biggs682
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no my bottom , i can be squeamish under all my machoness
Has anyone ever cut the top of their finger off diagonally through the middle of the nail?
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slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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Oh dear Maggot! I send my best wishes. I once fed the end of my index finger into an industrial bandsaw. ( You have to be spectactularly stupid to do that, BTW. ) Apart from a certain amount of pain and an alarming leakage of blood, I got off very lightly.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
My dad was late coming back from work one night. He'd been to hospital after somehow managing to get his hand into a planing machine and planing the tops of two fingers off across the middle of the nails. He'd had lots of injuries over the years - badly broken arms and legs, smashed fingers, broken ribs and so on, but he said losing his fingertips was the most painful of the lot!
I believed him - I'd had a very painful experience with one of my fingers. After a particularly boring school lesson, I was one of the first to head for the door when the bell sounded. Somebody tripped me from behind and I fell towards the frame of the door. I stuck my hand out to break my fall but it turned out that the door frame was split and a huge splinter went under the nail of the middle finger on my right hand and emerged the other side! It was somewhat painful ... I wouldn't let anybody touch it. Eventually the pain got too much and I cut most of my nail off with a Stanley knife to get the splinter out. That was, er, somewhat painful too! I could see why torturers use that technique.
So, I feel your pain Maggot. Or rather, I did - GWS!
I believed him - I'd had a very painful experience with one of my fingers. After a particularly boring school lesson, I was one of the first to head for the door when the bell sounded. Somebody tripped me from behind and I fell towards the frame of the door. I stuck my hand out to break my fall but it turned out that the door frame was split and a huge splinter went under the nail of the middle finger on my right hand and emerged the other side! It was somewhat painful ... I wouldn't let anybody touch it. Eventually the pain got too much and I cut most of my nail off with a Stanley knife to get the splinter out. That was, er, somewhat painful too! I could see why torturers use that technique.
So, I feel your pain Maggot. Or rather, I did - GWS!
Night Train
Maker of Things
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- Greater Manchester
GWS Maggot!
When I was a little kid playing on one of Dad's restaurant building sites I watched a carpenter on a nearly cut his thumb off with a big circular saw.
He was being lazy and wanted to cut a short scrap of 2"x1" stick. He held the stick over his leg as he crouched on the floor and then, not having a handsaw in reach, picked up the circular saw. The saw jumped as it caught the stick and landed on his thumb.
The blade had few but large teeth and the hook of a tooth caught on his thumb bone and jammed the saw. The pain made him jump and he pulled the saw away stripping the flesh off his thumb leaving it almost bare bone and tatters.
I have been cautious of circular saws ever since.
When I was a little kid playing on one of Dad's restaurant building sites I watched a carpenter on a nearly cut his thumb off with a big circular saw.
He was being lazy and wanted to cut a short scrap of 2"x1" stick. He held the stick over his leg as he crouched on the floor and then, not having a handsaw in reach, picked up the circular saw. The saw jumped as it caught the stick and landed on his thumb.
The blade had few but large teeth and the hook of a tooth caught on his thumb bone and jammed the saw. The pain made him jump and he pulled the saw away stripping the flesh off his thumb leaving it almost bare bone and tatters.
I have been cautious of circular saws ever since.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I worked in a factory for 5 years and a wood machinist there used to trim his nails on his circular saw!
One day, I watched him risk a horrible death. There was lots of sawdust and debris lying around on the ground below his circular saw bench and it would have been very easy for him to slip on it. He needed some rectangular pallets but all we had was a pile of square ones twice the size he needed. He decided to cut them in half.
He took the guard off his saw and wound the blade up until it was sticking out from the saw bench just more than the thickness of a pallet. He started the saw and was shoving a pallet through and the saw was almost stalling from the strain of making such a deep cut. The machinist was a big strong man, about 6' 3" tall and he was using all his strength to force the pallet through.
I could see exactly what could happen ... the last of the pallet is suddenly cut through and shoots forward exposing the spinning blade. the machinist's foot slips on the sawdust and he falls forward onto the exposed sawblade. It cuts through the front of his face, his throat or his ribcage, he dies in front of me ...
I couldn't watch, so I turned to walk away. I heard the saw blade suddenly rev back up to full speed, there was the clunk of a pallet falling to the floor and a yelp of fear from behind me. I turned and saw the machinist standing there shaking.
He grinned nervously and said "Oops - that was a bit close!"
Judderz
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Yep...but completely chopped off down to first knuckle...as posted in another thread:
http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/post-a-trivial-fact-about-yourself.97586/post-1762144
http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/post-a-trivial-fact-about-yourself.97586/post-1762144
slowmotion
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
[QUOTE 1812283, member: 9609"]Done something pretty stupid last Friday with a circular saw; I have been doing this for years and have always thought it a bit risky, instead of marking the wood with a pencil I lay the ruler ontop of the wood to align it within the saw, when in correct position I remove ruler and cut wood.[/quote]
I was about to comment on what a daft thing to do that was and then I remembered trying to unblock a paper shredder with a sharp serrated kitchen knife last year.
While the shredder was still switched on ...
I was about to comment on what a daft thing to do that was and then I remembered trying to unblock a paper shredder with a sharp serrated kitchen knife last year.
While the shredder was still switched on ...
slowmotion
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Yep. A friend was in a tank regiment. He jumped off his turret and his signet ring caught on the edge of it. The ring and all the flesh above it stayed on the tank. The bone in his finger and the rest of him landed on the ground. The surgeon said "I think we'll take that little bit of bone off".
It's getting a bit gory, isn't it?
It's getting a bit gory, isn't it?
HLaB
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Ouch. The worst I've done to the finger, is to take an appendicitis on ice skates causing me to double over in pain and in doing so put the ice skate through my thumb, it was bl00dy sore but I had another pain to take my mind off it 
Its left an approximately 10mm by 5mm scar.
My Brother posted this the other day
But as I told him calm down, thats nothing compared to Awang's Splinter
Its left an approximately 10mm by 5mm scar.My Brother posted this the other day
But as I told him calm down, thats nothing compared to Awang's Splinter
slowmotion
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This thread is starting to remind me of a conversation on the next door table at an idyllic beach bar somewhere quite warm that we were forced to listen to, about five years ago. The main speaker was a very loud Australian bloke and his immediate audience was a girl he had seemingly just met. He was attempting to impress her with the various industrial accidents that he had seen.
"The cover was loose and he fell head first into a septic tank" failed to impress her.
" You should have seen the jelly coming out of his eyeball " probably sealed his fate. No leg-over for the Aussie that night, I suspect.
"The cover was loose and he fell head first into a septic tank" failed to impress her.
" You should have seen the jelly coming out of his eyeball " probably sealed his fate. No leg-over for the Aussie that night, I suspect.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
