Don't relax around power tools....

[Gwil]

No accidents in the last 25 years of building boats, rebuilding houses, bikes, cars you name it.....until today.

Grabbed hold of my new Bosch cordless jigsaw to trim a plank on the side of my ancient pickup. Hard up against some angle, knew it was the wrong tool, sliced a large cut in the bottom of my thumbnail and deep into the flesh.

Bleeding like a pig, throbbing like crazy.

25 years ago I bought a new ex display 9" grinder. Already had a disc, plugged it in, it was locked on, threw itself out of my hands and dropped running across my ankle. Ouch.

Since then I've been obsessively careful. The thing is, I bleedin' well KNEW it was the wrong tool (although it is a great tool). What a dork, eh?

 

[tlovatt]

Easily done, I doubt there are many on here that would claim to have never knowingly used the wrong toll for a quick job as it was 'quicker'

I also get very tempted not to use PPE if the job is only a very brief one as 'nothing will go wrong for a few seconds whilst I just ...' No fingerprints on 2 fingers (just scar tissue) due to that mentality! I am normally much better at not taking unwise shortcuts now!

 

[roofman]

No accidents in the last 25 years of building boats, rebuilding houses, bikes, cars you name it.....until today.

Grabbed hold of my new Bosch cordless jigsaw to trim a plank on the side of my ancient pickup. Hard up against some angle, knew it was the wrong tool, sliced a large cut in the bottom of my thumbnail and deep into the flesh.

Bleeding like a pig, throbbing like crazy.

25 years ago I bought a new ex display 9" grinder. Already had a disc, plugged it in, it was locked on, threw itself out of my hands and dropped running across my ankle. Ouch.

Since then I've been obsessively careful. The thing is, I bleedin' well KNEW it was the wrong tool (although it is a great tool). What a dork, eh?

Ouch...lucky there mate it only bled a bit of claret on not took something off

 

[Northumbrian]

Whoopsy daisy

I've got a nice scar on my ankle where I almost chopped my foot off with an axe

 

[CompoSimmonite]

Twice I've slipped with a drill and made a hole in myself !

 

[Northumbrian]

Twice I've slipped with a drill and made a hole in myself !

Yup, got a few of those scars too

 

[the snooper]

No accidents in the last 25 years of building boats, rebuilding houses, bikes, cars you name it.....until today.

Grabbed hold of my new Bosch cordless jigsaw to trim a plank on the side of my ancient pickup. Hard up against some angle, knew it was the wrong tool, sliced a large cut in the bottom of my thumbnail and deep into the flesh.

Bleeding like a pig, throbbing like crazy.

25 years ago I bought a new ex display 9" grinder. Already had a disc, plugged it in, it was locked on, threw itself out of my hands and dropped running across my ankle. Ouch.

Since then I've been obsessively careful. The thing is, I bleedin' well KNEW it was the wrong tool (although it is a great tool). What a dork, eh?

Knowing it's the wrong tool and still using it is common, we are all guilty of it even if it's a screwdriver we struggle in a confined space when we know all along it would be quicker to get the right one

 

[steve_s]

I broke my left hand index finger with a hammer it wasen't the wrong tool I was using just a crap aim lol went to the hospital with it at 45% to the rest of me finger doc did a crap job still not straight

 

[wookie]

Grabbed hold of my new Bosch cordless jigsaw to trim a plank on the side of my ancient pickup.

Nothing else to say but....

 

[the snooper]

I broke my left hand index finger with a hammer it wasen't the wrong tool I was using just a crap aim lol went to the hospital with it at 45% to theu rest of me finger doc did a crap job still not straight

I broke my left thumb using air impact gun to wind the hooks on a spring compressor back to the end, didn't quite get to the end first blast so without engaging brain gave it another blast, the hook reached the end stopped dead against the captive nut on the end then the whole lot spun round making my thumb hurt in the process .

 

[Gwil]

Glad it's not just me....my second glass of port and the paracetamol seem to be working!

Before anyone decides not to buy an 18v jigsaw I have to say it's a great tool. I grab it to do all sorts of things, not just to cut off my thumb...

 

[the snooper]

Glad it's not just me....my second glass of port and the paracetamol seem to be working!

