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Posted: 12/14/2013 1:17:56 PM EDT
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Similar thing happened to me just about 6 weeks ago. Middle finger and index finger on my left hand. Pretty damn lucky, I only lost part of the nail bed on my middle finger took a bit of the bone and just nicked the end of the index. Was pretty awful for a week or two. Got a pic if you sorry suckers want to see it...
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Posted: 12/14/2013 1:23:32 PM EDT
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A cousin had his thumb shortened from water skiing.
Rope looped around the end of his thumb and took off the last joint. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 1:43:13 PM EDT
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A cousin had his thumb shortened from water skiing. Rope looped around the end of his thumb and took off the last joint. We do a lot of multiple tube tubing and the ropes are always a concern. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 1:45:46 PM EDT
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I only have half a thumb
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Posted: 12/14/2013 1:53:42 PM EDT
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I shoved two fingers into my table saw about 15 years back...
Drove myself to the ER. Wife came home and found the phone book open to hospitals and with blood on the floor. I had to call the local hospital to make sure they took my insurance  .
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Posted: 12/14/2013 2:20:17 PM EDT
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My old shop teacher back in high school gave everyone a lecture on the first day of class. He explained that if you are going to cut off a finger, make sure it isn't your thumb or else you would have to hold your member like a cigarette while you pee. Needless to say, that lecture stuck with us so we were ultra careful while using saws so no one cut off a thumb or finger. Fast forward a couple of years and the old teacher retires. There is a new shop teacher that didn't give "the" lecture. Within a month a student cuts off his thumb.
That is just one more reason why being p.c. is dooming this country. ETA: Apparently you didn't get that lecture or you skipped school that day. |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 2:27:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/14/2013 2:30:35 PM EDT
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Rule #1: All saws are always loaded.
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Posted: 12/14/2013 2:48:09 PM EDT
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I saw a kid in Industrial Arts class in Jr high, many years ago, take off the pinky and the 2 next to it on a band saw, before he realized what was happening. Shit happens real fast.
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Posted: 12/14/2013 2:52:47 PM EDT
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Cool story.
1.75 thumbs up.
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Posted: 12/14/2013 2:58:32 PM EDT
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A great episode of King of the Hill when Dale cut his fingers off in a table saw and they were still holding his cigarette.
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Posted: 12/14/2013 3:28:33 PM EDT
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A great episode of King of the Hill when Dale cut his fingers off in a table saw and they were still holding his cigarette. 
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Posted: 12/14/2013 3:40:36 PM EDT
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Cool story! Gimme a high 4 1/2!
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Posted: 12/14/2013 3:42:56 PM EDT
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To this day, the guy at the lumber yard calls me Stumpy. 
He's a friend, too. No, they didn't sew it back on. I was lucky. I have full use of what's left, and the joint wasn't affected. This happened years ago. The irony? I had recently made two really cool push sticks to use with the saw. Didn't want to mess them up. 
as someone with a pinky shorter on the left I appreciate this |
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Posted: 12/14/2013 5:39:27 PM EDT
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A great episode of King of the Hill when Dale cut his fingers off in a table saw and they were still holding his cigarette.  http://youtu.be/_NSAH0TOmVAYeah, something like that.
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Posted: 12/14/2013 5:41:26 PM EDT
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So, was it in the merry, merry month of May?
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Posted: 12/14/2013 5:55:58 PM EDT
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My wife de-gloved her pinkie finger in a Labor Day boat accident a few years ago. She told them not to bother reattaching it. They made her wait three days with a huge gauze bandage on her hand before bringing her back to shave the bone down to the first joint and reattach the tendons, etc. I was calling her stumpy in the hospital.
She still wears band-aids over it every day. She says they keep it warm and for some reason she doesn't bump it with the band-aids in place. |
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