I was so lucky!

[walkswithnomoccasins]

A few Weekends ago I was away camping with My wife and some friends of mine. We had a fire started and it was going well. The wood we were using was longish ash logs which i was splitting down as the fire had only just got going. all was going well until my sfa struck a knot in the centre of a 1/4 split length of wood
instead of splitting arounfd the knot the axe hit the knot and came out of the side of the piece of wood. striking the knuckle of my index finger of my left hand. At that point i started to feel a little funny, The blood flowed copiously (around 1/2 pint) the cut missed my tendon by mm and although the axe chipped the bone i still have a full compliment of pinkies! Now I am usually reasonably organised when it comes to camping trips but this trip i had forgot one vital thing My first aid kit!! So instead of a cotton wool compress I ended up using my first sanitary towel (thanks Anji). SOmeone had to be smiling at me that day (or sat laughing at my idiocy).

 

[Shewie]

I had a similar close shave with an axe once and it soon teaches you to be more careful next time round. A FAK is important but not as much as keeping all your fingers

Hope you heal up soon

 

[John Fenna]

And all those axes hanging safely on your shop wall so customers cannot cut themselves!
Sounds like you were very lucky

 

[Shambling Shaman]

Was thinking about this the other day, should we start a near miss thread?

I slipped on steep ground and narrowly missed impaling my self on a stick I had just stuck in the ground.

Just a thought..

 

[madcow]

It may sound silly but a few years ago I was refitting a axehead and there where a few annoying flies buzzing around my head. and one of them flew into my left ears .

my reaction was to swipe with my left hand with which i was holding the axe and in some way i managed to hit my self in the head with it, nothing major just a small cut on my left eyebrow.

shows you that strange things can happen when using axes and knives

 

[BorderReiver]

It is surprising how many people manage to stab themselves in the eye when using a knife or a screwdriver.

I've almost done it a few times; you just forget that you're holding a sharp pointy thing in your hand and go to rub a face itch or wipe your eye.

 

[SimonM]

Near miss stories - mmmm

Years ago I was playing "enemy" for a display for VIP's. I was fully cammed up in a ghillie suit, with pyrotechnics hanging out of every pocket.

The plan was for me to open fire on a patrol coming towards me, and after a suitable response, to withdraw under cover of a couple of smoke grenades. I was then to take up another fire position and ambush them again - this time with me losing!

Anyway, as I withdrew I slipped and lost my footing whilst going down a slight slope. My hands were full as I was changing magazine on the weapon (no sling fitted) so I was faced with an extremely embarrassing fall in front of the VIP's, who were watching from a nearby farmhouse.

Relying on a few years Ju Jitsu training, I opted to dive, rather than fall, and went into a rolling breakfall, regained my feet and kept running!

Afterwards, I was introduced to the VIP's and one asked how many times I had rehearsed the roll coming down the hill - My response "Just the once sir!"

Simon

 

[sirex]

It may sound silly but a few years ago I was refitting a axehead and there where a few annoying flies buzzing around my head. and one of them flew into my left ears .

my reaction was to swipe with my left hand with which i was holding the axe and in some way i managed to hit my self in the head with it, nothing major just a small cut on my left eyebrow.

shows you that strange things can happen when using axes and knives

sounds like you were on track for a darwin award

edit: saying that, i did once reach around the back of a computer with a screwdriver in my hand and the driver went into the psu unit. hiss, bang, huge blue spark, and i had a dead computer. boo !

 

[Walks with dogs]

Not the first time I've admitted this but somehow whilst brushing my teeth many years ago the brush left my mouth and lodged itself briefly under my eyelid.

That hurt and made me feel very stupid in equal measure.

 

[Nagual]

Not the first time I've admitted this but somehow whilst brushing my teeth many years ago the brush left my mouth and lodged itself briefly under my eyelid.

That hurt and made me feel very stupid in equal measure.

I am scared to ask, but I have to know how the hell that happened?

 

[Shewie]

Not the first time I've admitted this but somehow whilst brushing my teeth many years ago the brush left my mouth and lodged itself briefly under my eyelid.

That hurt and made me feel very stupid in equal measure.

That's making my eyes water just thinking about it.

I go blind for a 10 minutes if a manage to flick a tiny speck of toothpaste in my eye, but a whole toothbrush ? That just doesn't bear thinking about.

