Thread: Wear your kill switch and life jacket!!!

Great lesson to pass along. Glad you are alive and thanks for sharing this. You and your workmate now should know what it feels like when you are blessed from above.

Thanks for sharing.... as a new boat owner, need to develop safe habits. danny

Glad all of yall were OK!!! thanks for the great post and important reminder!!!!!

Originally Posted by Ultralite

Can't believe I'm writing this, as I was just reading through a thread in another forum yesterday about the guy in Big Lake. oat.

Those that do not read Tigerdroppings may not know about this. Dude almost lost his hand. From that thread:

Got quick surgery and was able to save his hand. Dr. Weber, probably the best hand surgeons in the area, was able to save has hand and he has intact neuro and motor function.

Saw a picture of it too. It was not pretty. Ya'll probably saved his life with the tourniquet. The prop missed his radial artery by about 2 cm. If it cut that, he would have bled out in a matter of minutes.

glad to hear that youre okay. I have an older model tiller handle that does not have a kill switch setup for a lanyard, therefore I am exempt from the law requiring kill lanyards.. but I have always felt very uneasy about not having one. Does anyone know of a way to rig one up on a pull start tiller? I also make everyone who rides in my boat wear the big nasty orange life vests, because the others usually dont turn you right side up if you become unconscious. They hate it, but they will thank me when we inevitably hang up on something in the water.

Originally Posted by cjleger337

glad to hear that youre okay. I have an older model tiller handle that does not have a kill switch setup for a lanyard, therefore I am exempt from the law requiring kill lanyards.. but I have always felt very uneasy about not having one. Does anyone know of a way to rig one up on a pull start tiller? I also make everyone who rides in my boat wear the big nasty orange life vests, because the others usually dont turn you right side up if you become unconscious. They hate it, but they will thank me when we inevitably hang up on something in the water.

You'ed have more luck with your question if you Post make model and year of your motor.