hoods wrote:

Hello,

I'm a product designer doing some research for my degree.

I was wondering if anyone here has ever accidentally cut their
lanwmower, hedgetrimmer (and any other power tool) power cable by
accident. If so could you briefly just say what you had an accident
with, your posts will help me justify the design of a porduct to stop
this happening.

Thanks for your time


A bit off topic, but it was funny. In yea olde days, when Aaron was a
pilot, I was a young airman working on a sort of telephone system where
cables were laid across the airfields to a parking area for aircraft,
these were then plugged into the aircraft so that the pilot could
receive "Scramble" messages from the tower. A young man decided to cut
the airfield grass, no one knew why, he blighthly ran across the cables,
several times, chopping then into tiny pieces, now that is what I call a
cable accident. His punishment was to re-lay the cables over the
weekend, some job. I always thought if only the Russians had known they
could have attacked with impunity. Mind you they could have done that
any weekend in any case, as I am sure they knew. :-)