Scars

[niftysteve]

cut my face 2 years ago cutting mobile home chassis with electric grinder metal twisted nipped blade and got me , cut left nostril in 2 and to the bone alomost damaged tear gland. luckily my eye was ok just scratched cornier and little cut to eyebrow

[Jamie]

rather than post a picture i thought i'd post my photobucket page. it has a range of pictures including where i did it, what i did and some pics of it healing. thre are som epics of the movement that i wa able to attain ater 6 weeks.

 

now all i have is a scar. when the weather changes it tends to ache and if you hold the back of my hand and i wiggle ,my fingers you can feel teh stitches move. tendons take permenat stitches

 

 

http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c199/treejamie/saw%20cut/

 

Jamie

[kimtree]

rather than post a picture i thought i'd post my photobucket page. it has a range of pictures including where i did it, what i did and some pics of it healing. thre are som epics of the movement that i wa able to attain ater 6 weeks.

 

now all i have is a scar. when the weather changes it tends to ache and if you hold the back of my hand and i wiggle ,my fingers you can feel teh stitches move. tendons take permenat stitches

 

 

http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c199/treejamie/saw%20cut/

 

Jamie

is there a story for that?

[Jamie]

yes.

 

I'd been up the tree for 4 hours and it was lunchtime and i had a half tank of juice to use before i came down. i came to a big peg on my right hand side. I decided to cut and catch it. held it with my right hand and used the saw left handed. I'm assuming my hand coggled round a bit as the saw stuck so i backed it off a bit and blipped the throttle. i'm assuming a cutter caught the edge of the cut and pulled the bar out of the cut and along the branch and over my hand.

 

There was no pain but i did see white bits. my first reaction was to slate myself using the terms

'Jamie, your f*****g muppet, you f*****g r****d'.

 

I then had to descend the tree in two pitches and head to hospital. I had to wait for 2 days to get it stitched up then 10 weeks before i could return to work. It was meant to be 12 weeks but i was progressing quite well and well i was back at work taking things easy, feeding the chipper left handed etc.

 

I can say from experience that cutting and catching is stupid, I have self rescued myself with one hand, Using a saw one handed in your non dominant hand isn't safe, you're a long way up when you havea hole in your hand, there was no pain (due to adrenaline, or i'm just real hard) and that pain is temporary, glorys is forever and chicks dig scars.

 

Jamie

[Steve Bullman]

(due to adrenaline, or i'm just real hard)

 

definetly adrenalin jamie:wave:

[Jamie]

yeah, you're probably right steve.

 

i'm away to press flowers tonight

 

Jamie

[Mr Ed]

Nah I ve met Jamie, He's just a proper hard b*****d.

[Husqvarna King]

I feel sick now:scared: Have no saw scars (as yet touch wood!!) but had to have a blackthorn cut from my calf a year or so again...that was deep, job to see the scar now though

[Paul Smith]

Lascerated the artery, but missed everything else. Only put 3 unit of saline and 6 units of blood through me

 

 

Thats the reason I carry a small set of hemostats to clamp the Artery. Hope I never need them!

[Jason James Gairn]

Thats the reason I carry a small set of hemostats to clamp the Artery. Hope I never need them!

 

What's a hemostat?