Damn, that hurt ! (not for squeemish)

[Toolfool]

Since I haven't had much work lately, I've been trying to make sure I get something accomplished every day on the shop project. So I'm out there today modifying my mitre saw dust hood. It's only about 45* in the shop. As I'm routing, I feel my nose running. I dipped my head to wipe my nose on my sweatshirt sleeve, and my hand slipped. A 3/8" roundover bit can do some damage real quick. Got a little bit of the index finger, but mangled the end of my middle finger. I tried to set the skin back in place and bandage it up. Damn, that hurt !

 

[formanbob]

Since I haven't had much work lately, I've been trying to make sure I get something accomplished every day on the shop project. So I'm out there today modifying my mitre saw dust hood. It's only about 45* in the shop. As I'm routing, I feel my nose running. I dipped my head to wipe my nose on my sweatshirt sleeve, and my hand slipped. A 3/8" roundover bit can do some damage real quick. Got a little bit of the index finger, but mangled the end of my middle finger. I tried to set the skin back in place and bandage it up. Damn, that hurt !

I feel your pain

 

[Lawson4450]

OOuuucchhhh dang hope your ok that does look like it hurt.

 

[MoonRise]

The tool don't care.

At 24k-30k rpm, that bit is spinning 400-500 times PER SECOND.

So in less than a blink of an eye, it would already 'chew' through things more than ~50 times.

Be safe, cause the tool don't care what it cuts.

 

[ckadams00]

I hate photos.

 

[bczygan]

It's a bad sign when you stop in the middle of an accident, with mangled fingers, to photo and post it to GJ!

 

[Highbeam]

Get that ring off your finger fast before it swells up and you need to cut it off.

The real way to know if you've hurt yourself badly is by the pain level. I find that when it is emergency room bad, that there is nearly no pain.

It was so painless last time I smashed my finger into bonesoup that I got to mess with the wife a litte. Honey, is my finger supposed to bend this way?

 

[DARK AGE 53]

It's a bad sign when you stop in the middle of an accident, with mangled fingers, to photo and post it to GJ!

I agree, he should have taken the time and made a vid instead.

 

[mattygee]

I had a similar thing happen with a power planer. Not pretty. Hope it heals up well.

M

 

[steve308]

Should buff right out!

 

[ihredo4]

This is what I got from an Anaphylactic drug reaction and a tread mill stress test. The hospital had to peel my toe like a banana and over the course of the next 60 days the soles of both feet lost ALL their skin. I had to relearn how to walk again since all the callusing was gone. FUN FUN FUN. All I can say is thank god for Diabetic neuropathy below my knees as that would have hurt like a *****.

 

[IMCA38]

In the words of Tommy Callahan;

"That'll leave a mark!"

 

[Trucky]

I've never really got myself hurt too bad. Worst one was trying to open a damn plastic package (the ones with the 1/2" of glue on either side) with a util knife. Slipped and practically threw the end of it into my big toe (right side). Straight to the bone, but I'm pretty sure the tendons were alright and whatnot, so I put some electrical tape on it and went to school the next day. (This was a few years back).

 

[Zeke]

I did the same thing with the same bit. I had shout the router off and it was winding down when I stupidly reached for something too close. Probably half as bad as the OP, but a mess. And I was on a job and had to finish. Tape 'em up so you don't bleed all over the customer's house and get back to work.

 

[Toolfool]

I did the same thing with the same bit. I had shout the router off and it was winding down when I stupidly reached for something too close. Probably half as bad as the OP, but a mess. And I was on a job and had to finish. Tape 'em up so you don't bleed all over the customer's house and get back to work.

I hear that.My wife just shakes her head now when I come home with duct tape on my hands.

 

[atotalnincompoop]

i was getting queezy instantly

 

[juiced10]

This is what I got from an Anaphylactic drug reaction and a tread mill stress test. The hospital had to peel my toe like a banana and ov erth e course of the next 60 days the soles of both feet lost ALL their skin. I had to relearn how to walk again since all the callusing was gone. FUN FUN FUN. All I can say is thank god for Diabetic neuropathy below my knees as that would have hurt like a *****.

You win!

 

[DYNA BILL]

I'm gonna go hurl now.

 

[theoldwizard1]

All I can say is thank god for Diabetic neuropathy below my knees as that would have hurt like a *****.

Sounds like my friend.

Fractured his foot in multiple places (brittle bones ?) and walked around on it for several days. Many months to heel and did not heel correctly.

 

[rubberrodder]

That made my toes curl up AND my **** to pucker! Youch!

 

[formanbob]

Get that ring off your finger fast before it swells up and you need to cut it off.

what?

 

[DoyleDee]

Good thing I'm eating...... Nah, really..it doesn't bother me- sometimes I have a stomach of steel. Blood rarely bothers me.

Hope everything turns out ok for you guys.. last injury I had was while lubing my motorcycles chain and my thumb got caught up in the sprocket... Went right through the nail by the meat part of the thumb.

 

[darkk]

Got mine in a jointer planer back in 1963, I was planing a body on an electric guiter...of course I had to remove the safety gate to get it in there. It happens so fast you can't even imagine. I lost about 5/8ths of the tip of my right ring finger to that damned thing..it was hamburger in a split second. No, I didn't learn my lesson either.

