Almost taken down by a thorn!

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merle_nelson said:
Ahhh, thats annoying Mark.

I let a Date Palm spike me in the leg one time. Got down and started to walk to the truck and fell over. Turned out it had pinned two of my leg muscles together. I didn't know they had to slip over one another to produce our walking motion.

On a usefull note, one time I took a small puncture from a lemon tree that had been rolling around at a dump site. First night it gets infected and finger swells up. Second night I put a "potatoe poultice" on it to draw out toxins and it is 100% fine by morning. Then that night it starts to build infection again. So then I used the poultice for two or three nights in a row - handled.

Just drag a spoon edge over a potatoe to get a bunch of wet, fine mush. Clean wound and wrap with gauze or cloth, put a lot of mush over the wound area, wrap with cloth to keep in place, cover with plastic to keep moist all night and contain any wet or mess.
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are you drawing the spoon across the skin o the potatoe or the meat?
 
merle_nelson said:
Just drag a spoon edge over a potatoe to get a bunch of wet, fine mush. Clean wound and wrap with gauze or cloth, put a lot of mush over the wound area, wrap with cloth to keep in place, cover with plastic to keep moist all night and contain any wet or mess.
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Would this work for bee/wasp stings and poison ivy/oak/sumac?
 
merle_nelson said:
Tim, for your interest look up Hexarmor gloves and I think they have forearm shields.

I have tested the level 5 cut resistant gloves with a Silky and use them when doing mostly hand saw work all day.

Another TreeBuzzer, tuttle, put me onto those.
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Thanks for this, Merle. They look like a really nice piece of gear. Much appreciated. Available on Amazon, by the way; haven't found the forearm shields yet, still looking.

The gloves got a big endorsement from a firefighter who said they prevented the loss of one of his digits.

Tim
 
Had a locust thorn break off in my fore arm, with out knowing it.

Saw the wound, did not know what was in there.

Days later it started to hurt a lot,swell and get hard.

Just heard a radio lab about the first antibiotics and how people use to die from scratches getting infected.

While I'm driving, I looked at the small scab on top of the wound. Intuitively with out thinking, scraped it with my fingernail and made it bleed. Squeezed it and a 3/8" thorn and a bunch of puss came right out. Felt so good. Was like my body knew something I did not and was thanking me for listening.
 
frashdog said:
While I'm driving, I looked at the small scab on top of the wound. Intuitively with out thinking, scraped it with my fingernail and made it bleed. Squeezed it and a 3/8" thorn and a bunch of puss came right out. Felt so good. Was like my body knew something I did not and was thanking me for listening.
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I'm clearing some of my land this year and have an old push mower jacked up as high as it will go and mow down weeds and small shrubs with it. Zing! I felt something sting my right arm and saw a 1/8" wide gash on my right arm. Felt like I'd imagine being shot would feel. Cleaned it out and put a bandaid on it - back to work. Thing doesn't hurt much but I'm a picker at things and a few days later I give a squeeze and a 1" long piece of wire, like from a barbed wire fence, comes squirting out. Made me think of the movie Alien.

All better.
 
With regard to potatoe, you need a lot of the meat Mac but, I just scrape through cleaned skin too.

Potatoe is one of many things that have a powerful drawing effect. I have not used it for stings etc but, if faced with them, my wife would probably find both a potatoe and some honey missing.

Clean charcoal draws extremely well but your skin turns black. (They sell a pharmaceutical grade.)
 
TimBr, I have a friend who's excessively into archery who is planning on recreating the mongol shirt experiment with ballistics gel dummies. One of the things he's been trying to find is a source for what he calls "work silk". Basically it's more along the thickness and weight of a nice linen(he says think nice restaurant's cloth napkins), rather than the tissue paper we Americans are used to calling silk.

Hexarmor makes two types of arm shields, an elastic fit sleeve with the wrist/thumbhole cuff and a slip on shield that seems to be touted in their literature to go over the elastic fit shield to be a wear layer. I can't say yay or nay in regards to hexarmor arm shields, but their NXT food service gloves are the best knife resistant food gloves I've ever tried.
 
Tim, HexArmor's main website. It shows cut resistant 'sleeves'. Also it explains and shows a bunch of testing info for all their cut resistant products.

I use the HexArmor 360 gloves in black when I wear those. Retail at like $65, often sold now at $55 plus. But, a guy on ebay has some at $20 right now. I may have bought all of his XL. ( They seem to be authentic in every way including packaging is right.)
 
Ahh, just occurred to me that the distinction that I'm focused on with regard to potatoe others may not be clear about. Potatoe can draw from deep and even through closed skin.

I use peroxide at first but it can only get what it comes into contact with.
 
SumoClimber said:
TimBr, I have a friend who's excessively into archery who is planning on recreating the mongol shirt experiment with ballistics gel dummies. One of the things he's been trying to find is a source for what he calls "work silk". Basically it's more along the thickness and weight of a nice linen(he says think nice restaurant's cloth napkins), rather than the tissue paper we Americans are used to calling silk.

Hexarmor makes two types of arm shields, an elastic fit sleeve with the wrist/thumbhole cuff and a slip on shield that seems to be touted in their literature to go over the elastic fit shield to be a wear layer. I can't say yay or nay in regards to hexarmor arm shields, but their NXT food service gloves are the best knife resistant food gloves I've ever tried.
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Great post, SumoClimber! Amazing that you have a friend that has even heard about the Mongol silk shirt stuff, much less that he's planning to try to recreate it, and willing to go to such lengths to do so. Very cool, and if it ever happens I'd love to read about how it goes right here in this thread.

That's one of the things I love about this forum. You can set things up to "Watch Thread", and whenever things get updated, you'll receive a notification about it. No more forgotten threads.

Thanks also for the "heads up" about the slip on shield that is available to go over the elastic fit one. Nice to know.

Tim
 
merle_nelson said:
Ahh, just occurred to me that the distinction that I'm focused on with regard to potatoe others may not be clear about. Potatoe can draw from deep and even through closed skin.

I use peroxide at first but it can only get what it comes into contact with.
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Good stuff to know, Merle. Thanks for posting this.

Tim
 
I was ascending up my rope going in to a honey locust that looked like hell raiser, i was paying attention to what i was doing cause the tree was covered in 3 inch thorns head to toe, the ugliest ive ever seen.. i took my attention to the groundie as he said something to me, took a stride up on the haas and bamm! Took one of those 3 inchers right in the top of the knee. It most certainly hit bone, i removed it w needle noes pliers.. baad day
 
I keep small bottles of rubbing alcohol with me to sterilize my saws between trees. If i get hit with a palm spike I spray it down and directly into the wound as soon as possible. It works. Three days of pain if you don't.

I like the potato thing. I have to look into that. Thanks.
 
Tree_Frog said:
is that a rat snake?
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Well, I didn't know until you asked, but after searching a little I think it's a Palmetto Corn Snake...

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