So true. I wear all the time but "stuff" still happens. I have small "part time" farm and timber and go through about 20 pair of gloves a year-the best that can be had. And I still get splinters and thorns!
I have had to pull out around a bazillion splinters over the years, including mostly wood, but also metal shavings. I would have never even conceived to pull it through. Glad your buddy turned out ok.
The best tweezers I have ever used were (hopefully still are) sold by Lee Valley as surgical tweezers.They have a little projection on the inside of each tip that really helps to grip. Some splinters go in so deep there is nothing exposed to get a hold of. Wit them, I always did the old needle trick, at least getting enough exposed to pull with tweezers.
Your story made me wince! Maybe you should add an instructional and warning paper for the lid of future whizbang splinter kits conveying this point. Thankfully I've never had a splinter go through like that!
Herrick, I just pulled a splinter out of my finger, under the finger nail. It was an SOS pad steel wool splinter I got from scrubbing a pan. Yes, house wives get splinters, too. Removed it with Uncle Bill's splinter gripper tweezers, off of amazon. Have a pair in each bathroom and each vehicle. The carpenter's scapel us a definite keeper. I keep a new, sharp one available, plus a needle. Gotta have 'em, to git 'er' done!
Have multiple pairs of sharp pointed tweezers for this task. Also a large sewing needle can break out the skin above a long one running under the surface instead of the carpenters ‘scalpel’. Have made butterfly sutures from duct tape. I prefer Coverlet brand cloth bandaids. When I was six or eight I got a gang of long splinters in my butt scooching across our back stoop decked with weathered fir 2 x 8’s. Ow! Ow!
At the very end you requested splinter stories. I have a story but I don't know if it qualifies quite as a "splinter". Let me explain! When the kids were young we had some sheep. We went away for a week and just before we got back the friends that were caring for them told us they had a problem with the female. She had attempted to stand up in the stall from a lying position and had skewered herself along her rib cage, under the fur, and was stuck against the wall. The wooden slats in the old horse barn ran horizontally and as she leaned against it her fur caught a split that must have been there a long time before she accidentally found it. We got home the same day and I called the vet. He said "You can do this yourself. Get a pair of pliers and pull that big piece of wood out. And then get a turkey baster and fill it with hydrogen peroxide. Now stick it in the wound and flush it out real good." My stomach turned inside out and my skin started to crawl I did not want to do this! I gathered my wits about me and headed out to the barn. I'm sure I had help but I felt like I was all alone! Nobody else wanted to actually do the dirty work. Everybody stood to watch because what else could they do. I have a snake story I can tell you too but it has nothing to do with splinters. I thought of it because of the spectators. While I was trying to catch the snake that was in our upstairs bathroom I was holding the baby on my hip and hollering for help. When I finally turned around to look, everyone was standing outside the door just watching.
Couldn't agree more! But I can totally relate to giant splinters.....(wait for it.....) That act like a splint! Good one HK. Which is worse-- a 2 1/2" splinter or shooting an 18ga brad nail through your finger? Ahh... those were the days.
Hey Herrick, enjoy your videos a lot! This one made me wince too (@harrytinker2338)!! 😅 years ago we were replacing the roof on a farmer's porch and I was taking hold of 1/2" sheets of CDX plywood by the 4' end and swinging them up to the eave of the roof so my co-worker could reach them and pull them up. It was cold out and we were wearing gloves (which I almost never do, partly for reasons like this). Anyone who has worked with CDX grade ply will be familiar with the fact the edges tend to have loose, sharp slivers, some quite large. As I swung one sheet up one of those slivers caught in my glove, the momentum of the plywood driving that sliver thorugh the palm of my glove, through my middle finger and out the top of the glove, pinning it to my hand kind of like a gigantic safety pin! It was about 3-1/2" long....I could't get my glove off....I didn't really even try...just drove myself to the local urgent care and let them fix it! 😅 Thanks for the great stories and ideas!
While installing cedar shakes I got a splinter right under my thumbnail all the way from the free edge to the cuticle. I could see it beneath my nail. Cedar is a soft wood and there was nothing sticking out to grab to pull the splinter out. This was about 50 years ago and I was young and on my own. I wound up cutting a channel up my nail above the splinter and removing that part of my nail along with the splinter. Doing that hurt less than the splinter being under my nail did. Hey listen, would you like a hitting your finger with a framing hammer story?
