was just wondering how many of us have mising or permanently damaged fingers.
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was just wondering how many of us have mising or permanently damaged fingers.
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i've still got all my fingers(thank you big guy)
they keep telling my there's something missing
in the cavity of the cranium though.:doh:
regards
the block
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Good idea for a poll
I lost the top 5 mm of my left ring finger 29 years ago while using a baby 4: jointer for about the second time. I was showing my brother how (not) to use it and was busy telling him "how I knew a guy who lost a finger using one"!
Couldn't play guitar properly for years afterwards (my son says I still can't play now).
Well, I had two accidents (left hand middle finger, Stanley knife - right hand middle and ring finger, power planer) but luckily the permanent damage is virtually irrelevant. I don't know many wood/metalworkers with all 10 though, and picking it up as a hobby later in life does not help - I am rather worried that it could be only a matter of time.
Helps if you tend to use handplanes rather than a jointer or a router - my FIL was in charge of a workshop (making models for hydrological purposes) and says that the OH&S stats show that jointers and router tables/spindle moulders were the most dangerous machines in terms of accidents in woodworking shops.
Darksiders unite, you have nothing to lose but your fingers!!:D
i've got all ten:cool:. does that mean i dont take enough risks:o.
i dont think i could cope with loosing a finger. i need them all to hold a hockey stick properly:D
This has been done before, maybe a couple of years ago now though.
9.33 total for me, counting thumbs.
wouldnt 9 and 1/3 be more accurate:D. wait this isnt maths class:doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers
so wat happened?
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Originally Posted by ss_11000
It's amazing what you can achieve missing a few fingers - http://www.brctv.org/joom/index.php?...d=28&Itemid=36
make sure "Pierce Plane" is selected and press the play arrow in the middle of the black screen.
thats pretty cool jeremy. thanx for the link:2tsup: it must be hard to work with only a thumb ( he did have thumb didnt he? ) on one hand.
It was kinda fun being able to do wierd finger wobbling tricks for the nieces, but now they are older its just embarrassing. What a goose I was, middle finger, right hand, top joint,
Sebastiaan
I have all in tact although I have put a few drill bits through fingers and palms at times
Next door neighbor ex-Navy engineer has fingers missing both hands some down to the second knuckle fight with a ride on lawn mower
So far so good, although I've come close to losing the tip of my little finger on a bandsaw...
Was working with a gnarly old guy last week, a very experienced windmill installer. I noticed he was missing about 1/2 of four fingers on one hand, nice straight line it was too. I had to ask if he did it on a windmill, expecting something about getting caught up the tower with a gust of wind. "Nup" he said, "did it with an axe!" One of those darksider tools!:rolleyes:
Cheers,
I heard recently about a guy who was in his last hour before retiring as a cabinet maker after 40+ years and had all fingers intact. He was cutting up some short stuff on a TS and had just turned the saw off and went to flick an offcut off the table top and misjudged where his hand was and took 3 fingers off! They put them back on but what a way to start your retirement :(
Right hand ,2 joints index finger,locked joint ring finger, stiff joints on thumb, only about 10% movement. All these and more when I was a first year apprentice,no supervision or instructions on using machines.
Learnt my trade early. nine fingers:fingerscrossed:
All still intact. :U
Left little finger a bit bent from a motorcycle stack many years ago. :C
Left pointer has a couple of scars on it. One from bullet shrapnel, one from a gouge, and several, near the tip, from knives.
Thumbs have arthritis.
Scars on both wrists from carpel tunnel operations.
So far I have avoided a size reduction. :o
Left little finger, lost two joints but kept the knuckle. Took it off with a jointer so to speak.
Lost grip in that hand id say about 50%. seems to be alot weaker.
10/10 for me, but I used to know a painter who only had about 6 fingers in total. Before he was a painter, he was a butcher, but he stopped after he lost too many fingers.
And I had a diabetic uncle who didn't feel the nail he used to nail his thumb to the fence until he tried to walk away...
Not really missing or maimed. I dropped a cabinet on my Los Angeles driving finger. (Similar to your Sydney driving finger but on the other hand.) I did break the bone and required 7 stitches to close the wound. The only lasting damage is the loss of the sense of touch at the very tip of the finger.
Still got all ten after 54 years of using machinery. Never really did any damage to anything except when I was about ten I put a garden fork through my foot.
Still got all mine thankfully but had a few near misses.:)
Well, I have just come home from Toowoomba hospital, left hubby there in the orthopedic ward. He put his hand on the table saw blade on Sunday and came very close to severing his right index finger.
Kingaroy hospital didnt want to touch it, and Toowoomba was too busy on Sunday to take him, so took him up on Monday morning. He had an op on it last night and they put a plate or pin in it.The saw cut a big chunk out of his finger and cut most of the way through the bone, the nerves have been severed on the leading edge of his finger. (I do have a pic, but dont want to make anyone ill:rolleyes:. ) They are going to have another look at it tomorow, hopefully it is sitting right and he wont have to go back in to get it redone.
