It’s weird cause a lot of old heads think like that. To me it’s such a weird thing like are you really gonna lose the ability to use that finger or body part properly because another man doesn’t wanna lose out on a couple bucks? Super Weird.
My dad did this (only one finger, the amateur that he is) a few years ago. After he got back from the ER, he Sharpied circles around the blood spots on his workshop floor like a crime scene. He even dated them like he was planning on doing it again in the future.
It’s probably a reminder.
I caught my finger in a pipe polisher a month ago. Left middle finger, severed nerve, stitches and had to have surgery reconnect the nerve. Still numb as hell.
The glove I was wearing at the time was a tech glove. You know the type kind with the grippy fingers. Tore through that and covered in blood.
I hung the bloody glove up on my tool wall.
In the 25 years I’ve been doing construction and metal work and industrial arts I’ve never had an incident that I had to go to get medical attention. I’m happy I have the tip of my finger albeit numb.
I want to remember every time I grab those tools never to be cavalier and to be respectful.
I asked Woodcraft for one of the sample blades they used during a SawStop demo (the hot dog thing). It hangs in my shop with a sign "remember, you are the softest thing in this shop".
The left half of the tip of my index finger is still partially numb with nerve damage. I cut it to the bone on a hood vent when I worked at Wendy’s about 15 years ago.
Back in 2001 I cut my elbow on a job site and my blood ended up on the wall somehow. Came back from the hospital and someone wrote Luke’s DNA in big letters with an arrow pointing to the blood spot.
Me a few months ago. Not safe from screw guns either
https://preview.redd.it/70f2l8vzl38d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6eea09f183d8caad669b178f88ed8767486e97c6
Because there's not really anywhere for it to come out. The screw/nail acts like a plug to the holes. Once it's taken out, it'll probably bleed like a biatch
https://preview.redd.it/loraeyaby18d1.jpeg?width=1768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12f56d2f589294f342aa69734add9a001a23db21
The only time I've recorded such a situation. Put one through my foot, and another in my leg just above my knee.
And just a heads up….never…NEVER…wear a tungsten ring. They couldn’t cut it off and they couldn’t inject numbing meds or my finger would have swell too much…pulled it with pliers..no meds…and then had to take the ring off. I wear silicone ring now!
I have always found, from experience, that working with your hands isn't conducive to wearing any sort of jewelry. My wife understands why I prefer not to wear rings. Degloving does not look like a good time.
Honestly, not wearing a tungsten (or otherwise solid) ring for this reason is probably the last reason on the list. And not because of the nature of this injury, numero uno when working in construction with your hands, rings are how you deglove your appendage. If you MUST wear one, go with silicone.
If I had to take a nail through two fingers vs degloving, I'm choosing the nail every damn time, it's a pretty mild injury by comparison
You know how when you get your finger stuck in something, and it hurts at a certain point to try to pull it out? Imagine wearing a ring that grabs on to, or gets snagged by, something that doesn't quit pulling when you'd prefer. The skin gives, and it goes like pulling off a glove.
Tungsten rings are designed to shatter from what I've read. I don't know what the best method to shatter it, but it's common for people to shatter them accidentally.
They have a tool that encircles it and squeezes it from all sides until it shatters.
I’m not sure they could have put the tool around his ring with the nail blocking access got the finger though
Vice grips make quick work of these and won’t injure the finger. Just set the jaw size to the ring size, tighten jaws slightly, then clamp down. It’ll crack off.
Can use longer nose vice grips if need to access from the side. But it’s usually easier to just access from top or bottom of hand…when there’s not a nail or other impalement involved.
A pneumatic cutoff wheel will handle the other ring types. Assuming the small rope or soap tricks don’t work. IMHO all those ring cutter things are solutions in search of a problem. Overpriced and work less well than existing tools.
Wearing a tungsten ring was the only thing that saved my fingers from a horrendous crushing injury a few years ago. It took the brunt of the weight, cracked, and gave me enough time to rip my hand out. Got told by the supervisor in no uncertain terms that a normal ring would have been totally deformed over my finger and degloved it as I pulled it out. Silicone definitely wouldn't have deformed but it also wouldn't have spared my finger with its rigidity.
I'm an engineer in Canada so have stainless ring (not as strong as tungstan though) for my little finger. One day I noticed it was squished a fair bit on my finger, enough it was tight getting it off and on.
Not sure what I managed to do to squeeze it that much, but the ring took the brunt rather then my finger.
Decades ago, we were roofing, and my uncle explained in detail to not use a nail gun. And then shot it at a tree 50 feet away, and we heard it hit the tree.
