Burns..

[RainsFire]

Ya, so I couldn't find a thread anywhere on here where The topic of Burns was brought up, and in the middle of swearing off one of my best, I thought it'd be kinda "cool" to hear some good ole' burn stories..


Personally I'm somewhat used to super heated gloves, burning slag, and speeding sparks, but every once in a while I get hit with a sweet one.. Today I did a dumb thing, and used the wrong tongs to hold my work in progress sen.. The yellow hot glob of metal flipped up and melted off my right hand pinky side palm.. kinda deep but I didn't feel it.. The scent and look of it was what was nasty..plus its starting to hurt now a little

alright guys, shoot!!

[HWooldridge]

I've had two bad ones...#1. I was cutting some pipe with the torch and had a piece of slag about as big as a dime go into my boot. This happened 25 years ago but I still have the scar on top of my foot. #2 happened this year - was working on a large scroll and it flipped in my hands while I was adjusting it in a bending fork. That one branded me pretty good but it didn't scar (the miracle of aloe vera).

I've had numerous burns from scale and bumping into hot stuff but these two were the worst. In general, grease burns while cooking are worse than burns in the shop, IMHO. The oil sticks and won't come off easily. I may actually have more scars from the frying pan than the forge.

[sdalcher]

The dumbest one yet, I was taking a finishing cut on the lathe after numerous heavy cuts... I was admiring the mirror-like finish and you guessed, I had to touch it... Regained feeling in my fingertips a few months later, you can bet I'll never do that one again!!

[ApprenticeMan]

Lavender oil, i said it before and will say it again you will not even beleive you had a burn in the same spot only 1 week later.

[JWBIRONWORKS]

Worst burn...welding up a trailer frame last year. It was early fall and I took my long sleeve shirt off about mid-morning when it got hot outside. Left my T-shirt on. Welded most of rest of the day and well after dark. Knew it was getting red and tender but I just had to get the trailer done. Burnt the inside of my left upper arm to the point of no return. Blistered, Peeled, turned yellowish nasty and will be discolored to remind me from now on. No bodies fault but my own, knew better did it anyway.

Most Humorous near miss, At a recent demo I had a nail stick in the header. I heated the nail and header up, stuck the header in the vise and went to cut the head off the nail with a chisel. Smacked the chisel, the nail head seperated from the nail and promptly went down the front of my Bibs. Didn't take long to figure out what happened. leaned as far forward and down as I could, dropped the Galleasses on the bibs and fished it out before anything important got burnt.

John

[stevomiller]

When I was about 15 and just starting to play with hot metal I did a good one. I was setting up to finish annealing a knife made of a file; it was red hot and I dropped it. Out of pure reaction I snatched it out of the air. My fingers stuck to the blade, and the air filled with that wonderful aroma.

Funniest bad burn, not smithing related? I burned my xxx on the wall heater trying to warm up after getting out of the shower. Made a two inch checkerboard blister on me, and a scar that I carry twenty years later.

[Ecart]

Worse burn so far (I'm still pretty new, so give me time ): Several months ago, I don't remember what I was making, but I cut off a piece of 1/4" round stock. The "cold" end hit the ground and without thinking about it, I reached down and picked it up. It left a leathery scar across the palm of my right hand. It was prety tender for a while, but it's gone now.
While I was working at the fair last month, I grabbed a piece that the heat had transfered into and very quickly let it go. It was then that I heard a woman in the audience laugh and say, "That's how I'd look at it." I had to grin about that one.

[Hoary]

I have to agree with ApprenticeMan, Lavendar Oil does work and if I recall correctly from Massage School the origin of essential oils came from a man who massively burnt his arm and threw it into whatever liquid he could find which was of course a barrel full of lavendar oil. Aside from that the only burn story I've gotten was when a friend decided to brand my forearm with a windcover from a hookah bar, I decked him right in the jaw for that unecessary action, luckily I knew the owner and got off easy from the whole thing. yup that would be my burn story, still got a half circle on my arm :-/

[Finnr]

The worst burns I had by far were working as a pro cook. Nothing at all to match as a smith.
Finnr

[Frosty]

My worst burn happened while I was drilling. I'd jumped up on the cab of the drill to try seeing something through the woods and when I climbed back down grabbed the exhaust stack. I'd already stepped off so I couldn't just let go without falling through the steel rack on the way to the ground.

I've had lots and lots of burns but that was the worst, took a couple weeks to get over it.

Frosty