Machete injury

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Guys last night I was using my brand new esee junglas to clear prickers at my camp. I was bare foot and the knife glanced off a log and we t right into my bare foot!!! I had to drive 25 minutes to hospital where I was bleeding really bad. They could not stop it. They had to stitch it while bleeding profusely which is bad because blood clot is possible. Today pain and swelling is bad. Please guys where boots and long pants while useing machetes or choppers!! My 7 year old daughter was with me which I feel bad she had to see this. Please just be careful and aware.
 
Hope it heals up. I can't say that I would do much swinging of a machete in bare feet. I had an axe skip off a tree into my sneaker covered foot when I was a kid... it bled pretty good (cut right though the canvas and rubber). You have to be very careful with your swinging angles and foot/body part placement when using machetes.
 
If you swing a machete or hatchet and it somehow hits your foot or leg.... I don't think long pants or boots would help much. I think the moral of the story is, use correct body position when swinging to chop. It's like how they always say you cut AWAY from you when cutting with a knife. Once I watched a coworker try to open up a box while cutting towards himself. If the knife slipped he would have stabbed himself in the gut. Wish you a speedy recovery.
 
Sorry your little one had to see all that. Kinda hard to get them to understand all the excitement.
Hope you get well soon!
 
Yes pics please! This is a good time to teach your little one by example about the proper use of tools:D
 
Glad you're alright, but I agree it's a demonstration of why proper body positioning and anticipation of the blade path resulting from glancing blows is important. It's also a good demonstration of why edge angle matters. In almost all cases a glancing blow results from striking a target at an angle more shallow than that of the edge (i.e. trying to make a 15 degree approach to the target with a blade that's 20 degrees per side) and is just one of a multitude of reasons why I keep my tools about as thin in the edge as I can within reason.
 
I just never go barefoot or wear sandals, period. You might catch me in sneakers around town but I'm wearing boots usually. Boots may or may not help if you hit your foot with a machete, but they aren't going to make it worse.

Joe Flowers has a few good vids on youtube about using a machete/large knife and they are worth seeking out and watching.
 
Your username is very appropriate for your situation. Sorry to hear it happened and hope you heal fast man.
 
I have had to take my son to the ER with me from slicing my thumb. Sprayed blood all over the table.

He has seen me cut a few times with knives. Both my boys are cautious about knives!



Hope the foot heals.
 
Sorry to hear about your foot, man. That's the exact reason that I don't ever chop/baton without wearing boots and pants.
 
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