Ed S.
Well-known Member
- Location
- Middle Tennessee
The piece of metal is part of a stud that used to belong inside a tool I was using to drive out the sickle section rivets in my Hesston 6400 hay cutter. The cheap ("Land of Almost Right") metal just didn't stand up to the forces required, and when it let go, the roughly 1/8" x 1/4" piece of shrapnel went flying into my arm (the doc had her surgical tweezers buried about 3/4" in my arm at one point while fishing around for it).
Didn't really hurt that bad (once I got over the realization what had happened). I was wearing safety glasses, gloves, etc. and had the mower cutting head properly supported on jack stands - basically had taken all the correct safety precautions, but still got bit.
Got home and finished replacing the sickle sections (drilled out the rest of the rivets), and got the hay cut this afternoon.
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