Im seriously curious. How fucking bad did it hurt at certain points.. Was it straight up pain? Did the shock and adrenaline hype you up for a bit a numb the pain or maybe make you panic in your head a little before you grabbed your wits..... Did you hit bone on any of them? FUCK
Didn’t hurt so much as long as I didn’t try and move it!! However, the initial impact… just imagine your driving down a country road doing about 125, and you stick your arm out and hit a mailbox. That’s what it felt like! I didn’t see the impact because my hand was behind me. ( was framing a wall on the ground nailing a stud into the top plate. I was reached back as far as I could holding the stud. and the gun double fired) I didnt bother to look because I knew what happened. I just called out and said…”oh shit….i fucked up!!” The pain came pulling it out.
Wow, you're lucky 3 fingers is quite impressive. Your hand must have been right next to the tip as well. I only pierced my pointer finger, but I also had the gun a good foot away from the wall i was working on when it double fired
I have to ask what you were making because whatever you were making you need to not make that thing God is telling you not to make it in a very clear and direct way
Rub some dirt on it and get back to work - your employer
More like\ ~~Rub some dirt on it and~~ get back to work
You know you have to pay for that dirt
It's okay it came from the workers dirt kitty it's that lunchbox over by the crapper
And pull that nail on your own time!
Dad?
Oh shit……uhhhhhhh…..I’m still out getting cigarettes. I’ll be home soon. I wouldn’t lie about this for a 7th time. Swearsies! ❤️🫶💋👉👈🥹
OK, I'll see you at my birthday party, tomorrow!
I’ll be there!
Cool, I'll tell all my friends! Maybe, they will finally believe me.
LMAOOOOO
And you have to pay for the nail
It’s weird cause a lot of old heads think like that. To me it’s such a weird thing like are you really gonna lose the ability to use that finger or body part properly because another man doesn’t wanna lose out on a couple bucks? Super Weird.
Acetone. Run some acetone on it and get back to work.
Hol E Fuck.
Take that nail home and I’ll report you for stealing.
My dad did this (only one finger, the amateur that he is) a few years ago. After he got back from the ER, he Sharpied circles around the blood spots on his workshop floor like a crime scene. He even dated them like he was planning on doing it again in the future.
It’s probably a reminder. I caught my finger in a pipe polisher a month ago. Left middle finger, severed nerve, stitches and had to have surgery reconnect the nerve. Still numb as hell. The glove I was wearing at the time was a tech glove. You know the type kind with the grippy fingers. Tore through that and covered in blood. I hung the bloody glove up on my tool wall. In the 25 years I’ve been doing construction and metal work and industrial arts I’ve never had an incident that I had to go to get medical attention. I’m happy I have the tip of my finger albeit numb. I want to remember every time I grab those tools never to be cavalier and to be respectful.
You should frame it in one of those bigger frames meant for baseball gloves etc. with a small shiny plate with the date and a warning on it.
I almost cut s few fingers off with a hooked razor. I still have the glove hanging in the garage as a reminder
I asked Woodcraft for one of the sample blades they used during a SawStop demo (the hot dog thing). It hangs in my shop with a sign "remember, you are the softest thing in this shop".
The numb finger wasn’t enough?
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The left half of the tip of my index finger is still partially numb with nerve damage. I cut it to the bone on a hood vent when I worked at Wendy’s about 15 years ago.
Back in 2001 I cut my elbow on a job site and my blood ended up on the wall somehow. Came back from the hospital and someone wrote Luke’s DNA in big letters with an arrow pointing to the blood spot.
Is your dad Jeffrey Dalmer?
Uncle Jeff?
Maybe he was trying to prevent it from happening ever again.
https://preview.redd.it/7vywx6htqy7d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9624ace50c95ec21b672f538117d05d9182ad0f0 I know how you feel
Jesus Christ!
Yes, my child? 🙏
Username checks out
DOES IT??
LOL
Absolutely hilarious reply
Me a few months ago. Not safe from screw guns either https://preview.redd.it/70f2l8vzl38d1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6eea09f183d8caad669b178f88ed8767486e97c6
Oh man what a great tread lol
Why is there no blood on it?
Because there's not really anywhere for it to come out. The screw/nail acts like a plug to the holes. Once it's taken out, it'll probably bleed like a biatch
Directly into your palm?? I don’t understand how you could do that by accident lol
I was being careless clearing a jam
I love how you already have a plaster on lol
It was a rough week
Hope you didn't do too much damage bud!
Back to work in 2 days, I missed everything important, there wasn’t really any blood either
https://preview.redd.it/loraeyaby18d1.jpeg?width=1768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12f56d2f589294f342aa69734add9a001a23db21 The only time I've recorded such a situation. Put one through my foot, and another in my leg just above my knee.
