Sobering reminder. Thank you. Glad it wasn't any worse for you.

 

No blade brake on the OPS controls on the old prolines.

 

Yeah, I think was so that a momentary slip in holding the bail wouldn’t stop the blades.

 

Not to take pleasure in your misfortune but ……….pix?

 

Oh, I’ve definitely got them. 😆 I just wasn’t sure if people wanted to see them.

 

🤮

 

You are very fortunate.

I'll spare all the details, but I cut two fingers pretty badly when I was 16 I think.

I wish you a quick recovery.

 

I didn’t need to see the pictures. Good grief.

Sorry that happened. Never a bad thing to get reminded to be careful. Complacency and thoughtlessness happens when you run equipment day in and day out. I almost did the same thing recently to be honest.

 

So easy to do when one gets tired or complacent.

 

That is pretty gnarley

I lost a quarter inch off the end of a finger in an electric bicycle sprocket gettin' impatient putting the chain back on. You will most likely hav a buncha scar tissue and will never recover full feeling in yer one finger there

I kept on mowin' while it healed. It hurt like hell when I'd bump it against somethin' but it all worked out. Just dont let it get dirty and u should be OK

 

Thanks for posting this important reminder to be safe.

I'm ordering a pack of these decals for my mowers! Want one?




Hope you heal up fast with no serious, permanent issues!

 

Thanks for posting this important reminder to be safe.

I'm ordering a pack of these decals for my mowers! Want one?




Hope you heal up fast with no serious, permanent issues!

I’ve always thought those decals sort of ridiculous. Who would stick their hand under a running deck? Now I have a little more understanding for them.

When I was a kid, my brother was mowing our back hill. House was at bottom of the hill, and then flat area on top. He was at the top, and letting the push mower go down over the edge and pulling it back up. I think his foot slipped. The end of the blade hit the end of his big toe. Sliced his shoe, but didn't manage to cut his toe anywhere. Said it felt like a sledge hammer smashed his toe.

As someone mentioned, thanks for the sobering reminder.

Your welcome, and thanks for that story. I could definitely see myself in that situation too.

 

 

http://images2.fanpop.com/image/pho...-Steve-Barker-Jeffy-Dahmer-in-The-Ringer-johnny-knoxville-12114506-1024-576.jpg

front the movie the ringer 2005. Cut them off trying to figure out why the blade wouldn’t turn.

 

When I was a kid, my brother was mowing our back hill. House was at bottom of the hill, and then flat area on top. He was at the top, and letting the push mower go down over the edge and pulling it back up. I think his foot slipped. The end of the blade hit the end of his big toe. Sliced his shoe, but didn't manage to cut his toe anywhere. Said it felt like a sledge hammer smashed his toe.

As someone mentioned, thanks for the sobering reminder.

 

I would wait longer for the blades to stop! And turn the mower off!!! Always did this I like all my fingers and toes, you need to make hard rules with this, very hard, especially when you have employees.....

 

Amateur effort compared to our @sjessen with power pruners.

Glad it wasn't worse!

 

Thanks for sharing
This is another good reason to leave safeties working 👍
Not that your safeties were disabled

 

For sure. As far as I know, my safeties were enabled, I just was moving too fast.

 

Just to bd sure it known, after these mowers were made OSHA or the CPSC mandated a mower blade needs to stop in a second or 2 after triggering the OPS. A well worn 44 proline from the 90's will keep the blades spinning for more than 5 seconds when hot.

 

There must be some kind of exception for commercial units. My JD z994 takes about three seconds to slow down.

 

These were commercial mowers at the time. All I can say it probably wasn't any one at Toro who said we need to add an actuall brake to the clutch to keep people from getting hurt.

 

Don't move your butt off the seat until the blades have stopped, and why reach under the deck anyways? Grab it by the scalp wheels or anywhere else.....

 

No seat, but I totally agree. I’m also thinking about welding some handles on top of the deck.

 

How you healing up mr44? Gong to be able to wrok tomorrow? Any pain?

 

Thanks for asking. Pain isn’t bad at all. However, if I get me heart really pumping, my fingertips start to throb. I’ll see a hand specialist tomorrow who will give me the low-down on how my hand will heal and how much I need to take it easy. I only had a mulch jobs scheduled for today, which I’ve pushed out a week or too.

 

This is also a good reminder about having a good first aid kit on board. I keep some quick clot bandages, a tourniquet, Israeli trauma bandages, along with various band aids and eye wash.

 

I need to add tourniquet(s.) I doubt I'll see an amputation, but catch a hidden piece of metal that flies up from the trimmer - that could be ugly...

What is an "Israeli trauma bandage?"

 

Chainsaw accidents could require a tourniquet.

 

100%. I've had this exact thought regarding chainsaws. It didn't enter my brain earlier as I was thinking "mowing." But you are 100% correct!

 

If ya have some string trimmer string and you are bleeding out, tie er on there

 

Well, I had my appointment with the hand doctor today, and it was good news. I can keep mowing, and my fingers should get most of their feeling back eventually.

All I need to avoid is using the fingers to push, pull, or lift anything. Thankfully my mower doesn't have pistol grips, so I should be good to go.

 

Great news!!

 

Quick note: FSA's have "use or lose by" dates, HSAs don't.