Call me daft! 7 stitches later

Well here's the story,I'm helping a buddy of mine set up the ...gasp.... fuel injection on a 51 mercury woody wagon .It's low on coolant, so I remove the fan shroud to get to the radiator filler neck.I place the half inch wrench on the top of the rad support,start the engine to circulate the coolant,the half inch wrench falls,I go to grab the wrench and I put my left hand through the moving fan. ...Drrriiiing go my fingers ... 1st 2nd and 3rd finger are sliced up,little finger is down to the bone. Have to go to the emergency room and get 7 stiches in my little finger.
I guess beware of those spinning fan blades....they bite...!!
Tim

 

You're daft!
you told me to...

 

you took the time to post before going to the hospital?

 

Mum always said if ya havent got anything good to say dont say anything at all

But i felt the same way when i put my fingers in a fan AAAAARRRRKKKKK that hurt in winter as well

 

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HEH! thats going to hurt but don't think your alone tried to hold a clutch fan once won't do that again they get away fast

Al

 

Yep, you're daft!

 

Was usin the plazma cutter on that 1/4 inch expaned metal stuff, and didn't want it to fall on my foot, so grabbed it as it fell........OUCH....You know the rest!!.....OLDBEET

 

OUCH! I have thought of that a million times when close to a moving fan, but luckily nothing has happened yet. At least you didn't lose one (or more!). Hope you have a speedy recovery.

 

I cut my right pinky finger completely off last November.

You are a Rookie!! Ha HA.

 

As red fox would say: you big dummy.

-W

 

WHAT, time to post but no time to post a picture?

Pretty good judge on the size of cut to know how many s***ches you need.

Done this sort of thing before?

 

THAT is the mark of a die-hard HAMBer!
Sometimes important info just can't wait. I agree, where's the pics?!

 

Dear Daft,
WELCOME to our club.

Glenn

 

That's alot of typing for two sliced up fingers and 7 s***ches in the other....

 

You guys shouldn't be so hard on yourselfs!

 

I could think of a few more words better than "daft"...but that must be your English upbringing...and maybe fan blades on those English cars didn't spin as fast as ours...think?

Betcha won't be doing that again for a while, eh?

R-

Oh, btw, get well soon...

 

[...and maybe fan blades on those English cars didn't spin as fast as ours...think?

i think they spin backwards ..you know like there tiolets....wait...maybe thats somewhere else...hmm..

 

Never got my hand in the fan but one night I had a drop light hanging on the hood latch were the cord got in the fan. Next thing I know the hood came down on my head hard. Ended up with 5 s***ches in my head. It happen so fast that I did not have time to react.

 

so is the wrench ok?

 

Get those finger back in order..........Bonneville is 20 days away.......but, will you still be able to run a "hack" saw?



Chris Nelson
Kansas

See you on the salt...................

 

Forget the Hacksaw Sodbuster...can he still climb (and I ain't kidding...ever see a gorilla try to climb into a radically chopped Model A, around it's many roll cages, the steering wheel with a fire suit and a helmet on?) in that salty Model A with his fingers all bandaged and make a decent run...???

R-

 

Maybe I should show you a pic of Mad-Cad's Model A salt racin' car so you'll know what I'm talking about...that's Tim kneeling next to it...now imagine trying to stuff that into that sedan...oh yeah, it's Cad powered and he OWNS a couple of records at B-Ville..

R-

PS...he built the entire car all by himself.

 

I see your fingers in the fan and raise you knuckles into that meatgrinder
right behind the generator pulley...

 

For all the blood thirsty folk here's the requested pic of the finger that got the worst of it.The Doc asked if I wanted any painkillers ,I said nope ...the 10 pints of Guinness I'm going to drink should do the trick.

 

Fingers hurt, better make it some Newcy Browns.

I hate it when my reflexes get ahead of me. Yesterday I almost knocked out a 15 year old kid at the mall. He was waiting for a friend outside the men's room. I came out, he jumped from around the corner to scare his friend, and my fist stopped about 3 inches from his face!

Next time take pictures while the blood is spurting please.

 

Ouch

 

That'll leave a mark, its fortunate you did'nt lose any digets.

 

That's why Ford put those silly little orange stickers on the shroud that said "CAUTION FAN"


Good luck at B'Ville with that cool Model A!

 

I dunno about you guys, but I gave him rep points for the ****** finger pic.

Maybe I shouldn't have since they're still attached but I did it anyway.

Thanks for the reminder we all need to be on our toes.