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I was climbing down a windmill tower yesterday and my ring got hung on a bolt. Had to cut it off. The ring not my finger. Thinking about getting a tattoo ring.
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Saw it happen while in the Air Force. Guy came off a platform lift but his ring caught on one of the quarter turn fasteners. Finger along with tendons and muscle pulled out. A friend of my son-in-law works on dirt track cars all the time. When he got married, his bride found a wedding ring on eBay that looks like the gold or silver metal ring, but is flexible. I don't know if it is a rubber material or what. If the wife feels like you have to wear a ring, it would be worth looking in to.
 
Looks like you got off easy.

Told my wife when we got married that I wasn't gonna wear my ring for day to day work for just this reason. She happily agreed with that.

Hope it mends well. And yes a tatooed ring isn't off the table in my mind at least, and I have absolutely NO ink on my body.

jt
 
Learned that lesson the first week while working on a truck four groupe 31 batterys one wrench new rig truck frame , No not good at all . since then i have not worn a ring in 41 years unless we are going out someplace special . The rest of the time my jewelry box is married i am not .
 
I know a guy who entirely skinned his finger that way. The just went ahead and cut the bones off.
Another guy got his caught on a cement mixer while it was turning. It bent the heck out of the ring and they had to cut it off with the side cutters,but he kept the finger.
 
I've never worn any kind of jewelry... Just can't stand to have anything like that in my way, hung up on something, potential danger, trapping solvent under it. That goes for rings, bracelets, watches, necklaces, and neck ties!

I can only wear long sleeves long enough to get in out of the cold! (Saw the results of a Bridgeport grabbing a sleeve, man lost use of his right arm!)

Told my wife right up front, I'll buy you a ring, but not buying or wearing one myself! After explaining why, she agreed.
 
An old friend of mine (long gone) jumped out of a grain truck many years ago- back when they had a wooden body that was bolted together. He swung out of the cab, swinging around on the corner of the body, and caught his ring on the end of a carriage bolt on the corner of the box. It took his finger off right at the knuckle. That's the reason I don't wear a ring.....
 
Have not worn one in over 35 years. Been Married for 42 years. Wife understands. It is just too dangerous around machinery.
It is in a can in my dresser drawer.
Richard in NW SC
 
My Grandfather lost a finger that way!

I don't wear jewelry.....except for my SuperBowl rings, Mr. T gold necklaces and genie earrings........NOT!
 
(quoted from post at 09:33:15 05/03/16) I was climbing down a windmill tower yesterday and my ring got hung on a bolt. Had to cut it off. The ring not my finger. Thinking about getting a tattoo ring.
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I wear an o-ring (yep, a black one) instead of a traditional gold or silver one ever since I got a gold one between a wrench and a truck frame while loosening the positive starter cable nut on my K20.......fried a 'ring' on my finger :roll:
 
I was warned about those type of dangers from my ag mech. instructor. I listened to his warnings !
I'm not so sure about a tattoo ring ? Then what do you do if you get a divorce ?
 
That's gonna hurt for awhile. Mj I did the same thing once tightening a battery cable on a Massey 82 combine. It feels like a branding iron wrapped around your finger complete with the smell of burning flesh. Then there is the baloney blister around your finger for a few days.
 
I took mine off 38 years ago, I'm not even sure where it is. I've been married 39 years. We both know we are married which is good enough for us.
 
Looks like it smarted some! I have been married almost 10 years and have never had one of those things on, never thought of the finger getting hurt, just was to cheap to buy a ring and my way of thinking is jewelry is for women,
 
I wore mine for several years until I was drilling a hole in some sheet metal on a stock car with a drill with a metal case and touched the grip of the drill onto the positive battery post of the car.

My finger looked just about like yours, only it was a burn. I left the ring on until my finger was healed enough to get the ring off. For years I didn't wear any rings. Now I wear my wedding ring and Marine Corps ring only for special occasions, like church, County Board meetings, etc.

My wife understands.
 
