A chainsaw wound wont stop me!

utah_1911

utah_1911

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So it is Labor day weekend. A great 3 days to hunt in my opinion, or so I thought. We decided to camp in Mantua UT, not to far from Brigham city and Logan. I woke up at 5am on Sunday morning and headed up the canyon. I hunted til about 11. Needless to say it was uneventful. I got back to camp and my cousin in law was having trouble with his chainsaw. I told him I would get it running for him. As I was adjusting the fuel air mixture screw I wasnt paying attention to where the blade was. It contacted my left knee.





I didnt think it was bad at first until I started to feel the blood rushing down my leg. At that point I knew it was a hospital trip.







The doctor got me stitched up. I needed two inner stitches and 13 outer ones.








I got back and went out calling. What [beeep] me off the most is that it ripped my pants. Didnt kill anything, but what a weekend!!!






 
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Keep at em! You don't kill anything from the couch! That a decent, clean looking cut. It could have been worse from a chain saw.
 
I cant say it was the same, but I had a similar experience with a chainsaw a few weekends ago. I was clearing a fallen tree while opening trails on out deer hunting land. Got the tip of my ring finger on my right hand. Took a chunk out of it before I even knew what happened.

I never go out in the feild without a tube of super glue. It was originaly designed as a liquid field bandage for the military and it has stopped the bleading for me on many an occation.

Glad to see it wasn't any worse. It will hurt and itch soon enough.
 
Your nuts!!! Who takes a chain saw camping? Glad it didn't keep you down. I have had my share of stitches. Keep it clean, infection sucks. Especially when the Dr says he might have to take the leg above the knee. Lucky for my I got better real quick.
 
Oh thats just a scratch, wipe the tears off and put some neosporan on it ya sally. LOL Just kidding. Myself, I got a scar on the inside of my thigh from a gas hedge/brush trimmer. Just keep it clean out there. Don't need to be waking up in the middle of nowhere with the cold swets and a knee twice the size as the other one.
 
Looks like the Doc did a good job on your knee, you should have had him stitch up your pants.LOL Glad your ok could of turned out bad.
 
Looks like you have the right hunting philosophy and the Dr. is a stich artist. Chainsaw wounds can be nasty, I've got a pair of boots with chainsaw tracks on one of them, I was lucky. I know a guy that used to cut cedar blocks for shakes. He had a big saw and most of the blocks came out of old growth cedar stumps, big ones. Anyway he was cutting and fell and the saw took off his left arm. He packed it out of the woods and got help to the hospital. It was such a mess that they didn't even try to re-attach it. A chainsaw can cut through flesh and bone real quick.
 
Man everytime I look at that cut it reminds me of when I got pushed through a store display window. Could feel the blood running and looked in a trucks side mirror and seen a gapping hole like that. At least I only had to walk 5 blocks to the er. Wasn't in the sticks like you were. That would suck to be int he middle of nowhere and have a gusher like that.
 
Apparently Im not the only one that has fillet'd themselves open!! It hurts worse today than it did when I did it. Plus the tetanus shot in the arm is an aching pig.
 
I think the tetanus shot is the worst part. I will ask my dad if the shot is worse than the stitches tommorow. He got a set of trebel hooks in his hand today and the northern decided to start twisting and thrashing once they were both hooked.
 
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Oh man have I got a story about treble hooks! I had a buddy whose stereo got stolen from his car. This was a few years ago when the flip out touch screens were 1500-2k. He replaced the stereo and it got stolen AGAIN! He was fed up, so he purchased yet ANOTHER stereo, JB welded a bunch of treble hooks to the body of it and reinstalled it. About a week later he got up for work and walked to his car to see the theif with his arm stuck up behind the dash and dried blood all over him and his carpet. He didnt call the cops. He figured the hamburgered hand was punishment enough.
 
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