Amputation:

[BOD]

Another factor in choosing the best EDC?

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[Matt Weir]

That's one resilient dude there!

[demographic]

Another factor in choosing the best EDC?

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EDC?

Is that american for knife

[John Fenna]

Ouch! That must have stung in the morning!

[JohnC]

EDC?

Is that american for knife

Every Day Carry?
(I think)

[BOD]

EDC?

Is that american for knife

I do beg your pardon

Sometimes lapses happen.

Yes I do mean knife.

I think his was John Deere but I thought they made tractors!!!

Still he was amazingly good humoured considering. And the way he took responsibility for everything was commendable.

Making peace with the machinery, God and the site in a quiet moment is probably a good idea - like getting back on a horse after you fall off and badly winded.

[Dave Budd]

its incredible what people (and animals too of course) will do to survive!

I remember a newspaper article years ago about a guy (in america I think) who was out cutting trees down and hand one fall across his legs. After a while I took his knife out and cut both legs off before crawling some way to his vehicle and then driving home! ouch!

I'm just glad that I always keep my mobile phone in my pocket!

[EdS]

typical bloody stupid farmer - know to many loose limbs because they are either to lazy or stupid to turn the power/PTO of.

i'm not having a go at all farms by the way. The safety message is starting to sink in in the agri business - at least in the UK.

[John Fenna]

What?
I find Welsh farmers in general have NOT got the safety message!
Unless you call driving around with trailers with no tailboards (or at least broken tailboards), driving tractors around at night with the spotlights shining backwards at full power, chatting on mobiles whilst bouncing along narrow lanes at silly speeds (new tractors can be very fast!), stopping around blind corners for a chat with another farmer and thereby blocking the whole road, leaving roads slick with mud from driving in and out of churned up fields and not putting out warning signs - and more!
Yeah - some farmers are not so bad but in general they ARE around here!
I do have some farmers amongst my friends and these tend to be safer than most, but even a lady I respect a lot lost some fingers unblocking machinery that was not switched off!

[crazyclimber]

John you got me thinking there actually. It's exactly the same here. I live in a rural area, both pairs of grandparents are farmers, and I spent half my childhood on / around farms. I think you kind of get used to it in a way though. I remember when I was younger working on / around elevators a lot during the harvest season, see people running up and down them. I used to think it's incredibly dangerous, and it is... slip or catch a foot and you're screwed! I know plenty of people now who'll quite happily 'just pop down the road' in a tractor after dark with no lights... its no wonder accidents happen.
Why is it though? I guess it's because nobody's thought to change it - it's the way it's always been. First aid at work for example... working in an office I did a first aid at work course... you think my uncles or any of my grandparents have?
Maybe it's time some things did start to change.

Changing the topic slightly, there was another guy who had to do the same thing maybe a few months or a year ago. He was a climber who somehow got his arm trapped beneath a rock. Goes to show SAKs and the like do have their uses :S !

[John Fenna]

He was a total drongo, a risk taker who almost killed some of his pals by recklessly causing an avalanch one time and ended up going canyoning solo!
Cut off his own hand with a blunt Leatherman clone....
Left no word with anyone where he was going etc (from what I recall) and sounds like an accident waiting to happen - when it did!

[EdS]

uumm seams like there is a common theme here. Accidents will happen but stupidity will happen more often

[Landy_Dom]

I read the autobiography by that climber - it's one of those things where it was relatively easy and last minute planned so he didn't bother with his normal procedures. Just goes to show how sod's law works - it's not the obviously dangerous thing that will kill you - sometimes it's the thing you think is easy - then you let down your guard. I had a similar thing recently - I fit roofracks among other things and I'm often jumping up and down off them with no ladders etc. The one and only time I've hurt myself doing it is stepping off the door sill (about a foot off the ground) - twisted my ankle really painfully. Jim Jewell the climber died from the same kind of luck - it was an easy climb he died on - must have just got a bit complacent.

[Tengu]

Lets not talk about those prongs for haybales on the front of the lift, how its best to drive out of the gate with lift RAISED.

No one round here has got hurt but several cars have been perforated.