slivers

[paccity]

what's the worst one you have had? did you get poked or stabbed. brought this up because of my most recent stabbing. took one to the shin last week, was walking by a wind topped hemlock and stabbed a 1/4" x 6" sliver in to the lower leg. dealing with a knarly infection now. should have seen it ,but i guess it happens some times. weening off the meds now.LOL.

 

[RPM]

Buddy of mine was walking a log about 5-6' off the ground and fell onto a shattered log. He yelled that he was stuck and couldn't lift himself up.

Once he figured he was stuck on the shattered piece of log he freaked and pulled himself off. He drove pieces into his asz and back of his thigh a couple of inched deep. Lucky he missed anyhting vital. We could tell how deep things went b/c you could see the pieces of meat and gore on the ends.

Main reason you trim any fiber pull off of your stumps.

 

[hanniedog]

You do like the old timers, spit some tobacco juice on it and go about your business. In your buddys instance a good friend would have to do the spitting for him.

 

[paccity]

Buddy of mine was walking a log about 5-6' off the ground and fell onto a shattered log. He yelled that he was stuck and couldn't lift himself up.

Once he figured he was stuck on the shattered piece of log he freaked and pulled himself off. He drove pieces into his asz and back of his thigh a couple of inched deep. Lucky he missed anyhting vital. We could tell how deep things went b/c you could see the pieces of meat and gore on the ends.

Main reason you trim any fiber pull off of your stumps.

dam , that must have freaked every body out. the one that got me i really din't see, the ferns were thick, it was wind top laying on the ground. wasn't cuttin , just pokein around for a place to put a trail cam out. if i was working i would have cleaned that up, just getting old and blind.LOL.

 

[zr900]

Worst sliver I ever had went straight under my thumb nail all the way to the base of the nail. most painful sliver I have ever had

 

[Humptulips]

Worst I had could I suppose be considered not to be a sliver but I'll tell the story anyway. Climbing up a really steep rocky hillside. Slipped and came sliding back down picking up speed all the way, probably about 50 feet. Seen the stab sticking up at the bottom and couldn't seem to miss it. Went in the back of my thigh just below my butt 4 inches deep. Real blunt on the end and about 4 inches through where it stopped going in. Bruised the devil out of my leg and it happened to have a rotten end so hard to clean out. Ended up with quite an infection until all the wood drained out. Missed a week of work but I walked out. Didn't really hurt until later.

 

[madhatte]

Fell through some slash once jumping from stump to stump in a 5-yo clearcut doing survival surveys in Grisdale country. The blackberry had terraced over most of the open space so I couldn't see the ground. When I broke through, I fell about six feet. Everything breaking under me stabbed me in one place or another. It took a long time to wrestle free. For a minute there I was just sure I was gonna see guts but as it turns out I didn't have any punctures more than a half-inch deep and those were all in my arms and legs, and the remainder of me was just scratched and bruised up pretty good.

 

[RandyMac]

I was tossing broken crap out of my way, got a big one stuck through the first joint of my trigger finger. Had to have it cut out, left a mark

Cable jaggers really sting.

 

[derwoodii]

Stone dead Ash tree no big deal just grabbin limbs to chip, ?whats that in my fore arm a twig dagger about 2inch in didn't feel it go in but could not pull it out, seemed to be barbed. Off to the doc shes goes hmm a little local n slice back the skin n flesh to remove a trophy splinter. The pain was when she pricked me in the Ass with tetanus shot oooooh.

I wus splicing wire for a limb cable job years back cuttin off the the ends n bing into ma eye goes a wire slither. But I wear soft contacts so it just pierce's and sticks no real damge to the eye ball pheew lucky day.

 

[RandyMac]

tetanus boosters are generally worse than the injury.

 

[Spotted Owl]

Nothing big but lots of them. Riggin a tail hold and one of the replaceable gaffs busted off. The other got a chunk of crap it rammed through and under pluggin it up that I couldn't get out when I was able to get back in the wood after the first bit of fall. Came the rest of the way down with my arms and legs in a big squeeze. The first bit when it broke I fell a ways and slivered up my chest, arms and neck. The rest of the way didn't help. I picked slivers out of my legs and arms for days and Mrs pulled them out of my chest, neck and arms for days. Nothin better than bark and stob slivers.

Mr Mac ain't said nothin about jaggers. How many can actually count the scars from jaggars. Got a 6" scar on left leg from a dumb butt yarder operator that brought the line up on his own it siwashed and the cable got both of us at thigh level and flung us back side over tea kettle. Jagger can take some meat with them when they move.



