Raise your hand if...

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

You were sharpening your lawnmower blade yesterday and slipped with the file, slicing the side of your thumb off (including part of the nail), had to go to urgent care where the doctor wanted to stitch your thumb flap back on by STITCHING THROUGH THE NAIL, to which you laughed and said hell no, so they glued your thumb flap back on instead...

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

positive take -- my lawnmower blade is going to cut the shit out of the grass

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

Too bad your soft helmet doesn't protect your hands.

 

[outofyourmind]

 

[RobBase]

 

[outofyourmind]

This is your friend

 

[batchaps4me]

This is your friend

That and/or a bench mounted belt sander.

 

[outofyourmind]

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Too bad your soft helmet doesn't protect your hands.

God, this was a good one and I hate you for that.

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

This is your friend

I like the metal file (well I used to lol). I like sharpening things by hand, I get some satisfaction out of the skill involved. Next time I'll probably wear gloves though....

 

[SlinkyRedfoot]

God, this was a good one and I hate you for that.

 

[rsw626]

 

[Deep Dish Pizza Goat]

 

[fordman84]

That and/or a bench mounted belt sander.

THIS is the way. Using an angle grinder or a file is a recipe for disaster. Take the blade off and use a mounted bench grinder. Better results and much safer.

Sorry OP, sounds painful.

 

[outofyourmind]

Take the blade off and use a mounted bench grinder

 

[dikowt dowg]

Nah man...gotta have the bench grinder.



Takes 2:00 minutes per blade.,tops. Another 30 minutes to pop off the deck, take off and re-install the blades

 

[batchaps4me]

And @MAIZEandBLUE09, sorry to hear you got hurt.

 

[batchaps4me]

Nah man...gotta have the bench grinder.

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Takes 2:00 minutes per blade.,tops. Another 30 minutes to pop off the deck, take off and re-install the blades

I will use one if I have to, but grinders are a great way to make serrated blades.

 

[dikowt dowg]

You were sharpening your lawnmower blade yesterday and slipped with the file, slicing the side of your thumb off (including part of the nail), had to go to urgent care where the doctor wanted to stitch your thumb flap back on by STITCHING THROUGH THE NAIL, to which you laughed and said hell no, so they glued your thumb flap back on instead...

Man...I hate that. So you have my sympathy. I'm always getting cut up by something. I try to avoid losing digits though.

I think cleaning out the weeds wrapped up in the tines in my garden tiller is the worst. Tiller blades sharben up like a razor after going through the dirt and removing the grass between all that sharpness is a hazard that requires kevlar. I always come out of it cut up.

Hope you heal quickly and with as little pain as possible. A thump no less. ugh. You need your thumbs. Ask a monkey.

 

[dikowt dowg]

And @MAIZEandBLUE09, sorry to hear you got hurt.

No you are not.