Your worst self-inflicted, stupid accident?

Gary O' said:

Your worst self-inflicted, stupid accident?​


Many

Latest was up at the cabin

Wrote about it;

Well, I did it.

Found a saw stop.

My hand.

I'm careful. To a fault.
But there apparently are times, like today.

I was zippin' off some wood chalks.
No measurement required.
Got into a rhythm.

Forgot....I don't have rhythm.

A stuck pig comes to mind.

Thing is, my lovely better half was up at the neighbors.
She hardly ever goes to the neighbors.
Today is nine eleven.

Fitting.

So, after nicking the large artery in the top of my hand, I kept my composure and immediately ran down the road, screaming.

Juuust kidding.

I stumbled around, muttering fond remembrances of my childhood puppy.

Kidding again.

I knew to stop the blood.
Thing is, when one uses the good hand to help the hurt hand, well, there's just no other hands.

I was rather amazed at my sensibilities during what could rapidly develop into a somewhat dire situation, by;

Sticking my hand up in the air

Pressing my fingers on the vein

Pouring water on the cut

Then pouring good Scotch on it

Then finding a clean cloth, ripping it in shreds, and tying it tight.

I stood there looking at the smart phone.
Thought about asking siri what next to do.
Then realized the bleeding had stopped.


Went back to work.

My lady got home an hour or so later.
Got a bit excited about the carnage...'blood everywhere!'.
She should be well aware of my thin, onion paper Irish skin, and I bleed most every working moment of every day.

What agitates me is I didn't think to apply super glue.


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somebody posed a question
'how in heck did you manage to cut the top of yer hand?'

Well, that's a fair enough question.
Although, I thought it might've been obvious.

Permit me to illustrate;

Haphazardly put your left hand in the path of the whirling saw blade by placing it directly underneath while the other hand is reaching for another piece of wood.
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Hurry

Deftly use the sliding feature of the compound sliding miter saw;
pushing down and forward while it's wind milling (not under power) during a state of confusion
as to what's wood, and what's your hand, and whether or not the saw is on,
and what a saw is. while considering changing your political party affiliation.

Permit the teeth to grind into your flesh until it stops.

Wince

Bug your eyes out with amazement at the idiocy of the event

Call yourself several defamatory names

Bleed on everything

Run to and fro




That about covers it
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I don't know anyone who has worked in a shop or around saws...that has not had at least one bad accident. It's not stupidity, it's just the way it is....
 

When I was 10, my brother & I were playing handball against the side of the house. I was barefoot. As I ran up to hit the ball, I heard a scraping sound. I looked down at my foot & saw that a nail went through the side of my big toe & out the other side. I started to pull it out but it was so rusted, it broke off. When I pulled on the other side, it also broke off, leaving a piece stuck inside the toe. Well, I went into the garage & found a brand new nail & used it to push out the broken piece. I poured peroxide into the hole & put a Band-Aid over each hole after it stopped foaming. It healed perfectly. "Tetanus?" What's that?
 

When I lived in PA. I was clearing some sumac trees. They weren't big just annoying to look at so close to our home. MacGyver tactic used was a length of bull rope & the hitch on my van to pull them out by the roots.

Going great until one being really stubborn needed the roots chopped. Somehow one of the roots managed to break off as a splinter under the thumbnail on my right hand.

MacGyver again. Anbesol to numb the pain & try to pull the splinter out with a pair of tweezers. Didn't work & the thumb was turning red.

Lightbulb moment! Go to the hospital to get the splinter removed. Doctor looked at me like I was from another planet. Then proceeded to do what doctors do with the tools of his trade. He numbed the thumb, cut half of the nail off & easily removed the splinter. Wore gloves while removing the rest of the root.
 
I missed the bottom step on my ladder while doing some work in the basement.,...about 3 years ago. I scraped my arm on a nearby sharp shelf corner, and ripped my forearm open....bleeding badly. I hurried up and wrapped it with a clean towel, and headed for the hospital....they had to put about 15 stiches on it. I now have a nice scar to remind me to be Very careful on ladders.
 
