Almost injuries?

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I remember a thread about inuries a while back, but what about the ALMOST injuries? The ones where some silly thing or another kept you from losing a massive amount of blood. For example, I was just cleaning up a piece of wood to practice with. As I'm planing one of the sides on the belt sander, it catches and slides out of the way. I was holding it down, so of course my index finger takes a few rotations of 300 grit. I expect blood, but I got nothing (luckily)! Turns out that my callouses from playing guitar took the brunt of it. It's freaking hilarious because right now I have a flat spot on my index finger. :D I'll have to see if I can get a picture of this...

Anyone else have a similar story?
 
About thirty years ago I was opening a container of Black Magic auto body filler with a Stanley utility knife.The knife slipped off of the cardboard cylinder and went right accross my thigh.Cut the denim blue jeans I had on approx. 3 inches but never touched my skin.That was close.tom.:eek:
 
About forty years back, was trying to cut a piece of 1/8" plastic rod with a Trim toenail clipper, did not realize there was a length of piano wire imbedded in it. Pressing down on the handle with all my might when the rivet snapped. Top end of the rivet put a "crater" in the left lens of my eyeglasses that went almost completely through it. If I had better eyesight, and a thinner lense, would have been in deep do-do that day.
 
Breaking down cardboard boxes with a break off bladecutter, and went straight through the loose fold of my pants leg in front of my shin! Left a nice neat slash in the pants!
 
I'm not sure if I was anywhere near getting hurt, but one day about 4 years ago, I got fired from a pretty decent job for reasons that were extreme exaggerations (almost flat out lies) simply because someone didn't like me much. So, I went home, pulled out my United Sword, and chop, chop, chop on my old headboard. I had gotten about 1/2 inch into the wood, (soft, dry pine) and I think I hit the grain at just the right angle, and the next thing I know, 2/3 of a katana blade goes flying over my shoulder. It happened so quick I really don't know how close it came to me, but I sure learned my lesson that day. Don't use knives THAT SUCK. Thanks, United. :rolleyes:
 
I have had quite a few close calls. These are just the ones I remember the details on...

Once I was hacking a 1" thick limb off of a tree with a Kabar. I don't know how, but somehow I managed to end the cutting stroke with the tip of the blade whipping toward my stomach... I saw it coming and tried to jump back but the blade still slit just the top couple layers of skin for about an inch, right in the middle of my chest. It could have been a LOT worse. The way it was going, I could have stuck myself about 2" deep right in the sternum. Ummm, yeah... I DO feel dumb about that one.

One time I was sharpening a machete on a benchstone that I was holding with my left hand. My dog was chasing a ball around the yard and I started paying a little too much attention to him and not enough attention to what I was doing. I wound up cutting the very tip of my left index finger almost off. I felt the blade slicing my finger and dropped everything - the stone, the machete - everything! Luckily, it only went partway through (instead of all the way through). I just put some iodine in there, squirted some super glue in it and I was good to go. It healed up no problem.

I've had a few incidents I couldn't add to this thread because they couldn't be called "close calls"! OUCH!
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I somehow managed to slip and fall 50 feet down one side of a hill while hiking. I came out only with cuts on my hands and a case of the shakes. I still have scars from the deep cuts on my palms, but it's an almost injury if you can count what could've happened if I didn't happen to slide down ass first.
 
Walking Man, we should do a survey of how many times that has happened to a United sword. A similar thing happened to me cutting through a 2x4. I was using a straight bladed sword, and the point went by my side, a section in the middle about 4" long went straight up and I nearly caught it until I realized what I was about to do, and I was left holding about 12" of blade in the handle. Also, I have whacked my shins a number of times with a machete, but not left a cut. Good thing I didnt know how to sharpen then.
BTW, first post, and good morning to everyone.
 
