Did something dumb today.

[doc henderson]

so let me know what you think. I was meaning to rotate the 4-sided carbides as the new to me jointer seemed hard to push hardwood across.  so, I was working on bench seat to flatten a side, and then run though the planer.  the guard would not let me push through easily.  I do not have a pic of my hands, but... they are fine.  I tried to rotate the guard out of the way with the jointer running, and when I loosened the hand nut/bolt, it dropped down and I saw aluminum being milled.  still cuts cedar and pine OK, but now it is time to rotate the carbides for sure.  should have a little more clearance now. 

  WARNING: GRUSOME PHOTO, VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED
 

oops wrong photo.

 :D 8) ;)

 

 

 

[WV Sawmiller]

 

   I'm having flashbacks to 2 years ago.

   That can't be good. You better go see your doctor, oh yeah - you already did. :

   Any broken bones? How many stitches?

   I don't mean to hurt your feelings but your credibility is going to suffer in the ER for the next few weeks.

[SawyerTed]

 

[Old Greenhorn]

Just talked to Doc, that's not his hand. it was supposed to be a joke, but maybe not clear, at least not to me. That's an older photo of another hand.

[SawyerTed]

Thank goodness for Doc!  Glad he's fine, well normal...his usual self. 

The humor was not clear if not gratuitously graphic ! 

[Nealm66]

I started using a chest holster for my cell phone. The final straw was finding it after I drug a turn of logs over it with the skidder. I've also found the dewalt collar blue tooth doubles as earplugs and they don't pop out and get lost. I'm able to talk to the skidder operator when pulling trees through them with a bark box on a 500i.

[GAB]

At first glance of the picture in reply 4150 I thought it should have been in Doc's thread "I gave blood!".
GAB

[doc henderson]

well just got home from seeing Adam Sandler.  It was actually a good show but for the potty mouth stuff.  he had about 5 of his buddy's that are in his movies and was a good time.  Tom texted to see how I was doing, and I told him fine.  Remember a month ago when my tree service guy that milled the burl had his son get hurt...  that is why I said, "oops wrong pic".  It is not me.   I did something dumb, but not that bad.  sorry.     I just dulled some already dull carbides and trim some excess aluminum from the guard.

[doc henderson]

oops wrong photo.

:D 8) ;)

see!  thanks for your concern and sorry to worry all my friends.   

[Stephen1]

Doc, glad your okay 8), but my stomach is still turning and my oatmeal does not taste so good.

[Hilltop366]

Doctor humour....it's the worst.  ;D

[WV Sawmiller]

   It has taken me a while to come to terms with this malfeasance whereby a fake photo or should I say a misrepresentation of ownership of said photo was posted on this thread. To say the least my faith in humanity has been sorely tested. I am struggling with this issue and grasping for straws to allow me to forgive such a grave illusion. The people we should be able to have absolute trust and confidence in are our family, friends, law enforcement and our medical providers and when one of them misleads us it just makes it that much harder to accept and understand.

   To post such a photo this close to the holidays will probably result in permanent damage to my faith in all that is supposed to good and honest in my fellow man. I just pray that with counselling the nightmares will cease and that over time I can overcome this abuse. Yes, the wound may heal - but there will be a scar.

[TimW]

Very dry Doc.  Very dry.

[Old Greenhorn]

Howard, do you need a hug? ;D

[Old Greenhorn]

You see enough of this stuff and it can tend to get a little routine. Medical folks can tend to have a slightly darker sense of humor as do firefighters and LEOs. We all sometimes forget that the layman might not take it quite the way intended.
I recall being at a bad accident scene in the wee hours one time and one of our Firefighters walked up to 3 LEOs who were standing around and said "Hey, if you fellas don't mind, could you give us a some help trying to find this fella's hand? We'd really like to send it to the hospital with him, y'know?"
(Yes, the patient got his hand back eventually and a little worse for the wear.)
If we don't learn to deal with these things one way, they can creep up on you in other ways, so a sense of humor helps quite a bit.

[Nebraska]

Did you know that the sparks that happen when you hit your middle log stop show up really well when it's dark.. just brushed the very tip knocked the set out of the blade and that was that ...  The timberking B 16 log stops are independently adjustable and I was just a tiny bit off.

