SamT said:
The lad who got shot with the shard that ended up between his ribs was using carpet - infact - he wasnt even the firer - he was sat behind the firer.
Ouch! That's impressive(?!) The rock we've used them on hasn't really produced anything flying around. Going through concrete would loosen fist size chunks that would either just drop to the floor, or stay where they were.
Going through rock
(unknown flavour as it's been in mines, but not nice caving limestone) just cracked it - no shards to fly around.
Will still use protection though, you never know what might happen! :shock:
(anyone got a spare flak jacket?)
On the last job caps
were making progress, but only slowly. We brought someone in to try SLB, which made an impressive BANG, but didn't touch the concrete plug in the mine level.
In the end we used a generator on the surface, dropped the cable down a nearby shaft and spent an afternoon with a Kango - that shifted it!
Unfortunatley the level beyond had collapsed.