This is something that happened to me 4 days before Christmas during a massive snow storm. It took me a while to figure out what happened since it happened so fast.
I had a large piece of wood about 6 inches high I was cutting into a bowl blank. I raised my bandsaw guard up to get through the wood. After I was cutting through the wood, the bandsaw blade grabbed the wood and pulled my finger into it. It happened so fast, I immediately pulled my finger away but saw the blood and bone in my index finger. I ran upstairs and told the wifey she needed to drive me to the ER during the snow storm in the dark. There was already 6" of snow on the ground. ER is 25 minutes away on a clean day.
Making the gory story shorter ... we were able to get to an urgent care facility right before it closed for the storm and found out the cut was down to the bone & just missed the tendon. Cut through a nerve or two and was able to be stitched up. 11 stitches later, I walked out and the wifey drove me back home. Lots of bonding time on the drive since we drove 15 MPH both ways.
I have an awesome scar now, but no feeling in part of the finger under the stitches in the photo. Won't ever have feeling in there, but have full movement, which is great! Healed in 9 days!
Just be careful out there with large pieces of wood on a bandsaw. I now stand a little differently when cutting large pieces of wood on the bandsaw now and go really slow when the guard is up more than 3" high.
The worst part is when the wifey & kids found out I wasn't perfect. That hit hard.
I had a large piece of wood about 6 inches high I was cutting into a bowl blank. I raised my bandsaw guard up to get through the wood. After I was cutting through the wood, the bandsaw blade grabbed the wood and pulled my finger into it. It happened so fast, I immediately pulled my finger away but saw the blood and bone in my index finger. I ran upstairs and told the wifey she needed to drive me to the ER during the snow storm in the dark. There was already 6" of snow on the ground. ER is 25 minutes away on a clean day.
Making the gory story shorter ... we were able to get to an urgent care facility right before it closed for the storm and found out the cut was down to the bone & just missed the tendon. Cut through a nerve or two and was able to be stitched up. 11 stitches later, I walked out and the wifey drove me back home. Lots of bonding time on the drive since we drove 15 MPH both ways.
I have an awesome scar now, but no feeling in part of the finger under the stitches in the photo. Won't ever have feeling in there, but have full movement, which is great! Healed in 9 days!
Just be careful out there with large pieces of wood on a bandsaw. I now stand a little differently when cutting large pieces of wood on the bandsaw now and go really slow when the guard is up more than 3" high.
The worst part is when the wifey & kids found out I wasn't perfect. That hit hard.
just kidding, don't think physics would allow it.....
But at least I have feeling!
. If you want to spend more time with your wife, just tell her next time, it will save on gas and fingers.
