My typin' is slower than normal but my speelin' in much better.
I fed the trigger finger of my right hand into my chipper.....not as good as "Fargo"
but it ain't sumthin' you get much practice at.
Took off my finger print and most of the meat holding it up...busted up the finger nail some but didn't get to the bone....that's a plus. here's a fat finger for your edification:
uhyj ow.

JP, that had to hurt. I wanted one of those machines but you just talked me out of it. Sorry to hear about this but I am glad to know it didn't get more of your hand.

MikeCool

I ain't about to unwrap the fucker.

Aooeys!! Let it heal bro and we'll see whats left of that digit. It may be modified to reach higher in your nostrils than the past version and it might grow a wedge kinda nail for scooping better.

Ya may be onto something there.

Didn't moma tell you not to put your hand where your pecker don't belong? Well, now ya now.

ouch!!!!


1st picture is a burn on my arm from a welding mishap on Tuesday....

2nd picture is from Friday night, I knocked a tailstock from one of my lathes off a shelf and my leg got in the way....yea, it hurts....

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Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow

breathe... breathe... don't pass out




Not a big fan of pain when it's pointless

My kid took the end off his finger(meet slicer) the doc put a piece of some kinda artifical skin replacement over it helped the healing process alot.
Me, I just got a bad spranged ankle a week ago when some press tooling broke and a coworker and I hit the floor, Him landing on my ankle. The whole time the engineer saying that shoulda worked.

Ayup.....the gray sweats......makes ya wanna

Take the bandaid off ya pansy.....

Oh man, with one finner all banged up yer typing rate is cut by 50%!

Thar's an ole sayin in the millwrights, "doan stick yer finger anywhere ya wouldn't stick yer dick."

makes sense to me......................... I still gots all 12 of em

BTDT with a grinder! LOL
also punctured my hand with a screwdriver - ouch-

Being a young machinist, I've had a fair share of accidents. (Today marks my 2nd year being gainfully employed in the field.) Was polishing out the inside of a cast impellor at the end of a lathe op. I even asked for a polishing stick at the begining of my shift. Dayshift foreman said don't be a pussy. Ended up jogging my finger into the blades about an hour before shift end. (Getting tired/careless.) Ground around the nail on my middle finger all the way to the bone. Didn't ever lose the rest of the nail. Then, just past the one year mark, some 30y.o. noob 'shploded am abrasive cutting wheel with the shield off and I caught a big chunk across the first three on my right hand, all the way to the bone. 20 stitches. Huge scar. Fell of a 3rd story building doing building maintenance, hit and rolled, ended up with just a tiny scratch that scared, but I just noticed that it's gone. Tons more. That's just since I was 18.

So, take off the wraps,eh......since it was time to change it no how...
did I tell ya it had to go thru my mechanics gloves to get at my finner?

Geezus that's urgly Looks like sumpin ya should see the doc about. Right hand & all. Don't mess with that shift'n hand or you'll never catch up to the Z06!

And what's that in the background??? raw meat yer comparin' it to???

......b

Looks kinda like the barbeque ribs I cooked up tonight.....

I thought the same thing... but I grilled chicken.

.....b

Kinda looks like your avatar.
We'll keep an eye on it. The E-room may get a visit tomorrow.
In the background is an apple struddle kinda thingy....yumm.
Once my stomache calms down from lookin' at that pic, I'll have sum.

Hi JP,

Sorry to see that the chipper got the best of you on this go around...

I know it takes up time, but I'd go get that finger looked at tomorrow. I did something similar several years back with electric hedge shears. I had the "auto" button on that locks the motor in the on position and was shearing a hedge and somehow got my left index finger caught in it. The shears went right to the bone.

Although you got the chunk out, you still may need a nice clean packing or at least a topical antibiotic. You don't want to mess with that thing.

That's going to play hell tossing the car around at an AX and recovering from tank slappers!

Bill P.

Ok alpha, you want an injury story war?

one time I fell off a 40 foot ladder.
Good thing for me I was only standing on the first rung

JP, that thing looks like crap. I say git it looked over by one of them fancy city doctors.

Either that or soak it in cider. Oh shit, that joke doesn't work on the internet.
Yer sposed to say "in cider?" And I say "yep, inside her".
I just cracked agin.

If you haven't seen a doctor yet, GET IT LOOKED AT TODAY by a HAND surgeon!

Labor Day, 2001, I had the tip of my right middle finger nipped off by a spooked horse. The ER doctor wanted to amputate at the first knuckle, but I asked for a second opinion. The hand doctor was able to reconstruct, save the knuckle and nail, and add tissue from the palm of my hand. It's about 1/2" shorter now, slightly numb at the tip, but otherwise fully functional.

