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Baymule

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I love old barns, yours is awesome. You might want to take advantage of your wife working for a hand doctor. She might change jobs some day and Murphy's Law says that you will need hand surgery the next week. If you have problems, get it looked at. I am a big believer in "If it's broke-FIX it!"
 

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Bay wanted to make sure her post was there... like REALLY sure! :hide:lol: Lean to looks good. May be you could teach the kids how to bandage and repair jig saw cuts to the hand? Minor medical training is always beneficial in my opinion ;) If you anticipate them following your lead, better that they learn young! :lol: :smack Hope it heals and feels better soon.
 

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@mystang89 I hope your thumb heals soon. Now just because your wifr works for a hand surgeons doesn't mean you should go cutting your fingers or hand off! :p:gig
LOL, I really should learn my lesson. Before we moved to this house, I was working on a vegetable can dispenser like you see at the store. The kind that works with gravity where you pull one can out and another fall down. I needed a small, triangular piece to act as a ramp which would eject the falling can or it would just get stuck under the weight of the rest. I didn't take proper precautions nor did I practice safety and I paid for it. The wood ripped into the blade taking my hand with it. The tip of my middle finger was promptly removed and my ring finder tendon was cut in two. I can no longer extend that finger fully. I was in the basement at the time. I realized immediately what had happened and ran upstairs to tell my mother, who just happened to be visiting, thanks God, that I needed to drive myself to my wife's work. Before I completely got upstairs I then remembered the table saw was still on and little children were downstairs with it. Bleeding and all, I ran back downstairs, turned it off, and ran back upstairs. My mother told me to put salt on my wound.....I honestly haven't figured out her motive for this. I don't know if she was trying to pay me back for all the pain I've caused her in her life. If she was truly concerned or if she thought perhaps it would be funny. Maybe all the above. The amount of pain I felt with that salt made the actual cutting of the finger pail in comparison. I love that woman more than anything but she really got me that day.

Once I reached my wife's place of work the promptly did surgery. Maybe I just like all the attention from my wife and try to go there :hide:D
 

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That's a really nice area there.....have seen many tobacco barns and have gotten a few boards from some....hope the thumb isn't too much of a setback for ya.....one thing to remember is a large can, that when flattened, ya cand get your hand into will work wonders with a baggie of ice or ice pack...put the ice on top of the can and insert hand into can the metal will transfer the cold without the pressure pain on the injury.....:)
 
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