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    Thats going to leave a nice scar

    Glad to hear it missed the nerves and tendons, a huge win, considering what could have been.

    Angle grinders aren't very forgiving, id rather use a chainsaw over a angle grinder, thats how much i think of them.

    Hope it all heals well up and your back on the tools soon, just throw that side handle next time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bryn23 View Post
    Thats going to leave a nice scar

    Glad to hear it missed the nerves and tendons, a huge win, considering what could have been.

    Angle grinders aren't very forgiving, id rather use a chainsaw over a angle grinder, thats how much i think of them.

    Hope it all heals well up and your back on the tools soon, just throw that side handle next time.
    Thanks very much Bryn. I'm itching to get back into it.

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    I hope you are healing ok, your incident has been added to my memory bank. I was using the angle grinder just this arvo with a cut off wheel to trim some colourbond. Only had to trim about 3-4mm off the width of the sheet to square it up, had about 3mm to go and there was a small catch. I was safe, the strip got caught up in the grinder and I shut it down to remove the metal. As I did this I noticed a nick in the wheel, I immediately unplugged it and changed the wheel (throwing the old one out)

    Who would have kept using the damaged one or not checked the wheel?

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    Id have reversed/flipped it and kept going or put it into the "destructo" pile for terrible jobs.

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    Where is the "No pictures please" button!!!!

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    Never good to hear of these events or to see the photos, but a timely reminder to actually read and heed the instructions and warnings in the manuals. Sincerely hope you mend well.

    A couple of years back a gentleman in the USA tangled with an angle grinder and cutter. He was also very lucky, lucky to be alive actually, sporting something like 110 stitches to his neck and the side of his lower jaw etc.

    Like all tools the "power carver's" have their benefits but come with some nasty potential hazards if not used correctly.
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    I have seen a blokes leg with stitches all the way up his lower leg - he was holding a burl with his feet and the grinder teeth dug in and made a mess of one leg.

    Another incident that I heard about from the person investigating the accident that caused the death of the operator occurred when he put a wood cutting blade on a 9 inch angle grinder and used it in the roof space of a house. The blade grabbed and resulted in him basically being chopped into many parts.

    Good luck with your recovery.

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    Thanks for all the wishes everyone. I got the bandage and splint off yesterday morning - here's the results.

    36 hours later I have nearly 100% functionality and range of movement. I have some slight discomfort when I move my wrist in a couple of directions. I still cannot grasp how ridiculously fortunate I have been. I don't understand why I was so lucky when other, more experienced or more talented people have lost their entire livelihood or the ability to do the thing in life which gives them pleasure.

    Thanks to the work of the plastic surgeon it won't leave much of a scar - I was actually hoping it would so I would have a more visible reminder to carry. I don't ever want to forget how fortunate I've been.

    Thanks again to everyone for your kind wishes.

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    Your surgeon has done a wonderful job there. Your first post pic looked like quite a bit of meat had been removed and was an excellent reminder on how dangerous an angle grinder can be, especially with an Arbortec type wheel.

    Glad that you have recovered so well, it could have been so much worse.

    Alan...

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    If you want a permanent reminder get a tattoo.
    Every day you should thank your lucky stars that you can count to ten on your fingers, make a fist with both hands, can see what you eat and be able to feed yourself. You are one lucky chap.

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    As several people have pointed out, don't put saw blades on angle grinders. When visiting a friend in hospital the neighbouring bed had a bloke in it hooked up to one of the demand morphine machines & he was out of it. Seems he had put a saw blade in an angle grinder at work then dropped it while it was running & the switch was locked on - he had laid open his leg from underpants to toes.

    So Putty, you were lucky-ish.

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    Hmmm...what can i do to myself to beat that. What a horrible mess. You are a lucky bloke. Buy a lottery ticket.😳🍺
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shedhand View Post
    Hmmm...what can i do to myself to beat that. What a horrible mess. You are a lucky bloke. Buy a lottery ticket.😳🍺
    Bought one the day I got the cast off ). Cheers mate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsrlee View Post
    As several people have pointed out, don't put saw blades on angle grinders. When visiting a friend in hospital the neighbouring bed had a bloke in it hooked up to one of the demand morphine machines & he was out of it. Seems he had put a saw blade in an angle grinder at work then dropped it while it was running & the switch was locked on - he had laid open his leg from underpants to toes.

    So Putty, you were lucky-ish.
    We had a sale of tools at the TTTG meeting the other night and a young bloke bought a scribing blade for a panel saw. He told us he was planning on putting it on his angle grinder?!
    I see if I can forward this entire post to him, a mate and myself told him not to but I don't think he took us seriously.
    Good luck with the recovery Putty, years back my neighbour phoned the Ambos for me when I trimmed a few fingers on the jointer. Quite lost confidence for a while but after talking with a few mates realised I hadn't had the luck to just have a near miss like they'd all had at one time or another.
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    Quote Originally Posted by clear out View Post
    We had a sale of tools at the TTTG meeting the other night and a young bloke bought a scribing blade for a panel saw. He told us he was planning on putting it on his angle grinder?!
    I see if I can forward this entire post to him, a mate and myself told him not to but I don't think he took us seriously.
    Good luck with the recovery Putty, years back my neighbour phoned the Ambos for me when I trimmed a few fingers on the jointer. Quite lost confidence for a while but after talking with a few mates realised I hadn't had the luck to just have a near miss like they'd all had at one time or another.
    H.
    Cheers mate - yeah definitely try and get this to him, at least the picture.

    Thanks for your wishes, I'm actually back at the gym for the first time since it happened. 3 and a bit weeks on and for the most part you wouldn't even know anything had happened. Just blind luck in absolutely every regard, and I don't expect to get off so lightly if I ever cut a corner in the workshop again.

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