question for married mechanics

When I was in the navy I almost left a finger on the ladder down to my shop.
I haven't worn one at work since.
I discussed this with my current wife and she understands. I keep my ring on a holder on her nightstand and only wear it on my weekends off if at all.

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I wore my wedding ring for the first few years but took it off after countless snags and bruises. I constantly caught the ring on the rabbit cages when I was cleaning, and spent many hours icing down my swollen ring finger. When I picked up auto mechanics as a hobby, the ring came off permenantly as I didn't fancy the idea of the ring catching on something, especially while working on a well-warmed up engine. I got so used to not wearing it that it ended up in a ring box and has been missing for over 10 years.

I take mine off frequently to work on stuff, plus I don't want it growing to me. I showed DW the pictures posted above and she said I should take it off more.

I always bend mine when lifting heavy things. I keep a Morse taper adapter handy to get it round again.

I take mine off when I work on the car and when I am running machinery.
Tried to wear it at first, but scrubbing grease and scrudge out of that little diamond is a pain, and I am always scared of breaking the diamond off and losing it.

When my lovely wife and I were married almost 29 years ago we bought fancy and expensive rings. Mine has 5 diamond chips in it alone.. and is white gold. I wore it for the first week or so and only put it on occasionally now. The reason for this is when we were married I was in the Airborne and working on artillery pieces, not a good idea to wear a ring. Then after I left the military I went to work as a miller in a flour mill, again not a good idea to wear a ring around all the machinery.. She doesn't wear hers because she was working as a cook and baker and all that dough in her rings just wasn't good... So now we have a pair of barely worn rings with diamonds and gold..but we have memories of a lifetime... I'll leave the ring off and take the memories...

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Wonderful sentiment! I had a co-worker who gave me grief once for not wearing my wedding ring. I told her if I needed a ring to remind myself that I'm married then maybe I shouldn't be married in the first place

Working in machine shops my whole life, I never wear jewelry. Many places prohibit it. The problem is, if I wear it on the weekend, I forget to take it off. Come Monday, I throw it in my toolbox- not a good thing. So it lives at home.

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Gold is soft,you can cut a ring off easily with side cutters,and you can get to them even if they are tightly on the finger.Easier than a ring cutter actually.

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Hey.

My wife makes me wear my wedding ring thru the nose;-)

RF

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Wow, good God Northman, that WAS gruesome.

I wear mine when working, but usually slip it off at some point, more to keep from scratching it or grubbing it up than to prevent injury. There's some delicate detail that's just worn off from wearing it, rubbing it up against skin and fabric and whatnot... by the time I'm old it'll be about smooth, but I want it to stay as nice as I can. Probably best way to do that is to keep it OFF!

I always said, "I have too many 'tattoos' already" (scars from working on stuff, stitches, etc), but I think if Pony would be good with it, I could sit for my one-and-only tattoo of a ring on my ring finger, to save the finger! I've always heard what I've considered 'scare stories' about damaged and missing fingers from ring accidents, but whoof, I'm a believer now!

Been married 32 yrs and have seldom been without one. My first was a nice wheat scrolled gold one that soon wore to nothing. Picked up a stainless flat plain ring that fits vey snuggly. It often gets bent and I just take pliers and reshape it. In the Marines as a mechanic we were not allowed any rings. Have seen pics of dropped fingers when they got shorted on 24 volt systems. I2 will do the same. My wife's aunt lost her ring finger on a nail in a loft when she tried to jump out. They are not safe but like someone above I try to be very careful where I put my hands. wc