FRIs - Firewood related injuries

[Badfish740]

Great ... now we're going to have to encourage our members here to only load their woodstove while shirtless.

That's got it's own risks...as a frequent first-thing-in-the-morning loader I have gone down to the furnace shirtless right out of bed in the past, until I got tired of dodging those little cluster bomb type sparks that tend to pop out when you open the door for the first time in a while You know what they say, "DFBN" (Don't Fry Bacon Naked)

 

[BIGDADDY]

Sorry about your finger. I found the best thing to do for a finger nail like that is to heat a needle very hot and push it through the finger nail. it won't hurt until you get through the nail. You will know when its through from the burning sensation. Don't worry it won't hurt very much. The blood under the nail takes a lot of the heat out. If it begins draining immediately , then then gently squeeze to help it drain most of the blood out.You can press the finger down on a table top or similar object also to drain it. It will feel better right away just getting the pressure off the nail.
If it doesn't immediately start draining after you push the hot needle through the nail and you did feel the burning sensation do Not reheat the needle. The heat may have caused the blood to coagulate basically causing a damn. Take a unheated cool needle and push it into the hole in your nail to open up the "damn".

I know this will work because I have done it. The sooner you do it the better.

 

[BamaScroungr]

Forearm burns from opening the hot woodstove door with my forearm--I don't do that any more. And tried to split a log once, propelling the log into my left shin. Hurt for months, and there's still a purple dent there.

 

[TreePapa]

A year or 2 after we bought our house, I nearly cut off 1/3rd of my left thumb cutting firewood. With a wormdrive (Skill 77). With the guard jammed. Yeah, that was DUMB. I still have that saw. I don't use it for firewood.