Having worked around machinery I knew not to wear a ring doing so. I was working for telephone company back in the days that we used a brace and bit to drill holes. Boring a hole next to a base board for phone wire. Going at it like I always did, he'll for leather. A nail head was stivking out just enough to catch my wedding ring. The ring cut the back of my finger to the bone. Haven't worn it since. That was 40 years ago.
my uncle was putting a battery in his truck. Was tightening the pos post after doing the neg first,mistake. Wrench in hand contacting wedding ring and ring contacts body metal. Almost lost his finger.
Elmo
 
I have worn my ring for over 60 years now. Wore one completely out and bought a new one. It has been bent out of shape many times but always managed to get it straightened out pretty good again. Oh, I have caught it many times, told I could not wear it a few times. I had to cut my wife's ring off her finger though from her rhumathoid arthritis. Her dad lost a finger and ring from a sling of hay or something along those lines.
 
Look up the Jimmy Fallon late night host deal, he stumbled and fell and came very close to pulling his entire finger off because of his ring, lot of surgery and time and its still not healed up to where it works right, they think in time it will. I guess its a pretty gruesome deal of you google what happens to the finger and socket......

Wife works with some printing equipment, I farm, we both wore our rings for a few months when not at work, but think they have been safely in their boxes on the dresser for over a decade now.... Glad to have the ring, not much for wearing it I guess. Bad things can happen.

Paul
 
Ouch!
My dad hated rings.
Saw a couple of guys lose a finger because of them.
He told my brother and I if we wanted HS rings we had to buy them ourselves. But If we didn't buy one he would buy us a new deer hunting rifle.
Both of us opted for the rifle. 45 and 49 years later we both still have our 30-30 Marlins.
I wonder how many guys still have their HS rings.
 
My wife and I both agreed years ago not to wear our rings after she lost hers and they had to cut mine off. 46 years of Hugs, kissed and holding hands show we are still married.
 
Wife was a little put back when we selected rings and I got the comfort band because it came off easily, but when we got married I was in the Air Force and there was times when you flat weren't allowed to wear a ring, such as when you were on aircraft, working with bombs and munitions, working around electrical stuff and during some render safe procedures. Basically wore it for about 15 years after I got out to the Air Force but my fingers got so fat it doesn't come on or off easily so now it stays in the drawer.
 
I never wore a ring. Many years ago a IH dealer up in NY State lost a finger by working around machinery with his ring on. I said never for me. Then a few years later I was at the 301 truck Stop in Tampa Fl. and a young lady driver came in there with a cab over KW and she swung around to kinda slide and hop down, Her ring caught on a loose screw and as she dropped to the ground she pulled her finger all the way off. What a heck of a thing to see. .. Jack
 
Looks like you are being beat up pretty bad for wearing a symbol of your loyalty to your marriage. Here's hoping it heals quick.
 
I did that about 15 years ago. My wife seen it and made me take the ring off and put it in a drawer. Got a new one for our 35th anniversary this year. I only wear it when we go somewhere together.
 
In the the Air Force, we were shown a slide of someones finger and the tendon that went up the arm. Later someone asked a man how he lost this finger and he said that he had hooked the ring on a piece of engine cowling. He did admit that it was his finger we had seen.
 
my ring stays in the cabinet...because ,, btdt,,just be glad you were not jumping off a silage wagon and caught the ring on a nail head...
 
Hi, it must be a common thing to happen. Ayear or 2 after I got married I was tearing the old poly off a green house.The poly was strapped on with laths and roofing nails. Some lathes split leaving the heads of some nails sticking up. I was called to the phone, and when I swung down off the rafter my ring caught and dislocated my finger and buried it in the meat. I cut it out with side cutters. Very painful for a long time. Never forget that. Ed Will Oliver BC
 
My wifey got online and ordered a rubber wedding band that I wear. It was around $20. I've caught it on stuff and ripped 1 but never bothered my finger. I work on high voltage PowerLines and every safety person is ok with the ring.
 
