first aid

[turnkey4099]

Constantly banged up when doing things. I am using more and more safety equipment, e.g., safety glasses. That came about by not wearing glasses when starting a 16d nail in a bouncy 2x4. short story, 50% vision left eye and artificial lens.

First aid kits are fine for the small stuff but for a big cut you need something big and you need it _now_. Standard in chainsaw useage is a couple kotex added to the kit. That kit goes on the belt. Some even tape the kotex in their hard hats.

I never wore chain saw chaps up until two years ago. Yes it was stupid. Never cut myself but...started wearing them and now I won't pick up a saw without it. Incidently for people into cutting firewood, the chaps also work as great shin gaurds when splitting/stacking. My legs are scarred from knee to ankle from using them as backstops for 30 years.

Harry K

 

[keeney]

As I read this thread, I am counting the visible scars on my hands and I notice that there are many more serious injuries to my left hand then my right. I presume this is all about the left hand typically being the workpiece holder and the right hand being the hand holding the sharp tool...

So I am now resolving myself in the future to go get a vice grips, or some clamps, or carry the pice being worked on back to the vice.

On another note, anybody else have the first thought come to their mind when injuring themselves that its a damned inconvenience to have to stop working and fix up your wound? Nothing about the pain. Nothing about long term consequences of the injury. Just "Darn! I won't be gettting this project done tonight because a trip to the emergency room always takes at least 4 hours!"

- Rick

 

[Wayne County Hose]

On another note, anybody else have the first thought come to their mind when injuring themselves that its a damned inconvenience to have to stop working and fix up your wound? Nothing about the pain. Nothing about long term consequences of the injury. Just "Darn! I won't be gettting this project done tonight because a trip to the emergency room always takes at least 4 hours!"

- Rick

We must have been brothers in a past life. When I almost cut off my hand on the table saw, with blood running from my armpit (where I was clutching my hand to try to stop the bleeding) down my body, and off of my foot, all I could say was, "Darn, this is going to put me out of work for a long time! How am I going to finish my floor with one hand."

 

[Treemonkey1000]

After reading all of the postings about scars and such you might want to consider this link. Although I have to admit using masking tape to cover a puncture wound from my climbing spurs while climbing out of a tree. I put the tape on it and kept working. My wife at the time about shot me for not getting it checked out.. It healed up fine despite shoving the gaff about an inch into my calf..
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/safety/67642-wearing-gloves.html

 

[Blackbird_BX]

On another note, anybody else have the first thought come to their mind when injuring themselves that its a damned inconvenience to have to stop working and fix up your wound? Nothing about the pain. Nothing about long term consequences of the injury. Just "Darn! I won't be gettting this project done tonight because a trip to the emergency room always takes at least 4 hours!"

- Rick

I know what you're talking about. Before I was married, I sewed myself up after an X-acto knife slipped off the piece I was working on and buried itself in my left thigh so I could keep working (a butterfly wasn't going to do it). Discovered then that sewing needles have rounded points so they don't pierce the skin worth a dang. I picked up some sharp curved needles in case I needed to do that again. The wife wouldn't go for that kind of self reliance, so these days it is off to walk in clinic down the road. Luckily the school nurse at the high school works there on the weekends, so I can call ahead and get a "reservation" .

 

[davitk]

I always stock my wallet with a bandaid, maybe two. Takes about 45 seconds to whip one out and plug a hole. As a remodeling contractor I want to keep the blood in and not on the finished project

That said, I go through one bandaid about every six months now, whereas when I was much younger you would've thought I owned stock in Curad