I was only reading excerpts out of this thread to him a couple of days ago:no:. He is not even sure how he did it, or why he put his hand there.
I am not looking forward to the next weeks/months till he has use of his hand again. Male patients:doh:
Donna
Donna
Donna is this another forumite whos suffered please :no: surley notQuote:
Originally Posted by flynnsart
Keep up the good spirits and return soon
Ray
donna, no pic means it didnt happen ( in other words, just post it anyway:) )
hope your hubby heals up well
Well... I know when I posted blow by blow pics of the day the forstner bit decided to chomp my finger all people did was whinge and complain :roll: and now yer askin for pics?? :doh: flamin young fellas :qQuote:
Originally Posted by ss_11000
Still got all 10 but the munched one still isnt working cant bend from the second knuckle any more and a lump coming out the side :o yeah rather interesting eh? doesnt hurt till I touch it either :;
Had near misses on the bandsaw the table saw the router table and the jointer... missus would rather I became a dark sider still some risk of damage but not THE major risk that the machines + clutsy me presents :C
BUT I WONT!! I refuse to give in to the dark side!! NO I WONT!!! machines machines I wubs me machines... so much so Im thinkin of gettin more hahahahehehe :U :U
:2tsup:read your posts out to hubby and made him chuckle, said he feels better already.
Donna
Well just got back from Toowoomba again. They took the cast off and put a finger splint on. Will be having a bone graft when the wound has healed. Here is a photo of the exray after they put the pin (looks like wire)in.
It still happens. Bloke at work has 8 and 2 halves.
"How'd you do it?" we asked one day.
"Lost this one in a glass stuffer" (a machine that uses a very powerful Archimedes screw to force chopped glass strands into a plastic extruder).
"What about the other one?"
"Well, they were doing the investigation, and they asked me to show them what I'd done. So I put my hand in the stuffer ..."
the closest i got was was down to the fingernail on my left middle finger. That was enough of a scare for me so now im extra careful. And also having to bag someone elses fingers makes you a bit more careful too.
Got all mine but had a couple of close shaves due to carelessness.
All fingers have interesting histories. Little finger on right hand was bitten by a mongoose!:B:o
Right hand has all 5 with no real damage. Left hand i tried to make 6 fingers using the TS. Surgeon put it back together then 18 months before i could woodwork again.
Pain..Pain..Pain. (drugs are great then they take them away)
So done it once and not going to do it again.
Steve
I was stupid and removed the guard on my table saw to cut some small pieces last year, cut my left index finger nearly off through first joint.
Thanks to a skilled hand surgeon at Green slopes hospital I still have it, and it works
about 65% as good as did before .
About two months of phyisotherapy and pain.
when I got home from hospital I cleaned blood off saw table [ went rusty too] & re fitted guards to saw & angle grinder ect.
I happens in an instant .
same as me. :U and just over the hill to.
OK so we are doing a poll on how many have lost fingers or parts of them.
I think the most important discussion is how to cope or what to do immediately after an accident.
My wood workshop is on my farm and I am often there by myself.
I am interested in contributions from members who have had an accident on how they dealt with it and what they would do differently next time.
Regards
Gordon
1. Clean plastic bag to keep the bits in 'till you get to hospital.
Seal the bag and keep cool. NO ICE just cold water.
2. Pressure bandage to stop the bleeding.
3. Mobile phone to call for help. DO NOT DRIVE YOURSELF.
If you black out you could finish up with much worse injuries.
it its right off tehn put it in a bag inside a nother bag of cold watter. stop teh bleeding (i used a tea towel) and call to a freindly neibour that happens to be a nurse:;. or an ambulance.
after my router insident i decided id seen it done enough ill just stich myself up next time.
When I was young and (more) foolish I was cutting small strips on my triton (with the guard off so I could see what I was doing) - started day dreaming and missed seeing one strip slip sideways but got a good view of my hand dropping onto the saw. Stopped the saw, locked the garage, ran inside, put my hand under the tap to wash it out - looked like shredded cabbage - wrapped a tea towel around it and went across the road to the neighbour to get a lift to the hospital. Funny thing was it didn't hurt at all - was just kinda numb.
No real damage - hit my thumb and rude finger together, cut a groove nice enough to house a bit of ply just down to the bone. Healed ok eventually, but one of the fingernails grows crooked and gives me a bit of grief.
Worst part was I forgot to leave a message for swmbo - she came home to a locked house with blood all over the sink, the kitchen floor, and a trail of bloodstains leading out to the garage (in from the garage?). Not sure what her reaction was but glad I wasn't there :D.
Also ripped a fingernail off with a ride on lawn mower, but that's not woodworking so it doesn't count :;.
Few more near misses. Try ever so hard these days not to daydream.
Cheers,
Adam
its strange how it dosent hurt.
thud, thud, thud, what was that.... lok down oh ?????.
Biscuit Jointer
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Phil
Ouch :o:C