Has anyone had a metal wedge chip off?

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Had it happen a couple times years ago. Now I grind the mauls and steel wedge faces when they start mushrooming or distorting. Those spalls can do some damage. Use safety glasses and nobody standing near you when your splitting.


Yep. And never split in shorts. Hot weather or not!
 
Yeah. Take a look at a new wedge and then keep yours looking the same way. I bought 3 from a pawn shop. Worst mushrooms I ever saw. Took me most of an afternoon and a 6 pack to get them ground back to useable.

Harry K

hope by the end you didn't try to grind a cold one and take a swig out of the wedge.. :cheers:
 
Well Sunday morning I was out working on the wood pile splitting wood.
I split all the smaller wood with the mall. So I am getting into the nasty crouch stuff, with a wood grenade and just a standard 10" steel wedge. Well I split a 20 or so hunks of maple, that were nasty.

Well to get to the Point I hit the wedge and and piece of metal comes flying off the wedge and lucky me it hits my calf and makes a 4" gash. It looks like one of those war movies when a bomb blows up and you look down and you just start gushing blood all over. I also was waring shorts not paints....makes me wonder if that would of helped much anyways......Well yeah I am at home so thats good. So I grab the hunk of flesh and squeese it together limping bent over into the house with is only a 100' or so. Take off my bloody sock and run into the shower. By this time I am feeling pretty woosey....I thinking to my self "suck it up your all by yourself" "SUCK IT UP".
Well I have a first aid kit for my dog when we go hunting so thats good, I open it up its got a stapler in it....I'm thinking to my self yeah its deep but not gonna use this thing....so I pull out the surgurical glue and try to glue the thing back together....well its just too dam big of a cut so......it would hold. Mean while it pretty much stopped bleeding and the glue wont hold so I just butterfly it together and pretty much making due with some butterflys and tape.

I do have insurance, I should of went and got stiches but I freaking hate the doctors...I have never had stiches and since its just a spot on the calf I dont care about having a scare there.....I thought that I would just take care of it myself.

Everything is going all right but I am gimmping around like no other....my buddys were laughing there ass off at me walking around hooter for dinner....I just to em to f....off .

The bummer is I have a music Festival to go to this weekend and there will be walking involved....thats going to suck


so eveyone
Had a piece of my splitting maul splinter off and stick in my truck tailgate once (as I was hitting a wedge).
 

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