 

[OldFingersGreen]

some shocking stories here.....

a couple of weeks ago i was out in the woods not too far away with my sister, we each have a 10 month old springer spaniel and were out walking when we heard one of the dogs yelp. i ran forward and saw zebedee (my sisters spaniel) come hopping out from behind a tree with what looked like something dark wrapped around his leg, it was actually his skin, i ran forward and knocked him to the ground to look, a big jagged cut ran from the bottom up halfway then forked in to a Y shape to the top of his leg, his skin was just hanging off everywhere.

it takes us about an hour and a half to walk to where we were and we were almost a mile from the nearest road with a house on it. I tried to tidy the wound up and my sister phoned my auntie who fortunately was off work and i shouted some hurried directions to the nearest raod. by this time the dog is in some distress and my springer, dougal, was also very agitated. i noted there wasn't too much blood and hoped he hadn't hit any veins then hoofed him on to my shoulder and started to run.

at this point i thank the stars for my fell running whilst i was a kid, freerunning while i was a teenager and two years of house and office removals, though this still was the most demanding run i have ever undertook, wearing wellies on a vague muddy footpath with 3 stones of distressed springer spaniel on my shoulder i reckon i still broke cross country records.

suffice it to say we got the dog to the vets in time and after an overnight stay he came home, the scar is over 12 inches long and he has lost some muscle (though you would never know.... still a lunatic!) the vet could not stress enough how lucky he was to miss the two major veins, it was a matter of millimetres.

zebedee has fully recovered now but this event really hit home for me the importance of carrying a mobile phone. i have always disliked mobiles, and although i own one i very rarely had credit before this event. now it is fully charged and topped up wherever i go. had my sister not had hers with it her it is doubtful he would have survived.

i went back to the spot the same day to try to find what had caused it but came up with nothing. what i count as our near miss in this tale is that when i went back (no more than 2 hours after the accident) the tree which i had laid the dog down next to had fallen over. This was a very substantial tree and had done lots of damage, it had also fallen directly covering the spot where we had been, remember that this could only have happened within and hour and a half of us sitting there. had we been later i dont doubt we would have been crushed.

cheers

dan

 

[Walks with dogs]

I am scared to ask, but I have to know how the hell that happened?

I honestly don't know. Tragically bad coordination I suppose. As long as I do't do it ever, ever again I'm happy.

 

[xylaria]

I stepped on 6 inch nail on saturday. It hurt. I left it for few hours before desiding to go to hospital. They cleaned it out and that hurt, I thought I was going to pass out when the nurse pumped antiseptic into the hole, and getting local anasthetic injected into the arch of your foot doesn't excatly tickle either. Luckly it didn't go into far, if it hits bone, rusty nails going through shoes can carry some nasty infections that can cause long term problems for bones. My foot looks like a purple ballon with five cocktail sausages stuck on the end, and I feel really queesy from the horse size antibiotics. It could be been alot worse.

Naboo your story sounds nightmarish, did you ever workout what cut the dog so badly?

 

[OldFingersGreen]

I stepped on 6 inch nail on saturday. It hurt. I left it for few hours before desiding to go to hospital. They cleaned it out and that hurt, I thought I was going to pass out when the nurse pumped antiseptic into the hole, and getting local anasthetic injected into the arch of your foot doesn't excatly tickle either. Luckly it didn't go into far, if it hits bone, rusty nails going through shoes can carry some nasty infections that can cause long term problems for bones. My foot looks like a purple ballon with five cocktail sausages stuck on the end, and I feel really queesy from the horse size antibiotics. It could be been alot worse.

Naboo your story sounds nightmarish, did you ever workout what cut the dog so badly?

Sounds awful, my friend stabbed himself in the foot with a pitch fork when he was young, i remember he too was on mad medication because it was rusty.

never found out what did it. the annoying thing is that whenever we go out we are forever tidying up broken glass and discarded barbed wire, as far as i can make out it must have been a sharp obtrusion from a log or stick that he must have hit at full whack. other than that i just can't think of anything


.........toothbrush in the eye????? ouch........

 

[Steve13]

October 2007 and I was working late at night in my shed carving some wood, it was very late I was tired and decided it would be good to fix the chisel into the vise and push down with the timber, I know it sounds stupid now , but at the time was a good idea

I slipped of course and managed to embed a 1/2 " wood chisel about an inch into my hand right on the joint at the base of my thumb, very little blood but I did the complete incorrect thing and pulled out the chisel so the hospital told me

Two days in hospital, an operation and about 50 stitches and my hand in the biggest comedy bandage you have ever seen for 2 weeks was my punishment made even worse by having to use public trasport for 2 weeks

Still drop things with my thumb, little feeling in my finger tips and very sore when cold

I was banned from carving by SWMBO for months


Be warned don't use sharp objects when you are tired