Whats Your Worst Firewood Making Injury?

Worst I've had was the weekend before last at my son's cabin. Took down a dead Ash tree maybe 16". Made my back cut "offhand" side because the escape path was better. When I pulled the saw & ran the chain was still turning & caught my left leg at the thigh, chaps did their job, but some how I got stabbed by the spikes on the saw in the back of my right leg. Got behind my chaps & left a snake bite inside back of my right leg, no idea how The saw was hooked to the Kevlar thread in my chaps & I had to cut it off. I gotta get the video from my son & see if it shows how it happened. No major damage & went right back to work after putting on my spare chaps.
Next worst was on a tree cutting job, it was late & we were tired, hit the end of my left foot with the saw while bucking a log. Good news is they were composite, not steel toe so the chain didn't get dulled. Was kinda bummed about the boots though, I really liked them. Either accident could've been stitches or worse without safety gear.

 

Slipped on ice fell on log splitter and broke 3 ribs in my back....hurt like a Beech , still went to real job next day

 

You know here's one that's pretty irritating . Dropping a wet oak block 65 lbs on your big toe so nail comes off and takes 12 months for dang nail to grow back . Every day you had make sure not to bump it .. I can remember it was in 2014 .

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I had 2 ash rounds pop like that in one day....ouch.

 

After 40 years of masonry I can’t remember any injury cutting firewood worthy of calling an injury.
Somewhat related I broke my middle finger at the top joint a little over a year ago. Was drilling half inch holes through 1/4” steel for my wood trailer rig. Drill caught as it made it’s way through, spun around and popped the bone. This was a few days before I found my big score that I’m still processing now. Rebroke it a few times with the logging chain during that score. Oh, and once starting the chainsaw when I forgot to leave it out of the grip.

Slipped off the back of the JD MT once. Not serious but hurt enough to realize how unforgiving that tractor is. One of the reasons I got the atv.
Roll the ankle on my bum leg but that’s a common occurrence.
All in all I’m in good shape LOL

 

Nobody had any post firewood injuries lying on the rug in front of the fire with the misses like throwing your back out
???

 

I think this may be the most important subject mentioned here.

I've found that i get very clumsy when I'm getting worn out. Sometimes i don't even realize it because I'm just trying to get stuff done. I'm way better taking frequent breaks and just keeping a slow steady pace.

 

^^^^ very important to remember ^^^^

 

this is why I limit my "work" days to 4-6 hours......................

 

Smashed the nail on my LH ring finger between the hook and handle of my cant hook. Did a little swearing and dancing. It's almost healed now.


Tore my jeans (but not my leg) with a running saw while escaping a falling tree. I wear chaps now.
I've been very lucky.

 

My injury from last Thursday. I did the swear dance too! Between the trade and firewood making a once a year wound on average.

 

I was splitting red oak in the woods. Axe gets jammed in the split. I wiggle the handle to loosen it and while holding the log with my left hand i one hand swing to shear the stringiness...hit my left thumb nail. Sliced it pretty good. Walk back to the house and tell GF. She though i was joking as it was April fools day 2008! The only fool was the one swinging the axe.

 

we do get our fair share of trade related wounds, dont we?!

 

Nothing terrible in the picture roll, but I banged my thumb on something at some point splitting wood. Saw it was bleeding at some point, but it didn’t bleed much so I just kept going.
Honestly the worst was a year ago or so getting sciatica for what felt like the better part of the week. That was the worst I’ve had.

 

I’m sure as a roofer you’ve bopped your fingers with a hammer more times than you can count. Many ways to get hurt on a roof. Razor knives are good for it too.
As a mason everything is looking to hurt you Even the string we use on the walls is tightened to the point it’s like a compound bow. When something let’s go it’s gonna do some damage if humans are in the way. Saw a brick pin go through a guys cheek and knock out his teeth. That guy was really scared of brick pins after that LOL

 

cant say ive ever heard of a brick pin? What is it?

 

American style. Europe uses ones even more dangerous looking. They’re probably smart enough not to misuse them as we do.
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I’ve been lucky so far. Just some minor finger smashes and a sore back from time to time.


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Not really sure if you could call it an injury, but early last winter messed up my right elbow, chucking wood & trying to start a temperamental 266 xp.! Tennis elbow I guess. Made my right arm pretty useless till maybe a month ago. Feeling pretty good now, just in time for wood season.