handsaw injury

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Cut my middle finger with my handsaw today. cut into my fingernail too...OUCH! It's been a long time since I've cut myself with my saw.

I should have taken the time to position myself in a better position before making the cut. It was only a 1/2 inch branch, but sometimes those little ones are the ones to watch out for. Just wanted to post this to say: Watch those digits!
 
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when i was at tree school they called hand saws bone saws.took an incedent to work out why the name.
SHARP mo fo
 
Carl Hiassen is one of my favorite entertainment writers, http://www.carlhiaasen.com/

I just started to read 'Nature Girl.' In the beginning there's a character who does treework. Carl must know treework or done some right research. It is evident from his writing that he knows what he's talking about.

here's a passage:

"Initially she'd been drawn to his rugged good looks, particularly his knuckles, which were intriguingly striped by scars. Eugenie had occasionally been a sucker for marred, rough men, but on that first and only night with Van Bonneville she would discover that his wounds were the results of frequent tree-trimming miscues, and that he was as clumsy at foreplay as he was with a pruning saw."

Van Bonneville murdered his wife and tried to make it seem like she got washed away in a hurricane. But...

"In the ende, her husband's fate was sealed by the Duval County medical examiner , who retrieved from a blunt indentation on Mrs. Bonneville's scalp several sticky ligneous flakes that were later identified as bark particles from a sawed-off mahogany branch. The branch segment measured three feet long and seven inches in circumference on the day it was confiscated from the bed of Van Bonnville's obsidian-flecked Ford F-150 pickup.'
 
I have a little Silky Pro-Sentai taped to my Zubat scabbard specifically for little stuff like that. I bought after mangling a knuckle cutting a little 1/2" sucker with a Sugoi.

The blade is a thinner gage so it actually burns through big cuts really well... saved my [bad word] a few times when the Zubat slipped out of the scabbard and hit the ground.
 
I've been bitten twice by a handsaw. First time was a gooden but kept on working til I noticed I was dripping blood on my ground crews helmets, it was raining that day too so I was a big mess. The other time was two weeks ago. My hand slipped forward on the handle and my pointer finger got jammed into the saw. Now I have a taped off barrier between my blade to handle so if my sweaty hands slip forward again I catch the tape and not the blade
 
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when i was at tree school they called hand saws bone saws.took an incedent to work out why the name.
SHARP mo fo

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The worst accident I've witnessed in tree work came from a handsaw wound.

A kid I used to work with cut into his big knuckle with a brand new blade and after about 4 cups of coffee. He was trying to cut up a limb that was on the ground, the blade skipped and...slash. Cut through the tendon and into the bone. $10,000 and few months later he was back in the trees.
 
It's doing fine. Not as bad as it felt, man there must be alot of nerve endings under the fingernail cuz it felt like I cut the tip of my finger off. Turns out it wasn't too bad, but still kinda gnarly....

and I don't seem to have a problem flippin off jesse. When he asks me "hows the finger" with a chuckle, I just reply "you mean this one!"
 
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