Rad fan vs finger. Don’t be complacent.

[bigtiller]

Interesting thing was when they finally authorized my MRI in November, I had a choice to go over the results with the LPN that week, or wait until January to see the surgeon. I chose LPN. She looked over the MRI with me and scheduled me an appointment with the Surgeon the next week.

Good news.

 

[RayIN]

Familiarity breeds contempt is a true saying. Many of us can testify to that with a "been there done that" experience.
One day I had been machining SST in the lathe and forgot the time.
I realized I was going to be late to a meeting, shut off the lathe, reached down a picked up a pile of shavings/cuttings to throw in the dumpster. One long turning was caught on something, and it cut off the end of my right index finger. the finger was hanging on by a strip of skin when i got to the hospital.
A Dr. sewed the end of the finger back on over the bone. That was nearly 55 years ago, that finger still hurts like blazes in cold weather when I don't wear good gloves.

 

[5030]

Watched my late dad take 3 fingers off with a radial arm saw when I was a kid. Needless to say I never owned a radial saw. I observed a fellow scalp himself when he got his hair wound around a drill press spindle in a T&D shop I worked at. Machinery of any kind has no feelings at all and don't care about you or me. Machinery will do you in, in a second if you become complacent.

 

[jgmo]

Well as the title says I almost lost my ring finger to a 2200rpm fiber reinforced fan. Machine wasn’t running right reached in to check the plug on a sensor and bam. Blood everywhere. Bone exposed entire length of inside finger.

As they say, you should see the other guy. Somehow my finger broke two of the fan blades off. lol.

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The worst part I should have stayed home the ground was too frozen and icy to get anything done. I was just trying to get my guys some hours for the week.

Doctors were amazed I was able to do what I did without hitting arteries or tendons. That was what kept me from freaking out, blood everywhere but I could still move it. Was a fun sit in the er from 1230pm to 130am.

So be careful and be thankful you still have ten fingers like me.

Holy sheep dip! That's one TOUGH finger!
My old uncle Bob would've said
..."that's non habit forming son"
As someone that's had more than one hand surgery with a finger I still can't bend after 35 years, I can truly say that I have felt your pain.

 

[Dennis Mohn]

I wonder how many times this happened to the guys that had old Ford tractors that had distributors mounted on the front of the engine

 

[newbury]

Interesting thing was when they finally authorized my MRI in November, I had a choice to go over the results with the LPN that week, or wait until January to see the surgeon. I chose LPN. She looked over the MRI with me and scheduled me an appointment with the Surgeon the next week.

Before my first back surgery (~ 2005) Kaiser put me through the "slow roll" wringer.
One of the first tests several doctors did was to see if I could stand on my tippy toes. Passed. They tried physical therapy, no good. Then they tried cortisone shots, failed. Then they did x-rays, passed. Finally they authorized an MRI.
When I came out of the MRI the technician told me I couldn't possibly walk and was sent to surgery.
I had been brought up to "put up with pain and don't complain".

 

[MossRoad]

Before my first back surgery (~ 2005) Kaiser put me through the "slow roll" wringer.
One of the first tests several doctors did was to see if I could stand on my tippy toes. Passed. They tried physical therapy, no good. Then they tried cortisone shots, failed. Then they did x-rays, passed. Finally they authorized an MRI.
When I came out of the MRI the technician told me I couldn't possibly walk and was sent to surgery.
I had been brought up to "put up with pain and don't complain".

 

[masscity]

Oh geez my fingers hurt. Some of you older guys will remember that some Fords would go into drive from park.

My buddy had a 1964 Thunderbird. He stopped at a party store and when leaving, he's car wouldn't start. He opened the hood used a screwdriver to jump the solenoid on the starter, when it started it jumped into gear (forgot days earlier had removed the fan shroud) he tried to hold it back, hit the fan blade with his fingers, jumped out of the way and car crashes through the cement block of the party store.

His fingers weren't that bad, just a little cut up.

 

[GWagon]

Well as the title says I almost lost my ring finger to a 2200rpm fiber reinforced fan. Machine wasn’t running right reached in to check the plug on a sensor and bam. Blood everywhere. Bone exposed entire length of inside finger.

As they say, you should see the other guy. Somehow my finger broke two of the fan blades off. lol.

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The worst part I should have stayed home the ground was too frozen and icy to get anything done. I was just trying to get my guys some hours for the week.

Doctors were amazed I was able to do what I did without hitting arteries or tendons. That was what kept me from freaking out, blood everywhere but I could still move it. Was a fun sit in the er from 1230pm to 130am.

So be careful and be thankful you still have ten fingers like me.

You ruined a $69. fan.

 

[Bentrim]

About 50 years ago I was putting the front side panel on an M5 Minneapolis Moline -- it was running --- heard something bing -- pulled my hand back a checked my hands the only thing I could find was a mark just above the knuckle of my left hand. It has never faded and is still a reminder today.
My mother was using an antique table saw and cut her hand, almost lost a finger.
My neighbor got his hand in a New Idea corn picker, dad heard him got him out of the picker and took him to the hospital. Don't remember how many fingers he lost.
My grandfather used to do custom corn shelling. He caught his hand in a sprocket and steel link chain twice. Newer models used a V belt instead of chain.
Before I was in the world another neighbor was cutting a tree and he was struck by it and he was injured. Dad loaded him in a car and took him to the hospital, he did not live.
As a farm machinery mechanic there were many times I was acting stupid and could have been caught in or smashed under a machine, but the Lord looked over me and kept me from getting injured.
Farm equipment and machinery is dangerous, BE CAREFUL OUT THERE. The decals on some cornheads stated that "it was faster than you are".
I get especialy concerned when a inexperienced person purchases or operates a tractor especially with a loader or a rotary mower.