but I'm still looking. I've got to admit wearing hearing protection is the hardest thing for me to do. I just don't remember to grab them, something I'm still working on. Great vid, even better message.
Thank you!
The mind and body are the most important tools for the technician. Thanks for good tips to protect them.
Thank you for watching!
Best info ever! I an a 50 year old body man who has had a scratched cornea, carpal tunnel surgery and now I have a hard time breathing. It's tough to be a working man!!
Yes it is, I did this video to help those young techs, understand how hard this job is on your body and minimize the damage!
Flat Rate Master ,
I think a job that is better paying and less stressful on your body would be better for a younger person out of high school. Why end up with shot knees, back and shoulders / hands when they can work a white collar office job?
Don't overlook breathing protection. Grinding away on gasket materials, brake dust, and even hot coolant steam is bad for you. I once read an article on a tech that breathed in the fumes from brake cleaner that was on a surface that he was torching. It completely wiped his nervous system OUT! It was a pretty sad story actually.
I like this video because everything you said is true. When i was young and started working on cars i thought i was invincible. I was strong as a bull and could install some manual transmissions over my head without a jack.
We would carry an engine block across the shop to see who would drop it first. I breathed brake dust and chemicals because in those days we didn't really know they were harmful.
Today at 67 my back, and shoulders are torn up. I have arthritis in most of my joints. I live in pain most every day but at least my brain still works, somewhat. I still work part time because i have to.
I used to be able to see a fly take a crap at 100 ft. and hear it grunt too, but not anymore.
The only thing i could never do and never will is wear gloves, i just can"t work with them on.
That is the reason I made this video is for those young tech to remember the safety stuff they already know just need reminding!
These are mostly things we should all know but we need to hear them and be reminded of! Awesome vid!
Right on FRM!!! As I mentioned on one of the other FRM videos, If the tech can't even take care of themselves, why should I let them work on my car?
:)
Great video man!! I couldn’t agree more!! I can remember back in 2000 when I first started at the dealer you could smoke in the shop! Crazy I know. I remember I was doing a brake flush, looking down at my hand with brake fluid on it, while smoking, thinking this can’t be good for me. I was 20 and invincible. Anyhow I quit the smoking 10+ years ago, but on almost every job I have on my rubber gloves, dust mask when doing brakes, always have my knee pads when racking a vehicle, I also use the rolling the tire up the leg method, saves the back. I’ll usually throw on a full face shield when grinding, torching, etc...
Thanks FRM !! Wish I had this info when I was younger.
One of the reasons I went to work on motorcycles less twisting your body in weird ways that always ends up pulling something or being bent over a hood for hours
Very true!
Yeah I love wrenching but back problems are in the family, plus I love motorcycles
great tips , I wish there were more guys like you offering advice when I was starting out. Hopefully younger guys are listening
Thank you I set up this channel to help young techs!
Such valuable and wise advice! I need to follow some of them like knees and boots
Another piece of advice is to stretch. The stiffer your body gets the more injuries you are prone to get
Thank you!
This a good video man! I am a master tech of 20 years and it’s almost a year that I got hurt with a tire at work and and I have a few discs that are damage now and doctors says I may need surgery and the pain is horrible
I am surprised this video does as well as it does as far as views, it is an important video, I cannot stress how important it is to young techs to take care of their body, and I really hope some listen. I am sorry you got hurt Hope you get better, a friend of mine was out of work for 1.5 yrs due to a back injury, he just got back to driving trucks again, he was never a tech but it is not hard to have something like this put you down for a long time or life
Yes very important video great info
Thanks FLM for the wisdom. Good video
This video is a must watch video, great info, congrats on your 1k sub!
thank you so much!
Good video, Flatrate Master. Solid advice and warnings. Thanks for taking the time.
Thank you for watching!
I can tell you about the knees, had to have a replacement a year ago. It was a old injury but just got worse. All great tip, good video !! Oh and Super Feet insoles for your boots really help !
Friend of mine just had one done about a month ago. At some point so will I but not to that point yet!
Flatrate Master This Friday will be one year. Wish I would have done it earlier .
NIce!
I was cleaning a carburetor out on a weedeater, and I stuck the straw in one of the ports and sprayed into it. Turns out, that port makes a U. Carburetor cleaner flew out like a water jet and went straight into my right eye. It was some of the worst pain I have ever experienced. I thought I would never see out of that eye again. Thankfully, I was able to wash the cleaner out quickly so I had no lasting effects. It could have been much worse, and it could have ended any hopes of becoming an auto tech in the future (I am 17). ALWAYS wear safety glasses when using any chemical that could get in your eye!
Wish I would've had this talk 20 years ago...lol...
Days of carrying a 350 them across the shop, knees on gravel, used oily hands, both corneas scratched, brake fluid in the eyes(wow burns and feels like sand)
350thm
Oh yeah...swallowing gas trying to syphon gas
Brake clean in my eyes..... only time I was sure I was going blind.
also recently had a severed finger reattached when a subframe came down and chopped it
I never even took a day off for either
Iron man! I had a bearing explode as I was pressing it off a hub, knocked my safety glasses up and hit my eyeball, though I had lost an eye, but it returned, I would have lost the eye if not for the glasses!
The moment you mentioned redback i instantly liked the video
good work place tips, well done.
Thank you for watching!
Just a tip on the gloves, it seems you can get the best deals for single boxes and in bulk from tattoo supply shops online, at least that's what I've found... not something I ever considered before stumbling upon it.
Thanks for the tip!
Great video!
Thank you!
Custom molded ear plugs a wise investment and prescription safety glasses and especially well made knee pads and safety shoes are needed to work on machines.
Hit the nail on the head
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't shops RESPONSIBLE for providing gloves / safety glasses for their employees? Like legally. I was under this impression from school I believe.
Nope, Only safety glasses if required by company policy that they must be worn at all times, at least that is my understanding, this is the first shop I have worked in that provided gloves
I be safe as well as go to the gym once a week and use the machines that work out my lower back and stuff. Don't go crazy or take creatine or anything, but it keeps me like I was in my late teens early 20s pretty well too, not a bad investment either.
Great video
Thank you!
great video👍
Thank you!
Congrats on 1k subscribers! You're doing well... better view count per new video than what I have! Keep it up! =)
Thank you! I can't believe how fast my channel has grown! I watch all your videos with in 24 hours of them going up:)
That's a lot of time you'll never get back! LOL... but thanks!
LOL, but I have learned a lot from you over the years, mostly about fashion and dancing with raindeers:)
Excellent... grasshopper!
great info, Dude.
Thank you for watching!
I wear gloves all the time now. Theyre great at protecting your hands. I almost never have to wash or use soap. My hands are clean; I dont have to hide them under the table when I go out to eat. Theyre almost a second skin. I get a lot less cuts than I used to. If a glove rips no biggie go get another pair.
lots of good info in this video! A few things I practice on a regular basis, some I knew but tend to not use and a few others I hadn't considered but will try to remember from now on.
On a side note, have you thought about trying to improve your audio quality? I know you're in a big echoey shop, but maybe a lapel mic or something to help eliminate that muffled sound.
Keep up the great vids!
I have a GoPro mic adapter on order along with a label mic! Thanks for watching
If you update this sometime, please include breathing/fumes and hernias. I know 4 people including myself who got hernias on the job. Its like 1 in 6 guys.
Im old and still wont wear them goofy latex gloves except when working with adhisives. I suffer from arthritis now i can blame most of it on using my hands as a hubcap mallet back on the day when cars had real hubcaps. Also like you o have knee problens there os a company out of denmark called mascot they make the best kee pad work pants i have ever seen i own 2 pair now and am getting more this is the only way i can crawl atound on tracks or rocky ground now days. I would suggest doing a reveiew in them
You are kind of like the dad of shops
Thanks
really good advice
been a tech for almost 10 year.not a day with out glove my hands dont look like a mecanics hands..2 advices use inner shoes gel sole and please no jewrly specialy rings..and what brand of glove are those??look fit good..
UNi-seal plus is the brand and the part number for large is 039-8B we have a lady that sells them to the shop.
Good stuff.
Thank you!
had to have my cornea planed off that really sucked. Prescription safety glasses from then on.
Eww! I bet that did suck!
grate video I really enjoy all of your videos and always learn something from them. where can I get those band ear plugs you have?
Thank you, I bought them off the Matco truck but you can buy them on amazon too, just search ear plugs
We have a tech out for back injury. Just years of abuse. Just rolled out of bed one day and that was it. He is 50. Im guilty of man handling transmissions and transfer cases my self. Its a speed thing. Unfortunately ill pay for it in the future. Ive always been good about wearing safety glasses and using a kneeling pad. Ive already had a knee injury so i have to use a pad the concrete kills my knees.
