3rd crop is done, 3 stitches to prove it!!

Don-Wi

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On Saturday I was hooking 2 empty wagons tandem to bring back (1 was ours, 1 was a neighbor's) and I sliced my middle finger open on my right hand. The wagon was parked in oat stubble, and the best I can tell is either some grass or the stubble wqas between my fingers and the toungue as I lifted it up and it took the path of least resistance, which just so happened to be into my finger. It was too clean to be a sharp edge on the toungue, and it wouldn't have sliced like it did.

I finished hooking the wagons together and drove home with my shirt wrapped around it and then made my way in to get stitched up. Didn't hurt near as much as when I sliced my thumb and got 4 stitches, but still sucked.

Right in the finger tip above the last knuckle. Sliced into my ring finger a little bit too, but that one was just a small cut.

Oh well. Gotta start getting ready for corn now, should be going after that in a few weeks but we need new knives for the old Fox.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
yeah i got 9 stiches in the loose skin between my thumb and index. puttin' a new sickle in the swather and it got in the way somhow. took a long time for that bugger to heal up!
hope yers don't take 3 weeks!
DF in WI
 
You have it right, it's better than a knife under the right circumstances, also been cut by paper. I wear gloves most of the time,keeps the hands from becoming like a piece of dried up cow hide besides there are too many red back spiders here and I don't put my bare hands under equipment which has sat for months.Safety on the farm.
 
Yep, been cut by grass before, just not that good. Just try explaining to the doctor how grass gave you a cut that requires stitches...

Kinda got a funny look...

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
That is a scary arse situation. Nothing like having a kid push the knife in for you, only to whip it out as he JAMS it in. Close one, i'll tell you that.
 
Friend of mine walked through a field of corn I was chopping a couple years ago on his way to a bow stand. Picked up a couple ears from the outside rows that got knocked down - was going to shell them along the trail to the stand. Never got to bow hunt that day - the husk gave him a slice that took something like 6 or 7 stiches. (salesman/city boy - soft hands!)
 

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