Em in Ohio said:
I have a bigger version of that type of saw and every time I use it from now on, I will remember this tale of woe!
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Yeah those radial arm miter saws are dangerous. I have a 12" one and my daughter wanted to borrow it for some renovation work she was doing on her house, I had to say no.
win231 said:
When I was 10, my brother & I were playing handball against the side of the house. I was barefoot. As I ran up to hit the ball, I heard a scraping sound. I looked down at my foot & saw that a nail went through the side of my big toe & out the other side. I started to pull it out but it was so rusted, it broke off. When I pulled on the other side, it also broke off, leaving a piece stuck inside the toe. Well, I went into the garage & found a brand new nail & used it to push out the broken piece. I poured peroxide into the hole & put a Band-Aid over each hole after it stopped foaming. It healed perfectly. "Tetanus?" What's that?
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Oh man that story brought back a memory.

I was probably ten and mowing the lawn in my bare feet and the mower kicked out a piece of wire that shot into my heel. My dad and neighbor were sitting close by and I walked over and my dad was able to work the wire out. My neighbor says we need to clean out the hole, he runs home and comes back with a syringe with a needle on it. I don't know what was in that syringe, probably something for cattle, but man he stuck that needle in the hole to flush it out and I damn near fainted. I was a tough little country kid but I had tears rolling out of my eyes by the time he was done flushing out that hole.
 
When I was kidling I went to football game at local school, dad & mom were there of course, some of us wanna-be's were
"playing" behind the bleachers, I somehow rain into a fence around the place and ended up with a cut above my eye that
could have been very bad......:cry:
 
Drunk driving...hit a parked car. Totaled my car. I had kept driving after hitting the car, had a helicopter looking for me, cops were called. I was stopped at one of the busiest intersections in town. Thrown in the back of the cop car, and handcuffed.

I, at some point had called my mom, she came, and must have begged the cops NOT to throw me in jail. Down to the hospital for blood work, and then my mom brought me home.

My Dad was upset, because now I wouldn't be able to take us out to lunch, due to not being able to drive for 6mos.

BTW..I no longer drink and drive!
 
When I was about five years old and back in the days when the dairy milk man would deliver fresh milk in glass bottles and then put them in a cooler by the front door of your house. I took a milk bottle to bring it inside the house then I slipped on the concrete steps and fell on the milk bottle in me right hand and breaking the milk bottle. The cut was deep in my right palm and it cut the nerves in my hand. The doctors were able to sew my hand up and the nerves the best they could back then. Later on I got an infection in my hand and the doctors were able to save my hand and did not have to cut it off. All my life my right hand has been weak and lacked corordination but is good enough to use for regular porposes. When I see milk containers now days and see they are in plastic or paper containers I am glad that they are doing that.
 
Don;t remember this since I was only about 4 yrs. but I was discovered out in the backyard with a big smile on my face, an empty kerosene can in my hand, and drenched in the stuff; IIRC there was no trip to the emerg. room, just a bath.

Then in recent years, I've become a fan of the "classics" guess you could say: stepping on a rake & getting hit by the handle right between the eyes and trying to open a bottle of champagne and the cork hitting me right between the eyes.
 
Gary O' said:
Mine is a 12 inch
It has its limits, but not many.
How big is yours? (so I can covet)
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haha - well dang - I was trying to find the manual (for my compound sliding miter saw!) that I downloaded for it. The saw (which I call a chop saw, because it could take a leg off) is in the basement and because of my covid dizzy spells, I'm not going there! Anyway it will cut 4x4's to a depth of at least 12 inches (biggest I've cut). It definitely looks bigger than yours (Sheesh, I'm glad I'm not a guy saying that!)
 
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Your worst self-inflicted, stupid accident?​

The many times my right hand has tried to decapitate my left index finger. "Just an FYI" A dull knife can be as or more dangerous than a sharp one.
 

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