Glad you kept your finger, I hit mine on a 6 volt starter solenoid about 30 years ago, amazing how fast that gold turns red hot, had to go to ER to get ring separated from finger, still have a scar around it, wife beat me to saying don't wear it any more.
 
we are in the process of planning our wedding and my fianc? wanted me to look at rings. I said there is no chance in H3LL I will wear one. This is exactly why. She said I need one for the wedding day so I told her to get me one out of a gumball machine then, no point wasting money on a good one.
 
One year my wife and I were going out for anniversary she said it would be nice if I wore my ring. I said no I might forget and rip my finger off. Two weeks later she fell of grain truck caught it on grain side and ripped her finger off . 28 thousand dollars later she has full use of finger and nice scar. Never asks me to wear it again
 
Ouch! Hope it heals up well for you.

After a close call like that when we'd been married about two years... my husband's ring has resided in my jewelry box ever since. (He didn't cut his though - just snagged his ring and decided wearing it was a bad idea).
 
I was married 32 years and never wore a ring. They don't mix well with high voltage.Wife said me having a hand was worth more than any ring.
 
I'd get the rubber ones. Just google safe ring or safety rings. I'm getting married in less than a month and my safe rings showed up Monday. Pretty nice for just being rubber
 
I wore mine for several months and after two guys I knew lost their ring finger after getting ring hooked on something when jumping off truck. This was back when they couldn't reconnect the finger. I have never wore a ring since I took it off.
 
Hi, it must be a common thing to happen. Ayear or 2 after I got married I was tearing the old poly off a green house.The poly was strapped on with laths and roofing nails. Some lathes split leaving the heads of some nails sticking up. I was called to the phone, and when I swung down off the rafter my ring caught and dislocated my finger and buried it in the meat. I cut it out with side cutters. Very painful for a long time. Never forget that. Ed Will Oliver BC
 
Hey, just a thought... make sure your tetanus immunizations are up to date.

Husband cut his hand lifting a belly mower, the blade swung and cut his palm real good. First thing they did was give him a tetanus shot.
 
Even though it probably hurt like heck. Glad it wasn't worse. In the Navy around air craft they highly recommended no rings. Stan
 

About 35 yrs ago, a guy about 30 miles from me was working on a tractor starter wiring, the tractor was in gear and his ring shorted across the solenoid.

May he rest in peace. Enough said.
 
Been married for 36 years and I haven't wore my ring in 25 years. Took if off for good the day I was working on a Broadcast Transmitter. I shorted out the high voltage and lucky for me it blew a fuse as i was thrown across the room. Could have been worse. The only jewlery I wear is a belt buckle.

Glad to see you still have you finger
 
I feel naked without mine. Even so the minute I go to work mine comes off and either goes in my pocket, or on a toggle switch in my service truck.

I've known, and heard of far too many incidences like this to even think about wearing mine.

Thankfully my FIL was a mechanic also, so my wife understands. Even if she didn't, she trusts me enough not to worry about it.
 
Ouch. I remember one of our instructors at Vo-Tech said he was taking a battery cable off one time. The wrench was touching his ring and happen to touch the frame of the tractor. He said it got warm quite quickly.
 
I got Married in '67, and had my ring cut off in '68, after a similar experience. The scar is the only ring I have worn since.
 
Buddy of mine got his hung up dunking basketballs. He said it hurt.... if you can believe that...
 
(quoted from post at 11:44:02 05/03/16) That's gonna hurt for awhile. Mj I did the same thing once tightening a battery cable on a Massey 82 combine. It feels like a branding iron wrapped around your finger complete with the smell of burning flesh. Then there is the baloney blister around your finger for a few days.
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Exactly! LOL - GOOD DESCRIPTION! :lol:
 
I took my ring off the first summer we were married. Hooked it and decided it was just too dangerous. I'd just as soon keep my finger.Susan wholeheartedly agrees.As was said,I dont need a ring to tell me I'm married,and we hug,kiss,hold hands so everyone else knows it too.
 
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