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Hydraulic systems can be stupid dangerous. If you can't be positive it's depressurized, or are confident whatever work you're about to do will hold when it is pressurized, take the time to find someone knowledgeable.

Of a few other issues: even a small stream can more or less act as it's own hypodermic, putting really nasty (chemically and biologically) stuff into deep tissue. The resulting infections have killed people. I don't think it's like a death sentence but it can that sort of bug you think you'll sleep off and wake up dead.

I work around a lot of grosse stuff, but it doesn't get a head start from inside my muscle tissue.

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If you're underground, urbexing in a bunker or cave, don't assume there will be enough oxygen for you to get back out. Heavy gases can displace it. Bring a meter.

Gasoline is explosive. Do not poor it on a fire. If for some reason, you decide that a fire needs gasoline (first, rethink what brought you to this point) poor it on the unlit material and then walk about 20 meters away making a small trail of gasoline away from the material to be lit. Liquid gasoline is not explosive. The vapor that comes off of liquid gasoline is what is explosive. When you go to light you trail of gasoline, stand away from it toss your match or whatever at the trail. The vapor will ignite before the flame hits the ground and then race to whatever you poored the gasoline on. It will then explode and shake the ground under your feet because you thought "if a little is good, more is better." Better yet, just get some actual lighter fluid that was designed for what you're doing and not for propelling a ton of steel down the highway.

Don't mess around with Jim.