Don't like hurting my self

[37chief]

Fixing something on my tractor it is not uncommon to cut or scrap my self and start bleeding. Today I injured my self twice, not working on my tractor, but Just walking through my screen door, and it slammed shut on my arm, and made a nice cut. Then setting a rat trap it went off and made a nice cut on my finger. I noticed as I get older my skin is very thin, and it doesn't take much to draw blood. You old guys notice this also? Stan

 

[Bob Bancroft]

Fixing something on my tractor it is not uncommon to cut or scrap my self and start bleeding. Today I injured my self twice, not working on my tractor, but Just walking through my screen door, and it slammed shut on my arm, and made a nice cut. Then setting a rat trap it went off and made a nice cut on my finger. I noticed as I get older my skin is very thin, and it doesn't take much to draw blood. You old guys notice this also? Stan

Yes. Doctor confirmed that old, thin skin is a real thing.

 

[Fawteen]

That and BP meds. Cuts and scrapes that I used to ignore now bleed like I've been stabbed. Annoying.

 

[John in MD]

I refer to it as signing my work. Everything I do seems to be signed with blood.

 

[timcasbolt]

Taking steroids makes it worse.

 

[Ray,IN]

That and BP meds. Cuts and scrapes that I used to ignore now bleed like I've been stabbed. Annoying.

Yep, just getting up off the concrete floor in my garage tears the skin on my elbows/forearms, and I don't even know it happened. Go in the house for lunch and DW about has a panic attack when she sees blood-soaked shirt sleeves.

 

[Steve in VA]

Fixing something on my tractor it is not uncommon to cut or scrap my self and start bleeding. Today I injured my self twice, not working on my tractor, but Just walking through my screen door, and it slammed shut on my arm, and made a nice cut. Then setting a rat trap it went off and made a nice cut on my finger. I noticed as I get older my skin is very thin, and it doesn't take much to draw blood. You old guys notice this also? Stan

It seems I'm constantly seeping blood from some bump, bruises, or cut.

 

[Dick L]

Fixing something on my tractor it is not uncommon to cut or scrap my self and start bleeding. Today I injured my self twice, not working on my tractor, but Just walking through my screen door, and it slammed shut on my arm, and made a nice cut. Then setting a rat trap it went off and made a nice cut on my finger. I noticed as I get older my skin is very thin, and it doesn't take much to draw blood. You old guys notice this also? Stan

Yes sir: I tell people that if you have horses your going to bleed. My hands and arms have white spots and areas where the skin was slid off. Most from rope raking across or just getting real tight. I normally dump some alcohol over it and cover it with band Aids or what is needed until it heals.

 

[Vito]

Not that old but still do leak on occasion at work. A double whammy is truly annoying.

Vito

 

[560Dennis]

I try to use the 5 mill black latex gloves for such an event .

 

[rrlund]

My hands look like hamburger today. I was messing with one of the antique tractors Sunday and took some hide off the back of my right hand. Monday, the wife and I unrolled two new rolls of woven wire and stretched it up on both sides of the lane. Tuesday, I put all of the wire clips on and tightened the barbed wire on top. I hate wearing leather gloves to work with those clips, they're too bulky. I'm surprised I didn't bleed out. Good thing I don't bleed very long.

 

[Oregon Tractor Jack]

Try cutting down a blackberry bush that had grown in the wife's roses. Between the two of them I looked like a slasher victim.

OTJ

 

[jdeere562]

I bruise and bleed, if I look at wrenches!

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

That and BP meds. Cuts and scrapes that I used to ignore now bleed like I've been stabbed. Annoying.

Agreed!

I shave with an electric shears, nick myself in a few spots & I look like a rookie that tried using a straight edge.

Which, coincidentally.... stays in the drawer these days.

Mike