Have you ever been doing something with a knife and thought to yourself "you better be careful; you could cut yourself pretty easily"
Yes- I was a butcher for a dozen years and still cut up a lot of meat for myself today. Worse problem I had when I was young- we still had to cut up chickens and would even have contest to see who was the fastest. One time I had a cut on my thumb knuckle that had just healed up and I cut the same spot again. Man that thing was sore for a month.
I’m more like “Dumbass you did it again!”Have you ever been doing something with a knife and thought to yourself "you better be careful; you could cut yourself pretty easily"
I just got done field dressing and processing 4 deer. Got nicked a few times usually with sharp tip poke while removing tendon and prepping to grind or make jerky. Got one finger slice cut while boning out the buck I shot.
10yr old Grandson sliced open his thigh with his Swiss Army knife I had just sharpened last summer when he dropped it on his bare leg while whittling a stick for hot dogs. Had to go to urgent care for stitches and that process freaked him out way worse than cutting himself.
10yr old Grandson sliced open his thigh with his Swiss Army knife I had just sharpened last summer when he dropped it on his bare leg while whittling a stick for hot dogs. Had to go to urgent care for stitches and that process freaked him out way worse than cutting himself.
The worst part of the cutting of yourself is you were in the middle of a project and now must stop.
I care less about the cut I just want to finish what I was doing.
Splatted my thumb with a hammer chiseling upper ball joint rivets out years ago.
My oldest son was sitting on the ground beside me and said aren't you going to go fix or clean that as it blew it apart good and blood running down my arm.
I told him NOPE! I am almost done and the blood needs to flow to clean the wound.
I care less about the cut I just want to finish what I was doing.
Splatted my thumb with a hammer chiseling upper ball joint rivets out years ago.
My oldest son was sitting on the ground beside me and said aren't you going to go fix or clean that as it blew it apart good and blood running down my arm.
I told him NOPE! I am almost done and the blood needs to flow to clean the wound.
I read a story the other day about novice chefs and experienced chefs. When a knife is accidentally dropped, the inexperienced chef will try and catch it and often suffer a bad cut while an experienced chef will allow it to fall to the floor and then retrieve it. A sharp knife can ruin you if handled improperly, I like a sharp knife because less pressure is needed to cut through a piece of beef and the work is completed more quickly than with a dull knife.
Yes, just before I cut myself. LOL!Have you ever been doing something with a knife and thought to yourself "you better be careful; you could cut yourself pretty easily"
Oh yes, I have done a lot of stupid stuff. A lot of those I caught myself before doing it but those times usually came from bad experiences where I didn't. Like @swampratt, I was hammering out a bolt that had broken on the front end of the tractor.
I was hammering upward with both hands and the freshly worked dirt under me shifted causing me to miss. About twenty minutes later I wake up to a splitting headache with blood everywhere. You all know how a scalp wound bleeds.
Since the tractor was broke down, I had to walk the two and half miles home. Of course no one is home so I walked to the neighbors and scared the hell out of his wife and kids. I'm drenched in fresh and dried blood and dirt from working on the tractor.
The last time I caught myself one second before what I was thinking might happen, happened. I was climbing up a ladder a fellow had just climbed down. It was propped against a landing 10 feet up and there was no wall, just the landing. I reached the landing at eye level and saw the ladder shift down an inch. I said , "Self, you had better climb back down very caref WHAM!"
Three years and several surgeries later, I was back to work.
I could have posedt pictures but thought better about it.
I was hammering upward with both hands and the freshly worked dirt under me shifted causing me to miss. About twenty minutes later I wake up to a splitting headache with blood everywhere. You all know how a scalp wound bleeds.
Since the tractor was broke down, I had to walk the two and half miles home. Of course no one is home so I walked to the neighbors and scared the hell out of his wife and kids. I'm drenched in fresh and dried blood and dirt from working on the tractor.
The last time I caught myself one second before what I was thinking might happen, happened. I was climbing up a ladder a fellow had just climbed down. It was propped against a landing 10 feet up and there was no wall, just the landing. I reached the landing at eye level and saw the ladder shift down an inch. I said , "Self, you had better climb back down very caref WHAM!"
Three years and several surgeries later, I was back to work.
I could have posedt pictures but thought better about it.
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splatted my thumb many times hanging off rebar building forms sucks
