Gun safety

[Scott Stone]

I was reading cleaner times today, and the Publisher wrote in his column about the safety on teh pressure washing guns, and that a minimum standard is being discussed to make them safer. So I thought that I would conduct a poll...

Scott

 

[R L S]

I never use my safety when I am washing with a trigger gun. Most of the time say 95% of the time I use an open gun and ball valve so I essentially have no saftey. Just quick hands.

 

[Clean County PW]

I never use the safety locks and as far as I know none of the guys that ever worked for me has either. We did the exact opposite by putting a tennis ball in the gun to keep the gun open.........I did break a few of them over the years...

 

[powerwashofva]

I have to agree with John T. I never used the saftey & haven't had a problem.

 

[Henry Bockman]

I rarely ever use the safety and I have used that tennis ball trick myself in the past until I dropped my bun when it was in there one time. I don't use that trick anymore..lol

 

[Dave Olson]

Hello Scott,

We use ball valves on our pressure washers, so there is no safety!

Our water blaster uses dump guns. If any of my guys would use this and bypass the dump, I would Fire him!

Dave Olson

 

[Howard]

Never used them since, I work alone most of the time I don't use the tennis ball trick either.

 

[Ron Musgraves]

Dave, i'm calling you Mcgiver , That duck tape remind me of that show.

 

[Dave Olson]

Hi Ron,

Gotta have duct tape

We use it for padding. The recoil on our blaster requires a little cushion for the shoulder or hip. When we run it we try to have at least 3 guys so they can pass it around. As the day goes by, 10 minutes on the gun is about all any of us wants to handle!

Dave Olson

 

[Mike Hughes]

I use the safety every time we pass a gun up a ladder...........or up onto a roof. But thats about it.

 

[Russ Spence]

duct tape will fix almost anything

 

[Lou hoods&more]

***** Stick It*******

 

[Ron Musgraves]

I work too many 24 hr locations with the public to close. gotta use the safty features incase.

 

[Russ Spence]

INCASE ??????..............Oh in case there is no duct tape !!!!!

 

[EnviroClean]

INCASE ??????..............Oh in case there is no duct tape !!!!!

Now that is funny!!!

 

[Russ Spence]

do you have your duct tape jason ??????????

 

[EnviroClean]

Never go anywhere without it on the truck or on the trailer.

Hey what's the funniest think you personally have "rigged" with duct tape...I know there are books and websites with incredible stuff but what is the best "Bama Engineering" you have done?

I made a belt for the wifes vaccum cleaner, It worked for a month!!!

 

[Russ Spence]

i burned my A$$ with some muratic acid and made field dressing ,worked good until it had to come off(hairy a$$ syndrome)

 

[Thad]

I taped the end of my finger back on with duct tape.
Works great- but gets a little stinky!

 

[Russ Spence]

whatever works .........thats cajun engineering