Acident wounds!

[HOSSBOSS]

How many of you farriers out there acidently cut themselfs on a semi daily basis? I alway's seem to gouge myself somehow ESPECIALLY with SHARP tools!!!!
I knick my hands up with new rasps & today i had a new sharp hoof knife OUCH!! I've even been silly enough to have to get stitches here & there, NOT FUN:,-( Don't get me wrong, I am careful.
But in this business, we all have to have sharp tools to get the job done right & fast.
Feel free to post what has happened to you past or presant in your farrier work:-)

[EDeSocio]

Most dangerous tools are a sharp rasp, a dull knife and a horse who doesn't respect personal space.

[Marc Jerram Dip.WCF]

Always seem to nick myself with a sharp rasp whenever i work on minatures. Worst I had so far was having a nail go through my finger whilst trying to nail on the hind foot of a piece of **** racehorse mare. Was back at work the next day though.

[vthorseshoe]

New files leave really nice little divits in your finger tips when you use them.
Don't usually feel them until after they are there.

I hate to sharpen my knife because I invariably cut myself.
Scars on my left wrist and gouges in my fingers.

I have more gouges on my upper joint of my thumb from rasping than I care to look at.

I carry cotton and duct tape. Bandaides just don't work or stay on.

Once in a blue moon I will be hammering a shoe on and the draft moves while I am in mid swing and committed and hammer my knee cap.

I had a draft jerk his leg after driving a #9 capewell and as I went to wring it off the nail went into my finger and I had to jerk my hand back to get it free.
There was no going with the draft as I was hooked pretty good, and he was intent on setting that leg down.

Working on hot shoe's I have lost count of the times slag has landed on my torso in different area's including my shoe's.

Leaning over the anvil to reach for something and brand my belly on a hot shoe.

Working on a large draft pulling pony and the witch blew up and struck me in the forehead with a hind foot. Threw me for a distance.
(I got up checked to make sure all my parts were where they were when I started and went back and finished the puke).

All in all, I have paid my dues through the many years, and I have learned about safety from each one of the above.
It also taught me to slow down over the years.

Anyone who has shod for years will be able to tell the same stories and perhaps more.

my 2 cents worth

[Jaye Perry]

vthorseshoe....Anyone who has shod for years will be able to tell the same stories and perhaps more.




Pain is a good instructor!:eek::cool:

[Gary Hill]

I guess we could all compare our scars?:D

[high performance shoeing]

I don't seem to have this problem.:confused:

[smitty88]

i dont have many wounds

[high performance shoeing]

i dont have many wounds

I wonder if that is what normally goes on, on the other side of the Atlanic.

[smitty88]

Whats that Nick

[high performance shoeing]

Whats that Nick

Getting all cut up while shoeing.

[smitty88]

those Americans must be soft

[high performance shoeing]

those Americans must be soft

Or clumsy?

[smitty88]

Now i only said soft

[high performance shoeing]

Now i only said soft

I think they are clumsy.

[Jaye Perry]

I think they are clumsy.


HMMMMM?

Both coming from the British Isle s populus, where the vets are the end all to be all? No wonder no scars or adverse reactions to shoein' a horse:eek:

[vthorseshoe]

Smitty and Nick;

I personally think you both may be correct.

I will never be known as a gracefull person and it has been said I am sometimes soft in the head.
But ! I endeavor to perseviere.

With two fine gentlemen like yourselves gracing the pages of this forum, it has been a blessing for an old coot like myself. Even at my age I look up to folks of your caliber and stature. :D

(I also figure you both have tales to tell, but comeing from across the big water are a bit more researved) probably spell better than I do also.

[Bradley-1stChoice]

I wonder if that is what normally goes on, on the other side of the Atlanic.
Whats that Nick
Getting all cut up while shoeing.
those Americans must be soft
Or clumsy?
Now i only said soft
I think they are clumsy.

lol

You guys are a riot

[vthorseshoe]

Bradley;

The chance to laugh at one's self is the greatest way to relax.

My wife taught me this before we were married.
If I can laugh at others then I can surely laugh at myself. :D
Life is way to short to take some things too seriously !!!

Beside's a good ribbing keeps us on our toe's, don'tcha think ???

my 2 cents worth ;)

[Bradley-1stChoice]

Yes Sir-e-bob, I mean Bruce

[Bill Adams]

Nick and Smitty,
If I've read my history correctly, I belive the British Iles are countrys that we "soft" Americans have both wooped and saved at different times.
That said I was gratified to see your wee Prince doing his share in Afganistan. As to antaginizing an Irishman and a Scott, I've a bit of both so I don't mean bad.

As to injuris, my wife says the scar on my face makes me look se xy. There was the 45 min of amnesia after the hitching rail took out both rotator cuffs and bounced off my head (I asked my fifteen year old Eli, who was helping that day what he thought about me wandering around in a daze all that time and he replied,"I thought I might get to drive the new truck".), nails through fingers, etc, but in the last couple of years it's different.
Lately my tools stay sharp longer, I dont get cut hardly at all, old joints are getting better. It used to be a daily ritual for my little girls to put aniseptic on the cuts but there just aren't that many now days.
Of course I knock on wood (sound of head echoing) and thank the Lord and ask it continue.

[Phil Armitage]

I carry cotton and duct tape. Bandaides just don't work or stay on.


Bruce a few years ago I drove a nail into my hand and the horse pulled away cutting it wide open. Cleaned it up, duct tape cotton over the wound and kept working the rest of the day. By the time I got to the hospital that evening to have it looked at it started to heel over the cotton. Doc was not very impressed with my duct tape and cotton job. ;)

[George Geist]

Nick and Smitty,
If I've read my history correctly, I belive the British Iles are countrys that we "soft" Americans have both wooped and saved at different times.