See a specialist soon. . . .good luck and be safe. . . .

JP,

your shameless attempt at weight reduction will not work.

(the weight of all of those bandages is more than you took off)


hope it heals up soon and stops throbbing!
brant

Just put some Bactine on it.

Or use it as a swizzle stick in yer scotch.

Just don't point the finger at me.

I had nuthin to do with it.





Glad it's just a flesh wound...

That's nasty, get it fixed.

From personal experience ya better go now as those damn hand surgeons tend to be watching TV or at a pinky lifting tea or some other doing somesuch really important thing that makes them not want to answer the pager and show up.

It's gonna be a long wait for that joker to show up at the hospital- if they even show at all.

My hand surgeon never showed after 3.5 hours, so they had me drive to another sister hospital and told me "it was all set up to go right in, they are waiting for you and they will take care of you right away "

Showed up at the sister hospital, they never heard of me ad told me to get at the back of the line. Wifey got a little upset, and some joker with a lab coat with "NOT a Doctor" stenciled on his coat started callling the cops to have her arrested and evicted. Fortunately a real Doctor heard something through the door and came out and went "ohmygod, come in"

So, four and a half hours after getting my index finger caught in a fan belt, the Hand Surgeon goes "Why didn't you come in sooner? We will have to amputate"

Bottom line, getcher ass in to the Doctor.

Make sure they show up, and

Feel free to kick any asshole in a lab coat with "NOT a Doctor"right in the nuts.

Kenimfeelingalittleshortrigthnow

It feels much better today, thanks
It's "just" the tip if the finger I don't think any bone is involved....I can't see any
I ain't gonna tell ya how stupid a move I was makin to get it amongst the whirrling bits, but they were fairly sharp bits.
About all I can do with the thing is left click on the mouse tho....gently.

JP...the issue is sensitivity....if'n ya don't get it fixed RIGHT, it will ALWAYS hurt when presure is applied. You DO have medical coverage at the plant...use it, ya putz!

Unless it won't bother you seeing how yer not gonna live long anyways...since yer so freaking old....

there... and that's all I'm gonna say!

......b

wow JP,

See how much all of your 914 "mothers" care for you!

What did the doc say?.......

Bill P.

Well of course it's always gonna hurt.
I got 61 years of "it's always gonna hurt" spots.....one more doan
matter. That said, the smart money says go see a doc to forstall
infection. Today, OK mom?

He wants a second opinion........










































Yer ugly, too.....that'll be 50 bucks...



Bada bump........... thank you, I'll be here all week, try the Prime Rib and tip the waitress.....

That's my boy! Remeber, treat your body like the temple it is....

Love,

Mom

just put a band-aid on it and you'll be fine


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It looks like you have me beat in the pain department. Check out what I did to myself 2 days ago with a utility knife....ouch!

Well guys, that was good advice.
The top 1/4 inch of the bone was disappeared and mixed in with the hambuger
that used to be my finnertip......A recipe for a top notch infection.

So, now I have a open fracture that has to be checked daily for a week + antibotics
up the ass.....that smarts too. The gud news is I get some gud pain drugs to add to my stash.

Just a day in the life......

No choice for them orally eh?... bummer

....b

Oh and another thing. Stop doing that, it'll make you go blind
signed, mom

Wood chippers are dangerous as JP has already found out.

Here's local article from a few weeks ago.

Man killed in wood chipper accident

A 30-year-old man was killed this afternoon when he was sucked into a wood chipper while trying to shake loose a piece of wood that had jammed it.

The man owned a tree service company working in the 8900 block of 26th Ave. in Pleasant Prairie, according to a Pleasant Prairie Police Department press release.

The man was using his foot to clear debris that had jammed the wood chipper around 5:20 p.m. when his foot became entangled in the machine, witnesses told police.

His coworkers tried to rescue him from the intake, but he was pulled into and through the wood chipper, according to the release.

The incident remains under investigation by Pleasant Prairie detectives, the Kenosha County Medical Examiner's office and officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Police withheld the man's name while they attempted to notify his family.

Some late advice.
Never wear gloves around machinery.

Lefty

And how is our finger today?

Hopefully no complications and a speedy recovery.

Bill P.

Tain't looking any prettier, but feels a bit better.for the most part.
I think some nerve endings are trying to re-establish themselves. That feels like multiple bee stings ....thankfully they don't last long.
No complications as yet.

Brian's post caught my eye. Found a video news story about the Kenosha man killed in the chipper. Really sad.

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Ah geeze, that's gross

Chippers scare me as much as rototillers. My imagination runs way too wild when I watch those tines of the tiller spinning.
Gawd that'd hurt

....b