[K-Guy]

Howard
I think Walmart has a rollback on crying towels now!  ;D

[GAB]

In reference to re[ly 4161:
Oh YE of little faith.
GAB

[Old Greenhorn]

I think it's been a long time since my last 'dumb thing' and this one is quite small and common, but there was pain involved, even if no photos.
Last night I went out at my usual 9:30pm stove feeding time in the shop and was pretty tired and working on autopilot. The stove was low and just some coals in there so I threw a few thin splits in first to liven things up. Well I had a piece in my left hand and shoved it into the stove opening hard enough to make it reach the back without putting my hand all the way in (no glove on the left hand), but I wasn't watching my left hand, I was already grabbing for another piece with my right hand. Well, I missed the opening and the end of the split hit the face of the stove, stopping dead. My hand did not stop dead and I shoved a splinter deep into my index finger to the point I nearly saw stars. Holy cow, this one really hurt. I get a lot of splinters, nearly every day, but this one got my attention in a very real way.
I was trying to 'just not use that finger' until I had the stove loaded, so I could pull the splinter in the house at my desk, with glasses and a loop. But the pain on this one was 'somewhat demanding of attention'.
Well my glasses were in the house, but I got my workbench tweezers and without using magnification assistance I felt around for it and tried to pull it out 3 or 4 times, but the tweezers kept pulling off. Finally I grabbed a loop and took a look, because I assumed I was grabbing a piece of skin instead of the splinter and slipping off of that. [surprise twist here] I was wrong. There was no little flap of skin, in fact the splinter did not enter as most do, along and under the skin. This splinter went straight in and headed for the bone in my finger. The reason I couldn't pull it out and kept slipping off is because it was driven in like a ring nail and would not let go.
So I choked up on the tweezers and got a good grip and slipped a few more times trying to pull it out all the while increasing the level of 'stimulation' I got from the pain. Finally I really bore down on those tweezers and pulled it out. It was only about 5/16 long but it felt like 3 inches coming out. Man did that hurt.
24 hours later and that thing is still sore but healing up fine. Also, 24 hours later I am still not wearing a glove on my left hand when I fill the stove. Guess you could say I am 'doing something dumb today', and everyday. I usually don't mind splinters, part of life, but DanG this one HURT!
BTW, it was red maple, air dried 1.5 years in case you are taking notes..

[Nebraska]

  ouch!

[firefighter ontheside]

Nebraska, I wouldn't know about making sparks, because I never hit my log stops.  :D

Tom, that hurts.  Last weekend I was rooting around in my backpack that I take everywhere looking for a phone charger.  Reaching all the way down to the bottom where scary things live I felt terrible pain in my thumb and pulled my hand out.  There was a sewing needed impaled in my thumb about 1/4" straight in.  I pulled it out of course.  That hurt for a couple days.  I guess at one time I had thrown a little sewing kit in there and the needle fell out.

[SawyerTed]

Ugh!  Splinters!  That's got to hurt!  The needle story made me wince!  Ouch!

Seems like I get at least one bad splinter every winter from working firewood or loading the stove.   I'm officially jinxed - will likely get one today. 

Last year I got four or five in the fleshy part of my index finger on my left hand.  All but one came out fairly easily.  It took three weeks before it worked out enough to pull out with tweezers.  The relief was immediate!  It was 4' long and 3/4" in diameter or it seemed like it.  It really was about 1/8" and hurt the whole time. 

[doc henderson]

I was bringing an armload into the shop though the 3-foot door and had to twist at the door and walked my 4-mph gait.  when the end of a chunk of wood caught the door jam, and wow stop my chest!  did not hurt later like I thought it might, so the rib sprung back and did not break!

[aigheadish]

Sorry about the pain, Tom, but I really like your quoted comments "'somewhat demanding of attention'" and "'stimulation'", interesting way to describe it.

[Jim_Rogers]

Yesterday, we, my daughter and I went to walmart to buy some Christmas gifts for my wife.

One of the other items we wanted to get some some chair leg protectors to put on the bottom of one of the new chairs we just got.

I knew that they most likely would be in the hardware section.

After entering the store, i got one of those motorized shopping carts so i didn't have to walk so much. This getting old in not much fun these days.

With my daughter following me, we headed to the back of the store to the hardware section.

We went down one hardware aisle but didn't see any chair leg protectors.

Turned right and headed down the back aisle looking for aisle signs and any other info trying to find that section.

As we passed the end of the extension cord aisle there was a Walmart worker there helping a lady find an extension cord.

I noticed his name tag "Jimmy".

After he had finished with her in the aisle to my right, I said: "Jimmy, can you help us find the chair leg protector section/display?"

He looked at me kind of puzzled and said: "isn't that it right there?" pointing directly to my left.
I had stopped exactly where they were. I could have reached out and touched them if I had only looked left.
I felt very dumb.

We found some that we thought may work.

We motored on.....

Jim Rogers