Has anyone ever cut the top of their finger off diagonally through the middle of the nail?

[steve52]

yes, i have. 4 years ago and i still have a diagonal finger tip. Still it hasent effected me im any way, that you would notice, im off to chase the monkeys now befor the dolphins get them, cya,

 

[asterix]

Never! But I did get my finger between a 5kg hammer and the end of a large bar. I'd a leather gauntlet and although it hurt a lot I carried on for a bit till I noticed the blood seeping through the glove. The impact had split the side of my finger fortunately the bone was ok. Not much to be done really so I wrapped a bit of kitchen roll round it and went on working as a kind of therapy. Should have taken a picture (the side of my finger still has a hard lump a yr later) although I still use the gauntlets.

 

[Night Train]

I've not had any horrific 'cutting open/off' injuries myself but I did have a friend who accidentally bounced a large stone gate post, that was on a trolley, onto my little finger.

I was wearing work gloves and my finger tip burst open in a squashed tomato style. I had a blood filled glove for a bit before I could summon up the courage to have a look.
At the hospital the nurse used my fingernail as a splint and just shoved all the red bits underneath it before taping it up. Now it looks fine, with the scar running around the fingernail and under it. It is now slightly bigger then the one on the other hand.

 

[mickle]

I came close to severing the tops of two of my fingers off on the front derailleur once riding a (black) recumbent with underseat steering (whilst wearing all black, at night, with no lights whilst being chased by the police. It involved the front of a Volvo which had run a red light. And some very powerful LSD.

Those were the days...

 

[fossyant]

I've not had any horrific 'cutting open/off' injuries myself but I did have a friend who accidentally bounced a large stone gate post, that was on a trolley, onto my little finger.

Same here - only ever dropped a 2 foot by 3 foot concrete slab on my ring finger - the tip was somewhat flat, and oh my did it sting. It still hurts a little now, some 8 years later. I've sliced open my knuckle on the same finger twice. The problem is now, it's difficult to get the wedding ring to go over the scar tissue in my knuckle - had a new one made and that fell off - hoping to find it in the garden one day. My original one won't go over the knuckle. My missus was none too impressed.

 

[RaRa]

I feel for your pain and wish you a speedy recovery.

Over the years I've had some nasty accidents caused by my own stupidity, one of which was when I severed one finger and partially severed another by getting my hand stuck in an electric garage door mechanism Thankfully they were both reattached but my ten pin bowling career was over

On the plus side I went to a job interview as a grad a few days later and the 3 people interviewing me were so horrified by my story that I stuck in their memory and after a week of interviewing over 300 applicants they gave me the job!

 

[Andy_R]

I used to work for a landscaping firm many years ago. To cut a painful story short, one of the landscapers was assigmed the onerous job of stump removal from a soon to be recreation area. After a few days, he developed a "sure fire" way of removing tree stumps. He obtained a chain ratchet and a series of crane straps. His idea was to fasten the crane straps to two or three tree trunks at a time, attach them to the anchored end of the ratchet and use another strap around the offending stump attached to the business end of the ratchet. He got about 4 stumps out before he had a slight mishap. He discovered that the ratchet had a habit of slipping if the chain was allowed to fall in a particular way, so he decided to hold the chain in one hand whilst ratchetting away with the other. Unfortunately the chain slipped fairly specactulary, trapping his thumb which had no where to go but with the chain. In hospital, the surgeon is said to have commented that it was the neatest self amputation of a digit he had ever seen, but unfortunately the bones of the thumb (which had been brought to the hospital with great care) were so badly shattered that it was pointless trying to reattach it.

 

[fossyant]

I In hospital, the surgeon is said to have commented that it was the neatest self amputation of a digit he had ever seen, but unfortunately the bones of the thumb (which had been brought to the hospital with great care) were so badly shattered that it was pointless trying to reattach it.

OK, that's enough

 

[coffeejo]

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

Saves me having to repost my story. I'd use the "thumbs up" smilie but I think that's taking it too far...

 

[Dewi]

Best (or worst) incident I ever heard when working on building sites was putting temporary fence posts up by using the bucket on the back of a JCB to 'knoch them in' - works well as long as you don't forget and hold the top of the post with your hand as the JCB bucket comes down

My mate has just lost two and a half fingers in his bench planer/thicknesser machine, he knows he should have adjusted the guards better but he was working a big lump of timber If it had been a chop saw they might have been able to have them stuck back on but with the planer it was just mush...

 

[Baggy]

How is the finger now Maggot? Are you still able to ride a bike and eat cake for the Merry Monk on Sunday?

 

[ushills]

Yep, I have with a patio door when about 12.

Hand on handle, finger still in u shape of large aluminum patio door on rollers, slam door, chop through finger and crush nail, The tip of my finger was hanging off with the bone visible and was only held on by the nail.

Trip to A&E for treatment, nice scar but no residual issue, then again I am 40.

 

[Globalti]

My most stupid injury was when I walked backwards out of a lorry with a ton of cough linctus on a pallet truck. I waited until I was actually hanging out of the back of the lorry from the handle of the pallet truck before pulling the handle that dumped it on the floor - a stupid enough act at the best of times but then I jumped off backwards without checking behind me! Unknown to me the fork truck driver had already come up ready to take the pallet so I landed with a leg each side of one of the tines, fair and square on the base of my spine. The shockwave that went up my back was swiftly replaced by the pain and I couldn't sit comfortably for several months. Stupid; really stupid.

 

[Arjimlad]

My Dad almost chopped the top of his thumb off with a chainsaw when I was a lad, and I saw the photos of a de-gloving injury when a twit stepped onto a blocked, but turned on, conveyor belt. His foot went through the belt and the base underneath, the belt started up and it degloved his calf bone rather neatly

 

[gbb]

Hope its getting better Maggot...
Two for me...
Dad did cut the tip off his finger as described...he was an artist who framed his own paintings. Cutting a board with a heavy straight edge and a stanley knife, one hand pressing on the straight edge, other cutting. Sadly he didnt realise he'd left his fingertip hanging over the straight edge....to be cleanly cut off by a very sharp blade. He shoved the severed tip back on, strapped it up tight and didnt dare look for a week (he's remarkably squeemish). When he did, it was clean and almost healed perfectly.

Mine was undoing those b'stard heavy plastic cases they enclose venetian blinds in. Cutting it open with a stanley knife...struggling with the b'stard strength of the plastic...all of a sudden the knife skittered off in an instant...cutting a perfect circle out of my finger nail, just down to the pink flesh, which quickly welled up with blood. Just the depth of the nail, no more. I shouted 'B'stard..b'stard', clamped my cut finger tightly in the other hand and ran up and down the landing, blood oozing out of my tightly clamped fingers. Running ??? why ?? where ???.. I never figured that one out.
When you try and reproduce the action that would have allowed that to happen, the angles, the twists to get there'', i couldnt figure out how the hell i did it.