Rings, and things...

[digger242j]

Just out of curiousity, does anyone else avoid wearing rings or other jewelry on the job?

Background: I've never been real big on jewelry anyway, but when I was first married, I did try to get into the habit of wearing my weddng ring. One evening, I stopped by the site, and for whatever reason, climbed up onto the 450 Case hilift we had there. There was a grab handle on the lid of the battery box, which was beside the operator's seat. The lid, in its closed position, was recessed into the box just a fraction of an inch, which meant that there was a fraction of an inch of edge sticking up. As I was getting down from the machine, I let go of the handle with my fingers, and let them slide over the edge of the box, and my wedding ring caught that edge. There was no permanent damage, but it did put a nasty gouge in the top of my finger when the ring dug into it. Since then, I've made it a point not to wear anything like that while on the job--I get banged up enough as it is.

Anybody else have any thoughts on the subject, pro or con?

[Jeff D.]

.........I've never been real big on jewelry anyway.....

And I imagined Digger as "Bein' all blinged out and *&#%$ ":rolleyes:

I'm not much for jewelry either.Even watches drive me nuts,especially the ones that pull your arm hair out with the flexible bands.:nono

[Ford LT-9000]

I'am pretty much a welder by trade you learn not to have any kind of metal rings on your fingers they conduct heat and will give you one hell of a burn.

I don't wear rings I don't like wearing a watch either but I wear one when I have too.

I was told about a guy wearing a wedding ring and he was wearing work gloves and the glove got caught and started to pull off but got hooked on the ring and pulled the finger off.

You have to be really carefull about loose clothing, jewelery, necklaces etc.

A little off topic but I was working in a fenced compound and it has electric animal fence around it meant to repel larger game animals and bears. I drove the truck out of the gate and got out to go lock the gate. Well I had a striker (lighting cuttting torch) in my Carhartt overalls pocket it was raining that day so my overalls were damp. I bumped up against the electric wire and SOB I felt that jolt down my leg. I guess the metal striker in my pocket arc jumped against the wire I barely touched it.

[Steve Frazier]

Niel Armstrong lost his finger with a wedding ring. If I recall the story right he was jumping from a hay wagon and the ring caught and severed his finger.

[Squizzy246B]

I like my worksite jewelery to be made of steel and have integral ROPs and FOPs

[Squizzy246B]

I also did the Ford LT thing with a tig welder and steel ruler in my pocket....left breast pocket that is....:eek2

[itsgottobegreen]

I don't wear anything. (no married thank god, thats why I can own toys) I tell anybody who works with me to take anything off that can catch on something.

[tylermckee]

I don't wear anything.

:eek:
Note to self: Never work with itsgottobegreen.

[itsgottobegreen]

wow I was so not with it when I typed it earlier. :yup

[xkvator]

i never wear any jewelry... i put clocks in equip., so i don't need a watch

[richardbrackin]

No wedding band or watch here.

I also know a guy that was walking down wet wooden stairs and slipped, grabbed the rail,the ring got caught and lost his finger.

He can only count to nineteen using his fingers and toes now.


Then of course you end up with folks like my late grandfather --mother's side -- who sawed or hammered the majority of his fingernails off over the course of 70+ years.
He always wore his wedding ring and never suffered a problem caused by the ring. He was an accident-free heavy equipment operator at Texas Eastern for 35+ years but always got hurt working on hobbies.

[Dozerboy]

No ring I always use to ware a watch, but it got broke and I wore it for a few months like that to try and remember to get it fixed and never did ended up losing it.

Once all of my wranglers were dirty so I wore a pair of baggy jeans to go out to brush hog the pasture. I spooked a rabbit out of the brush and I popped it with my .22, I shut the PTO off before I left the seat. The rabbit was a little behind me, so for some stupid reason I climbed off the back side of the tractor. My foot slipped and my pants got caught on a pin on the slowly turning PTO shaft. They bunched up and the pto had just enough momentum to pull me down. I busted my head good and went out like a light. I woke up and couldn't get lose, so I laid there under the tractor with it running hopping the parking brake wasn't going to let lose. When I didn't show up for lunch my parents came looking for me and got me out of there. I'm guessing I was there for around 2 hrs. and I have never worn baggy pants while working again.

[TDU]

....quite simple....I seen and had to deal with 'gloved' fingers.....No rings what so ever on my sites...:nono

TDU

[norrodbh]

No ring I always use to ware a watch, but it got broke and I wore it for a few months like that to try and remember to get it fixed and never did ended up losing it.

Once all of my wranglers were dirty so I wore a pair of baggy jeans to go out to brush hog the pasture. I spooked a rabbit out of the brush and I popped it with my .22, I shut the PTO off before I left the seat. The rabbit was a little behind me, so for some stupid reason I climbed off the back side of the tractor. My foot slipped and my pants got caught on a pin on the slowly turning PTO shaft. They bunched up and the pto had just enough momentum to pull me down. I busted my head good and went out like a light. I woke up and couldn't get lose, so I laid there under the tractor with it running hopping the parking brake wasn't going to let lose. When I didn't show up for lunch my parents came looking for me and got me out of there. I'm guessing I was there for around 2 hrs. and I have never worn baggy pants while working again.

Wow Dozerboy. That was close. I grew up on dairy farms, and there is a lot of stuff that can get you. My next door neighbor lost his arm to the shoulder in a PTO shaft.

No bling-bling for me.

[tylermckee]

Didnt happen in construction, but it was a close call. I was fishing out in the bearing sea, long lining. We were hauling in our gear, and for those of you that dont know, our gear is one really long line, and every 42" coming off that line is a ~18" string with a hook on it. Well somebodies old gear that they lost was all tangled in with our gear, they must have snagged something and broke the line on both ends when hauling. So im standing there, pulling the old gear off of our gear as its coming up out of the water, im making a pile of it to the side of me. I cut one hook off and in about 1 second flat i see the old gear rocket down to the bottom and the pile that was onboard goes flying over the side. Im standing there shooked as hell that im still there and i go to look at my hands and im missing a glove, and the cotton liner i had on underneath. i felt a couple hooks brush against my arm as it shot down, if i would have been wearing a watch, braclet, maybe a ring, im sure i would be sitting at the bottom of the bearing, 3,000 feet down

[xkvator]

Interesting...I can't keep a couple snelled hooks on a fishing rod from tangling/getting snagged...
what size line/cable do they use?

you shoulda kept fishing...you might be a TV star now...ever do the crabbing?

[tylermckee]

Interesting...I can't keep a couple snelled hooks on a fishing rod from tangling/getting snagged...
what size line/cable do they use?

you shoulda kept fishing...you might be a TV star now...ever do the crabbing?

3/8" 3 strand line. I never did the crab thing but most guys i talked to up there have. They say crabbing isnt really harder, just a pain in the ass cause the seasons are so short they get no sleep. even While fishing i remember days where we would start in the morning, sun would come up, then the sun would go down, then it would come up, then down, then we get to sleep! the hours are nuts.