Circular saw and my finger

[TheMan419]

So I was ripping down a 2x4 to approx 2x2. Managed to get my right middle finger in the way under the board.

Thankfully it only nicked my finger tip. Trip to the urgent care. No stitches but a tetanus shot was needed.

Thankfully didn稚 self amputate. Be careful with your power tools.

Yes I realize a circular saw is not the 途ight tool but I don稚 have a table saw.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Table saws scare the bejesus out of me! I gave mine to a buddy, then took some plastic over to him to get ripped. And I still ended up at Emerg!

You are lucky! Without that finger, your driving days would be over.

 

[jmc]

You are lucky! Without that finger, your driving days would be over.

LOL'd at that!

No worries- he still has his left middle finger... and a horn.

 

[Fuddy1952]

With that big bandage you can REALLY drive now

Years ago I cut the end off my left pinky with hedge clippers. It didn't hurt, actually just tickled. Wife took me to the hospital but after I went around showing it to the neighbors just to watch their reaction!
The surgeon sewed it back on. It looks o.k. and that's the one I use to pick my nose.

 

[Jstpssng]

Ouch! Thankfully it wasn't worse. Remember the old B&D saws with a 6" pigtail for an electrical cord? A woman I was spending time with plugged one of those into the wall because she didn't want to take time to find an extension cord. She caught it high enough in the thigh to be lucky she isn't a guy, if you gwt my drift. (also lucky she didn't hit an artery.)
Edit- An equipment operator who sometimes cuts wood for me is missing a fingertip. In place of his fingernail is a tattoo that says "oops".
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[MossRoad]

So I was ripping down a 2x4 to approx 2x2. Managed to get my right middle finger in the way under the board.

Thankfully it only nicked my finger tip. Trip to the urgent care. No stitches but a tetanus shot was needed.

Thankfully didn稚 self amputate. Be careful with your power tools.

Yes I realize a circular saw is not the 途ight tool but I don稚 have a table saw.

Ow! Ow! Ow!

Glad it was just a knick.

When I was a kid, I was watching a neighbor man working on something and noticed one of his finger tips was missing. I bluntly asked, as little kids will do, "What happened to your finger?" He took me in his shop and showed me his radial arm saw, said he was cutting a board and didn't pay attention. Then he put is hand on the table and pulled the non-running saw across his hand and said "Like that!'. :shocked:

I got a good lesson that day. :thumbsup:

 

[Fuddy1952]

Oooooo.....do I have a great cut finger story!
Dad told it, he was service manager at Sears in 50s-60s.
Sears fixes this guys push lawnmower which they roll out onto the loading dock.
"Let me hear it run!" Customer says.
So the Sears repairman starts it up. It runs a minute or two, customer reaches down to pick it up by the deck...whacks off tip of a finger. "What were you thinking?!?!?" Sears repairman asks.
Customer said "it was so quiet I didn't know it was running!".

Another one granddad told (he died in the 80s)...he said happened when he was taking industrial arts 100 years ago.
This student cut tip off of his finger with an electric band saw. He shuts it off, goes over to first aid kit to bandage it. Teacher sees this and asks how it happened. Student goes back over to bandsaw, turns it on, runs a piece of wood through cutting off tip of another finger. "Like this" he said.

 

[300UGUY]

With that big bandage you can REALLY drive now

Years ago I cut the end off my left pinky with hedge clippers. It didn't hurt, actually just tickled. Wife took me to the hospital but after I went around showing it to the neighbors just to watch their reaction!
The surgeon sewed it back on. It looks o.k. and that's the one I use to pick my nose.

Hey, ya gotta clean house....

SOMEBODY has to do it.....

One reason why I never wanted to borrow gloves at work...

 

[stuckmotor]

The older I get the less flesh is left on my fingers. I make up for it by adding to what's around my middle.

I think that's what they call being proactive.

 

[PILOON]

The older I get the less flesh is left on my fingers. I make up for it by adding to what's around my middle.

In my case I have all my fingers but how come I still add onto the middle?

 

[Omega Woods]

So I was ripping down a 2x4 to approx 2x2. Managed to get my right middle finger in the way under the board.

Thankfully it only nicked my finger tip. Trip to the urgent care. No stitches but a tetanus shot was needed.

Thankfully didn稚 self amputate. Be careful with your power tools.

Yes I realize a circular saw is not the 途ight tool but I don稚 have a table saw.

You were ripping a 2x4 with a circular saw??!!?? I'm hoping it's obvious to you now that buying a cheap table saw would be cheaper than having your finger reattached.

Thank God you're going to be OK.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Nothing wrong with ripping a 2x4 with a circle saw, you DO have to do it in the right way to do it safely.....and I do have a few table saws including two Unisaws...

Anyway, this happened a few years ago with a Dewalt cordless circle saw,

That's what getting in a hurry and not paying attention get's you...

It was nothing that keeping it clean and taped up didn't cure...

SR

 

[TheMan419]

Nothing wrong with ripping a 2x4 with a circle saw, you DO have to do it in the right way to do it safely.....and I do have a few table saws including two Unisaws...

Anyway, this happened a few years ago with a Dewalt cordless circle saw,

That's what getting in a hurry and not paying attention get's you...

It was nothing that keeping it clean and taped up didn't cure...

SR

Yeah it hurt like a Mc when it happened. Looked down and saw the whole finger was there. It will be a good story.

 

[TheMan419]

You were ripping a 2x4 with a circular saw??!!?? I'm hoping it's obvious to you now that buying a cheap table saw would be cheaper than having your finger reattached.

Thank God you're going to be OK.

That is exactly what I meant when I said I know a circ saw is not the right tool.....

 

[Sawyer Rob]

That is exactly what I meant when I said I know a circ saw is not the right tool.....

aaaah, I wasn't ripping a 2x4...

To rip a 2x4 I clamp one end of the 2x4 to something solid and use two hands on the saw. Flip the 2x4 end for end as needed...

IF YOU can't get it done "safely" that way, then you shouldn't even own a circle saw!

SR

 

[Fuddy1952]

aaaah, I wasn't ripping a 2x4...

To rip a 2x4 I clamp one end of the 2x4 to something solid and use two hands on the saw. Flip the 2x4 end for end as needed...

IF YOU can't get it done "safely" that way, then you shouldn't even own a circle saw!

SR

You can adjust the saw depth of cut on most I've seen. My contractor friend does it that way and uses the width guide also. He adjusts it so it barely cuts through. His trade school instructor said if done properly you would barely nick a finger if at all. As Rob said, hands on saw!

 

[stuckmotor]

In my case I have all my fingers but how come I still add onto the middle?

I think that's what they call being proactive.

 

[bigtiller]

Them pesky middle fingers are just to darn long. If they aren't getting cut, they get smashed. Someone ought to do something about it. Me, my son, my old Deere salesman and a couple from work, have all chopped the end off of the left one.

 

[Thomas]

Glad it was only nick..whew,yep can happen in blink of eye.
I seem to cut the power cord.

 

[kcflhrc]

Did it look like this?