Stupid Things I Have Done

[scootr]

About horses; in 1900 when horses were the main mode of transportation there were many horse accidents.
In NYC for example there were more deaths to humans by horses in 1900 than there are deaths by cars today per capita

 

[Michiganguy]

Id like your post but I won't because that is nothing to like at all... I watched my late dad cut 3 fingers off with a radial arm saw when I was a kid. I took the severed fingers and wrapped them in a paper towel with ice and mom took him to ER. They reattached 2 of the 3 but they were never the same and he got real bad arthritis in his hand after that.

It was his left and he was right handed but it really impacted his job. He was an analytical chemist and had to work around his disability.

So far I've been lucky with farming and managing my welding and fabrication shop but I'm always cognizant (or at least make an attempt to be) when working around machinery and welding equipment.

I’m left handed and luckily cut the right. The right thumb and forefinger are the ones with no feeling so handling small things with them is tricky.
I remind myself how much tougher it would be with only one hand.

 

[jjeff]

Nailing in floor joists nail blew out the side of the joist right into hand holding the joist. A piece of electrical tape stopped the bleeding back to work lol Lesson learned don't hold the joist your nailing with hand right next to header. Much more recently don't try to be a tough guy and try to use a 18" chainsaw like a 14" top handle. Thankfully only a Minor injury taught me that lesson. Finally when using a stump vise to field sharpen a chain don't try pounding it in off the center of a stump of freshly cut hard wood. Filing away the chain vise popped out saw and vise hit my leg even slightly dull chains not spinning on a saw rip skin grotesquely.

 

[Jstpssng]

Id like your post but I won't because that is nothing to like at all..

Well said.

 

[WinterDeere]

I watched my late dad cut 3 fingers off with a radial arm saw when I was a kid. I took the severed fingers and wrapped them in a paper towel with ice and mom took him to ER. They reattached 2 of the 3 but they were never the same and he got real bad arthritis in his hand after that.

Very similar story here, but it was me watching my FIL pull cutoffs off the table saw by reaching between blade and fence, and trying to find the gentlest of ways to tell him (twice!) that he was going to cut a finger off doing that.

Then he did!

I drove him to the ER and sat there eating my lunch (egg salad sandwich on toast) while they sewed him back together next to me. At one point, the surgeon looked over at me and said, "boy, you sure aren't the queasy type, are you?"

 

[5030]

Nailing in floor joists nail blew out the side of the joist right into hand holding the joist. A piece of electrical tape stopped the bleeding back to work lol Lesson learned don't hold the joist your nailing with hand right next to header. Much more recently don't try to be a tough guy and try to use a 18" chainsaw like a 14" top handle. Thankfully only a Minor injury taught me that lesson. Finally when using a stump vise to field sharpen a chain don't try pounding it in off the center of a stump of freshly cut hard wood. Filing away the chain vise popped out saw and vise hit my leg even slightly dull chains not spinning on a saw rip skin grotesquely.

The issue with any chainsaw is when the angle of trajectory is your face. Kind of like a hard recoiling hand gun and your face. I always make doubly sure my face isn't in a direct line with anything that can hurt my handsome looks...

 

[5030]

I'm not anywhere close to a perfect a'hole myself and I have a nice scar right across the top of my left kneecap that took 108 stitches to close and I will say that 404 sharp chipper chain does a really clean incision. Had a Maalox moment some years ago and forgot my Stihl 075 didn't have a factory chain brake. Bucked a big round, propped my left leg up on the cut round and rested the saw on my left knee. Didn't feel a thing at first but my climbing boot was feeling wet and I looked down at the bloody mess and my torn jeans (should have been wearing chainsaw chaps but I didn't, another stupid decision on my part) and split the cut jeans and looked right at my kneecap and what you think bones should look like, well that isn't true, they aren't white, they are off white grey... Drove myself to the local ER leaking blood on my truck's floor and got it stitched up. Interestingly, I learned there are no nerve endings in the epidermis on your knee cap so I got to watch the ER doctor stitch it up, actually carried on a conversation with her while she was sewing me. I have a dandy scar to remind me of my stupidity.

I'm much more careful about what I do now as I have a 'trophy' to remind me.

 

[bigtiller]

My uncle had really good luck with a bucking chainsaw. It took his glasses off his nose and the next year it cut his shoe laces. Both times he needed a few stitches but he decided a couple of butterfly bandages was good enough.

 

[5030]

Ouch...

 

[Engineer42]

Passed the back of my hand under the tip of a cutting torch grabbing at a piece of falling steel once. My first impression wasn't pain, but the fact that my hand had the same coloring a chicken breast has after the first couple of minutes in the frying pan. Not one of my smartest moves.