[AT] off topic some Angle Grinders

Tue Aug 9 05:44:14 PDT 2016

Ever since that incident with the 5 gal bucket top, I started carrying a 
lockback.  My EDC is a Spyderco Harpy fully serrated.   I have to cut a 
lot of net wrap off of bales and sometimes out of the baler.  I also 
carry a Hoffman richter ??? lockback from Survival Life, because it is 
stainless cheap, good, and a lockback.  For $9.95 inc shipping it can't 
be beat.   Sometimes when working on equipment I keep my cheap S&W 
lockback with the tanto blade at hand.  That tano blade works good for 
scraping crud to find numbers and bolt heads.... My Harpy is never used 
on anything metal.  I have lost a couple of them, and fond one buried in 
the tractor after 2 years.  at $90 each I cry when one is lost.  I never 
had to use it except for a tool, but it sure frightens the 
"progressives" when I pull it out to open a box or bag!!!

Cecil inOKla

On 8/9/2016 7:17 AM, Stephen Offiler wrote:
> My EDC (everyday carry) knife is a Benchmade Griptilian:
>
> http://www.benchmade.com/griptilian-family.html
>
> For me, the perfect knife.  Not cheap but to me it is absolutely worth
> every single penny and then some.  The blade is 154CM steel, holds an edge
> very well.  The handle is a lightweight, tough, grippy, glass-reinforced
> nylon.  The real selling feature is the lock mechanism, after being very
> disappointed with the mechanism on a couple of name-brand but cheaper
> knives.  It's a very easy one-hand-wrist-flick to open, smooth as silk, and
> locks solid.  One-hand close as well; as long as you develop the habit of
> bumping the back of the blade against your leg or something while releasing
> the lock with that one hand you're using.  Even the pocket clip is superior
> to other knives I've had.  It's heavy and springy enough that it holds the
> knife fast to pocket or belt with no worries of losing it.
>
> SO
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 9:54 PM, <pga2 at basicisp.net> wrote:
>
>> Sounds to me like you need a lock-back knife. I have become partial to
>> mine for the same reason that yours cut you. My Case knife did the same
>> thing to me, just not as bad as yours did to you. I got a lock back
>> assisted opening knife from the NRA as a gift and it is now my everyday
>> carry knife. I also have two others, but this one rides in my pocket
>> the nicest of the three. I especially like the one hand opening. Makes
>> lots of things easier, especially if you only have one hand free.
>> As for the grinders, I treat them the same as a circular saw. I have
>> a VERY healthy respect for both, and I've become very fond of all parts
>> of both hands. As Ringo Starr once said "I've 'ad a lot of fun with
>> that fingah".
>>
>> Phil un TX
>>
>> --- crbearden at copper.net wrote:
>>
>> From: Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Subject: Re: [AT] off topic some Angle Grinders
>> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 21:42:20 -0500
>>
>> 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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