[AT] off topic some Angle Grinders

[rlgoss at twc.com]

BTDT, Cecil.  With a super-sharp wood chisel, rather than an angle grinder.  Thank your lucky stars that you didn't sever the tendon.  Your wound will heal OK on its own.  If you cut the tendon, it's a long and very expensive operation to repair it with years of rehab.  Months later when the surgeon cut off the cast I had been living in for much of the winter and it was determined that I DID have movement in my fingers again, I asked him if I would be able to play the piano?  He said, "I don't know why not?" I said, "Good.  Because I couldn't play it before?"  I think he was tempted to physically throw me out of his office.



Larry 
---- Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote: 
> I am relating this to maybe save some of  you the pain and trouble I am 
> in right now.   I was cutting bolts out of the rusted floorboard of my 
> 93 IHC 4700  old OK dot truck..   Salt has eaten through the 
> floorboard.   The bolts had to be cut out.  I was using a 4-1/2 in angle 
> grinder, on my knees and holding myself u p with the right hand and 
> using the grinder in my left.  My work gloves were in my other 
> truck.....  When I switched off the grinder, I set it on the floorboard 
> and the spinning blade hit the back side of the cab and jumped up about 
> 3 inches and cut across the big joint of my thumb on my right hand.   
> the blade was one of those 0.045in cutting blades. I can see the tendon 
> that moves the thumb moving in the cut.  It will be a few days before I 
> can get back to work, and I am right handed.
> 
> I had safety glasses, but no gloves...    I was too busy to go get 
> them..   Now with the bandage, i cannot really type, the way I make a 
> living now, I write reports.   I have a bandage on the right hand like a 
> boxing glove.   Don't make the same mistake I did, wear those gloves and 
> safety glasses and shields.   The grinder had a shield, and was turned 
> off.  If it had still been running, it would have been a lot worse.  It 
> was just winding down...
> 
> End of rant!!
> 
> Cecil in OKla
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