[TheForge] fingers

Wed Jan 16 20:21:00 EST 2013

Thus far the worst I ever managed was to take out the phone and 
electrical lines to Marshall's neighbor's house.  Damned maple tree fell 
180* opposite the wedge.

On 1/16/2013 6:26 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
> I have my moments. How's your record felling trees?
>
> Jer
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>> Damn Jerry, you're almost as stupid as I.
>>
>> On 1/12/2013 5:03 PM, Jerry Frost wrote:
>>> Okay, that counts as a "dumb stunt" worth getting 86'd for in my shop
>>> too. I'll let hars words slide unless you do it again though.
>>>
>>> Why? Here's ONE of my disk grinder misadventures. One of the semi-rare
>>> jobs we did drilling was auger through pavement to do a centerline
>>> investigation on bridge approaches. The auger really screws up asphalt
>>> pavement by lifting the surrounding soil up to a foot around the hole.
>>> Think BIG zit looking thing that's really hard to smooth out so folk
>>> aren't hitting a big weird speed bump as they're entering a bridge deck.
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, I'd come up with an idea to simply cookie cut the asphalt around
>>> the hole before augering. That way the pavement would be relatively in
>>> tact and the base soils are easy to shovel in, level and compact. The
>>> drill uses a hex to drive the rotating steel, auger in this case as well
>>> as connect flights of auger, the bit, etc. I found a piece of reasonably
>>> heavy steel pipe, welded a hex coupler, centered to the top and started
>>> notching the cutting edge for carbide bits.
>>>
>>> Here's where my STUPID shone brightly, I just stood the soon to be bit
>>> on the bench, the coupler socketed into a female coupler welded into the
>>> bench's top. You could really reef on stuff but it wasn't solid by any
>>> definition, plenty of rattle room. <sigh> So, there I was using a 9"
>>> Millwauki (sp?) right angle grinder to cut notches to braze the carbide
>>> bits into. Use a cutting disk? NAW, not me!
>>>
>>> So, there I was on maybe my 4-5th slot and the whole pipe shifts, jams
>>> the disk and launches the grinder across the shop. My right arm goes
>>> numb to the shoulder from the blow and not seeing blood I walk over to
>>> pick up the disk grinder. No surprise the disk is toast, about 1/3 is in
>>> a few pieces around the shop and the rest is looking like abused penut
>>> brittle. Then I pick the grinder up by the handle and the handle is
>>> floppy. Floppy handle? What THE! Darn, the trigger is ripped almost all
>>> the way off, hanging by one frayed wire and the rest of the handle is
>>> pretty smooshed up.
>>>
>>> I carry it back to the bench doing a quick mental survey listing a quick
>>> parts list to repair it. When I set it down I finally think about the
>>> fack I was holding onto the handle with my finger on the trigger! Yikes,
>>> there's a hole in the ring finger of the glove and it's getting soggy
>>> and red. Oh yeah, the numb is starting to wear off my arm to not happy
>>> reports from the nerve endings. One quick look and I give the office a
>>> call, lock the shop up and drive to the local doc in a box to get
>>> stitched up.
>>>
>>> An evulsion isn't a fun thing but better than ripping a finger off the
>>> hard way. I took about 10 stitches, 5 deep to reconnect tissues from the
>>> bone up and another 4-5 to put the closer to the surface tissues and
>>> skin in close proximity. Darned thing was numb for a couple years, then
>>> as feeling started to return it was kind of weird feeling, not like my
>>> other fingers. I still have a fat spot on the ring finger of my right
>>> hand but I've either gotten used to the feeling or it's returned to as
>>> normal as anything about me is.
>>>
>>> I think that's more than enough confesson of dumbness for one day. Jer
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>>> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 3:04 PM
>>> Subject: [TheForge] fingers
>>>
>>>
>>>> Jer, I already feel like the world's biggest idiot, so have at it!
>>>> I went out to the shop a week ago intending to get busy again after a
>>>> for-the=record=books busy holiday season, and thought I'd begin by
>>>> repairing a knife handle by enlarging the slot with a hand held
>>>> grinder.
>>>>
>>>> The operation is similar to one I used to do when knocking these out
>>>> by the
>>>> dozen, from surplus bandsaw blade- it's my biggest seller in the knife
>>>> department...but first, I don't do it that way anymore (it's so
>>>> quick to
>>>> just blast a hole for the handle rivet with the OA) and also, I did
>>>> it on
>>>> unsharpened steel with a board backing. Can you imagine? Holding it
>>>> down on
>>>> the table with one hand and running a grinder with the other? I'd have
>>>> come
>>>> running over and hit anyone on the head with the damn grinder if I'd
>>>> seen
>>>> em doing this in my shop...
>>>> So it caught on the wheel and whipped around.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, I know- this is the kind of thing I spend all day NOT
>>>> doing...but one
>>>> bad day I did everything wrong and wasn't lucky.
>>>>
>>>> My buddy was telling me a few days later about temporarily losing a
>>>> thumb-
>>>> he leaned over a table saw and put his hand down...."shudder"...now
>>>> this
>>>> guy is a top notch cabinetmaker with decades of experience. Why would
>>>> he do
>>>> it?
>>>>
>>>> The angle grinder is the "table saw" of the metalworking shop, just
>>>> waiting
>>>> for a chance to get ya.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Andy Gladish, Element Fe Metal Studio
>>>> Blacksmithing and Blades
>>>>
>>>> Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human
>>>> life. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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