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Have you noticed that tool & die makers don't wear rings.
Those who make and handle fine work don't wear rings that might mar it!
Neither my late dad who owned a tool & die shop nor the men who worked in his shop wore rings.
Yet some who handle firearms do! The reason some machinist don't wear rings is to keep their fingers. I know one who actually cut through his wedding ring so if it ever caught it would come off. In his many years of work it came off in a machine one time. His finger was cut, but still attached. When I started making bullet rings I discovered lots folks who lost fingers because their ring caught on something.
"Only Christ is the fullness of God's revelation."
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Most farmers/ranchers ditch the rings too, at least while working. Yup, I like my fingers right where they are.
Trump Won!
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Campfire Ranger
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Years ago there used to be a safety poster from the Naval Safety Center that showed a guys hand after he had all the flesh torn from his ring finger after it got caught on something. No skin, no muscle, no flesh or tendons...just bones.  Yep effective. After seeing that before I starting putting flight gear on my wedding ring went on my dogtag chain. Good minds think alike; I did the same...
NRA Life,Endowment,Patron or Benefactor since '72.
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Yep, us farmers don't wear rings while running machinery.
I am sure it is because we are afraid to mar the green paint on that old 4020.
My son wears a Tungston wedding band. I suppose it might scratch some metals. But I am more concerned of the damage it might do to the digit if it gets hung up.
He is in an H-VAC apprenticeship program, I guess that beats baling hay or running a lathe as far as risk assesment goes.
Me, I have never had a ring of any kind on my hands. My wife thought I needed a band when we got married. I told her not to waste her money, as I would refuse to wear it.
She had her feelers hurt for a few months, even after I told her a few horror stories of ring induced injuries.
It has been almost 34 years, and I have never forgotten for a moment that I was married to a wonderful woman. Have never needed any ring to remind me.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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Campfire Ranger
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He is in an H-VAC apprenticeship program, I guess that beats baling hay or running a lathe as far as risk assesment goes. I take it you've never seen industrial sized HVAC equipment like we have here at the foundry... 
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Campfire Ranger
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No, I have not.
I hope he does not take offence when I suggest he leave his ring home when he goes to work.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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Campfire Outfitter
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![[Linked Image]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Logo_Schmidt_%26_Bender.jpg) Only accurate rifles are interesting.
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Hey, where did DumbassDon go?
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
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Campfire Ranger
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Hey, where did DumbassDon go? Wearing a ring while handling his gun.
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Campfire Regular
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If you work with tools, it's best to take off rings
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If you work with electricity or equipment you best as well
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If you are active - leave the hardware at home!
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Campfire Tracker
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I wore my ring all through the honeymoon and then took it off for good.
I told her that from then on, I would wear it around my heart.
That's where it's been ever since.
I could wish a lot of things on my worst enemy but neuropathy ain't one of them.
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Campfire Tracker
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Ask the famous Tiger pitcher Mark "the Bird" Fidrych about working around PTOs with loose fitting clothing. Oh snap...that's right, you can't. http://m.mlb.com/news/article/4295722//
"A Republic, if you can keep it." ~ B. Franklin
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I must be the luckiest guy alive, or maybe I just keep my head about me when working. I put my wedding ring on in January of 69 and took it off for the first time in November of 78. Spent much of that time in the navy with all that goes along with navy life. Put one on wnen I married my second wife in June of 79 and it is still there enen after years on the machine shop floor.
The first time I shot myself in the head...
Meniere's Sucks Big Time!!!
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Same is true of gloves and saws. I was there, when s new guy was using a tablesaw with leather gloves on. The blade just TOUCHED the leather and he was jerked into the saw. Lost all fingers on that hand. (I know, because I'm the one who thought to pack them in ice, and follow him in the squad to the hospital).
I'm told, with enough physical therapy, and a good surgeon, he may recover as much as %70 mobility.
An unemployed Jester, is nobody's Fool.
the only real difference between a good tracker and a bad tracker, is observation. all the same data is present for both. The rest, is understanding what you're seeing.
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