Who's lost any fingers ?

[JDarvall]

I've renamed my jointing machine today....... the de-jointer
and I've graffitied the bloody thing with a niko pen as a reminder.....yep, off comes the 'carpatec professional jointer' sticker and on with 'de-jointer' in large letters......

Because 3 weeks ago I took about 1/4" of bone off my right middle finger....
And of course it would never happen to me...... I was rushing things, tied, (all the regular excuses) had just one piece left to true before glue up so I could glue up and finally the day was over.....a little piece ....and no push pads.... d**khead.... yeh, I know.....the blades caught the wood , threw it and my hand kept going, felt a knock, look down and my finger from the start of the nail to the tip was hanging off the rest of the finger with about 3mm of flesh.....never felt so much pain..... I mean the same amount of damage to say your arm you'd just bear it..... but with all those nerve endings I was carrying on like there was no tomorrow ( I didn't cry ....just cursed a lot ...truthfully) .....they gave me morphine at the hospital and I finally learn't what junkies mean by 'a rush'.....the stuff was fantastic.....I mean you don't really realise how many little achs and pains you have until you've had morphine I reakon.... I was so painless I totally forgot about the finger and just perved on the nurses ........

So, I've had more time on my hands, off work, these wounds take a long time to heal........thats when I discovered this site,,,,,

Anybody else lost a finger,, or two ?

[Ashore]

The things some people do in a rush ... or was that for a rush
Thanks for the advise on how to get high but I think i'll just keep taking my time and fingers





God must love stupid people; He made so many of us.

[JDarvall]

Yeah, thats what my mates at work joke about,,,,,,,,,that I did it on purpose ,,,to get off work and experiment with morphine......the buggers.

[martrix]

Howdy 'A'tripper,
sorry to hear of your accident, have not had a serious accident yet and I plan not too (touching and grabbing every piece of timber i can find right now!!!). My buddy however had a run-in with a nice big spanky Panel saw. Ripping some timber and was using one hand to hold timber against the fence behind the riving knife, after last piece was ripped and pushed through with a push stick, had a brain fade and pulled back his fingers over the back of a sharp running fine tooth blade, Ding!crash# blood spurts$#! Still got most of his finger tip's but had skin grafts and pins inserted in end of finger. Another reason why I use push sticks for both hands, and treat them like an extension of my hands, dont even like putting the push sticks in danger of touching sharp spinning bit's. I had a fairly serious illness once upon a time with a lot of pain, and agree that the Morpheine made me feel out of this world, until it wore off, and the pain and reality returned. Anyway, you can spend hours and hours exploring this forum.

[Ashore]

So your mates are pointing the finger at you about your drug use

well you should nail that on the head straight away or there will be joint jokes next or do you now go by the name of stumpy or is that KFC chicken still finger licking good etc ...yeah some blokes are can be real harsh over someone elses affliction





God must love stupid people; He made so many.

[Cliff Rogers]

....Anybody else lost a finger,, or two ?

A few of us.....

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[Slavo]

No losses, but had a close call on Easter Monday. Cutting long, thin strips on the Triton, the guard wasn't completely down as it was hitting the fence, using push-stick but didn't push it through enough as the end of the timber stuck between the splitter and the fence. As I pushed the scrap away it pivoted against the end of the thin strip, which acted like a spring and pushed back (curse you Newton and your 3rd law of motion), pivoting the scrap with my hand on it towards an angry looking CMT ripping blade spinning @ 4000RPM. No bone damage but a bloody mess of my thumb knuckle, cut 75% of my tendon and 5 weeks on the sideline wearing a splint & bandage. I will never do that again because I was sick and tired of people asking "hey, what did you do to your thumb"

[Zed]

HI there,

Still got all me fingers..... try this thread for ideas - SWMBO is very fond of my hands (?) thus she is pleased I made these items....

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[Rowan]

yeah some blokes are can be real harsh over someone elses affliction

Isnt that the truth. I once had a cricket accident that almost killed me. Got hit in the temple (no helmet) by a ball from a pitching machine at over 100 "M"ph (yep miles) Seems about 1/4 inch either way and I was dead on the spot. When I finally got out of hospital (3 weeks) and back to the club my new nickname "damage" because I had left a flat spot on the ball that hit me!!!!!

Worst thing was that the bloke that started the name was .....................................my brother :mad:

[namtrak]

I lost some fish fingers once after a night on the turps - I was sure I put a dozen or so under the griller. I get up in the morning and aside from the smoke there are only a pile of black pencils left in the griller - never did figure out where me fish fingers got to.

[LineLefty]

Steer clear of the morphine. When my old 'man (At age 45) was in the last stages of terminal cancer he was on enough morphine to kill a non-desensitised adult on the spot.

Unfortunately he also had to come off it for a few days for some other treatments. And let me tell you, the comedown is not a pretty sight. It's sad to knwo he died as a morphine addict.
Apoligies, a bit to serious for a tuesday morning.

[kiwigeo]

Finger and hand safety was the topic of yesterdays safety meeting out here on the oil rig Im working on. The talk came with some case studies and (in)appropriate photos of horrendous hand injuries.

Worst one was an injection injury copped by a fire fighter during a training exercise with a jaws of life cutting setup. The bloke had the hydraulic line to the shears resting over his shoulder...line had a pinhole and a fine jet of HP mineral oil shot out of the line and into his skin and travelled all the way down his arm to his hand via the lymph system. Bloke kept his arm but it took the surgeon quite a few arms to get the mineral oil out of his lymph system and the wounds had to stay open untill theyd healed.

[ROB NZ]

Sorry Apricotripper to hear of your argument with the machine. Hope that your recovery is rapid.

You may like to make this sign and put it up in a prominent place in your workshop:

"Workshop staff shall endeavour to complete each project with as many fingers as they start with.
Signed
Management"

Meantime my current project is cladding a large pole barn for my new workshop.
My pre-occupation is not coming off the top of the ladder before I'm ready!

Cheers
Rob NZ

[powderpost]

I can symphasise with you. I trimmed 5mm only off the left middle finger on the circular saw. Cut the both tendons in the left index finger, which required 12 weeks on the sideline. Not too bad for 48 years in the trade.
Jim

[maglite]

Does going thru a barbed wire fence on a motor bike count?

28 stitches in right fore arm
72 stitches under chin......apparently very lucky....
1 inch lower, would have ripped out wind pipe.
4 inches higher would have ripped eyes out

I still buy a lotto ticket, but i dont expect to win.......i hope the luck holds up in the shed too.