I was very lucky when I learned a lesson on using tools properly.
I was young, boy that was a long time ago, and working shake roofs. I had wedged back the guard on the skill saw so I could hold and cut pieces for the corner shingles faster. The saw blade binded and kicked back ripping the crotch out of my jeans. Luckly, I was not tounched, but it scared the heck out of me. I never wedged the guard again. :eek:
 
I was about 13, and lying on my water bed messing with my Benchmade balisong when, for some ungodly reason, I threw it up and stuck it in the sealing. Before I could reason out what I thought I was doing, it was falling strait at my face. I moved with out thinking and am here to tell about it. My bed however was not so lucky. The funny thing was, all I could think about was what to tell my parents about the flood that was approaching the hall.
 
Originally posted by Don Rac
I somehow managed to slip and fall 50 feet down one side of a hill while hiking. I came out only with cuts on my hands and a case of the shakes. I still have scars from the deep cuts on my palms, but it's an almost injury if you can count what could've happened if I didn't happen to slide down ass first.
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I just did the same thing several weeks ago except I did a "roll over" wearing a knife in an open sheath :eek: The whole way down the hill I wondered, will I break bones, or get stabbed by an airborne knife?:confused: When I hit bottom, I was ok...the next day I was quite sore!:o
 
Matches, actually I remember thinking nothing at all except "oh $hit I have to cover my head", all I saw were branches and lots of dust. It was good it was a slightly sloped, 50 feet straight down and I'd have broken something or be dead.
 
Hello fellas...

Just tossin' in my almost.

Was working a blade on a big buffer (Baldor, double end, 3/4 horse,3600rpm) when the blade caught just wrong. It shot out of my hands and slammed into a galvanized steel garbage can. It was stuck about an inch deep. I just stood there shaking, thinking how my skin wasn't as tough as that can. It could have shot in nearly any direction, buffers being pretty fickle. I was lucky that day. No scars .

Shane
 
Reviving an old thread! A friend of mine was working on his Jeep while lying on his back undereath it prying something towards himself with a phillips head screwdriver, it slipped and jammed up his nostril and came out right below the inside corner of his eye. :eek: Now he has a little scar of a phillips head tip there.
 
Beile said:
Reviving an old thread! A friend of mine was working on his Jeep while lying on his back undereath it prying something towards himself with a phillips head screwdriver, it slipped and jammed up his nostril and came out right below the inside corner of his eye. :eek: Now he has a little scar of a phillips head tip there.
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That made me cringe. Wow.
 
when i was about three years old, i ran full speed through a glass door, naked (attempting to get out of taking a bath), and managed to walk away without a scratch.
 
Jumped out of an airplane 10 times...worse thing was a tweaked knee. Rode rodeo for 6 years, busted ribs was the worse I was hurt (saw a video of me under a bull though, never will understand how my head didn't get stomped). Hit a deer on a motorcycle, permanently separated right shoulder. Closest almost?

Ft Irwin out somewhere in the desert...combination of me screwing up a map grid by about 1K and a short 4.2 round. My track crew and I were out calling live fire for our companies mortor section. I was in the commanders cupola leaning on the duece calling in the last few rounds when a short round hit about 300 yards away. I heard a loud clack and felt something strike the 113. I dropped down buttoned up and got on the radio. Found out I was too close and the round was short. Later that evening I noticed a busted periscope and pried this out of it. This is a chunk of shrapnel from a 4.2 mortor, an inch higher and I would have been screwed badly. I have keep this on my desk for over 20 years to remind me that I have used up most of the luck allotted to me in this lifetime. The edges are still razor sharp...

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Walking Man said:
I'm not sure if I was anywhere near getting hurt, but one day about 4 years ago, I got fired from a pretty decent job for reasons that were extreme exaggerations (almost flat out lies) simply because someone didn't like me much. So, I went home, pulled out my United Sword, and chop, chop, chop on my old headboard. I had gotten about 1/2 inch into the wood, (soft, dry pine) and I think I hit the grain at just the right angle, and the next thing I know, 2/3 of a katana blade goes flying over my shoulder. It happened so quick I really don't know how close it came to me, but I sure learned my lesson that day. Don't use knives THAT SUCK. Thanks, United. :rolleyes:
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something like this QVC blooper?

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