Before anyone decides not to buy an 18v jigsaw I have to say it's a great tool. I grab it to do all sorts of things, not just to cut off my thumb...

everyone makes mistakes apart from those people that don't do anything

 

[Kent]

If you think it might be dodgy don't do it. Simply find another way, we have a built in "this isn't good" guardian listen to them!

 

[jerrytug]

Not exactly metal related but woodwork

I was doing a lot of planing, using hand planes, on an old wooden boat. Smoothing planks etc.

Regularly sharpening the blades on an oilstone, and all that palava. Human-friendly work, trad, nice aromas etc.

My fingertips at that time were quite calloused, and I would check the sharpness of a blade, after a cut, by running my right index finger, the pad of it, along the underside if the plane, I also used that method to check the depth of cut.
It was second nature.

However, having to pass through the local frog version of B+Q, they had these Makita electric planers, huge discount, bought one, that'll save some time I said to myself!

About the second time I used it, I took a cut and it didnt seem deep enough, so I automatically ran my index finger up the plane and pressed it on the rotor, still spinning at eleventy-thousand RPM, and removed a large portion of my index finger, right down to being able to see the severed ends of all the nerves etc.

I couldnt look, nearly threw up, bound it in gaffer tape and went out to get ******.

Took weeks to heal.

Still hurts, and will do all my life, because nerves chopped.

Take it easy out there chaps.

Telling that dit has made me feel a bit nauseous, 2 yrs later.

 

[the snooper]

Not exactly metal related but woodwork

I was doing a lot of planing, using hand planes, on an old wooden boat. Smoothing planks etc.

Regularly sharpening the blades on an oilstone, and all that palava. Human-friendly work, trad, nice aromas etc.

My fingertips at that time were quite calloused, and I would check the sharpness of a blade, after a cut, by running my right index finger, the pad of it, along the underside if the plane, I also used that method to check the depth of cut.
It was second nature.

However, having to pass through the local frog version of B+Q, they had these Makita electric planers, huge discount, bought one, that'll save some time I said to myself!

About the second time I used it, I took a cut and it didnt seem deep enough, so I automatically ran my index finger up the plane and pressed it on the rotor, still spinning at eleventy-thousand RPM, and removed a large portion of my index finger, right down to being able to see the severed ends of all the nerves etc.

I couldnt look, nearly threw up, bound it in gaffer tape and went out to get ******.

Took weeks to heal.

Still hurts, and will do all my life, because nerves chopped.

Take it easy out there chaps.

nasty, not as bad but my mate put his hand to the hot air gun to see if it was up to temperature

 

[Woody.v8]

Not exactly metal related but woodwork

I was doing a lot of planing, using hand planes, on an old wooden boat. Smoothing planks etc.

Regularly sharpening the blades on an oilstone, and all that palava. Human-friendly work, trad, nice aromas etc.

My fingertips at that time were quite calloused, and I would check the sharpness of a blade, after a cut, by running my right index finger, the pad of it, along the underside if the plane, I also used that method to check the depth of cut.
It was second nature.

However, having to pass through the local frog version of B+Q, they had these Makita electric planers, huge discount, bought one, that'll save some time I said to myself!

About the second time I used it, I took a cut and it didnt seem deep enough, so I automatically ran my index finger up the plane and pressed it on the rotor, still spinning at eleventy-thousand RPM, and removed a large portion of my index finger, right down to being able to see the severed ends of all the nerves etc.

I couldnt look, nearly threw up, bound it in gaffer tape and went out to get ******.

Took weeks to heal.

Still hurts, and will do all my life, because nerves chopped.

Take it easy out there chaps.

Telling that dit has made me feel a bit nauseous, 2 yrs later.

Sorry but I had to laugh
The power planes are the devil, they take no prisoners

 

[Hitch]

I routed the side of my thumb ages ago, luckily it had a 1/2" roundover cutter in it, perfect shape to not remove too much thumb

 

[Paul.]

We should start a forum damaged digits club, my thumb is still a bit dead on the end 2 years after squashing it in the flypress.

 

[Hitch]

We had an old boy at work, we used to call him NikNak fingers (like the crisps) they were all kind of weird knobbly lumpy shapes

 

[Welderpaul]

We had an old boy at work, we used to call him NikNak fingers (like the crisps) they were all kind of weird knobbly lumpy shapes

I know exactly who you mean!