I used to work with a very short bloke who was the greatest at everything, one day while edge grinding some timber with a 9 inch it caught the edge and ended up facing his crotch with rather intresting results, a few stitches later he wasnt so know it all.....
oh shit done worse than that shaving i drilled a neat hole straight through my pointing pinky one day and kept working because i was more freightened about reversing it out
Nice one Craig. I went a bit close today myself - but missed and got careful again. I was under the floorpan for the oval - and I finally Metal-prepped it and got the zinc on it today. Tomorrow - if the rain holds off is primer and epoxy day.
I busted the end off my little finger back in 2001. Still got the 30mm pin that they nailed it back on with as a reminder.
I'm a carpenter by trade, and frequently use pneumatic nailers, and in 35 years of using them and using other woodworking tools I've learned one thing......they can't distinguish between flesh and wood.
A fellow on a crew I once worked with was once climbing down from some roof trusses with a framing gun with the air line attached and had his finger on the trigger and rested the gun on this thigh while positioning himself to climb down further.
Know what happened???.....yeah the gun shot a framing nail 3" long into his thigh and just missed the major artery in his leg.
If it would have hit it, he might well have bled to death before we could get him to the emergency room at the hospital, even though it was within a mile of the job site.
My rule of thumb is whenever operating a power tool of any kind is treat it like it is the first time you ever picked it up....with great caution and attention.....and think about what you are doing without any distractions.
It could save your life.
Regards,
Steve
Fine tuning the proper daily ratio of Maxwell House to Bacardi 151.........
* Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia !
I don't know for sure, but I'd say a couple of hundred feet easily.....with a fair amount of velocity.
We generally don't do that however, because it is really hard on the hammer shaft and seals.
They are designed to work against the resistance of wood.
You have to figure that something that is configured to shoot a .131 " x 3" piece of steel shaft through an equal depth of wood of about any species, will have a field day with human flesh.
Fine tuning the proper daily ratio of Maxwell House to Bacardi 151.........
* Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia !
but you could try wearing gloves....I tell my old man that all the time when he's working on his 40ft yacht....
that and hearing and eye protection...no point building something of you can't enjoy it (see or hear) later on...
Mal recently got his thumb caught in the brobo saw at work. Fortunately there was a bit of steel stuck in the bone (yeah I know, sounds weird doesn't it), so the regular emergency doctor decided to send him to a plastic surgeon rather than stitching it up himself. The surgeon did a brilliant job and it's almost as good as new.
I've always followed what I was told in machine shop i.e. *NEVER* wear gloves (with lathes, drills, milling machines) and even with angle grinders, circular saws etc. I'd rather lose a bit of flesh than half a hand.
Peter Page was helping a mechanic who was working on one of his customers cars to hold a bracket from memory while he cut it with a grinder and it grabbed then proceeded to cut a gash in his thumb a lot deeper than the one Craig had posted.
This was on the same thumb Pete had squashed while helping a mate out at Willowbank a few years ago. He put stands under the car the guy let the jack down before Pete could get his hand out of the way and crushed his thumb(same one) till it basically blew the end open and bled like there was no tomorrow.
And Pete wonders why he has little feeling left in his thumb!!!
sometimes it's better not to offer to help me thinks....
ACCEPT THAT SOME DAYS YOU ARE THE PIDGEON AND SOME DAYS YOU ARE THE STATUE
I love working with pain !!!!!!!!!!! I just wish ,I had taken pic's now . (Willowbank injury )Sitting in hospital for 4hours befor you even see the doctor ,then xrays (split bone ) ,then another 2hours wait befor getting it stitched up. FUN FUN !!!!!!
When Rob the mechanic cut my thumb ,I just look at it ,thought NOWAY am I going to that bluddy hospital again .(5weeks to heal enough ,to stop popping open ,when putting pressure on it )
Mywife thought I was crazy .😵💫
Be safe everyone !
