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There's more nerve endings in your index fingertip than there are in your dick. Yeah, it hurts!!

Table saws are a sonofabitch. I've seen more traumatic finger amputations due to table saws than any other 3 tools combined (radial arm saws were worse, but they're not so common any more). I got to the point where my own table saw had become a bench with my MEC shotshell reloader mounted on it.

Glad you didn't lose your fingers, Don!

P.S. Take the pain-killers.

uh I'm voting #1 and I don't even need to phone a friend

most of us have really mashed or burnt a finger tip, we've all lived through it, but I'd say there's very few of us that weren't aware of the plethora of nerves housed in the ends of our digits while doing so.


hope you hair over fast Don, that sucks, but glad you still got all your digits

No, but some women are going to be very happy?

Ouch, Don. That's nasty. We might have to nickname you kerf or pushstick.

I've been fortunate that nothing like that has happened to me, yet. I started working for a family friend at 13, building patio furniture from treated lumber and building decks. Lots of planing, ripping and cross cutting, routering and dadoing of wood.

The bosses son, who was a couple years older than me, worked there sometimes too and was rabbeting out some mating sections for a rocking chair and got the idea to chuck a router bit up in the drill press and crank the speed up to remove the material faster than making dozens of half depth saw cuts and finishing with a chisel.

It worked really well, too. He was making a clean job of it until the router bit caught a knot in the wood and dragged the wood and hand through the bit. Mangled the chit out of his first 3 fingers, it did. A bunch of surgeries, some stainless pins a couple months later and he was back to work, a smarter and more cautious young man.

Hope it heals up quickly and cleanly for you.

he did have the camera around his neck on a string.

You'd be amazed at how many people now take pictures of their mangled body parts before, during, and after I sew them up. I think it's pretty cool, actually. Educating the community on how to not do stupid schidt is how I look at it.

funny thing, that.... I don't know how to use the fartsmone camera. In fact, I don't know anything about the phone, except to talk and text and email. I carry a point and shoot.....

That hurts looking at it. I am glad to see you are still fully digitized. I am guessing that they gave you a script for something that warns you to not get pregnant or operate heavy machinery.

I have to pop over to the predator forum and see what you shot today.

So far that never happened to me , even been a carpenter for 34 yrs. I shot myself twice though. One time with a spike in the forearm and a 2" staple in the wrist. I just pulled both right out. Both times I said it doesn't even hurt. Then 5 minutes later my whole arm was sore as can be. Never been cut from a blade except one time a skill saw kicked back and it cut my knee pads, stopping it before it hit skin.

Don:

That's a pretty lame excuse. What were you really doing?

KC

They are both true!
At least it wasn't your trigger finger!

Don, you gonna make it to the campfire gathering this year?

Table saw, the most dangerous tool on a jobsite. Been bit once (worse than yours by a fair bit), I don't plan on that again... happy your outcome was a digit-intact one.

Don,

Best wishes for your healing and a strong recovery.

They don't even have to be plugged in. I slipped on a wet stair with mine and broke 3 bones in my back.

Know a guy that was loading one out of a job trailer, and hadn't dropped the blade. He slipped and put his palm/wrist into the blade, damn close to hitting his radial artery, which could have been a light's out affair.

coundn't beat the meat for a month.

Doesn't anybody own one of those table saws that stop when you put a hotdog on the blade?

I saw that advertised years ago on TV and when I went to Lowes to buy one they didn't have any.

One good thing, though. I can use my table saw to cut hotdogs.

Hope you are keeping that hand higher than your head.

After Katrina i was doing some framing for my Grandfather's house and the trigger messed up on the nail gun,it double tapped and put 2 16 penny nails in my left ring and index fingers.

There was a red cross station not far from the house so i went there to get them pulled out.
They have never seen it before and i thought one of the gals there was going out for the count.
They asked me if it hurt much and i told them i had about 45 minutes before i would feel like crying out and saying some colorful words.
Went to the or and the doc cleaned it up and all was fine except that while waiting for the x-rays to come back the nails got cold.
he came in and i was blowing on my hand and he thought it was weird.After i told him about the cold he understood.
He did ask if he could take some pictures of them to show around but i did not mind.

But what really made me mad was him cutting the brand new elkskin glove off.
Those cost good money.

Heal up.

Ouch stx, that's not a near miss, that's a dang near got them all!

done that, too....





if you look close, the little piece of skin from the exit, is still stuck to the point.