slivers

[WillBrayJr]

I'll play along. Here's another little story from my childhood in the late-80s. I was at the Park and slid down one of those lever thingys that two kids play on. Well it was made out of seasoned wood and I recieved about 20 splinters of various sizes. Some were bigger then toothpicks. I didn't realize it until I arrived home and sat on a kitchen chair. Every colorful word came out of my mouth as I raced to the bathroom. Spent roughly 30 minutes pulling those splinters out of my rearend with a pair of pliars.

 

[Humptulips]

: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!

Had that happen with a wire axe. Wound healed up but about 10 years later a piece of steel from it finally worked its way to the surface and I cut it out.

 

[joesawer]

: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!

I have a little piece in my cheek and a bigger one deep in my thigh real close to the family jewels. They are both still there.
Those both happened when I was a kid. I keep them dressed really good now days, but neither one of those where mushroomed, just a stray lick catching a corner with the hammer and breaking a chunk out.

 

[Metals406]

That's a fair way to see if a hammer is heat treated like crap. . . If it embeds shrapnel in you! Hahahaha

 

[ru55ell]

A ear nose and throat surgeon told me about a case he had. A logger fell on some fiber pull (stump shot) The sliver went up under the guys jaw up through the mouth, up through the upper palate, up behind the eye socket(the eyeball was hanginf out) and out through the fore head. The logger then cut himself free from the stump with his saw. He walked to a nearby road and flagged down a car. The woman stopped looked and fainted. He got a ride to the hospital in another car. The surgeon got a call to come to the ER they said they had a "little sliver" for him to remove.

He sawed off the top of the splinter and because the wood was stuck in the bone he had to pound it back out with a hammer. When the sliver backed out the eyeball popped back into the socket.

There was no brain damage, after all he was a logger. The only permanet effect was that the guy now talked with a mumble.

We all know the moral of the story.

 

[horseloger]

When I worked for a tree company my boss got tired of hiring new climbers and having to go up and get them out of a tree after they froze from fear of heights! So he placed a 100 ft pole out in the back lot and if you wanted too hire on as a climber you had too climb the pole. One guy came in and said he climbed red woods out west in California, We sent him up the pole and he had no problem, he then decided to show us how it was done and kicked out and slid down the pole half way down he went to spike in missed and garbed the pole to try and slow down he hugged it the rest of the way down and when he came to a stop he looked like a porcupine! it took 4 hours at the emergency room too get all the splinters out !

 

[046]

OUCH!!!!!

makes me wince ... just reading this thread