 

[Lippyp]

My thumbnail has just reached the end of my thumb again after I gave it a right good whacking with a hammer back in November last year. Not cut any bits off since then thank goodness.

 

[TommyD]

Always pay attention to where your hands are.

I worked on progressive dies in power presses for years.....used to have this one idiot fling scrap at the press I was working in, he would start laughing when my hands would come flying out of the tool/press.... until one day my ball peen hammer whizzed past his head

 

[djjsr]

Router bits aren't made to cut through nails.

 

[2CRUZ]

Come on guys **** it up. Wash it off with some cold water and get back to work.

 

[Mr.Magoo]

Clean it up, apply some super glue, start routing again.

 

[A**holes Garage]

shop towel and duct tape, keep on workin

 

[pist0lpete]

OK, since it's a router story, I'll share what happened to this old guy I used to work with. He was fixing a router, had the base off and the motor on his bench with a bit in it. Fixed the wiring, plugged it in, the switch was on, router jumped and started spinning on it's side... for the sake of decorum I will only say that the router cut off the tip of one tool NONE OF US EVER want to lose... think BENCH HEIGHT... yeah. He even offered to SHOW me but I took him at his word... NO pics to back this one up!

 

[Mr.Magoo]

OK, since it's a router story, I'll share what happened to this old guy I used to work with. He was fixing a router, had the base off and the motor on his bench with a bit in it. Fixed the wiring, plugged it in, the switch was on, router jumped and started spinning on it's side... for the sake of decorum I will only say that the router cut off the tip of one tool NONE OF US EVER want to lose... think BENCH HEIGHT... yeah. He even offered to SHOW me but I took him at his word... NO pics to back this one up!

Well pistOLpete, I really believe your story. I could only happen that way when your more interested getting the damn thing to work again, sure as hell did. The router probably hit the floor after cutting his wieness and broke never to be used again. Did he ever say if his wieness still works, even though you did not want to look?

 

[805gregg]

That's nothing, when I was building my boat i bought some dried clear Douglas Fir from a guy that bought it to build a wooded boat. He sold me the wood because he had already cut off 3 fingers and decided to quit before he lost some more.

 

[Steevo]

Zeke nailed it with the "don't bleed on the customer's carpet" statment.
I once was laying carpet pad upstairs as my partner was rolling out carpet in another room downstairs. I hammer-tacked my thumb, right through the thumbnail, securely to the sub-floor.
As I was looking around me for something that might be useful to pry the staple loose from the floor, and free my thumb, the homeowner walked into the room, and all she could scream at me was "you're bleeding on my floor!".
Fortunately, my partner heard her screaming from where he was, and came running to see what was wrong.

 

[zjrog]

2 years ago, wasn't thinking about anything but the pounding migraine I had. Tried everything to get the bolt off the vibration dampener on my Ford Explorer... Done this before, but let the breaker bar be pulled out of my hands. This time, my hand was in the way. BAD practice, never do it again and my son learned a valuable lesson at my expense... 14 stitches outside, 29 inside. 9 months to regain feeling down the side of my index finger. No muscles or tendons seriously damaged. COULD have been MUCH much worse.

The stitches were removed the day before my son's wedding, I shook hands with folks with this hand wrapped in gauze. BIG fun.

Yeah, dumb sh!t me... Oh yeah, completely forgot about that migraine.

 

[ajchien]

It's a bad sign when you stop in the middle of an accident, with mangled fingers, to photo and post it to GJ!

That's going in my sig file.

 

[ajchien]

OK, since it's a router story, I'll share what happened to this old guy I used to work with. He was fixing a router, had the base off and the motor on his bench with a bit in it. Fixed the wiring, plugged it in, the switch was on, router jumped and started spinning on it's side... for the sake of decorum I will only say that the router cut off the tip of one tool NONE OF US EVER want to lose... think BENCH HEIGHT... yeah. He even offered to SHOW me but I took him at his word... NO pics to back this one up!

You don't know how happy I am that you don't have pics to post.

 

[monster1]

Soak it "in cider!"

 

[pist0lpete]

Soak it "in cider!"

LOL monster, one of my favorites; wish I had thought to say it first!!

Oh, and my understanding was that the old man's member was still totally functional, and that router ended up in the dumpster, fixed or not!

 

[epdarks]

My brother and law lost 2 fingers in a snowblower incident 2 weeks ago. Now quit whining!

 

[Ben7203]

Lost a few trees in a storm about 5 years ago. The wife and I cut up the wood and cleaned the mess up. But we still had the stumps to deal with. I made a few calls to get someone to come out to grind them up. Got a quote for $75 per stump and then a huge truck pulls in the driveway and two guys stumble out of the truck. I can't call them rednecks, that would insult the redneck nation. They both have an obvious buzz on and the old man has his hand in a newish bandage. There's blood coming thru the bandage in a couple of spots, so he has a plastic grocery bag over it. Earlier that morning they were working and somehow his hand got tangle up in one of those chainsaws with a big loop in it. So, he goes to the store to get bandages and beer to kill the pain. He quoted $40 per stump. I went with the other guy