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Anyone ever cut a Lawn mower Cable?
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 |
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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 Flymo (spit) hover mower, went right through the cable...I don't know how though as it couldn't manage to cut the grass. -- http://www.blueyonder256k.myby.co.uk/ |
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"Phil L" wrote in message k... 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 Flymo (spit) hover mower, went right through the cable...I don't know how though as it couldn't manage to cut the grass. Me too. Repaired cable with junction box, but Flymo since expired terminally and gone to garden heaven. Bevan |
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Bevan Price wrote:
"Phil L" wrote in message k... hoods wrote: [...snip...] Flymo (spit) hover mower, went right through the cable...I don't know how though as it couldn't manage to cut the grass. Me too. Repaired cable with junction box, but Flymo since expired terminally and gone to garden heaven. Flymo ? Garden heaven ? Hawk, spit ... Flymos belong in Garden *Hell*. |
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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 Too late. It's called a fuse. Franz |
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"Franz Heymann" wrote in message ... 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 Too late. It's called a fuse. Sorry about the messed-up attribution marks. Let's leave it as a puzzle for the intelligent reader to provide them in imagination. Franz |
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Thanks for your posts, if you could keep them coming in with details of accidents I would be greatfull.
You'd be surprised at the ammount of people I've interviewed who have gone through the hedgetrimmer cables several times and snagged the lawn mower cable. Even though none of them got electrocuted it does happen (just look at the department of trade and industry report Home and Aciddent survey). At the end of the day it boils down to being carefull but i'm hoping to design something that helps keep the cable out of the danger zone. Havent started designing yet but when I'm finished i'll post it for any comments. |
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hoods wrote:
Thanks for your posts, if you could keep them coming in with details of accidents I would be greatfull. I was actually wheeling the mower with it turned off, thought I could run it over the lead, but instead the roller pushed it along the drive and wore the cable straight through to the conductors. Chris -- Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK Have dancing shoes, will ceilidh. |
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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. :-) |
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"hoods" wrote in message ... 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. Yes, both a lawn mower and a hedge trimmer (not at the same time :-). The cause is the poor design of the products and the fact that.......ok I admit, it, the cause was me being careless. Dont know what product you might have that would cure that? Removing the power cable is the obvious solution, but they already invented the battery, so you are out of luck there. -- Tumbleweed email replies not necessary but to contact use; tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com |
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You could incorporate a metal detector into the lawnmower so it would cut
the power if you got too close to any metal ( the wire included) or I suppose some sort of scarifier would lift the grass ready for cutting and as a side effect would lift the cable up over the machine instead of under it. -- Martin & Anna Sykes ( Remove x's when replying ) http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm "hoods" wrote in message ... 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 -- hoods |
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i worked with this sort of eqipment and in all cases as far as i could
determine it came down to human error, there is a process to follow to prevent from coming back over the power lead. but don't know how you are going to fool proof whatever it is you are trying to fool proof, humans will be humans. the best safety prevention is a safety pack to plug the device into or a safety switch fitted to the power supply. len On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:05:30 +0000, hoods wrote: snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/ my e/mail addies have spam filters you should know what to delete before you send. |
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In article ,
len gardener wrote: i worked with this sort of eqipment and in all cases as far as i could determine it came down to human error, there is a process to follow to prevent from coming back over the power lead. but don't know how you are going to fool proof whatever it is you are trying to fool proof, humans will be humans. Well, the only time that I did it was because of the insane 'safety' devices fitted to it. I disabled the damn thing, and the machine became a lot safer. Some moronic bureaucrat produced regulations demanding a control that couldn't be engaged just by squeezing the handle. An equally moronic designer produced one that couldn't be engaged with one hand, except perhaps by an orangutang. So, while wrestling with that on a slope, the machine slipped sideways. In my life, I have been injured half a dozen times by safety devices of the added-on variety, and almost never had one save me from an accident. They are a disaster. Safety devices should be engineered in as part of the basic design. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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"len gardener" wrote in message ... i worked with this sort of eqipment and in all cases as far as i could determine it came down to human error, there is a process to follow to prevent from coming back over the power lead. but don't know how you are going to fool proof whatever it is you are trying to fool proof, humans will be humans. A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams - -- Regards, Alan. Preserve wildlife - Pickle a SQUIRREL to reply. |
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exactly my point douglas,
just got to follow the mower threads in the usa, to see that with all the safety junk fitted the fool is still in opperation. len snipped -- happy gardening 'it works for me it could work for you,' "in the end ya' gotta do what ya' gotta do" but consider others and the environment http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1/ my e/mail addies have spam filters you should know what to delete before you send. |
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