Ladder started to settle into the just thawing soil as I made a cut w/ a razor saw, I took the last 1/32" of my left pinkie and the branch. Sorry, no pictures!!
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I shortened my thumb by 1/32" pruning my kiwis once. I was very quickly cutting many vines and lost track of my fingers.
Watch out, those blades are sharp!
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I did something similar only worse last summer. I was on the ground summer pruning, not in a hurry at all and managed to cut the end of my left ring finger to the bone. I was trying to be careful but while holding a branch my left hand slipped and occupied the same exact space as my Felco’s just as I was making the cut! …You guessed it, the Felco’s won! I thought about posting pics as a lesson to everyone but figured it would be too gory. So, I literally do/did feel your pain!
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Shorten that to 18 syllables and you’d have a nice haiku …
Ladder settling thawing soil razor saw
left pinkie 32nd shorter -branch too!
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Thanks!!
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Your fingers have so many nerves in them too, hurt like heck I bet.
Blood vessels, too
I did it to my thumb this xmas, cutting bagels
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I broke my ring finger in 2010 in three pieces and it got infected. I had to go to the doctor to prescribe me antibiotics.
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I’m glad it was only a small amount. That should heal up. When you start shortening bone I’m out…probably passed out…lol
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Yes, when my old time neighbor cut tips of his two fingers with circular saw he came to me for help and passed out right over me. And he was a big boy, literally big!
My dad had his right index finger chopped off with an ax at the middle joint when he was 9 years old. He said it didn’t really hurt that bad when it happened but a week later he was laying on the floor reading and his sister stepped on it accidentally, I’m not sure he had words for how bad that hurt.
I too was on a ladder pruning. Fiskar pruning saw and slipped. Daughter and wife watching and holding ladder. Happened quick and first reaction “don’t know why” was to put my finger tip in my mouth. Well imagine the rest of the story. I still have no feeling on the tip of my middle finger. My daughter often reminds me when pruning.
OK, I have to get in on this one. I actually cut off my thumb with a table saw and it was only attached by skin. Surgeon was out of town and I was in hospital before surgery for 16 hours and he successfully put me back together.
After healing and when I started bowling again my average was consistently 10 pins higher (210).
Also had my ear sewn back on but it was not completely severed…………good times.
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When I was a kid my dad ran a screw nail through his finger right through the nail. At the ER they used iers to unscrew it out. I’ll always remember that.
I love, love haiku’s. Great stuff Thanks LOL.
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Pink Bagels.
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A number of years ago,I read a newspaper article about people having accidents like that,while attempting to slice bagels in half.
I had a few ideas to make to a device to prevent that,but put them on the back burner for awhile.
I happened to be in a kitchen shop a few months later and there were three or four different bagel cutting aids there.Somebody beat me to it. Brady
Great thread! Some of you have really done some impressive stuff. I need a beer for this, it’s like that scene in jaws when they are comparing scars.
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Famous last words:
“Hold my beer”
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This is my least favorite thread ever! ha. I, too, cut my finger really, really bad with a plain old bow saw while cutting a very large pear tree limb. I really hate to admit this, but when I looked down and saw the damage and blood, I lost my lunch! ha. I like to tell myself it was from the pain, but deep down I know I was just a big baby about it! It actually didn’t hurt at all for about 5 minutes…then it sure did.
BTW…for those with table saw stories, have you seen those new table saws that you can literally push your finger into and not get it injured? That blows my mind. They often use hot-dogs to demonstrate them. They shove a raw hot dog right into the blade at full speed and it doesn’t even break the skin!!! The saw is somehow able to detect that it is a finger (or finger-like object) and is somehow able to lock the blade instantly. I’m told that due to the force required to stop the blade it does some fairly expensive damage to the saw, but compared to loosing a finger, seems worth it.