Fasted2629
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Well last July 3, 2014 my girlfriend tells me she is gong to dinner with coworkers so I get the night to fly my planes. I have 3 planes and 7 batteries and a field charger. I did the math I could easily fly for 5 hours and have a blast doing it. I pack up and go to the field. I start flying with no issues wind is not bad and the day is perfect. Then it starts... My J3 Supercub just quits so I go to the bloody wonder and right back up. I landed kind of hard and bent a prop. I change batteries and prop but I notice a wobble in the prop I had never noticed before so I investigate. This is where it all goes south. I start adjusting my prop adaptor on the motor trying to straighten the wobble. I can't do that without the prop on so im being very careful. I am tapping the throttle to get the prop to spin looking for the high side of the wobble to try to fix it and it happens. I some how manage to give it to much throttle and the plans moved forward ad hits my hand before I can kill the throttle. I instinctively pull my hand back and then I feel the wetness of the Blood running through my fingers. I get up and run to my truck looking for a rag but I don't have anything but two McDonalds napkins I clean it off and look. It hit my right index finger and cut it to the bone. I will say it is definitely hard trying to pack up the truck with only one hand and trying to not bleed on everything. I was lucky the Pain was more than I expected but I was flying less than a mile from the ER. I got to spend the rest of my night sitting in the hospital getting stitched up. Lesson Learned....... Don't do any prop work like that with the prop attached without making sure the plane cant move...