The Consumer Product Safety Commission said the recall involves 6500-watt and 8000-watt Generac, HomeLink and DR brands of portable generators. They were sold at major home improvement and hardware stores nationwide and online.
-Marc
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This is a good thing.
ReplyDeletePeople should replace these anyway with plug-in backup generators.
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That's nature's way of culling the dumb-asses.
ReplyDeleteYeah. In the meantime, the rest of us have to pay for those government agencies to oversee and regulate this stupidity. A system that removes Darwinism as a cleansing mechanism becomes subject to Darwinism itself.
DeleteNice to see brain surgeons commenting on this site.
ReplyDeleteYou sound like someone who'd talk the entire length of a movie pointing out the historical inaccuracies.
Delete45 reported injuries and they're off the market, plus the manufacturer will be sued for damages no doubt. Yet the .gov pushed COVID "vaccine". that has poisoned millions and killed thousands with much more to come, are still being promoted and administered, and the pharmaceutical companies are immune from any liability.
ReplyDeleteTraditional trials are stopped on the spot and things go back to the drawing board when ONE person dies. Even an adverse reaction can be enough to trigger it. Not in this case, everything continued forward at "Warp Speed"
DeleteAnd the recall has nothing to do with the generator unit itself, but with the handle used to move it. Apparently, people can't figure out that if a finger is between the frame and the handle when it's lifted into place there just might be a possibility it could hurt or cause injury.
ReplyDeleteThe older I get, the less hope I have for mankind's survival. Like I ever had a lot of hope for that to begin with.
Elmo, your advancing age is coincidental to the purposeful decline in education. There is the culprit.
DeleteI can see where you wouldn't have to be a dumbass to experience this problem. Stuff like that can happen pretty easily.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how you never know how many items are the same product but just rebranded until it comes under a recall. And the brand loyalists will call you out and almost come to blows saying that brandX is the most reliable and better than brandY even though they are exactly the same.
ReplyDeleteBlack & Decker/DeWalt comes to mind.
DeleteRight anon, got my gen at Tractor Supply 8 years ago with the same handle set up. THANK GOD I SOMEHOW still have all my fingers. Oh, and a shout out to Murphy for over looking my lucky ass and fingers. Maybe I should drag it out for some finger chopping, sue, get rick and THEN all my troubles will be over...yeah, that's the ticket.
DeleteTree Mike, soon to be RICH!
I'm looking at some of the models and for someone to get their finger cut off by the handle, it looks like it would take two people to do it; one using the handle and the other person with their fingers where they shouldn't be. A youtube video confirms what I thought I saw and someone would need to be really drunk or just plain stupid to lose a finger with this handle.
ReplyDeleteWarning... don't stick fingers in moving parts! Hmm, this sounds like common sense? It's kinda like making sure your bootlaces are tucked in around belts and rotary equipment.
- Arc
Exactly my thoughts. How tf do you get your fingers trapped by grabbing the handles that swing away??
DeleteJust as soon as they make something idiot proof, the idiots prove them wrong.
Darwin was right.
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I have a GP6500 new in the box that I picked up at an estate auction a few years back. It is still in the box. I was planning to build then the price of wood and concrete went through the roof doubling the cost of the build. That made the new build out of reach for us financially. The price of wood has come down a little but concrete has not.
ReplyDeleteDo you still have all your fingers, or did you lose one to the price of wood amd concrete?
DeleteIn Const. Mgmnt, we studied several cases each involving Werner ladders.
ReplyDeleteThey were successfully sued for not having warning labels on their ladders. Later, they were successfully sued for putting warning labels on their ladders, this time it was argued the label was evidence of known defects. That verdict was reversed on appeal.
Now, 30% of the price of a ladder is the cost for warning labels (future legal defense).
Tort law is much in need for reform.
I'm surprised makers of plastic bags haven't been sued for printing the warning label in one language only.
Dumb people are dumb. The race to idiot proof the world is a tax on us all.
I don't know for sure, Anon, but I suspect it was the tort lawyers (abetted by OSHA) that screwed up the regular old gas can.
DeleteIf these bad gas powered boys bother you you can opt for one of these, but make sure you don't have a heart condition:
ReplyDeletehttps://at-communication.com/en/hf_ssb_hand_crank_generator/at/at_military_hand_crank_generators.html
"Nothing is fool-proof for a sufficiently motivated fool"
ReplyDeleteYeah, I noticed those handles were sketchy. Know what I did?
ReplyDeleteI was CAREFUL!
heh, heh I bought a 7KW 13HP generator in 2005. It has no wheels, but is located 75 yards away in a pole barn with a 220 feet to the CB panel. Bit of a pain to fire it up in a rain storm, but supplies all my needs and has for 17 years.
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