[AT] off topic some Angle Grinders

[Cecil Bearden]

That thumb has had a rough time the last 62 years.  In 77, I was 
doctoring a horse tied to a tree. The lead rope had a snap on it that 
was made like a lap link in a chain.  I dosed his ear with peroxide and 
he set back against the tree.  I checked the rope and when I did the 
snap broke and the nylon lead rope popped like a rubber band and the 
snap hit my thumb and my thumb literally exploded.  I spent 6 hours in 
the emergency room at Chickasha OK, and wore bandages on my thumb for 4 
months.   The nail bed was destroyed and I had nail growing out all over 
the top of the thumb.   In 78, a hand surgeon worked on it and literally 
screwed it up.  He lapped tissue over dead tissue and I spent the next 2 
years digging pieces of nail out of the scar.  My old timer MD 
recommended a hand surgeon and I had surgery again in 79.  I still have 
a wild piece of nail growing out,  but it does not fester up like a 
boil...  I also had a plantars wart growing out of the fingerprint side 
due to the first injury and insufficient  cleaning at the ER in 
Chickasha.   A few years later,  the Index finger was cut to the 
ligament when my 3 blade old timer knife closed on me when cutting the 
top loose from a 5 gallon bucket.  The cut was bandaged by a retired vet 
who is the closest thing to a brother to me.  It healed nicely with no 
problems and you cannot see a scar without a magnifying glass.   I 
decided the same type of medical attention was appropriate on this 
thumb.   I just changed the bandage and it  looks great and I can move 
the thumb without pain.   The secret is a cortisone ear ointment called 
Otomax.  It is the best antibiotic ointment   to be found.  it is also 
in the veterinary pharmacy.  We had to cut out some of the tissue on 
each  side of the cut because the grinder disc was hot and cauterized a 
lot of grindings in the wound.  I had a 20 yr old bottle of Benzocaine 
and I just dripped it into the wound to stop the pain of the cutting.  
Hold it together with Steri-strips and adhesive tape.  I will get a 
Tetanus shot tomorrow when I visit my MD...   As you can see I can type 
much better this evening, so the proof is in the typing!!   I googled 
angle grinder injuries and really found some gory stuff!!
You guys stay safe out there..  If we don't work on these old tractors, 
they will be scrap..

Cecil in OKla



On 8/7/2016 6:06 PM, Chuck Bealke wrote:
> Cecil,
>
> Sure glad your cut was not worse. After cutting deep into a finger with electric hedge shears a while back, decided I'm better off with hand shears. A slight difference in the angle of that cut, and I'd now be missing too much of a finger that I'm quite fond of.
>
> Chuck Bealke
> Dallas
>
>
>> On Aug 7, 2016, at 4:47 PM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:
>>
>> It cold have been worse, I bo ught some of those 7in discs to cut with
>> (0.045thickness),  from sportsman's guide on clearance.  I was going to
>> try one of them, bu I would have had to find the wrench to take the big
>> blade off.  In 55 years of working with these things, it is the first
>> time one got me.
>> cecil in okla
>
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