Be careful with your tripod!

Every 2 or 3 years I get bitten by a tripod. For I while I'm extra careful, then I get complacent. This happened to me yesterday.

Here's the pinch point.

Take care, folks.

Be careful around opening/closing doors as well. Nothing like getting those fingers [or neck] in a jam...lol

Gimbal head on a monopod using a 2.5kg lens when the head is loose. Ouch!

Be careful with your tripod!

AND

closing A-frame ladders 🙂 (especially for us 60+)

That sucks, maan! Heal soon.
After two accidents, I remember this stuff too well for it to happen again. 🤭

Its a tripod kiss

It seems to like you very much

And folding the ironing board.

I have my rodeo with what I call "porn pliers" - because It needs a sigh everytime a cable is cut, cause the feel of it, compared to standard cutting pliers. :-)

Scissor pliers from Cimco are evil.
The highlighted area punished me with quite some damage once. Because these things only happen to you ONCE. Either you "don´t make it", or you make sure it doesn´t happen ever again.

Be careful with your articulating arm ! This thing has about a gazillion joints in it and it will bite while adjusting it as one knob will release several of them. Sometimes the different joints will take turns and bite several times in one adjusting session to keep it high and out of the FOV. Rich

Ouch! You need a pair of the chainmail gloves that oyster shuckers wear in order to keep all their fingers. Rich

I feel bad for you 😬

In the olden days, I had a tripod head lock strip out (becse of my bad habit of overtightening things) with a Linhof Karten 8x10 View Camera aboard, long bellows, giant bellows lens shade, and a metal film holder, lunge forward on my hand. Pain? I saw my Great Grandmother and I never met her! I was cussing like a drunken sailor with Tourettes Syndrome. After stopping off a the hospital ER, I went directly to the Camera shop and purchase a Majestic GEARED head. You can mout a house on that thing- I still have it.

My assistants at the studio tease me and call me "wrench hands "and prefer that I don't set up light stands on location jobs.

Bad habits die hard!

I still use that head at industrial jobs where I am working from high structures or elevating devices. My wife says that piece of gear is just like me," gettin' old and ugly" but still workin'😁