Always secure your stock to the table

Ouch and double ouch !!!! That looks sore. Like the others said, we have all been guilty of getting sloppy and not taking the time to clamp stuff down properly.

I was using a drill press one time and my glove got caught in the piece and it wrapped my left arm all the way around the chuck before it stopped. I thought I had broken my wrist. My Son is nursing a cut thumb right now from when the disc grinder cut through his glove last week. All the stuff we play with in the garage is out to hurt us in one way or another.

Don

 

I had a very long chip tangled in an end mill once. I shut the mill down to remove it but even though I had shut the mill down I didn't bother to ge get a pair of pliers to remove the chip (curl?). I was carefully unwinding the chip and was going to keep it as art work when this fella from the electrical shop comes up and gooses me. I jumped and cut my index finger to the bone the full length if it.

In that particular shop they had started firing people for being injured, even if it wasn't their fault. They could always find some saftey infraction. Yea I know it was a chicken shit place to work. So instead of going to the ER, we cleaned it real well and wrapped it up until the end of the shift. Then I injured it changing a tire and went to my family doctor. He wanted to try something new and after giving it a good brush scrubbing (brings tears to me eyes now just talking about it) he super glued it. Almost no scar and no scar tissue build up. I went in twice a week for inspection and new glueing if it needed it.

I still had to work a ball after it was healed but my finger works.

Chit happens, may as well laugh at it everyone else is.

 

i have a pain in my finger just looking at that. WOW! ive gotten bad cuts before but thats hamburger

 

And I was just whining to my wife because my angle grinder slipped and cut through my glove and made a boo boo on my middle finger. Guess I'll stop whining now.

 

Barf!!!

 

Un-drill-related story.

I had a similar injury when I was a teen...had my thumb sectiond from the middle knuckle up to the tip. Ripped the nail right off and got her down to the bone.

Lifting a steel fence post with a gnarled concrete chunk on the bottom of it. My co-lifter stopped lifting, it pinned my thumb between a trailer and the crete. Then in his ridiculous effort to free up my hand, he dragged the fence post until the mush and blood allowed my hand to slide out.

I had a f'n bandage on my thumb for 8-10 weeks, and still had to go to work every day.....made hitching a ride a little easier

I feel your pain, because I've felt that pain.

 

Sorry about your injury Lipton,I nicked my left index finger on the tablesaw years ago and it was painful.Heal fast.

 

Wow! Ouch! OK, so you've already chopped it, how about Frenching the tip of the bone a bit, and maybe some subtle striping at the tip? And when the nail comes off you can rehinge it suicide!

Damn... sorry, I'm an asshole. I've had a few damaging power tool incidents myself and yet I get in a rush and never seem to learn. I remind myself frequently through the ancient practice of blood-letting. Hope you heal quick bro.

 

From the title, I thought the original post was giving advice to swap meet vendors.

 

thanks for the reminder and heal quickly. for some reason i'm in the mood for chicken wings.

 

Is it just me or is the H.A.M.B. full of hypochondriacs?

Doc.

 

Humor is the best way to deal with it. When I worked in a tire shop a few years back, I was dismounting a tire and the tire iron slipped and I clocked myself in the mouth and split my upper lip open. I went to the ER and got stitched up.

For the longest time (and even until now) my buddies (who were my co-workers) would always yell out "Oh my lip!" whenever they'd ding themselves in the shop. They never let the lip thing go and it's all tough love, all in good humor. No hard feelings.

 

Three weeks ago I had a cut off wheel kick back on me on my makita grinder. It went through my mechanix fabricator gloves, mu thumb, a vein and the nerve. I went to the friendly local vet clinic for animals and got the wound cleaned and a few stitches. I was in bad shape for a few weeks. If I bumped it or anything it would about floor me. Cutting nerves hurts like hell.

Good lick on the healing and take it easy with that finger

 

Yikes....brought back some memories from last fall. Had a run in with a table saw. I was really lucky I didn't loose some of the finger.

 

No no, use elecrical tape to fix hydraulic leaks, Duh

 

WOW dude that just needs a little super glue and you will be good to go !

 

Yep done that too! only mine was some thin metal ,sliced my hand open pretty good too.

 

I have a saying in my shop.
"Don't put your finger where you wouldn't put your pecker"

 

Dayum,,,, that'll leave a mark. A friend of mine was scraping a valve cover with a screw driver. We were just starting being master mechanics and had pretty much mastered spark plug,101. Through his hand and all the words a teenager knows flowed freely. On the way to the ER he starts pulling and pushing the screw driver through his hand. He said it felt kinda weird and I barfed. I was driving. When we got to the Er the folks in charge came and asked if I was OK and totally ignoerd him at first. I still bring that up at times.

 

New nickname................. Stubby

 

I think he can use a tip right now. Been there done that. Almost took off the tip of my middle finger cleaning a speedometer cable housing with a wire wheel.Caught it & it wrapped around my finger good & tight. Sometimes we need to think things out a bit longer. Sorry to hear about that.

 

nasty

 

Now, that's funny.

 

o god i almost peed my self...i mean that funny right there.

 

ouch!

 

sorry about your finger , that photo is truly cringe worthy . i get squeemish when i see folks on here grinding without eye protection ,

 

What about polishing it out? Had to say it. LOL Heal fast and thanks for the remind.

 

Had'ta HURT, Make your arse "Draw Up" ?

Just be glad.....it was'nt your "Social" Finger (ha !)

An, like tha' man said, "Don't stick your Dick in the Toaster "


I'm Smokin'

 

Dont finger them hookers down in TJ you'll get the same result.

 

I know that tune