jp versus the belt sander... not for the faint of heart

I warned you.
















This is your last chance to turn back.

I've got a tough stomach, but wow. I hope the drugs are good...

What were you doing with the belt sander?

Is your keyboard skill impaired?

What happened in the ER?

Sanding the end of a counter top that I was installing.



Very.



Waited for a long time. Waited some more. Heard a young girl overjoyed that she had a mis-carriage.

Got to a room where I waited some more. Waited some more.

Listened to the nurses talk about lunch.

Listened to the nurses try to figure out what was wrong with the deaf and blind elderly non-english speaking hispanic woman.

Finally talked to a doctor.

Waited some more. Started pacing.

Got x-rays taken.

Waited some more.

Got wound irrigated and wrapped.

Finally left hospital.

Waiting for enormous hospital bill for hospital visit in which not much was accomplished.

Yowch.

Fortunately, God gives us ten fingers....

Is the nail gone, and if so is it expected to return?

About half is gone. Not sure if I'll ever be seeing the rest of it again or not.

Should grow out, although it's like to be a tad thicker.

Dropped a rock on my big toe when I was little; the bugger grew back three time as thick.

Bone or joint damage, or just soft tissue?

Trying to figure if it missed the tendon.. looks like it did

says she who did a nice slice on my finger when cutting a pork roast some time ago..

Aw guys, it isn't that bad....come on...weak stomach...ppppaaaahhh....


Bet it hurt like a sonofabitch though.

So far as I know, no bone, nerve or tendon damage. I'm keeping my (good) fingers crossed that it stays that way.

Hope the sander's OK...

Thank you, jp, for the reminder to be extra careful the next time I use my belt sander.

Were you at least wearing eye protection? Must remember "shop safety" ....

Yeah I had safety glasses on. I'm not really sure how it happened. I know I wasn't holding it in the right spot but I can't figure out how my finger ended up where it did.

Somebody should start a "stupid shop tricks" . I betcha we'd get some inetersting stories.
Its a minor flesh wound jp. The rewason I say that is because I didnt get that really weird feeling all the way down to my nads that I got from viewing bomb victims..

Did it come sliding back to you ? Im wondering how the accident happened by using a hand held belt sander. (It was a handheld belt sander?--Oh maybe it was one of the big sheet stationary sanders)


Wanna feel one in the nads? I know a guy who removed his finger tips tojust halfway down the nails in a jointer when the board he was jointing just wedged and his hands kept moving forward into the blade. The guy was one hell of a good guitarist and it wsnt his fretting hand.
The lesson on that one was NEVER TRY TO PLANE OFF MORE THAN 1/32" at a time. If he kept it at 1/32, he would have only removed his fingerprints (ha ha)

Ya know, there you are, all bleeding to death and the first thing you go for is a camera. Visual aids is not the first thing I would have thought of.

The most gruesome Home Handyman story I've ever heard is a guy who removed two fingers with a power saw....and he beagle ate the fingers.

I'm afraid most of the dogs I've owned would have had the same swift reaction to a carnivorous medical emergency.

I think so too. My wife was freaking out an all I kept saying was, "It looks worse than it actually is." I'm expecting a bit of deformity but no long lasting damage.



I don't know what happened. It was so fast I can't put it back together in my mind. I know I must have grabbed it thw wrong way or something because if my hand was where it was supposed to be it would have never happened.



I know a guy who lost the tips of 4 fingers in a band saw. He didn't even know what happened until he looked down and saw them laying there. The pain hit him pretty fast after that.