Bone Nibbler

[Skimmer]

This is what a surgeon uses to remove excess bone in order to repair a finger after a chopsaw has being used carelessly.
Due to my own stupidity I have had 2 days in hospital and a horrible operation under local anesthetic not to mention all the inconvenience I have caused for everyone else.
So please be careful and always wear gloves when cutting steel.

 

[David.]

That has made me clench this morning, these things happen so quickly.
Hope you're on the mend.
Did you keep the finger, or did surgeon just trim it up?

 

[Skimmer]

2/3 of middle finger left but very sore at the moment.

 

[David.]

Just mind it doesn't get infected.

 

[Skimmer]

First thing they did was fill me with antibiotics.

 

[2wheels]

2/3 of middle finger left but very sore at the moment.

so you have buggered your f'ing finger.

 

[ollie989898]

First thing they did was fill me with antibiotics.

Osteomyelitis -infection in a bone- is no joke. Any kind of trauma involving exposure/contamination of bone= antibiotics. No messing about.

Wear gloves (and goggles) guys and be careful.

 

[thorpe]

crushed a fingertip 5 wks ago today, 2 op's later hospital signed me off yesterday. still look's a bit grim but it's getting there.

 

[David.]

I knew a chap once, who lost his arm mid-humerus, it started with pinching his finger in an aircon belt and pulley. They salami sliced him a few times, chasing the infection, but couldn't stop it below the elbow.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Osteomyelitis -infection in a bone- is no joke. Any kind of trauma involving exposure/contamination of bone= antibiotics. No messing about.

Wear gloves (and goggles) guys and be careful.

gloves wont make a fu.ck bit of difference to a chop saw / cutting wheel

 

[David.]

They will afford you that split second of wondering if it is serious or not.
Not that this is particularly a matter for levity.

 

[melted welly]

Saw this system for sale a few yr ago. Amazing how quick it activates

 

[Lofty1984]

Saw this system for sale a few yr ago. Amazing how quick it activates

Not going to work on a pto driven bugger

 

[v8willy]

gloves wont make a fu.ck bit of difference to a chop saw / cutting wheel

I would feel safer without gloves to be honest.

 

[tomlad]

Mate had a INSIDENT with his 9" grinder fewvyears sgo , he managed to turn it on while disc change
Spaner broke bones in hand
Nothing lost but his hand not bin right since, he be about 70 at the time.
I was first there ..... always more worrying when billy is quiet and looking concerned, think basil faulty beating car with .

 

[bravheart]

Ouch

 

[bravheart]

Got a call in the middle of the night someone needed a lift to AandE.
Basically taxi mini bus home after a party pushed the side sliding door from the back. Those doors slide then swivel in, chopped the end of his finger off. In the days when AandE quiet on a Saturday night you could sit and wait on your patient. All I could hear was a bit of clicking along the corridor that apparently was the sound of the doctor using the OP's bone nibbler snipping away at the bone to get enough skin to stitch over the end.

 

[Skimmer]

gloves wont make a fu.ck bit of difference to a chop saw / cutting wheel

It wasn't the wheel that did it, it was the burden steel it snatched

 

[Netherfield]

I'd an Aunt who was hanging out the back door talking to a neighbour, one of my cousins came in through the front door, it blew the back door shut on her fingers.

Chopped three fingers off to the first joint, buggered her career as a typist.

 

[fermerboy]

This is what a surgeon uses to remove excess bone in order to repair a finger after a chopsaw has being used carelessly.
Due to my own stupidity I have had 2 days in hospital and a horrible operation under local anesthetic not to mention all the inconvenience I have caused for everyone else.
So please be careful and always wear gloves when cutting steel.

I did a finger in when I was 14, got crushed in an old Foster digger.
A long time ago but I remember the whole experience clearly, especially the high speed trip to hospital in a Subaru pickup!!
Local anesthetic operation to stitch it up after being sorted out. Quite an experience for a 14yr old.


First two years afterwards the cold weather was savage sore but after that it better. Ollie could probably explain why, guess it's the neve ends adjusting somehow.

I messed up a foot badly the following year but that's another story.