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

[Patrice Lemée]

This puzzles me deker. I know many think like you do. I just can't picture how in the world I would get my fingers in between the wheel/platen and the belt. I am grinding on the front of the belt and sometimes with a push stick. For the platen I always use a push stick. I am at a lost to see how I would stick my hand sideways at the upper junction of belt and wheel/platen. Ok maybe the platen I could if I tried hard enough but the wheel?

Anyone?

Patrice

 

[deker]

This puzzles me deker. I know many think like you do. I just can't picture how in the world I would get my fingers in between the wheel/platen and the belt. I am grinding on the front of the belt and sometimes with a push stick. For the platen I always use a push stick. I am at a lost to see how I would stick my hand sideways at the upper junction of belt and wheel/platen. Ok maybe the platen I could if I tried hard enough but the wheel?

Anyone?

Patrice

It doesn't have to catch your finger, just the edge of the glove. If you've never run your finger into the edge of a belt, you're much better at grinding than I am

-d

 

[CDH]

Do chicks dig stitches???

Seriously, glad it wasn't worse.

Count me in the gloves ON category. The vibration from a disk grinder will kill the nerves in my hands and wrists much faster. I'll take the chance and be careful to keep my fingers away. Same with chain saws and (occasionally) belt grinders. I replace 2-3 pairs of gloves a year because the index finger on my right hand is sanded down. That's that much skin I have saved.

I wear them when drilling too. I figure the chance of the bit grabbing the knife blank and spinning it into my hand is much greater than snagging the glove.

Everyone has to find their own comfort level on these things. Analyze your own habits and hazards...and plan accordingly. At least you'll be thinking about safety! :thumbup:

 

[deker]

Do chicks dig stitches???

My wife doesn't care much, but overall she'd prefer that I don't get any more

Seriously, glad it wasn't worse.

That makes two of us!

Count me in the gloves ON category. The vibration from a disk grinder will kill the nerves in my hands and wrists much faster. I'll take the chance and be careful to keep my fingers away. Same with chain saws and (occasionally) belt grinders. I replace 2-3 pairs of gloves a year because the index finger on my right hand is sanded down. That's that much skin I have saved.

I wear them when drilling too. I figure the chance of the bit grabbing the knife blank and spinning it into my hand is much greater than snagging the glove.

Everyone has to find their own comfort level on these things. Analyze your own habits and hazards...and plan accordingly. At least you'll be thinking about safety! :thumbup:

I find comfort by using antibiotic ointment when I lose a little skin and clamping things to be drilled into a well secured vise. Skin is cheap, bone and muscle are expensive

-d

 

[savageknives]

I replace 2-3 pairs of gloves a year because the index finger on my right hand is sanded down. That's that much skin I have saved. :thumbup:

i keep old boot leather for just that reason. i hate replacing gloves when one or two finger tips are gone so i just sew or glue a piece of old leather in. i wear them when grinding as i dont do much of it and my grinder is quite timid, and also when buffing since no matter how careful you are, every once in a while it will catch and make one brown his pants. other than that, i go without them. my brother got the pad of his thumb cut off on a chop saw cutting some angle iron and it scared me straight.

 

[logem]

I quit wearing gloves while using the belt grinder when the finger tip of my glove wedged between the gap of the belt and workrest. Luckily, the gap was very small and the 3 hp motor stalled. If the work rest had been spaced ever-so-slightly farther away from the belt, I would have surely crushed at least my finger . . . and perhaps most of my hand.

I will not wear gloves while using a belt grinder, and recommend that you don't either.

I put up with the heat, and use a push stick or dip my work in water more often. I've grazed the skin from my knuckles, but that heals much more quickly than a mangled hand.

Mike L.

 

[B.V.]

Too bad about the class D. Hope you heal up quick! Are you still in for the Hammer-In?
See you soon.
Brad

 

[SCMknives]

Hope it heals fast....I'm with Mike L. also, no gloves around rotating thingies. I've seen an arm turned into a twizzler by a lathe chuck(dont brush shavings away with your hand)....I'm good with a cut, burn, rash, and maybe even losing a finger before I'm good with losing a whole arm.