Hung up on marriage......Ouch!

trailjeepman

trailjeepman

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Yesterday I was putting the ladder back on top of my service van after I finished a job. When I went to step down off the rear bumper, my wedding band got hung on the foot of the ladder. Of course I didnt realize it and just stepped off the bumper with all my weight. Luckily, I am just tall enough for my toes to reach the ground. I was pretty much hanging by my ring and one finger. I had to climb back up on the bumper to get loose.

I usually have a pretty high tollerance for pain but that freakin hurt! The ring is Tungsten Carbide and didnt get a scratch or bend on it at all, but it sure did try to rip my finger off. Now my finger is swollen up and there is a nice cut all the way around before my first nuckle. Thought I broke it or dislocated it at first but it seems ok now. Just really sore! This accident definitly could have turned out worse.

PS: Not whining....Just thought this was a strange accident.
 
When I was in the 8th grade I saw a chick leaving the gym jump up and slap the top of the doorway. Ring caught and ripped the skin, muscle and all right off the bone, I almost puked.
 
I have been in maintenance for years. I found out early on in my marriage that no wedding band except on Sat. and Sun.
 
While I was hanging there, thats the thought that flew through my head. I just new it was gonna be ugly! I would post pics but I dont think its worthy.
 
A guy at work was disconnecting a battery from a fire truck and somehow grounded out his ring and it got hot enough to melt it and almost burnt his finger off. Needless to say he doesn't ware a ring at work anymore.:D
 
[i learn long time ago not to wear a ring so i had the bright idea to do this
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btw im divorce now
 
I had a similar incident. I went to toss a pallet on the top of the pallet stack at work, and my ring caught the head of a nail. The stack was about a pallet higher than I can reach, so as the pallet fell, it tried to break my finger and rip it off. Took a couple days to get over that.
 
Yeap, hung mine on the rain gutter of an '86 F350... peeled the palm side up to the first knuckle & severly pulled the tendon all the way to my elbow. After 4 hours in the ER getting stitched... the ring went on my keyring for the next 7-8 years. Took about that longer for the scar to de-sensitize enough to wear it at all!

Unfortunately, I didn't learn to pull it off when working at home and a few years ago had tiny weld bead get stuck under it! Got so hot, so quick it blistered all the way around.

Still haven't learned, but wear gloves most of the time now...
 
awheelterd said:
dude, cut your fingernails.
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John likes to pick his nose.



I hung my wedding ring on a motor grader cab door, cheap gold band. Bent the shit out of the ring & cut front & back of my finger. Had to cut the ring off with side cutters.

now divorce
 
I've heard of so many wedding ring accidents, it's not even funny. My dad about lost a finger in the bomb dump in '70, my uncle shorted his on a car battery and nearly burned his finger off. Those are two I'm personally related to. I should know better than to wear mine, but I'm a dumbass.
 
Thats a real common incident. I work in industrial construction and there is alwasy a report of someone doing this. I personally have had it happen to me on numerous occasions, but I've been lucky and am yet to be injured by it. However, I do still have some weld spatter on the ring and its gotten quite hot while welding, just not enough to cause injury. However, I was TIG welding one hot summer day and the ring arched to the workpiece and shocked the crap out of me. From that day on I wear gloves when welding, especially TIG welding.
 
When I was in high school, I saw a guy walking through a door way and catch his class ring on the striker plate for the door. It cut him to the bone.
 
My boss when I was a college intern back in Va was missing his ring finger.
First time I asked about it, his first reply "Gives me a better excuse to not have to wear a wedding band."
Later after a pint or ten, the real story came out. Back in the mid 70s when he was in the marines, and newly married, he always wore his ring. CO always told him to take the thing off when working around electrical bits, as he put it, "I was 20 and obviously knew more than everyone else"
Well, reached into an old school phone switch for the base one day, ring shorted everything, blammo. Not only did he have to get his finger amputated, (it was mostly off anyway) but he THEN had to go explain to the base CO why he just cost them a $100,000 switch.

So when wife and I got married, I got a ring. And told her if she reminded me, I'd wear it when we went out somewhere nice.
Now I don't even move from my desk, but I'm STILL paranoid about wearing it.
 
yea i've been married 33 years and haven't worn my ring in 30.
some old story. shorted the ring to a battery- burned the ring finger pretty bad.
wife said she liked my fingers more than the ring.
 
My brother was stretching next to a Chain link fence that went around the school track. He had his hands up in the air and swung them down to catch his Class ring on the fence. It ripped that chunk of meat and filleted his finger right open.

My Other brother was a basketball player and one of his team mates went up to slam the ball during the game. his class ring got hung on one of the net loops and he was lucky to not have ripped his finger clean off. but he did have to hang there until they came out with a ladder to help him unhook himself. I don't recall what damage it did to his hand, but i'm sure it wasn't pretty.
 
My dad used to work construction, and one day something shifted the ladder and he fell, and grabbed for something to hold on to, catching his ring on a nail. He had to hang there until they got the ladder back
 
And this friends and neighbors is why you don't get a titanium ring. I managed to get my fingers wound around a power sewer snake backwards. (Don't use anything but leather gloves when using one of these things). My fingers swelled up so bad it took me a year and a half to get my ring off. The fingers quit hurting after about 8 months or so.
 
Mine is titanium too...maybe it will start getting left on the dresser.
 
Had a cousin get his ring finger amputated from his wedding band. Jumped from the back of a grain truck and his band hung on the top rail of the truck. Not pretty.
 
well you guys settled it, im never getting married. thats just too big of a risk to take......
 
At many industrial manufacturers, and quite a few not so industrial places, wearing rings of any sort is prohibited, specifically for this reason.

May of my customers have signage at all enterances to the production areas as well.

Caterpiller at one time made you watch a video about this, and then sign off. still saw a lot of folks wearing them.

I learned about 7years ago ( a year AFTER I got married ) caught my ring on the switch cover plate of a vehicle hoist. hurt like hell, and removed my ring right then and there.

i've since figured out that chains and I don't play well together either....... lost one that time!
 
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