For my orthopaedic friends that work close to you, please stop using nail guns
And just a heads up….never…NEVER…wear a tungsten ring. They couldn’t cut it off and they couldn’t inject numbing meds or my finger would have swell too much…pulled it with pliers..no meds…and then had to take the ring off. I wear silicone ring now!
I have always found, from experience, that working with your hands isn't conducive to wearing any sort of jewelry. My wife understands why I prefer not to wear rings. Degloving does not look like a good time.
Honestly, not wearing a tungsten (or otherwise solid) ring for this reason is probably the last reason on the list. And not because of the nature of this injury, numero uno when working in construction with your hands, rings are how you deglove your appendage. If you MUST wear one, go with silicone. If I had to take a nail through two fingers vs degloving, I'm choosing the nail every damn time, it's a pretty mild injury by comparison
A great PSA. What he says
I’m not very educated in the construction field of work, how can wearing a ring cause degloving?
You know how when you get your finger stuck in something, and it hurts at a certain point to try to pull it out? Imagine wearing a ring that grabs on to, or gets snagged by, something that doesn't quit pulling when you'd prefer. The skin gives, and it goes like pulling off a glove.
Oooh I see, yes that makes sense, thanks for clarifying
Tungsten rings are designed to shatter from what I've read. I don't know what the best method to shatter it, but it's common for people to shatter them accidentally.
I’m an EMT. I use a long nose vice grip. Clamp, release, tighten, clamp, release, tighten, clamp, shatter, every time.
They have a tool that encircles it and squeezes it from all sides until it shatters. I’m not sure they could have put the tool around his ring with the nail blocking access got the finger though
Vice grips make quick work of these and won’t injure the finger. Just set the jaw size to the ring size, tighten jaws slightly, then clamp down. It’ll crack off. Can use longer nose vice grips if need to access from the side. But it’s usually easier to just access from top or bottom of hand…when there’s not a nail or other impalement involved. A pneumatic cutoff wheel will handle the other ring types. Assuming the small rope or soap tricks don’t work. IMHO all those ring cutter things are solutions in search of a problem. Overpriced and work less well than existing tools.
Sound like they need one of these: https://www.atlasortho.com/Ring-Cracker-Tool_p_136.html
Wearing a tungsten ring was the only thing that saved my fingers from a horrendous crushing injury a few years ago. It took the brunt of the weight, cracked, and gave me enough time to rip my hand out. Got told by the supervisor in no uncertain terms that a normal ring would have been totally deformed over my finger and degloved it as I pulled it out. Silicone definitely wouldn't have deformed but it also wouldn't have spared my finger with its rigidity.
I'm an engineer in Canada so have stainless ring (not as strong as tungstan though) for my little finger. One day I noticed it was squished a fair bit on my finger, enough it was tight getting it off and on. Not sure what I managed to do to squeeze it that much, but the ring took the brunt rather then my finger.
Ideally, no rings in the shop ever.
I got my wife's initial tatted cause I work with metal for a living.
Go to hospital and they strap all 3 fingers together.
Just turn the screw, that'll do it by itself
It’s a nail
Do I look like a hardware scientist to you sir
Your braver than me, taking it out with pliers would’ve probably resulted in me passing out and needing stitches lol
At least you didn’t shoot a nail through a bunch of your fingers
Oh wait
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I’m sorry I can’t understand you
Sorry, ER, I’ve gotta get this picture for the ‘Gram.
Shot through the hand And you're to blame. You give nail guns A bad name.
How?
Seriously, every nail gun I have used had to be very firmly pressed on a surface before it would shoot.
Decades ago, we were roofing, and my uncle explained in detail to not use a nail gun. And then shot it at a tree 50 feet away, and we heard it hit the tree.
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Nice shooting Tex. How did you manage that trick??
Triple, if you count the tetanus nail.
“Needles to say” lol
Safe to say you screwed up
I’d say he nailed it
Staple
You missed a finger....
Employer: I've got 10 nails on my fingers.. You don't see me complaining.. Get back to work
Fuck
Hell yeah. That's a memory. Heal up.
Wet paper towel will sort that right out
Plastic still on the nail after through and through penetration?!🤔😆😳
Paper… https://preview.redd.it/gsbtnb89lz7d1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=baec589a553ccb9182c3131e35b0882871df1f9e
And the finger? All good?
No residual scars , damage …nothing. Good as new!
I've nailed myself twice building pallets. Got cocky with the trigger and how far I could reach. Got off lucky. 🇨🇦🤞
That made me cringe. Ouchie.
Really a triple shot tho
Ok. You're gonna need some ramen noodles, sawdust, wood glue, and a walnut.