Owl

 

[RandyMac]

#### a bunch of cable jaggers.

When I worked for Palco, I either set chokers or chased landing, I saw lots of cable. My personal favorite was changing out archlines and tying hooks on the new line. I bust up laughing every time I think about doing the figure eight knot with a hand and a half pigtail.

 

[056kid]

Cable jaggers suck ass. . . I hate that scraping feeling that you can hear when they drag across bone.

Diesel fuel takes the pain out though. . .

 

[ryan_marine]

My worst was bush hogging on the farm. Backed the bush hog under a honey locust. Took a 4" thorn in the back of my calf. Only thing I could do was put the tractor in foward gear to pull it out. That was a *****.

Ray

 

[Metals406]

I shot a 16g finish nail through my right hand middle finger knuckle. It went in and bent in the shape of a fish hook. I yarded it out of there with a pair of dikes. Not sure which hurt worse, the in or the out.

Not to mention gang plate scars, jagger scars, etc.

Oh, and burns. . . Got lots'a them.

 

[TimberFaller660]

I was cuttin a nice oak once & was more concentated on the the tree & not so much my footing. Anywho i slipped on a flat rock, the saw turned upside down & i landed on the bottom felling dawgs. It didnt cut very deep but it laced open a good 6-8" gash on my stomach up to my ribs. I have a little scar from it. It didnt hurt when it happened but it stung like hell when the sweat hit it. oke:

 

[Tony Montana]

My cutting partner at the time ,told me that his previous cutting partner decided to call it quits after he had slid down a hill some ten feet at came to a stop on a knifed off vinny maple. It put a big hole in a butt cheek.

My worst splinter wasn't . I was packing into a new strip and decided to power my way though a patch of green blowndown hemlock , rather than go the long way around . Well I had all my gear on me and my saw on my shoulder and dang it if my feet didn't both get caught up and I fell face forward down the hill .
I thought I had rammed a stick into my guts , the way it felt , but I had just snagged my Ahem on a stick and ripped it open .
Why is it the more embarrassing the injury the cuter the nurse ?
I walked funny for the weekend , it happened on a friday , monday I had to go back to work to finnish the unit . The bullbuck took a blowdown sweeper to the knee , got put out of action and that left me as the only one left who knew what was going on .

Mine are made of brass BTW ,I checked .

 

[Humptulips]

#### a bunch of cable jaggers.

When I worked for Palco, I either set chokers or chased landing, I saw lots of cable. My personal favorite was changing out archlines and tying hooks on the new line. I bust up laughing every time I think about doing the figure eight knot with a hand and a half pigtail.

Jaggers! that's an entirely different subject but I'm up for a little thread stealing.
Too many to count but I remember one in particular. On the big slackers we didn't use hooks (tried to use the correct term but the profanity filter won't allow it) in the strawline. Mostly had eyes and mollyed together plus you would use a molly in a strap we called a goat to hook the skyline to the haulback when changing roads. You had to do this as the only way you could get loose was to chop yourself loose. The way you did this on the back end was you had a splitting maul that had the temper taken out of it. You would slip the mauls sharp end in the molly and twist it a half turn. That would make it tight. Jam the handle in the ground and chop it with your wire axe. Couple good chops and it was cut.
One day after work in the bus riding home I happened to brush my face with my hand and felt something. Be damned if I didn't have a strand of strawline sticking through my cheek. Never even felt it. Must have been in there several hours.

 

[Metals406]

Jaggers! that's an entirely different subject but I'm up for a little thread stealing.
Too many to count but I remember one in particular. On the big slackers we didn't use hooks (tried to use the correct term but the profanity filter won't allow it) in the strawline. Mostly had eyes and mollyed together plus you would use a molly in a strap we called a goat to hook the skyline to the haulback when changing roads. You had to do this as the only way you could get loose was to chop yourself loose. The way you did this on the back end was you had a splitting maul that had the temper taken out of it. You would slip the mauls sharp end in the molly and twist it a half turn. That would make it tight. Jam the handle in the ground and chop it with your wire axe. Couple good chops and it was cut.
One day after work in the bus riding home I happened to brush my face with my hand and felt something. Be damned if I didn't have a strand of strawline sticking through my cheek. Never even felt it. Must have been in there several hours.

:jawdrop: That coulda been an eye! Anybody ever have a hammer head break/flake (not properly heat treated), and have the shard shoot into your hand like a bullet? That's smarts too!

 

[paccity]

so it's not a sliver but , back in 81 dropped off the landing with saw and gear, axe in hand, tripped head over heals, axe layed my knee open like a sliced ham, bunch of stitches , head was'nt in it that morn, tought me about long weekend's,lol. got a lot of crap for it. but back on the hill the next morn.