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Almost cut off my hand 3 weeks ago

Discussion in 'Off-Topic Discussion' started by csuviper, Jan 29, 2020.

  1. Jan 29, 2020 at 12:33 PM
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    Hope you recover fast! Thats gonna need a beer or 3
     
  3. Jan 29, 2020 at 12:46 PM
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    Speedy recovery
     
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  5. Jan 29, 2020 at 1:34 PM
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    Damn, get better soon.
    We just had a 1 hour lesson on table saw safety, its no joke.
    The school is replacing expensive, high maintenance sawstop saws with regular saws and making students take this 1 hour lesson. The idea is that Proper usage will have more value then someone relying on a fancy sawstop. I tend to agree.
     
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  8. Jan 29, 2020 at 2:41 PM
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    Son of a bitch. That hurts just looking at it. Hope you have a full recovery.
     
  9. Jan 29, 2020 at 2:59 PM
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    My first week at the new job as GM in a small tooling shop, guy did the same thing, cut the piece, reached over the blade to grab the scrap and almost lost both fingers... we upgraded to this..

    https://www.sawstop.com/

    Good to hear you are whole for the most part.
     
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  10. Jan 29, 2020 at 3:12 PM
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    Hope everything heals up fast and is back to normal.
     
  11. Jan 29, 2020 at 3:24 PM
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    Hope your hand gets back to normal. I dont think you need a sawstop. Complacency causes majority of injuries. I do not use the riving knives or guards on my delta or grizzly. I use a lot of push sticks and sleds. I also extended my table saw working area to keep the majority of my material supported during the cut. Same with my mitre saw. I built a cabinet that uses my table saw working area for short cuts.

    I would suggest building a wider and deeper working area for material support.
     
  12. Jan 29, 2020 at 3:24 PM
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    That's what she said
     
  14. Jan 29, 2020 at 4:17 PM
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    Yea they are out. It’s closed up. Hard as a rock along that ridge.
     
  15. Jan 29, 2020 at 4:21 PM
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    Yea too pricy for the amount I use it. I only spent $60 on mine from a garage sale.

    I am dumb and removed the guard because it’s flimsy and affects the cut a little. Needless to say I added it back on after this.
     
  16. Jan 29, 2020 at 4:22 PM
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    Dod you get clarification from doc on nerve growth? Inches a month as opposed to centimeters?
     
  17. Jan 29, 2020 at 4:23 PM
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    Hahaha, unavoidable lol
     
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    Yep right handed. Sucks.
     
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    So glad it wasn’t worse and that you have your hand. Makes me think how stupid I am running my 220 saw without the guard... in fact you’ve inspired me to reinstall it.
     
  20. Jan 29, 2020 at 4:26 PM
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    My dad did lol
    FF35811A-E2BB-452D-91CD-7B402897A226.jpg
     
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    Yea hope to get that feeling back or it will be a risk.
     
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    I wish you the very best I’ve had a saw accident my self.
     
  23. Jan 29, 2020 at 4:31 PM
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    Hahaha good one
     
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    That’s what I said on the way to the hospital. I planned to head up gambling at Blackhawk the next day. Told the wife that this doesn’t change anything, we are still going.
     
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    Oh F%#@ing OUCH! Every day I work around Dangerous machines and equipment and I have seen the things that you can not un-see however it is good to know that you still have your complete hand and with some effort you will have full use of it.
     
  26. Jan 29, 2020 at 4:35 PM
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    Honestly it hasn’t hurt much. Worst pain was the numbing shot in the palm before sewing it up in the ER.
     
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  27. Jan 29, 2020 at 4:40 PM
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    Not exactly but he said about 6 months for this.
     
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    Seems like its injury yr already. I broke my leg at the very end of December. Just now starting to walk good again. Recovery has been the worst part.
    Here is a xray of it.20200109_194340.jpgbtw I was skateboarding with my daughter yep something I need to let tony hawk do at his age not me at 37 lol It could have been worse. At least this was not me. That's just awful. And people do that all the time.
    Screenshot_2020-01-22-11-50-04.jpg
     
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    Sorry this happened. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
     
  30. Jan 29, 2020 at 4:42 PM
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    No nerve damage? All normal feelings in fingers?
     

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