Carboy Injuries Yikes!

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Permalink Reply by Mike Neilson on March 12, 2010 at 9:23am

Well I have smashed 2 in one day!!

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Permalink Reply by JoKing on March 12, 2010 at 10:39am

It makes you think. I have 2 glass carboys, and don't use anything else. I have had a couple of close calls - but never considered how bad the injuries could be.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Neilson on March 12, 2010 at 10:52am

yeah I roll mine around on expossed aggragate concrete and all, im just waiting for them to smash so I can get a 50L Conical.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Banks on March 12, 2010 at 11:27am

Ooooh reading about those injuries made me feel a bit queasy I had an work accident with 3x1.5m sheet
of stainless and a dickhead **** boss who was determined to do everything at 1 million miles an hour.

The result of which left me in surgery for 2 hours and of work for 3 months while the tendons healed which seemed to be the common part in all the carboy storys! No fun at all!!

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Permalink Reply by Reviled on March 12, 2010 at 11:31am

HDPE aint looking so bad now yeah? ;o)

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Permalink Reply by denimglen on March 12, 2010 at 3:31pm

PET better bottles still look better :-P

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Permalink Reply by MrC on March 12, 2010 at 11:38am

Anyone want to but a 23L carboy? I'll throw in a bung and and airlock.

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Permalink Reply by Toot on March 12, 2010 at 11:56am

Anyone seen any of the carboy haulers in NZ?

http://mountainhomebrew.com/browseproducts/Brew-Hauler-Carboy-Carri...

Better bottles are looking pretty good after reading these.

Was reading about another poor bugger who used a blocked airlock with a resulting explosion that blew the door off his cupboard! Only in America

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Permalink Reply by Reviled on March 12, 2010 at 11:58am

Jeezuz, thats a horror story if ever I heard one, mate.... Imagine if that went off in his face?? Crikey!!

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Permalink Reply by warra48 on March 12, 2010 at 12:40pm

I think I'll stick to the plastic fermenters I now use.
Couldn't trust myself not to drop a glass carboy at some stage.

I struggle enough to keep my bottles in one piece, let alone a carboy.

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Permalink Reply by James P on March 12, 2010 at 12:58pm

Stainless steel fermenter? I'd probably break my leg when it fell on me, on second thought it'd kill my girls if it fell on them!

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Permalink Reply by Reviled on March 12, 2010 at 1:01pm

"I struggle enough to keep my bottles in one piece"

Exactly why ive never gone glass, and probably never will! Would hate to pick up bits of glass for weeks after breaking a carboy...

Was told a story from some old guy who used to make GB in his garage, had a crate of bottles explode on him and all he could find was the bottle knecks, the rest had just disintegrated, and even tho he thoroughly vacuumed the garage floor tiny shards of glass kept coming out of the concrete for months afterwards!! Scary...

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