Dropped a split on my big toe....

One does tend to add to the vocabulary when something like that happens. Last winter it was 2 fingers caught between some red oak. Didn't hurt that oak a bit.

Bet you lost a thumb nail over that one too.

Was resplitting some springy locust a few days ago when a split Ricochet back at my hand then my toe. Human error for the most part. I have dropped an 50lb. Battery on my toe when the handle broke. $@*!

Besides dropping & tossing countless splits on my hubby's feet & ankles, this year I smashed my wedding ring in a way that makes me grateful I didn't lose any diamonds from it. Cost $220 to repair.

Last year I was reloading before going to bed, I was in my bare feet and was grabbing some wood off the wood box by the stove and a big split fell off the pile, I saw it coming and tried to pull my foot out of the way, but that only made matters worse. The split was impacting my toe at the exact moment I tried to yank my foot out of the way, the result was that I ended up peeling the skin off the top of my toe. Not the sort of thing you want to do just before going to bed.

I just made a beastly splitting axe out of a 50+ year old GOOD STEEL head and some stainless tube and accidentally dropped it on my middle toe. Luckily it wasn't the cutting edge that hit, but rather the top of the head where the edge forms a point. I sort of sounded like this....(warning language)....

Back in late June I rolled a 20" long x 24" dia round of wet oak off the trailer, onto a 2 x 10 plank and onto the splitter table. While shifting it into position with the my left hand, my right index finger got smashed between the round and the splitter wedge. OMFG the pain, it instantly shot right up my arm to my shoulder, thought for a minute I lost the tip of the finger. The nail is allmost grown back to normal now, 4 1/2 months later.

I was in the "zone" and cranking right along and got a bit ahead of myself. That is always the time when stuff like this sneaks up on you.

Two years ago a fairly small ash round, maybe 10" in diameter, just rolled about 3 or 4 inches into another round on the stack. As luck would have it my index was caught between the 2 rounds. Broke that tiny bone in the tip of the finger in 3 places! It's been over 2 years now and the finger is just about back to normal.

Ralphie Boy said:

. Broke that tiny bone in the tip of the finger in 3 places!

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I broke the same bone in the right pinkie finger at the tip, 3 places also about 7 years ago; it never gives me any trouble, but the skin on the tip of the finger is different, more rubbery feeling and just feels odd if I press on it-oh well!

Many years ago I was pulling wood off of a pretty steep hillside; I was pulling a big round of Hickory towards me and didn't know that underneath it was a good sized rock that was coming along for the ride, and of course the rock lets loose and slams into the left big toe. Didn't break it but I lost the nail....I don't recommend doing that as it hurt like heck!!

Id rather drop logs on my feet all day long, than find the trailer hitch with my shin. But I do remember getting injured and cursing up a storm when I tried to stop a rolling log from hitting my dad's new Silverado.

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Id rather drop logs on my feet all day long, than find the trailer hitch with my shin. But I do remember getting injured and cursing up a storm when I tried to stop a rolling log from hitting my dad's new Silverado.

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Yeah. I know that hitch is there but my shin likes to remind me every now and then.


How about a nice long slender locust splinter that breaks off in your finger as you try to pull it out?

I was quickly limbing a small pine tree with my hatchet - yup, put that hatchet right into my shin, the chaps took some of the sting out of it, but I have a nice scar to remember my stupidity by

mustash29 said:

Back in late June I rolled a 20" long x 24" dia round of wet oak off the trailer, onto a 2 x 10 plank and onto the splitter table. While shifting it into position with the my left hand, my right index finger got smashed between the round and the splitter wedge. OMFG the pain, it instantly shot right up my arm to my shoulder, thought for a minute I lost the tip of the finger. The nail is allmost grown back to normal now, 4 1/2 months later.

I was in the "zone" and cranking right along and got a bit ahead of myself. That is always the time when stuff like this sneaks up on you.

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Yup, that was one of mine, the ole fingertip-between-the-round-and-the-splitter trick. Fingertip still hurts when it gets cold...

Trailer hitches & shins.

Similar, but much worse.....there is a VERY good reason they told us to NEVER walk under the planes in the hanger bay on the carrier. There are LOTS of tie down chains running from the deck (floor) up to the underside of the wings near the top of the landing gear, like 3/8 transport chain, usually 3 chains for each of the 3 landing gear legs / wheels so they sort of spyder out in 3 different directions.

After mid watch one night, went to breakfast & was heading to the fantail (open area, back end of ship) to have a smoke. There was some ruckus going on in the hanger bay, marines doing PT, etc, so I took a shortcut. BIG MISTAKE.

Tripped over one of those sets of tie down chains under an F-18, caught it in BOTH shins (still have the visible dark bruise spots on the bones 19 years later) did a complete face plant and when my palms / forearms / elbows hit the non-skid on the deck it left some really super sweet road rash. That non-skid is like zero grit sandpaper, really nasty rough stuff.

Hurt yourself? Let it Rip, I have been coping with pain long before this study came out!

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-do-we-swear

Black toenails (yuk) come with the territory.

I haven't had anything too bad happen....but I had a moment unloading wood from my ute that could of ended up very expensive...i was unloading rounds from the back of my ute when one landed not quite where I aimed and proceeded to rollback around my car and towards the edge of this embankment/slope that leads down to my neighbors drive way where my neighbor had parked his brand new toyota prado....i immediately jumped off the back of my 4x4, then leaped off this embankment with the intention of landing ahead of the round which was now tumbling down this hill....i literally had one chance to stop this thing before it went full speed into the door of the neighbors prado...i landed ahead of the round, fell onto the ground and slid with my leg out and tried to grab the round but I slid into a tree and watched as the round barreled towards the prado...right at the last minute the neighbors dad stepped from behind the car and put his foot out to stop the round and casually said "i thought you could use a hand"....i was just lying on the ground looking up at the sky thinking how lucky i was...!.....i no longer throw rounds from the back of the ute...

steel toe boots; however, took a hatchet to the knee spitting kindling...

I was splitting with a vertical splitter. Had a huge 24 diameter bucked piece in there. Split it and once side slowly fell on the top part of my foot near the tongue where you tie your boot off. Damn foot turned purple and swelled so big I could hardly get my foot out of the boot (i didn't stop...kept on splitting for 3 more hours).

Thought for sure I had broken it...but X-ray said otherwise... just a terrible bone bruise and busted vessel. Took 2 weeks to feel normal again though.

Back several years ago my dad and I went to get some oak we had dropped. It wasn't a nice day as the rain had begun to fall. We tried to get as much done as fast as we could since the wood was along the road side and I knew it wouldn't last there too long if I didn't get it then. I was running the splitter and throwing them in the trailer while my dad was handing me new logs. Somewhere as the rain picked up and I was trying to move too fast I got the end of my thumb between the back plate and a piece of Oak and couldn't pull it away before the log split on my thumb. Broke it into eight pieces. Hurt like a mother. Now years later, that thumbs nail has a permanent curved shape to it. Thankfully it did heal well. It sure is hard make donuts and pastries when you have a broken thumb. I am much more thoughtful and careful these days to guard best I can against my own stupidity. The year before that my dad again while working with him he turned while running the chainsaw and caught my other thumb with it. Thankfully I was wearing a heavy leather glove and got my hand out of the way before it did much damage. That time all it did was rip part of the nail off along with the end of the thumb. Needless to say, my dad doesn't help me much anymore and if he does, I am not within throwing distance of him