Fresh injury pics! (Since we all know that without pics, it didn't happen...)

ouch man, I just saw you yesterday, should have warned you then I guess
glad it wasn't TOO bad !!!
G2

ps my daughter walked by and saw those other images and ran screaming away
 
Heal up quick Deker!
Thanks for reminding us to work safe!

A couple weeks ago my friend was wearing leather gloves and they got caught in a piece of elk antler he was drilling for a fire steel - dislocated his thumb.....
 
Sorry about the injury!

Don't overdo it on the liquor though, it keeps the blood's clotting system from working as well.
 
Whenever I cut myself or burn myself in my filthy shop, the wound always gets infected. Something evil lives out there. I keep a container of Sulfadiazene (prescription, alas, but nothing else works) in the medicine cabinet and I advise you to do the same. Watch for that nasty pink glow to appear around the edges of the wound and if it goes a couple of days without getting better, do not hope for the best and above all do not ignore it. It will only get worse. Slather good old SulfaD onto it, apply a gauze pad and then tape it up. Thickness matters. Do not try to economize on the SulfaD, costly though it is-- you want at least 1/8" atop the wound. I won't ever, ever pick up an angle grinder or go near a belt grinder without gloves, respirator, safety glasses, hearing protection, full leathers. Every time I am in too much of a hurry to armor up, I regret it.
 
Deker, have you considered latex surgical gloves? You can feel everything through them and should they get caught they will just tear away, in forging they will pop instead of heating up and burning you and you can feel any sharp object in order to react a nanosecond before your flesh is compromised... of course I am just kidding! (well they are great for when you are epoxying handles and other messy chores).

In all deadly seriousness, I am an 18 year veteran of a rural fire dept. with specialized training in Farm-medic emergencies, and I have both seen and heard of countless reasons as to why you don't wear gloves around rotary equipment. I have personally seen the results of 3 incidents where leather gloves were responsible for arms going into snap rollers on corn pickers, which have no sharp grabby things other than low ridges but can deflesh a human arm quite nicely. One exercise we did in the Farm-medic course was practice carefully opening an auger tube to find a glove stuffed with chuck roast, because nine times out of ten you will find the amputated appendage in a glove. The absolute worst offenders are the leather gloves with the little draw strings at the wrist, those damned things should be banned on work gloves.

I am all for letting people do whatever they like in their own shops, my only say in the matter is when I have to take time out of my shop to clean up the mess on a rescue run for somebody who had to wear gloves around the wrong equipment. But I have little room to criticize since I most often use the angle grinder with gloves on in order to protect my hands from the heat of grinding a hot billet; I guess we all have to do what we have to do. :o

By the way gloves aren't the only leather that you can find gore in, you should see what a leather boot doesn't do to protect a lower leg run over by a disk in the field:eek:.
 
being in a farming fam and having a mom that had part of her one finger taken from farm gear
im all about cutting burnign or other wise manglening my hand is ok rather then pulling a part of my arm in a tool
thems the tradeoffs
 
I just took my wedding ring off...... never again.....



Glad you are okay, bud.




Rick
 
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RING :eek:
man i have heard of way too many fingers beig taken cause of a ring

never
when i get me a wife i ll have to explane that little bit of info
 
Kevin R. Cashen said:
But I have little room to criticize since I most often use the angle grinder with gloves on in order to protect my hands from the heat of grinding a hot billet; I guess we all have to do what we have to do. :o
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Yeah...I'm trying to reconcile what the future plan will be with angle grinding. I do a LOT of angle grinding since I make quite a bit of damascus. I've been really luck so far with grinding discs, etc. Now, I've been scared straight by another tool...Just not sure how I'm going to react. For a lot of things I wear Mechanix gloves since they're form fitting and allow for a decent feel of what you're doing. I don't like wearing them around hot stuff though since they're synthetic. In the hot shop I wear (and wear out) welding gauntlets. They would have avoided these stitches, but the pictures posted of skinned bones still just make me cringe...

What's a guy to do? :confused:

Farm equipment is another story all together. My grandfather-in-law only has one finger and one thumb on his right hand thanks to a hay baler...

-d
 
I don't wear rings, just find them uncomfortable. I also watched a shop teacher take of his finger thanks to a ring in high school. He was coming down a ladder and slipped on the second last rung. Ring caught on the ladder and ripped his finger off.
It was a class room day and we weren't going into the shp, thats why he had his wedding ring on. They reattached his finger but it never worked right again, mind you this was 30+ years ago and the nearest hospital was 30 miles for where I lived
 
what brand of grinder disc came apart.?

i only use norton and dewalt after hearing rumors of harbor tool disc exploding frequently as of late.
 
edgemaster said:
what brand of grinder disc came apart.?

i only use norton and dewalt after hearing rumors of harbor tool disc exploding frequently as of late.
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It was a Dewalt disc. I've used Norton, Dewalt, Sait, Forney, etc. and not had a problem until now. It was just one of those fluke things really...

-d
 
I wear gloves with the angle grinder, but nothing else that spins. The way I position the guard so that I can see the cut better throws a shower of sparks onto my knuckles that eventually burn though the glove.
 
OK- IM a noob- true- but been working around marine and maritime machinery for a good portion of my "other life" while younger... Old engineer used to tell every deckhand or engine-mate to use gloves on anything portable- anything you tote and use with your hands... If the machine had a stand, pivot, or was stationary- no gloves and push-sticks... Sage advice- anything portable throws alot of residue, trash, grit... anything stationary has enough gorilla in it to chew on you. The images for the degloving are great- but dont forget hair... pull ANYTHING back... Sorry about the stitch Decker- over the knuckles really sucks- keep it moist with bacitracin while it heals so the scar is pliable!
 
Yep!
Going to check my grinding stones today for any defects.

Thanks bro and glad it was no worse.

Hope you bought the good stuff at the store.:D

Fred
 
Ouch !! So what's the consensus ? Gloves or no gloves ? All of my injuries have been from the sharp knife I was working and not from the machine, usually from the buffing process...so I wear tight fitting leather driving gloves. This thread has me re-thinking.
 
drlozier said:
Ouch !! So what's the consensus ? Gloves or no gloves ? All of my injuries have been from the sharp knife I was working and not from the machine, usually from the buffing process...so I wear tight fitting leather driving gloves. This thread has me re-thinking.
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I would say use your head and try to be reasonnable about it. Paranoia isn't any better. I won't use gloves when working on the Mill, Lathe or Drillpress. But when doing rough shaping/hogging or even rough grinding of a blade on the KMG of course I will. And always when using a portable tool like a grinder like siverforge said.

I am glad it wasn't worse deker. Heal well.

Patrice
 
Patrice Lemée;7927713 said:
I would say use your head and try to be reasonnable about it. Paranoia isn't any better. I won't use gloves when working on the Mill, Lathe or Drillpress. But when doing rough shaping/hogging or even rough grinding of a blade on the KMG of course I will. And always when using a portable tool like a grinder like siverforge said.

I am glad it wasn't worse deker. Heal well.

Patrice
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Whereas I won't go NEAR my belt sander with gloves. It's way too easy to have a bit of glove get caught between a belt a a wheel or platen...I'd rather lose a little skin (and trust me, I have)...

I should heal up OK, but I won't be helping teach a knifemaking class this weekend like I had planned. It's my hammer hand and forging is out for a couple weeks...

-d
 
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