[AT] off topic some Angle Grinders

Tue Aug 9 06:02:48 PDT 2016

I get that too.  At work I'm often cutting fiberglass shipping strapping or
cardboard, and the knife comes out with barely a thought, FLICK, open.
Sometimes I'll realize heads are turning, wide-eyed, at me.  What's the big
deal...?  ;-)

SO

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net> wrote:

> 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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