Yes the framing hammer finger hit would be good to know. Here or in an upcoming video where I talk about jobsite accidents and ask for stories. Coming soon. 👍
I had a 2mm splinter get stuck in middle of index finger and healed over. Two weeks later, it swelled but never came to surface. Then 2 surgeries and $4000 for incision from base to end of finger to debride nerves and tendons and clean out. Then 12 stitches. I have the German made Miltex liberator and Walter forceps ($145 for both, not the cheap ones). These work on 99% of foreign penetrants, but this time it was too far in. Something so small became a huge pain. Glad for insurance! Still hurts ALOT! About 25% healed and half of stiches removed. No feeling yet in 30% of finger.
@@Steven-cr8ju That's odd. Here it is again: ruclips.net/video/kQaZzMxmDFs/видео.htmlsi=bOLIA6nJtTNnnZ_q or search this title: "How NOT To Remove a Big Splinter"
I got a doozie a year or two ago down the side of my thumb. Unfortunately the wood splintered inside my thumb and after a week of pulling bits out, I went to hospital and they sliced into the thumb and removed the last 2cm sliver. I don't want to repeat that!
@@herrickkimball before he told me to buy scalpels I was using sharps. These are the little needles that they used to take blood from your veins, they are so sharp you can cut the skin and the person wouldn't feel it. But they're hard to find. Scalpel works great. The only other thing I would add to your kit would be a pair of those glasses that dentists and doctors like to use. They have magnifiers for each eye. But they're like $200 a pair. Oh and a flashlight on a headband. We used to take the splinters out at night when the kids were asleep, otherwise there was no way we could get close enough. I never had all these gadgets so I used a flashlight in my mouth and a magnifying glass in one hand And a sharp in the other. It was quite the spectacle.
I can't believe that you tried to pull it through, not out! Did the thought not occur that the splinter would be tapered, or were you thinking of arrows? Nevermind, 'tis long past teatime.
Oh yeah I have a big-splinter story. Too long to type on a phone; when I get to my computer I'll add it in. For now will just say I was all of 10, and had to deal by myself.
Here's the splinter story. I was about ten, and we were rehearsing for some school play or other. My character was barefoot (as were many in that play) and at one point was supposed to be dragged off the stage from a kneeling position. Well, the wooden floor had splinters. Big ones, and my left foot was not lifted high enough off the floor to escape one. As long as the toe it attacked, and nearly matchstick thick, it was driven in the entire length of my toe. Off I hobbled to the bathroom to investigate. It was terrifying-looking (especially to a 10-year-old), sticking out at both ends, bleeding, and throbbing/aching like nobody's business. Everyone else was (of course) off at the rehearsal. My choices were to deal with it myself, or go hobbling off in the hopes of finding an adult to deal with it. My experience with adults was that they were generally worse at dealing with injuries than I was, and figured I'd give it a try. Pulled on it to get it out the way it went in, but it was slippery with blood and man oh man did trying to pull make it hurt more! Then I got some paper towel to get me better purchase on it, held my breath, and PULLED. Out that bloody mess came, gush went blood from my toe over the sink where I'd perched it to see what I was doing, and despite holding my breath I let out a rather loud yelp. But it was out. Stood there (foot still on the sink edge) for a bit till I stopped shaking, then I washed off my toe and went back to the rehearsal. I don't recall where I found a bandaid, but I did, and put that on. I got yelled at for leaving the rehearsal. And I got real good at holding my feet up HIGH at that drag-offstage point.
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Whenever I heard stories like these, I wonder "Why don't people wear gloves?, especially when working with wood?
It cuts down your dexterity.
So true. I wear all the time but "stuff" still happens. I have small "part time" farm and timber and go through about 20 pair of gloves a year-the best that can be had. And I still get splinters and thorns!
dial calipers work extremely well for removing metal or wood splinters.
I have had to pull out around a bazillion splinters over the years, including mostly wood, but also metal shavings. I would have never even conceived to pull it through.
Glad your buddy turned out ok.
