Working on tractors for the last couple of days kind of getting ready for hay season to start. All was going pretty well until I hit the tip of my finger with a hammer. Oh I did a pretty good job. Not sure why they need to go between your legs when you do that but it needed to stay there for a good long time. That was about noon today and it still hurts! Smacked it hard enough that the ones on either side of it hurt too. geez I hate when I do that!
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gtractorfan
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Yeh, I call those knuckle busters.
midwesternhayfarmer
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Was discing a field with a 400 case Nf without power steering back when I was in high school. Caught the front wheels in a dead furrow and yanked the wheel out of my hands so fast that the Knob came around and hit my hand between the thumb and index finger. Split open the web that required several stiches to close.
37chief
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If it gets to throbbing you will have to get rid the pressure under the nail. I use a small drill. it works good. Some use a hot paper clip. I feel sorry for you. I have done it many times. it never gets easier. Stan
Robert Major
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Hi Delta
Yours and Midwesterns comments are 2 reasons right there to take those spinners off old tractor steering wheels. Then throw them as far in the lake as you can . We have never had them on any tractors/loaders on our farms just the combines. I had a customer near loose his thumb in his yard one day I was there fixing. the spinner was removed before I left the yard. He said it was the 3rd or 4th time that happened to him while using the loader!
My very first lesson in tractor driving was holding the steering wheel with thumbs outside the rim for the same reason, if it kicks you could break a thumb when the spoke came round hard.
When i learned tractor driving it was still mostly non power or power assist with a link from the axle to a steering box, maybe with newer full power steering the risk is not there as the oil can't kick the ram back like the old systems could.
Regards Robert
Yours and Midwesterns comments are 2 reasons right there to take those spinners off old tractor steering wheels. Then throw them as far in the lake as you can . We have never had them on any tractors/loaders on our farms just the combines. I had a customer near loose his thumb in his yard one day I was there fixing. the spinner was removed before I left the yard. He said it was the 3rd or 4th time that happened to him while using the loader!
My very first lesson in tractor driving was holding the steering wheel with thumbs outside the rim for the same reason, if it kicks you could break a thumb when the spoke came round hard.
When i learned tractor driving it was still mostly non power or power assist with a link from the axle to a steering box, maybe with newer full power steering the risk is not there as the oil can't kick the ram back like the old systems could.
Regards Robert
BANDITFARMER
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I did the same thing on an old MH 44 disking in plowed ground when I was 14, Hit that dead furrow took the wheel out of my left hand (holding that suicide knob) and spun so fast and with enough force to brake my left wrist. The worst part was I was in the far corner of the field farthest from the house with the front wheels turned all the way left pushing dirt and trying to back up a pull type disk and harrow to get out of the whole I was in. By the time I got to the house I was soaking wet and dad said I was ghost white pail and my wrist was the size of a grape fruit. Oh the good old days before power steering! Bandit
glennster
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oh chief i feel yer pain on that. i have always found that when smashing a hand, its best to firmly grip both hands between your knees and hop around the shop in a figure 8 pattern spouting things like "dirty rotten egg sucking dog" ,"and stupid hammer" . dont know why but it really seems to help. buddy of mine has a different but effective pattern . he buries his hands in his arm pits and hops in circles around the shop. somehow, i think the figure 8 is much more effective!!.
Billy Shafer
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My dad always said. Hit the other hand. Equals out the pain.
oooohh , that smarts ,,. btdt ,, try not to do that anymore ,,. when I was a senior in hi school ,, we framed 7 houses in one yr.... got to where I could pound a 16with 2-3 hits with my great long nek framing hammer,..while laying out walls and poppin studs in I would take a handful of some 30 nails and pound away,. I would line the stud up with my feet on the mark..the foreman luved seeing me go like that , said no one with a air hammer could keep up with me , the real trick was lining up with my feet . one late afternoon I slipped abit and caught one of those nails in the palm of my hand and nearly drove it thru ... Jesus Style... oh Jesus !... went to the ol doc a mile down down the road ,,. walkt in the door with the nail in my hand,,he lookt up and I held up my hand ,,. he said come back here ,, how in the world did you do that ,,he said with a half smile and disgust and amazed look ,he delivered me as a baby in 1956 , yankt it out and gave me a tetanus shot and a round of antibiotic pills to take over next few dayys and charged me 15 bux for everything ,, that was in 1974
Donald Lehman
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Smashed the end of my thumb on the edge of a tractor frame with a large ball peen years ago. Didn't know I could throw a hammer that far............................my wife said it cleared the barn roof by a solid two feet! My memory is a bit foggy but she claimed I said many, many, bad words! My kids did find the hammer out behind the barn 4-5 years later. Lol!
Worldpowerlabs
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Well, this is a timely thread... I've been framing a chicken coop in my "spare" time. A couple of weeks ago, I was underneath it -- at an awkward angle -- and trying to hold a nail with my left hand and get it started with the hammer in my right. Well, I missed the nail but I hit my thumb pretty solidly. One week later, I was hurrying to frame one of the walls before dark. Missed the nail and hit that same thumb again because I couldn't see what I was doing. No blood, but man did that hurt (still does, too).
Ben
Ben
I worked about a dozen years as a custom home building carpenter. Almost always had at least one black nail on my left hand. Always getting into situations where my hammer swing could easily be deflected off the target just enough to miss the nail and hit my left hand. Yet I recall situations where one man held the nail and another swung the hammer--now that's trust!
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