Who will stop and take pictures of a nail through the finger........someone like me who would also take one of a messed up finger that just about had the end taken off......
This was the worst OOPS I have had in nearly 25 years. I might not get hurt often, but I definitely save up so I do it right when I do.
The first pic was the Mon before Christmas, right after I got to the ER, but before the doc had done anything.
The second is after doc deadend it and cut away everything that had become detached and had died. It was bandaged up looking like this.
The third was about 2 weeks later. It's amazing how resilient the human body is. It's been a little over two months now, and I have something akin to a nail coming back. I just stopped wearing any kind of bandage/cover on it last week. The feeling still isn't right, but it's getting there as I work with it and get used to the 'new' feeling.
On the mechanical side of things, the pin came out of a customers machine. They wondered why the cylinder had so much slop in it.
The last one is the #1 piston out of a 3306 CAT engine with less than 100 hours on a fresh rebuild. It's the only engine I have ever warrantied....and it wasn't my fault. A cracked head meant a brand new, fully loaded head was purchased and used on this engine. For some reason the stem broke on #1 intake just below the head. If you look you can see the mark where the valve embedded into the top of the piston before shattering it.
The company we got the head from warranted it, even though it was technically out of the warranty period of 1 year (the machine wasn't used regularly at the time). I installed a new piston and liner. The old girl is once again up and running like a top.....and has been for several years now.....
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