28th July 2009, 06:04 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Paul Belford
Arguably it might be wiser to go for prevention rather than cure and use goggles on high-risk potentially eye-damaging situations like mattocking?
(Speaking as someone who has very rarely followed this advice over the years, goggles being sweaty horrible plasticky things that trap dirt and sweat and fog up during hard mattocking preventing you from seeing what you are doing).
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When digging flinty deposits you could also use the age-old tried and tested incredibly unsafe and stupid not-to-be-recommended practice of swinging the mattock and quickly looking away at the last micro-second. [xx(]
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