The best tweezers I have ever used were (hopefully still are) sold by Lee Valley as surgical tweezers.They have a little projection on the inside of each tip that really helps to grip. Some splinters go in so deep there is nothing exposed to get a hold of. Wit them, I always did the old needle trick, at least getting enough exposed to pull with tweezers.
Great kit. My wife was impressed, too.
Your story made me wince! Maybe you should add an instructional and warning paper for the lid of future whizbang splinter kits conveying this point. Thankfully I've never had a splinter go through like that!
Herrick, I just pulled a splinter out of my finger, under the finger nail. It was an SOS pad steel wool splinter I got from scrubbing a pan. Yes, house wives get splinters, too. Removed it with Uncle Bill's splinter gripper tweezers, off of amazon. Have a pair in each bathroom and each vehicle. The carpenter's scapel us a definite keeper. I keep a new, sharp one available, plus a needle. Gotta have 'em, to git 'er' done!
Have multiple pairs of sharp pointed tweezers for this task. Also a large sewing needle can break out the skin above a long one running under the surface instead of the carpenters ‘scalpel’. Have made butterfly sutures from duct tape. I prefer Coverlet brand cloth bandaids. When I was six or eight I got a gang of long splinters in my butt scooching across our back stoop decked with weathered fir 2 x 8’s. Ow! Ow!
At the very end you requested splinter stories. I have a story but I don't know if it qualifies quite as a "splinter". Let me explain! When the kids were young we had some sheep. We went away for a week and just before we got back the friends that were caring for them told us they had a problem with the female. She had attempted to stand up in the stall from a lying position and had skewered herself along her rib cage, under the fur, and was stuck against the wall. The wooden slats in the old horse barn ran horizontally and as she leaned against it her fur caught a split that must have been there a long time before she accidentally found it.
We got home the same day and I called the vet. He said "You can do this yourself. Get a pair of pliers and pull that big piece of wood out. And then get a turkey baster and fill it with hydrogen peroxide. Now stick it in the wound and flush it out real good." My stomach turned inside out and my skin started to crawl I did not want to do this!
I gathered my wits about me and headed out to the barn. I'm sure I had help but I felt like I was all alone! Nobody else wanted to actually do the dirty work. Everybody stood to watch because what else could they do. I have a snake story I can tell you too but it has nothing to do with splinters. I thought of it because of the spectators. While I was trying to catch the snake that was in our upstairs bathroom I was holding the baby on my hip and hollering for help. When I finally turned around to look, everyone was standing outside the door just watching.
How can one even think of pulling a splinter in the direction of travel?🤦♂️
I've had thousands of splinters and every single one was backed out
Couldn't agree more! But I can totally relate to giant splinters.....(wait for it.....) That act like a splint! Good one HK. Which is worse-- a 2 1/2" splinter or shooting an 18ga brad nail through your finger? Ahh... those were the days.
Hey Herrick, enjoy your videos a lot! This one made me wince too (@harrytinker2338)!! 😅 years ago we were replacing the roof on a farmer's porch and I was taking hold of 1/2" sheets of CDX plywood by the 4' end and swinging them up to the eave of the roof so my co-worker could reach them and pull them up. It was cold out and we were wearing gloves (which I almost never do, partly for reasons like this). Anyone who has worked with CDX grade ply will be familiar with the fact the edges tend to have loose, sharp slivers, some quite large. As I swung one sheet up one of those slivers caught in my glove, the momentum of the plywood driving that sliver thorugh the palm of my glove, through my middle finger and out the top of the glove, pinning it to my hand kind of like a gigantic safety pin! It was about 3-1/2" long....I could't get my glove off....I didn't really even try...just drove myself to the local urgent care and let them fix it! 😅 Thanks for the great stories and ideas!
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Nice video. Too many westerns, seeing tough cowboys pull the arrow through.
While installing cedar shakes I got a splinter right under my thumbnail all the way from the free edge to the cuticle. I could see it beneath my nail. Cedar is a soft wood and there was nothing sticking out to grab to pull the splinter out. This was about 50 years ago and I was young and on my own. I wound up cutting a channel up my nail above the splinter and removing that part of my nail along with the splinter. Doing that hurt less than the splinter being under my nail did.
Hey listen, would you like a hitting your finger with a framing hammer story?
