Carboy Injuries Yikes!

[Toot]

Was stumbling through a couple of American forums and came across some pretty gruesome stories about people getting injured by dropping glass carboys.

http://forums.morebeer.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=25146&start...

http://brewing.lustreking.com/articles/nomoreglass.html

http://brewing.lustreking.com/articles/brokencarboys.html

Defiantly gonna be more careful with mine from now on.

[Mike Neilson]

Well I have smashed 2 in one day!!

[JoKing]

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.

[Mike Neilson]

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.

[Chris Banks]

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!!

[Reviled]

HDPE aint looking so bad now yeah? ;o)

[denimglen]

PET better bottles still look better :-P

[MrC]

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

[Toot]

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

[Reviled]

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

[warra48]

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.

[James P]

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!

[Reviled]

"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...