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[ValeTudoGuy]

Yeah, Pig skin seems quite a bit firmer... I tried Chicken skin but that was too soft. As much as anything it's just another skill to have. I don't actually want to have to ever use it.

[ValeTudoGuy]

Couldn't you just take one of these?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Star-Trek-...item27e9a864a0

I don't watch Star Trek, what's one of them doohickeys do?

[Simon Bolivar]

Duty Medic here, someone called? OK VTG, I can send you a vial of human tissue glue. I keep it for fishing accidents & have used it successfully on myself. Don't bother with sutures, haven't used them for yrs on real patients so can't see a situation in the UK, when you'd ever need to used them. If it's too be a wound for the glue, you need to dress & bandage it & abandon your trip & get to medical aid. Carry phone/GPS radio/watch if really remote, more useful. SP services will supply any medical kit you need in small quantities, I have used them myself. One really useful bit of kit is the Paramedic shears, these cut through riggers boots, clothing, pinkies! I don't carry a knife these days, but can do everything with these, from cutting up mackerel, to cutting wire traces or cutting back vegetation.
Here's an example of the glue, had this rather frisky 12lb'er up on Loch Fad a few yrs ago. It managed to start thrashing in the boat & an external treble hook from my lure caught my finger tip & the good new was that it ripped right through my finger pad. The bad news would have been, just having it embeded in my finger pad, with a thrashing pike still attached to the lure! Which would have meant trying to cut through the large treble with my hook cutters, a tricky on handed job in these circumstances, I am sure you can appreciate.

In the photo with the pike, you can see I have wrapped a towel around my finger to staunch the blood flow, unhooked the pike, taken the photo & then returned the fish. Anchored up, cleaned would with antiseptic solution, & applied glue. Once set covered in water proof dressing & then put on a latex glove. Without the glue I would have had to go back to base & seek out the local cottage A&E & lost most of the day's expensive fishing. This I assume, is the sort of interuption you are hoping to avoid yourself, 'out in the sticks'.

Two days later, after keeping it as dry & clean as possible, I took off the dressing & my finger was white & wrinkly (like after a bath) but after exposing overnight whilst in bed, it looked perfectly normal in the morning & I was able to check-in for my hitch the next day without comment. The scar is now almost invisible & I have carried a tube or two ever since.

[EdBlackadder]

Yeah, Pig skin seems quite a bit firmer... I tried Chicken skin but that was too soft. As much as anything it's just another skill to have. I don't actually want to have to ever use it.

Chicken skin is absolutely nothing like human skin, you aren't wrong. Simon's suggestions about getting enough closure on the wound to get back to civilisation is pretty sensible.

I did once meet a guy who stitched a nasty cut on his arm up with fishing wire and a needle. Scar was horrendous and I really have no idea why he decided to do that because he was in Derbyshire.

[ValeTudoGuy]

Simon, your ability to put into words a situation that is very similar to what's in my head is just amazing.... Thank you.

I don't use barbed hooks now because I once had to pull one through far enough to clip the point off to get it out. Luckily it wasn't a big pike treble.

[ValeTudoGuy]

I did once meet a guy who stitched a nasty cut on his arm up with fishing wire and a needle. Scar was horrendous and I really have no idea why he decided to do that because he was in Derbyshire.

I guess some people are just wired up that way (excuse the pun.) my Grandad flat out refuses to seek medical help, I remember one Christmas he was in serious pain eating Christmas dinner due to a problem with a tooth we had been trying to get him to get sorted by a dentist for literally months... Well half way through Christmas dinner he had enough so he went out to the shed and pulled it out with a set of mole grips.

He just came back in and was like, 'That's better' and finished his dinner.

[EdBlackadder]

I guess some people are just wired up that way (excuse the pun.) my Grandad flat out refuses to seek medical help, I remember one Christmas he was in serious pain eating Christmas dinner due to a problem with a tooth we had been trying to get him to get sorted by a dentist for literally months... Well half way through Christmas dinner he had enough so he went out to the shed and pulled it out with a set of mole grips.

He just came back in and was like, 'That's better' and finished his dinner.

Yeah, some people have some odd ideas. I once met a fellow who slept through 4 days of fever and stench without taking off his socks to show his gangrenous foot. Funnily enough spraying Lynx on your sock isn't a replacement for surgical debridement....

[Tucky]

The paramedic shears you speak of Simon are there good and bad ones or are they all the same? I'm looking to build a kit for my van. Managed to get hold of a American battlefield kit which contains celox and the tourniquet dressings etc but I don't remember it having shears.

[ValeTudoGuy]

Yeah, some people have some odd ideas. I once met a fellow who slept through 4 days of fever and stench without taking off his socks to show his gangrenous foot. Funnily enough spraying Lynx on your sock isn't a replacement for surgical debridement....

What a silly bugger, all he needed to do was get that sock off and let a couple flies have at it...... Home maggot therapy!

[ValeTudoGuy]

Simon, that shop is excellent! They do literally have everything.

They even have a '40 Body Mobile Refrigerated Mortuary Unit' that I'm praying I never have to see in the flesh.

http://www.spservices.co.uk/item/Brand_MobileRefrigeratedMortuaryUnit_81_0_2557_1.html

[Simon Bolivar]

Tucky, http://www.spservices.co.uk/item/Bra...5_0_481_1.html
These are fine, there are more expensive versions they offer but these cover my needs. so cheap buy half a dozen & make the most of the postage charge.
Mark, send me a reminder before 15th Sept & I'll pop the glue in the post.

[Tucky]

Thanks Simon, hoping its stuff I'll never need but playing with chainsaws for a living it's better to be prepared.

[Simon Bolivar]

Ha, you'll like these pics then that I took for H&S lectures. All our H&S laws come form Brussels but the Belgians just don't enforce them themselves. Here's a clown from the council, removing all the branches of the trees in our street so the leaves don't fall & block the drains every year. The only ppe he's got is hearing protection & I was surprised he had that. No suitable gloves (he has his hand in the branches pulling bits out very close to is blade), no leg guards, ect. Our house is the one on the corner.

[Tucky]

Well it's mostly a little better than that over here. Leg protection/ chainsaw trousers are unanimous along with helmets with built in ear defenders and either a visor or goggles. Chainsaw gloves are not so common and not really considered 'mandatory' especially for climbers, it's bloody hard to open carabiners in them etc. protective boots are also compulsory which is no bad thing, often your feet are closest to the chain whist cutting up.
So I'd say it looks like we're a bit better over here mate, still the odd yahoo mind.

[mattyhall22]

I think we will see Marc on an episode of "Doomsday preppers" he will be sitting in a buried concrete pipe clutching his first aid kit and a box of Dippy 4s