Last Friday me and my wife head on to catch some walleye on Erie. Back the sled off the trailer and load the Otter. Get all loaded up and head out. Run about 5 miles and I’m ready to catch some walleye. Erie makes me all giddy and I am always in a hurry. My 10″ Lazer Mag is mounted on the back of the sled. I take the blade cover off, fire it up and drill our holes. I’m in a hurry to start fishing so I lean the Lazer Mag against the snowmobile rack on the back. Well we weren’t marking any fish, so I come out of the otter going to the snowmobile to check the gps. Then it happens. I actually slip on the ice and nothing I can do, I’m gonna fall. While falling I extend my right arm out to catch myself and when my fat body hit the ice somehow my wrist slid right across the bottom of the auger. Remind you, not the outside of my wrist but the inside! I look over at my wrist where all the veins are and there is a mark on my wrist where the auger ran against it. As some serious luck and help from the man upstairs, my wrist actually ran across the back of the cutting blades and not the front where they are sharp! I just sat there and stared at the blades as I realized that could have been the end for me if the auger would have been turned slightly different. My second thought was, “why did you not take Randy’s advice on IDO you dumb azz!” Two takeaways for me from that incident. #1 I will never ignore threads that talk about safety. #2 As soon as I am done drilling holes, the blade cover is going on that auger and the auger will be stored back on the sled. I NEVER thought in a million years that I could actually have my wrist slide against the blades of an auger, but it did. Not only could I not be here, but imagine if the blades sliced my wrist and my poor wife would have had to deal with that blood everywhere, her husband bleeding out 5 miles out on Erie. Shame on me!
February 5, 2015 at 5:22 am
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