Bonsai Injuries

[GrimLore]

OH, I forgot to mention my Wife says I cannot buy another chainsaw so when I need one I have to borrow it like when we pulled that huge yew... She still says no and the scar is healed, been that long

Grimmy

 

[Eric Group]

About the worst I have done is stab my self with an Xacto while cleaning up the edges of a branch prune

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

I'm not accident- prone...but
Inguinal Hernia from moving a huge Scott's pine in 1996; required surgery.
Wrist injury digging a juniper on collecting trip in SD in 2013; required therapy. Juniper still there.

Nicks and cuts, almost always. But, a few years ago, I was pruning back a huge old cascade Natal Plum; a species I had never worked with before, and I was in a hurry to get it cleaned up. I kept getting "stung" on my non-scissors hand and couldn't place it or figure it out at first. Then I realized those suckers have wicked thorn clusters hidden under the leaves at nearly every petiole. The next day I realized I must be allergic to Natal Plums, because every stab swelled up like a greasy teenager's zits, burning and stinging. It was horrible.

 

[bonhe]

I hurt myself too often as a kid. Now I overcompensate so I have yet to experience any major bloodletting with bonsai. However after moving to California I learned a series of valuable lessons about trimming Canary date palms... with their 10" spikes. Even today with a construction helmet, safety goggles, leather gloves and blue jeans they will still get me. Last time was through the top of a steel-toed leather work boot.

You are so brave! I heard the story one worker died of palm trimming in OC years back! It is dangerous business!
Bonhe

 

[bonhe]

This is interesting topic to which I have been planning to have one chapter in my book in the future.
Bonhe

 

[Shima]

Glad to have just sold the pine on a very heavy rock I couldn't lift. I called it my hernia pine because that's what happened last time I moved it. Required surgery. If I can widen the topic to gardening injuries my right arm is in a sling having torn a tendon in my shoulder trying to unscrew the top of a Solo sprayer, I was really straining and heard an ominous crunching sound in the shoulder. The ER fixed me up but it's hard doing everything with the left hand even though I'm left-handed.

 

[Nybonsai12]

Air layering fail. Half dozen stitches under there.

 

[Anthony]

Scary, Scary, Scary.

 

[bonsaibp]

Get stuck with A BRT thorn that got infected , got some antibiotics. Then I went to Louisiana and went looking for cypress in a swamp. Not a good idea - a few days later my finger was green and couldn't be touched it hurt so much. Went to the dr and she sent me to a hand specialists who removed my fingernail, installed a tube in my finger to drain the infection. The sample they sent to the lab came back with 23 different bacterial infections. Took the whole summer to heal. Can't figure how to get pictures loaded that arent on a photo hosting site.

 

[BethF]

Then there was the time I pruned a flowering apricot and the result was simply wonderful! As I was walking backwards thinking, "I'm a genius.......," I tripped back over a cinder block, hit my head on a bench made of two-by-fours, then hit another cinder block that was lying on the ground. That required a trip to the urgent care, six staples, and a tetanus shot. And no more positive affirmations for me.

 

[sorce]

I put a rather large hole in my forehead picking up a very large RMJ with lots of pointy 300-400 year old jin... I wish I had a picture of the wound but here's the offending juni early in it's development. My forehead shortened the tree by over an inch that day.

Dav4 it might be you, I still only see these pics in my text reply screen.?

Sorce

 

[sorce]

left-handed.

Genius!

Speaking of....

This....

Scary, Scary, Scary

Sounds like genius talk for .....

Douche douche douche!

Lol!

Sorce

 

[choppychoppy]

Hatchet bounced off the rootball of a large bald cypress and went right thru a shoe and still got some foot. No shoes and I prob chop off my foot.

 

[Rusty Davis]

Yeah I'm going to unfollow this thread! Lmao

 

[sorce]

Jesus Christ!

Crazy just expanded 10 fold!

What is wrong with....

YOU PEOPLE?

Sorce

 

[Nybonsai12]

Scary, Scary, Scary.

Scary is how my wife was only really upset about me bleeding all over the deck. i still have the scar, but the layer died a season after separation. It was my very first try at layering. Not my last though!

Jesus Christ!

Crazy just expanded 10 fold!

What is wrong with....

YOU PEOPLE?

Sorce

Maybe you need to step up your game Sorce!

 

[sorce]

Scary is how my wife was only really upset about me bleeding all over the deck. i still have the scar, but the layer died a season after separation. It was my very first try at layering. Not my last though!




Maybe you need to step up your game Sorce!

I might just cut myself on purpose!

Sorce

 

[discusmike]

I about cut a finger off once with scissors,I used duck tape to hold the skins together till it healed enough to remove

 

[Shima]

Genius!

Yep!

 

[Relknes]

I about cut a finger off once with scissors,I used duck tape to hold the skins together till it healed enough to remove

Grafting apparently works on people too!