Wearing rings

[Whatswrong]

I don't know how many people wear a ring now days but I got the second warning about 2 weeks ago to quit wearing my wedding ring.The first time was probably close to 20 years ago ,I got it caught using a dill without a vise the iron caught and spun wrapping me up until I stalled the drill .The other day I climbed up to look in a stack of steel pans maybe 7-8 feet high when I went to climb down my ring caught and I got four stiches to close the cut ,a little more of a lesson than the first time .I know there will be a few saying I should have had a vise and I should have used a ladder but sometimes it is quicker to simply react than stop and recognize every posible hazard .The last time was at work not at home ,a ladder was near and there is a safty talk every Thur. morning .My point is if you wear rings seriously consider removing them for anything more physical than drinking beer ,you can't predict when they are apt to get caught.

 

[JerryK]

My Dad tore the )(*&)(*& out of his finger jumping out of a truck coming from a German 88 during the last months of the war in Italy. Being an electrician, I never wore rings or metal watch bands back when I used to work for a living. Still don't .... [ I have an invisible nose ring that my wife installed back in the 70's though ... ]

 

[k0ua]

Yep had a few close calls, with a ring, haven't worn one for decades. I worked on and near batteries in telephony for years, and gave up rings long ago.

James K0UA

 

[RoyJackson]

I never wore rings before I got married (for safety reasons) and gave up wearing my wedding ring a few years after being married (again, for safety reasons). When I was in Navy "A" school, there was a pickled finger exhibited as a safety thing. Guy had jumped off a helo, ring got caught on some type of fastener and was yanked off. That's been 40 years ago and I never forgot.

 

[koosa]

Excellent advice. I have never worn rings when working. When I joined the RCN in the mid 60's we were instructed to never wear rings when working around any type of machinery. When I joined my first ship the divisional Chief stated that when the pipe "Single up and secure" was made we should stow any rings (wedding rings included) in our lockers. Some of the wives did not understand, but it saved a great number of fingers.

 

[creekbend]

I don't wear rings, watches, necklaces, bracelets or anything. I do wear a hat and carry a cell phone.

 

[Buckgnarly]

Funny all the military refrences....while I was in they redisgned the LMTV rear grab handle because some guy lost a finger dismounting one. Even though I always wore gloves while overseas, I still did nt wear a ring....still don't too, can't stand jewelry!

 

[retiredmgn]

My point is if you wear rings seriously consider removing them for anything more physical than drinking beer ,you can't predict when they are apt to get caught.

That's exactly when you're going to get caught - removing your ring while drinking beer.

 

[JJZ 109]

When I remarried last year I explained the reasons to my wife about why I didn't want to wear a ring. Safety really was the main reason. I'm in the seamless gutter business and am always up and down on ladders and lifts and didn't want to get hung up on anything. Fortunately, she's very understanding and went along with me and never pressed the issue about me even buying one to wear when not working.
We forgot to tell the town judge about this before the ceremony. When he discovered in mid ceremony that I wouldn't be wearing a ring, he looked at my wife and said, "and you're OK with that?" That gave the crowd a pretty big chuckle.

 

[mjarrels]

I call it a Navy thing... never wore a ring, watch or anything around my neck... dog tags laced into flight deck boots. Too this day, I refuse to wear a neck tie or any jewery. When I got married, didn't have a wedding band. Like RoyJackson, I've seen too many bad things, people slidding down ladders, jumping from aircraft, etc. Too many bad things can happen... not worth the risk.

mark

 

[Furu]

It is more a military thing than just Navy. AF was really hot on safety. No rings on the flight line was pretty much a hard rule. My wife was in the AF when I met and married her and she said she wanted all appendages attached so remove the ring at work for safety. Hers was cut off her finger years later in the ER after fracturing a finger playing volleyball at a picnic and swelling did not allow removal the normal way. Now no one wears rings around our house.

 

[Bird]

As a youngster, I wore a class ring and a wedding band. But on December 29, 1965, my partner that night hit a tree head on. totalled the car, and almost totalled us. At the hospital that night, someone removed my rings (Thank Goodness) before my hands swelled too much. The impact had broken my seat belt so my hands had hit the dash. Anyway, it was a month before the swelling went down enough that I could get those rings back on, and that's when I decided to put them away. My job made it necessary to wear a wrist watch, but I haven't worn any other "jewelry" since.

 

[HarryVanderpool]

We always advise beginning beekeepers NOT to wear rings when working on hives until they know how they react to stings.
Some people's arm and hands swell up like a baloon. A ring could spell disaster.

 

[k0ua]

Bottom line: Rings are OK for a cocktail party or maybe an office worker, but for anyone who makes a living with his hands or has any kind of an active job or around anything electrical (or even bee-keeping it seems:shocked Rings are just bad news, and liable to get you hurt.

James K0UA

 

[mjarrels]

Bird, I applaud you for wearing a seat belt in 1965. Probably wasn't very cool back then and I'm suprised the car even had them.

mark

 

[RoyJackson]

Bird, I applaud you for wearing a seat belt in 1965. Probably wasn't very cool back then and I'm suprised the car even had them.

mark

Bird is my hero!!!
When I grow up, I want to be just like him!!!
(instead of the old crotchety SOB I am)

 

[Bird]

Bird, I applaud you for wearing a seat belt in 1965. Probably wasn't very cool back then and I'm suprised the car even had them.

mark

Mark, I bought my first showroom new car in 1962; an Ausitn-Healey Sprite. In those days, I guess most cars didn't come with seat belts, but we sold them in the auto parts store and I installed them myself in the Sprite, and I've been wearing them ever since.

I started on the police department in 1964 and I know the 1963 cars had seat belts, but even the 1965 we were in the night of the big crash, there was no shoulder belt and no retractor on the seat belts. And of course there was no requirement that we wear them; only a recommendation. The problem was that the belts sometimes fell outside the car and the doors were shut on them. So sometimes our seat belts were a bit worn and ragged, and I'm sure the one I was wearing that night, in a car that was near the end of its life in the fleet anyway, was a bit frayed and weakened, and that was why it broke. However, it was still strong enough that I was black and blue for a long time right across where that belt had been.:laughing:

 

[Bird]

Bird is my hero!!!
When I grow up, I want to be just like him!!!
(instead of the old crotchety SOB I am)

Surely you jest.:laughing::laughing:

 

[Stihlrunner]

When I was a mechanic I never wore a watch and took of my wedding ring. After moving too a supervisor position I started wearing the ring again. Bad idea, one day I got "hands on" and reached in the back of a tight battery compartment and got my ring across battery post and frame. When they say gold is the best conductor, they aren't kidding. No major injury to me but blew some nice little divots in my ring and wife was not happy!

 

[Whatswrong]

When I was a mechanic I never wore a watch and took of my wedding ring. After moving too a supervisor position I started wearing the ring again. Bad idea, one day I got "hands on" and reached in the back of a tight battery compartment and got my ring across battery post and frame. When they say gold is the best conductor, they aren't kidding. No major injury to me but blew some nice little divots in my ring and wife was not happy!

My job is a desk job taking parts orders in a small factory ,but I have worked for the company about 10 years so this particular day I was on the Fab. floor working as an auditor doing recounts during inventory week ,you can never be 100% sure where your hands may be needed.