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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (2 children)

True story time: when my dad assembled my family's first trampoline, he was really struggling to get the last spring in place. He was alternating between trying to stretch it from the canvas to the frame or from the frame to the canvas. Finally, on one of his attempts, the spring slipped out from his hand, hooked into his other forearm, and tore its way up along leaving a massive gash on his arm.

He probably needed stitches, but was terrified of doctors and needles, so he just applied lots of, used a ridiculous amount of butterfly bandages, and tightly wrapped the shit out of his arm.

He bled through this setup three times before the bleeding slowed down enough that my sisters and I stopped crying that he was going to die.

Trampoline springs are no fucking joke.

But the joke pictured in OP's post is 10/10 gold

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

Springs go from dangerous to lethal. So much invisible energy stored, waiting for a weak point. Way too many videos out there of what not to do with car suspensions or garage doors.

On the picture topic, it depends on which end he was impaled on. It's obviously the broken side, but they don't say that's the end that got him.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Another anecdote for the "Springs Be Scary" list, I was helping my brother in law put theirs up two years ago, and similarly had trouble with the last spring.

We were using the tool included in the packaging, a little T post handle with a small hook on the end, sort of like one of those livestock processing hooks they use to grab heavy things with, just a lot smaller. And not sharp.

Well the last spring was being pulled back when the metal hook broke out of the handle, and shot into the nearby house window and broke one of the bottom panes.

Nobody was hurt, but with all the kids excitedly sprinting around, that metal bit was flying at eye level to 3 or 4 of them... Someone could have lost an eye.

Springs under load are scary as fuck, ask any garage door tech.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

In case of garage doors, i guess counter weights wold be more expensive?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

How's he doing? Well, he's been up and down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is it a 40ft or a 12m spring?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

There's a comma, obviously it means the boys height.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I think that's age and not length

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Just wait until they turn 50 feet. They grow up so fast. 😔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It was a 12 year old spring? What about the boy?

Edit: https://lemmy.world/comment/11818143 for reference

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It could be both