Bill,
Not Ireland. Matter of fact one of the things that was a determining factor in our putting down the rebellion here in America was that the north had more Irishmen;)
George

[Thomas_Ride&Drive]

Nick and Smitty,
If I've read my history correctly, I belive the British Iles are countrys that we "soft" Americans have both wooped and saved at different times.
I wouldn't recommend you go there.

[Bill Adams]

George,
In the 1900s we were a bit helpfull in backing the Irish in their fight against the Germans, to whom I'm related to also.
Anyway, I was stiring the pot between the U.S. and Europe, not the North and South.

[Bill Adams]

I wouldn't recommend you go there.

Tom,
Didn't mean to leave you out. Please forgive my oversight.
However, per your sugestion, I may be wise to tread no ****her.

[George Geist]

George,
In the 1900s we were a bit helpfull in backing the Irish in their fight against the Germans, to whom I'm related to also.
Anyway, I was stiring the pot between the U.S. and Europe, not the North and South.
I can relate to stirring the pot:) What you say is interesting though. I don't recall the Irish ever having any issue with the Germans. Matter of fact as I remember it they got along with them pretty well most of that century.
George

[Bill Adams]

As part of the British Empire, they fought valianty against Facisim, producing heroic bergaids.

[Rick Burten]

Leaning over the anvil to reach for something and brand my belly on a hot shoe

Gave you a new appreciation for the expression "suck it up" didn't it bubba? :)

All in all, I have paid my dues through the many years, and I have learned about safety from each one of the above.
It also taught me to slow down over the years.

Amen. It also taught me that while a good horse can get you hurt, a bad horse will get you hurt, so I stay away, as much as I can, from the bad ones.

[Rick Burten]

Smitty and Nick;
I endeavor to persivere.

You been watching that Clint Eastwood movie "The Outlaw Josie Wales" again? ;)

[vthorseshoe]

Yes I always like that phrase the old indian said.

Suck it up is RIGHT !!! Bubba.....

If you folks are talking lineage, I am more Scotch than anything else.
A full fledged member of the "Bruce Society" (at least I think I still am. Haven't paid any dues in a while) and the Matthews family tree came from England.
I was heavy into geneology for a while.

my 2 cents worth ;)

[BS-Horseshoeing]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, my great grandfather always told me that any horse in this world can kill a person. Give them the right situation (or wrong depending on how you look at it) and a horse can kill us in an instant. Then add sharp tools, animals that move, and you have a recipe for all kinds of injuries or disasters.

That said, two weeks ago was a tough time. In a span of seven days I had a horse set down on me, got kicked in the side of the face and broke three teeth, and to top it off got stung by a dang scorpion. The horse that set down pulled the leg I was working on and pulled me underneath him a bit and then just decided to pick up the ohter hind leg. With my leg pulled forward I had no way to hold him up and we went down in a pile. That tilted my pelvis out of place and put my sacroiliac joint out of place. That making one leg a quarter inch shorter than the other and made walking and working terribly painful. Trying to continue to work was tough since the hip hurt and gritting my teeth hurt worse. Then the scorpion bite makes it all worse as the poison travels through your body and intensifies the pain to a point that really stinks.

Be careful, those little nicks and cuts can be the least of your worries in this business.:eek:

[vthorseshoe]

Ben, I sure hope you have a better week. It sounds like a good time to take at least one day off for yourself and go fishing or motorcycle riding or doing something that gets you reaxed.
One single day will do you a world of good.

Your grandfather was so correct. It is when folks forget that "poopsy" is an animal and not a love dovey cutey pie or a farrier gets too relaxed around a well mannered horse, or something distracts even the most attenative farrier that someone gets hurt.

Hey, I wish you a safer memorial week and weekend.

Your near the Sangre de Cristo mtns aren't you ?
I also visited the Tucson Zoo And was amazed by the tortises (bg turtles).
I came very close to buying a farm in Red Rock, Ariz.
Beautiful country, but rock hard hooves.

my 2 cents worth ;)

[BS-Horseshoeing]

Ben, I sure hope you have a better week. It sounds like a good time to take at least one day off for yourself and go fishing or motorcycle riding or doing something that gets you reaxed.
One single day will do you a world of good.

Your grandfather was so correct. It is when folks forget that "poopsy" is an animal and not a love dovey cutey pie or a farrier gets too relaxed around a well mannered horse, or something distracts even the most attenative farrier that someone gets hurt.

Hey, I wish you a safer memorial week and weekend.

Your near the Sangre de Cristo mtns aren't you ?
I also visited the Tucson Zoo And was amazed by the tortises (bg turtles).
I came very close to buying a farm in Red Rock, Ariz.
Beautiful country, but rock hard hooves.

my 2 cents worth ;)


Things are much better, after a visit to the back cracker I feel better than I have in a long time. Working pain free for the first time in months. It will now be a regular scheduled visit every six months.


Those mtns don't sound to familiar but Red Rock is just north west. Have to drive past there to go to Phoenix sat. for a clinic. Good thing you didn't buy there, dry, dusty, and dang hot. 103 degrees today. Summers here. My boy loves the zoo and wanted to ride those turtles.

And yes, the hooves are very hard and dry if you can't get the owners to help soften them up.

Thanks again Bruce. If you ever ride that bike through here again be sure to stop. I got a couple of nice gentle big boys you could show me some things on.