Post your Lunting Accidents.

[Sig]

I dont know if its considered a lunting accident per se, but I did have the cow incident of 2016.
I set my favorite GBD 9456 (favorite shape, not necessarily favorite pipe) either on a hay bale, or a fence post while I did some random thing. When I went back for the pipe...a dang cow had it in her mouth!! It was chewed and broken beyond any fixing....and very slobbery.

 

[Sobrbiker]

I dont know if its considered a lunting accident per se, but I did have the cow incident of 2016.
I set my favorite GBD 9456 (favorite shape, not necessarily favorite pipe) either on a hay bale, or a fence post while I did some random thing. When I went back for the pipe...a dang cow had it in her mouth!! It was chewed and broken beyond any fixing....and very slobbery.

Sorry to laugh, I’m sure it was a very sad day, but that’s funny -esp the “and very slobbery” addendum.
I actually had a visual of a research cow with a rumen window installed and your poor chomped up GBD going sloshing by….

 

[Waning Embers]

He was researching different tobaccos

On briar I was studying the effects of breakage versus grain placement, the effects of heat on pipes with different grain orientation, and mortise wear over time. With meerschaum I was seeing if color change was more to do with smoke or heat. That one is ongoing.

 

[anotherbob]

My one lunting accident the pipe was fine, I limped and bitched for a few days. My instinct after stepping on an oil slick and totally lossing traction was to protect the pipe. No real pictures just pain and damage reports. And I don't know how this works but if you hurt yourself in a certain way that's always when your job will have you do all the things that aggravate it the most. At least the pipe was fine.
Oh I have gotten tiny little minor burns from catching a pipe that fell out of a clench.

 

[Brad H]

My one lunting accident the pipe was fine, I limped and bitched for a few days. My instinct after stepping on an oil slick and totally lossing traction was to protect the pipe. No real pictures just pain and damage reports. And I don't know how this works but if you hurt yourself in a certain way that's always when your job will have you do all the things that aggravate it the most. At least the pipe was fine.
Oh I have gotten tiny little minor burns from catching a pipe that fell out of a clench.

Glad the lunting didn’t hurt the pipe!
I lunt aknots each morning looking for armadillo digs in the yard. I stumbled in a hole but my pipe was ok that day.

 

[georged]

On briar I was studying the effects of breakage versus grain placement, the effects of heat on pipes with different grain orientation, and mortise wear over time. With meerschaum I was seeing if color change was more to do with smoke or heat. That one is ongoing.

Got it.

I once pulled the engine of a ZR1 Corvette, melted it into a blob at a steel mill (my buddy's dad was a foreman at the one down the street), and re-bolted it to the frame to see if it ran better or worse.

Never was able to make that highly scientific determination, though, because it wouldn't start.

No idea why, it just wouldn't.

 

[Sig]

Sorry to laugh, I’m sure it was a very sad day, but that’s funny -esp the “and very slobbery” addendum.
I actually had a visual of a research cow with a rumen window installed and your poor chomped up GBD going sloshing by….

Oh yeah, she had it all mixed in with cud.

 

[Sig]

Got it.

I once pulled the engine of a ZR1 Corvette, melted it into a blob at a steel mill (my buddy's dad was a foreman at the one down the street), and re-bolted it to the frame to see if it ran better or worse.

Never was able to make that highly scientific determination, though, because it wouldn't start.

No idea why, it just wouldn't.

If you did that to an Alpha Romeo it would DEFINITELY run much better.
Just saying.