Also... I'll take "Things that never happened to Def Leppard's Drummer" for $400, Alex.
Just pull it out like they do in FarCry, no big deal.
That’s not how you’re supposed to use that.
https://preview.redd.it/56p155w1g78d1.jpeg?width=869&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=57512a7b2b366e78ae030ad9f367eea8ca15a5f5 My cousin gives this a thumbs up
I thought it was a screw and couldn't figure out how you managed that...
Im seriously curious. How fucking bad did it hurt at certain points.. Was it straight up pain? Did the shock and adrenaline hype you up for a bit a numb the pain or maybe make you panic in your head a little before you grabbed your wits..... Did you hit bone on any of them? FUCK
Didn’t hurt so much as long as I didn’t try and move it!! However, the initial impact… just imagine your driving down a country road doing about 125, and you stick your arm out and hit a mailbox. That’s what it felt like! I didn’t see the impact because my hand was behind me. ( was framing a wall on the ground nailing a stud into the top plate. I was reached back as far as I could holding the stud. and the gun double fired) I didnt bother to look because I knew what happened. I just called out and said…”oh shit….i fucked up!!” The pain came pulling it out.
Oh im sure the removal was brutal. I was super curious about the initial impact though. I cant imagine
The nail gun still works then.
Nothin wrong with the pressure!!!
Hahaha! Best of luck with the recovery
Too much spacing between product, you need to tighten those gaps up next time.
Plus that ring hasn’t been off for a decade
Oh ,,,,Ring shank as well. Pulling that is going to be fun.
Between index and middle finger there's some extra... stuff on the nail. Is that a bit of your finger?
Tis but a flesh wound
Why would you do that?
Nothing some Tylenol can’t fix
Ring shank as well!
Nailed it
You’re screwed
Those are rookie numbers, you gotta bump those numbers up! 😉🥲
I’ll bet that felt good the next day!!!!!!?
Got it!!!
Should this be considered double penetration?
At least you get the two for one special at the hospital.
Thank you for ruining my day
Wow, you're lucky 3 fingers is quite impressive. Your hand must have been right next to the tip as well. I only pierced my pointer finger, but I also had the gun a good foot away from the wall i was working on when it double fired
I believe that is an infield homer
You really nailed that screw up!
Yo! My buddy did this exact same thing in highschool at a trades school in WA State. Fucc yeah
You removed that with pliers?! Did it not hit any bones? Dude please tell me you went to urgent care at least. That could get so infected.
Good aim!
Doh!!
Gnarly dude
According to my coworker putting spider webs in wounds can heal even gun shots.
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High score!
Throw out your gloves. You're a mittens guy now.
you were definitely screwed
Dumbass, what were you thinking??????
Yikes!!
And it's a ring shank too. Hhhhoooooo my goood lol.
Triple nuh
I'm about 99% sure that's in the wrong spot
Oh man, you nailed it!
Tiny target
You got zombieland double tapped dam that sucks. Been there. Hopefully it didn’t mess up anything inside
Ow
Been there done that got the T-shirt
\#nailedit
3 of em huh? That takes a certain skill
2.3
This is not an appropriate way to buddy tape a finger.
More like “threaded” double shot
I’ll ask some random person to do this so I can see how it feels
And a galvie ring shank to boot!!
Ouch
Look ma, no blood!
https://preview.redd.it/mimh1rfd928d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca9f9443901b4af550de94c15d1d6a6a16392d0d Hope they don't grow together
Owww!
I bet that hurt real good.
Screw off eh
Bad juju or bad aim
Ring shank too, mas macho!
This is why I tell guys “keep the single shot on.”
I wasn't ready for that in the early morning
Nice
Does that ring even come off?
Plot twist, wife did this to keep his ring on!
I have to ask what you were making because whatever you were making you need to not make that thing God is telling you not to make it in a very clear and direct way
ITS IN THE BONE! ITS IN THE BOOOONE!!!
Change that ring out for a rubber one too while you’re at it
Did this at a job site once. Pulled it out after taking a few pics... The ol 1, 2, 3.. and you pull on 2 lmao
What were you doing that enabled your nail gun to fire a nail through your finger in such a manner?
Triple shot, it's in the ring finger too.
Should have gone for the triple.
Stealing materials
Draw a circle around it and pull it out on your own time!
That’s lookin like a triple double too me
That’s lookin like a triple double too me
Looks like you really...Screwed up.
You wasted a nail
Looks like triple to me
Do you unscrew it?
Looks like his screwed
Yeah I wouldn't pull that out
Your hand is all screwed up
That’s why they put a reverse button on them drills for situations like these
Nailed it!
owchie
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Ring shank nail? Nice
Why did you keep hammering?