Yes the framing hammer finger hit would be good to know. Here or in an upcoming video where I talk about jobsite accidents and ask for stories. Coming soon. 👍
I always include alcohol pads for cleaning and prepping area for splinter surgery. 😉
I had a 2mm splinter get stuck in middle of index finger and healed over. Two weeks later, it swelled but never came to surface. Then 2 surgeries and $4000 for incision from base to end of finger to debride nerves and tendons and clean out. Then 12 stitches. I have the German made Miltex liberator and Walter forceps ($145 for both, not the cheap ones). These work on 99% of foreign penetrants, but this time it was too far in. Something so small became a huge pain. Glad for insurance! Still hurts ALOT! About 25% healed and half of stiches removed. No feeling yet in 30% of finger.
Wow. That's quite a story! I recently posted another splinter video... ruclips.net/video/kQaZzMxmDFs/видео.htmlsi=mctenhDl9yJPbZFS
It won't let me click the video link...
@@Steven-cr8ju That's odd. Here it is again: ruclips.net/video/kQaZzMxmDFs/видео.htmlsi=bOLIA6nJtTNnnZ_q or search this title: "How NOT To Remove a Big Splinter"
Ok
Oh. That's this same video posted 12 days ago. The only other one was a few years ago. Right?
I got a doozie a year or two ago down the side of my thumb. Unfortunately the wood splintered inside my thumb and after a week of pulling bits out, I went to hospital and they sliced into the thumb and removed the last 2cm sliver. I don't want to repeat that!
My son (pediatrician) told me to order scalpels on Amazon. Makes it easier to barely open the skin above the splinter.
Excellent. I’ll put scalpels on my next Amazon order! I already have a supply of sutures. And we’ve used them. 👍
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@@herrickkimball before he told me to buy scalpels I was using sharps. These are the little needles that they used to take blood from your veins, they are so sharp you can cut the skin and the person wouldn't feel it. But they're hard to find. Scalpel works great. The only other thing I would add to your kit would be a pair of those glasses that dentists and doctors like to use. They have magnifiers for each eye. But they're like $200 a pair. Oh and a flashlight on a headband. We used to take the splinters out at night when the kids were asleep, otherwise there was no way we could get close enough. I never had all these gadgets so I used a flashlight in my mouth and a magnifying glass in one hand And a sharp in the other. It was quite the spectacle.
I can't believe that you tried to pull it through, not out!
Did the thought not occur that the splinter would be tapered, or were you thinking of arrows?
Nevermind, 'tis long past teatime.
Oh yeah I have a big-splinter story. Too long to type on a phone; when I get to my computer I'll add it in. For now will just say I was all of 10, and had to deal by myself.
Here's the splinter story. I was about ten, and we were rehearsing for some school play or other. My character was barefoot (as were many in that play) and at one point was supposed to be dragged off the stage from a kneeling position. Well, the wooden floor had splinters. Big ones, and my left foot was not lifted high enough off the floor to escape one. As long as the toe it attacked, and nearly matchstick thick, it was driven in the entire length of my toe. Off I hobbled to the bathroom to investigate. It was terrifying-looking (especially to a 10-year-old), sticking out at both ends, bleeding, and throbbing/aching like nobody's business. Everyone else was (of course) off at the rehearsal. My choices were to deal with it myself, or go hobbling off in the hopes of finding an adult to deal with it. My experience with adults was that they were generally worse at dealing with injuries than I was, and figured I'd give it a try. Pulled on it to get it out the way it went in, but it was slippery with blood and man oh man did trying to pull make it hurt more! Then I got some paper towel to get me better purchase on it, held my breath, and PULLED. Out that bloody mess came, gush went blood from my toe over the sink where I'd perched it to see what I was doing, and despite holding my breath I let out a rather loud yelp. But it was out. Stood there (foot still on the sink edge) for a bit till I stopped shaking, then I washed off my toe and went back to the rehearsal. I don't recall where I found a bandaid, but I did, and put that on. I got yelled at for leaving the rehearsal. And I got real good at holding my feet up HIGH at that drag-offstage point.
@@catherinewhite2943 What a story! I saw it vividly in my head! Oooohh!
@@catherinewhite2943you did this all by yourself? I was gonna say you're a tough hombre and then I noticed your name! What a gal!
Splinters 😖😫
Sorry, just the thought of this procedure made me not want to watch. Ouch!