This may not be a video that will get tons of views, but it is an important video for young techs to understand, the older you get the more you pay for your youth:(
Flatrate Master im already starting to pay for it. It might be time to kick it down a notch.
I still have my hearing and always wear hearing protection.Once you lose your hearing,you don't get it back.I do this when using my die grinders,air hammer a lot.My dad knows about it,he has had partial knee replacement twice now 63 years old.These newer cars with the direct injection systems,better read the service manual how to depressurize them before working on them.Gas sprays out and can get blood poisoning if it is not depressurized first.Blood poisoning can be deadly if not taken care of right away.Some cylinder heads,a cherry picker is a must for removal and installation.They are very heavy,this is with the Dodge V10 and Jeep 4.0 heads including in heavy equipment and trucks.Caterpillar did come out with a safety video in 1980 and I remember watching it at vocational school I went to,this one: th-cam.com/video/v26fTGBEi9E/w-d-xo.html
I used to work with High pressure hydraulics, I am well aware of blood poisoning, not in person BTW, but have seen several training videos etc on it. Part of the reason I did this video is the mistakes I made as a young tech, 1 in impacts did not do my hearing much good!
why would anyone give a thumbs down for a video on safety ? SMH
IDK, I quess too boring of a subject
I broke my wrist and my only employee broke his shoulder all in the last month. We are a train wreck!
Ouch! That sucks!
Is asbestos still a concern today?
I guess flip flops are out dang! Thanks for the vid.
I know right?
What do you think about back supports?
my boss who is sort of training me has all sorts of physical problems, lungs, legs, fingers.. and his vision is shot. and often tells me how hes hurting and junk or asking me to verify small details, and do the heavy work.. well all the work really.. which is just fine i totally get it! but then he gets mad if i glove up, don a respirator or use eyepro. says it takes too much time that hes paying me for, and im not sure how to respectfully tell him that putting at most 5 minutes of paid time over a persons safety is a super douche thing to do xD between that and being asked to do something i am sure is dishonest ive said he would need someone else. now that i know the industry a bit more, i notice him telling clients all sorts of stretches or even flat out lies! i feel it is hurting business to be honest, it would be so much better to just level with clients about the situations, while actually providing quality work they cant get elsewhere. the stress and anxiety of dishonesty and low quality work around solutions and bandaid style temporary 'patches' just waste time because we wind up having to properly fix it again later instead of correctly the 1st. doing me a frustrate =|
have you ever ran into situations like that? is it normal n junk and im just a fng whos way off? not sure what the best thing to do is... definately wanna be safe about things
Sir I have a question, are all your videos all talk or are you going to do any how to videos???
I am sorry but this is not a How to channel, while I may do timelapse videos of my work and day in the life videos I do not have the time during work to film repairs.
+Flatrate Master Thank you for the explanation
I heard a guy call gloves "bitch mittens" one time. I was like WTF??
Us oldtimers use to call them that all the time, you were not a real tech if you wore them, times have changed almost everyone wears them nowadays!
all the old timers at my shop have had new knees put in
Funny how that happens:(
Being technicians, do they have grease zerks on them? LOL!!!
What state are you working out of?
Georgia
Flat Rate Master awesome videos
Appreciate them watching from New Mexico
well the real world doesnt allow half that . osha doesnt enforce anything and if you try you get fired. find a good place to work that supplies all the tools you need. lifts hoist dollies jacks etc.
Laquer Thinner splashed on the face will give you a warm tingly feeling, lucky it didn't get directly in my eyes
Ouch!!!!
like the vids man very informative but that sign behind u that is hanging down on one corner really bothers me. lol please fix it my friend.
Funny, several have commented about the poster, I was out of town, part of last week, and prefilmed this weeks videos but I did fix the poster on friday ,and I came in this morning and it was back hanging down, I think the poster will magically disappear before I film this week;)
Lol i always notice it in your vids and i always wish i could just fix it so i figured id mention it. Lol. Love the shop tour vid. A day in the shoo vid would be really cool if u had time
It has been like that for several years!, it was hung after another tech had a wheel fall off and it drooped the day after it was installed and honestly didn't even notice it until it was mentioned!
WEAR YOUR RESPIRATOR!
Your employer buys ppe, not you.
Ozzy ô should be that way but it isnt