Yesterday the weather was very nice for a January 1st. I decided I was going to put my new Busse through it's paces as I hadn't had much of a chance to use it yet, so I decided to make a fire.
A bit ago I had a tree fall in my yard, and I had chopped it up a few weeks back with this Busse. I started by making some kindling. This was the first time I had used (abused) a knife in this manner, but the Busse guys are all about it so I wanted to see what the fuss was all about. I started by holding the log in my left hand, chopping into it with my right, then beating a 2x4 into the spine of the knife alternating between the tip and the tang, until the knife split through the log. It was working really well, I had turned two logs into a good bundle of kindling, and then moved onto the third. I was holding the log with my left and setting the knife with my right when I missed and hit my left hand. At first, I thought that my glove had miraculously saved my hand, but when I moved my hand it revealed a clean slice in the glove. I took it off and immediately starting pouring blood out of a cut 3cm long and over 1cm deep. It was nothing I was confident in fixing as the skin had folded under itself and clearly was going to need stitches. Off to the ER we went!
Pics of the aftermath:
CSI pic with the suspect caught red handed:
Post-op therapy:
I actually ended up being pretty lucky, I didn't sever any nerves or tendons, and after 8 stitches I am well on the road to recovery. And lesson learned: you start your knife with the baton, don't hold the wood! I am just lucky I was using the smaller of my two Busse's, if it had been the big one I'm pretty sure I would have severed my finger.
The one I used is on the left:
A bit ago I had a tree fall in my yard, and I had chopped it up a few weeks back with this Busse. I started by making some kindling. This was the first time I had used (abused) a knife in this manner, but the Busse guys are all about it so I wanted to see what the fuss was all about. I started by holding the log in my left hand, chopping into it with my right, then beating a 2x4 into the spine of the knife alternating between the tip and the tang, until the knife split through the log. It was working really well, I had turned two logs into a good bundle of kindling, and then moved onto the third. I was holding the log with my left and setting the knife with my right when I missed and hit my left hand. At first, I thought that my glove had miraculously saved my hand, but when I moved my hand it revealed a clean slice in the glove. I took it off and immediately starting pouring blood out of a cut 3cm long and over 1cm deep. It was nothing I was confident in fixing as the skin had folded under itself and clearly was going to need stitches. Off to the ER we went!
Pics of the aftermath:
CSI pic with the suspect caught red handed:
Post-op therapy:
I actually ended up being pretty lucky, I didn't sever any nerves or tendons, and after 8 stitches I am well on the road to recovery. And lesson learned: you start your knife with the baton, don't hold the wood! I am just lucky I was using the smaller of my two Busse's, if it had been the big one I'm pretty sure I would have severed my finger.
The one I used is on the left:
