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gjeffers, your truck is not complete without one of these:

http://www.bumperdumper.com/bumper2.htm

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:)I love the challenge of this hobby. One of the things I do is try to remove the glow stick from the front thru the prop. You can do it...but you gotta be fast.
Thanks
Barry

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yea fourstroke, its funny what runs through your mind right after a prop goes digging through your arm!!
as soon as my arm shut down my saito 100 which was running at approx 6-7000 rpms(4 slices luckily with wood prop) i yelled at my son first"it got me" then i grabed a rag as he ran up and as we tied it around my arm(no artery either) all i could think of was do i have time to load all this stuff up before i bleed to death????? and i proceeded to load it up and made it to the urgent care before i did die, but yes i do love my planes:D

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Barry, if you think this is ugly you should have seen me cut up chickens when i worked in a butcher shop when i was in high school, puts these props to shame:D

thanks Rainyday, but i already have one but i didnt have time to set it up:( (bad day):)

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A whole bunch of reasons that one should never fly alone. I admit that I have done it in the past and every once in a while I get the urge again, but after a bad cut I realized that an artery cut and you could be dead before you could get help.

Better safe than dead.

Mike H.

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gjeffers - that's sick... sick sick sick :D it's true that i would be very hesitant to leave my airplanes behind, too. this guy put in about five grand in his plane... but then it's not exactly easy to slip at 2+ meter aerobat into your car without anyone noticing.

i was talking to one of the hobby shop owners about how concerned that guy was about his radio and plane and the LHS owner said this: "the body will heal itself, the plane won't!" with a chuckle. and his solution to ensure that this will never happen again? "fly jets, no prop to hit you with" :eek: wouldn't you know he always has a full stock of jets!

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after I cut the tip of my thumb off on July 4th, my dad told me I should get into jets. I told him sure thing as long as he puts out the cash.:D