Watch your parts

[Ranger99]

I was using a high speed electric
metal cut off tool this evening to
cut some squares out of plate,
and boo booed and cut my glove
and nicked my finger.
It could have been a bad deal, but
the glove got the worst of it thankfully.

One of those cut off carbon wheels can
take your finger off or zip through the
bone pretty easy. A plasma cutter will
do the same. I've known a couple of
stubby fingered carpenters that fought
with their table saws and lost.


Dang it, don't forget to use caution
when you use things that can take
chunks out of you.  Yes, I had safety
glasses. BTDT at the ER, like to have
lost an eye.

[O-mega]

Good thing it wasn't worse, but how pray tell did it go from nicking a finger to needing eye pro?

[Ranger99]

I try to put safety glasses on
whenever I'm using something
that spits out wood chips or
metal slivers at high velocity

Years ago when we dirt track raced,
I was drilling out some rivets, and the
metal panel broke loose and flew up
in my eye and slit my eyelid and scratched
my eye. It's a miracle it didn't finish the job.
I wear tinted safety glasses as sunglasses
anyway.  A dollar some odd. Got used to
wearing them daily for work. Cheaper than
one of those white canes

[Bob Riebe]

It just left a gouge but I found out what you said on a Dado blade thirty five years ago.

[Land_Owner]

The glove hand holding a screw once got caught in a rotating hand drill chuck, which drill I was using at the time to fasten wooden sides of the kid's "sandbox" together in the backyard.  In the time the brain told the other hand let go of the trigger on the electric drill my fingers, in the glove, were grotesquely "wound around" the chuck.  The kids were startled.  I was startled.  Fortunately, after I unwound, I walked away with only obvious bruises and internal joint sprains.  It was a close call, a particularly scary moment, a teaching moment, and a crisis averted by sheer luck.

[Lloyd Smale]

have a buddy who has a nice scar on couple of his fingers from shooting a deer out of his blind with his ruger 454 because he had is hand up against the cylinder to steady the gun. Another one was grandpa. He was about as mechanicaly inclined as micky mouse and had a belt driven sub pump in the basement and somehow got his little finger into the pulley and it sucked it in and cut it right off. Then there was the grandaughter i posted about about 10 years ago that was farting around by her dad running is dozer and somehow fell and got her hand bettween the idler and the track and crushed her hand. They saved it but its not to pretty and gives her trouble all the time.

[ironglow]

About a week ago, I was running a new blade against a grinder...and slipped my middle finger against the abrasive surface...took some hide clean off.
  "Road rash", from a sanding belt !

[Lloyd Smale]

another good one for me was back in the early 80s i bought my first 3 wheeler. A 250 2 stroke yamaha (hot one) i had a truck that had a 6 inch lift and decided to make me some ramps instead of buying them. Gots some treated plywood and made a set up. Made them a bit short for the tall tailgate and the first trip up the ramps i hit it and went right over backwards. It was about 90 that day and i was sweating alot and had my shirt off. If youve ever had over a 100 slivers from treated wood in your back you havent lived. took the doctor over an hour to get them all out. It felt like throwing gas on your back and lighting it on fire.

[Land_Owner]

Don't get me started (you made me remember)...I set myself on fire, literally, accidentally, agonizingly, in front of my two young boys.  I described it on GBO - in Technicolor - after the fact.

[Ranger99]

Don't feel too bad about setting yourself afire.
I had a supposedly allegedly "fire resistant "
welding apron that I caught afire and burned
a good while until the heat started coming up
under my hood and I'm sure it was comical
to see me dancing around trying to get hood
and gloves and blazing welding apron off.
No major burns other than a couple of pink
spots. The cheap all leather replacement
hasn't even had a smolder. Lesson learned