I have a few joints including my shoulders that will catch mid movement and then pop free. Most of the time it's after a long strenuous day, lots of heavy lifting or too much time with my arms over my head will do it.

Some Chiropractors also perform Trigger point release on joints. Acupressure is another non invasive or drug therapy that may help.

 Clicking joints isn't a good sign, take care of it before it takes rotator cuff surgery to repair.

Frosty The Lucky.

I spent a few hours today with a new student. Michael has been out once with a high school special learning program. Like all of us he has a few issues but listens and tries to do what I say so we're good, I have lots of patience for tries hard.

Well, wouldn't you know it I was talking him through making a nail and did myself a mischief.

My 32oz turning hammer's head needed bumping tight, nothing new and I bumped the handle on my anvil. However I was talking to Michael and was not only gripping the hammer head but had my fingers on the shaft right next to it.

Anybody else here guess what happened next? When I bumped the head tight it of course slid down the handle a bit, right over the pad of my right ring finger. The head was of course nice and tight then. It had my finger skin clamped tight enough to hang the hammer from and wouldn't bump loose so I had to pull my finger loose. Took a nice fingernail paring size bite almost to the flesh. Bled like a stuck old coot.  I MAY have used a couple strong terms in front of the boy too but oh well.

At least I didn't cry. . . I don't think.

Frosty The Lucky.

 

oh that's bad Frosty. i will go check on it as soon as possible.. the work is pilling up and i cannot afford to have an injury in the middle of the job. i will visit a orthopedist doctor first to diagnose the issue and then off to the chiropractor. thanks for your replies. if anyone knows anything else it will be helpful. Thank you.!

And here I bumped a hammer to tighten it this morning---it goes in the linseed oil soak this weekend for a week

Re: the angle grinder 'stuff':

Here in Oz on all mine-sites in the Pilbara (BHP, Rio Tinto, FMG, et al) All 9" angle grinders are banned. 4 1/2" grinders are allowed (generally, only boilermakers are allowed to use them, and must be found to be competent to use the grinder), but must have a 'dead-mans' switch.

  I'd be lost without the 9 and the 4.5 on my service truck.  I'm guessing pneumatic die grinderss are out of the question as well as they’re even more dangerous?  What do you guys use when you have a bad weld, or to clean up a piece you just sneezed in the middle of torching?  Scarfing tip on a torch? Files?  Same goes for putting bevels on pipe.  My 9 works fast.

Naw QD you can pack what you want that's legal in your service truck. A union or company workplace has to regulate to the lowest common denominator and seeing there's an idiot in every crowd that's what the only safe assumption is.

The lawyers and bean counters who control most large organizations now actually have SOME practicality in their thinking. You just can't prevent an idiot from doing themselves a mischief with an angle grinder but a 4.5" limits how many OTHER people s/he can hurt.

That isn't a joke, I asked one of the legal eagles who was giving us a talk back when I was a State Employee.

Frosty The Lucky.

  Trust me, as a Marine (no longer active), I get the 10% (more like 1%) that do dumb stuff that jerks everyone's knee.  I also have to deal with MSHA (Mine Safety & Health Administration, in case other countries call it otherwise) which is stricter than OSHA (Occupational S&HA) and post fatalgrams on a regular basis.

   As a Miner, I was actually asking out of genuine professional curiosity what they use on the mine if only boilermakers are allowed to use 4.5s AND they have to take special steps to be in compliance of some sort.  I'm also curious what special steps they have to take to be in compliance.  Only thing I have to worry about with grinders for MSHA is I have to make sure that my guards are on and all of my cords are in good condition.

  I don't believe I've ever met a boilermaker.  Do they actually have boilers at coal and/or metal mines? Are they used for some sort of processing, or for power in very remote areas.  I work in non-metal (rock, sand, and gravel to be exact) mines, as well maintaining cement plants, which the mines feed, so it is pretty straight forward.

  Not being sarcastic, just curious. Thanks.

I saw someone who was injured by an angle grinder. The blade came off the hit him in the stomach.

It cut his belly open, and you could see his intestines. He went to surgery. Turns out it nicked his bowel and he ended up with a colostomy.

Boilermakers no longer rivet boilers, just as blacksmiths no longer shoe horses.

The term boilermakers now describes specialist pressure vessel welders: in the US, they are certified under the ASME Section IX code, as opposed to structural or petroleum pipeline codes.

The structural codes covering bridges were written way back when 27 pound 9" disk grinders were the only option. To this day you can not use any power tool while taking a bridge test. It is tradition!

Kids gawk when they ask to borrow a grinder and I hand them a 15 amp 4HP DeWalt. "Be careful son, or you will break your wrist." But man, it moves the metal.

And our biggest problem at school is still knotheads with grinders, and no respect for safety, theirs or others. I seem to spend half my time as a Safety Nazi.