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I nearly lost 2 fingers about 10 years ago, funnily enough that was because of a Rover. The wife had a 214 and I has doing some body repairs, and dripped over an extension lead, went to grab the side gate which is wrought iron, and has a wrought iron fence beside it, my right hand grabbed the hinge area, and by left hand grabbed the catch area. The gate was not on its catch and gravity forced the gate open as I fell against it, thus closing the gap on the hinge area where my fingers were. The pain was intense, and I was scared to release the gate in case my fingers fell off. Went to hospital ,result 2 broken fingers ring and middle, got cleaned up and patched up then sent to plastics clinic, had an operation to stitch the gap on my ring finger,and they had to cut all the way from bottom of nail to palm, as otherwise my finger would heal bent instead of straight.
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Sorry to hear this Ian
Was it Salisbury they sent you to ? If so you should have rung me - I could have snuck you out for a few pints of Ringwood in the Radnor Arms. |
25th April 2017, 17:17 | #15 |
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Ouch! I always like to work with my "6 inchs of space between any part of me and the moving part of wood working machinery".
Look on the bright side: you'll recover soon enough and you'll be the same decent guy. But your mother in law and brother in law will always be A holes. |
25th April 2017, 17:51 | #16 |
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All it takes is a fraction of a second to do yourself some serious injury.
I managed to take all the top layers off my wrist with a grinder when I was cutting through the rear suspension top bolt on the 75. It missed a main vein by a fraction but I knew it was a bad one so went straight into the house and cleaned it up as best I could. When the missus come home she gave me an earful then dressed it properly (she's a nurse) well retired now. Home you make a speedy recovery and learn from your experience. |
25th April 2017, 21:12 | #17 |
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25th April 2017, 21:26 | #18 |
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Yep
Once again I have some insight, I was welding a panel onto an old class 37 loco, one of the clamps popped and it slid sideways, I got most of my hand clear but it bit off the tip of my finger. It was painful at the time but now you'd never know. I thought the nail would never grow properly again but it does, it was the fastest I ever had a nail clipped for sure.
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25th April 2017, 21:58 | #19 |
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When I was doing my restoration on the SD1 Vitesse I had the car about three feet off the ground.
I had been using the Mig a lot so there was the usual cut offs of welding wire lying on the carpet I used to lay on. I was rolling from underneath the car when I felt a sharp pain in my hand and found it was one of those cut offs. What really shocked me was the length of it as I pulled it out of my hand. It had gone in almost three inches but as it was relatively clean I only suffered a slight pain for a few days. |
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I was lowering a KV6 engine into an engine bay once, stuck on the engine mount, ill just give it a nudge with my finger I thought...
Yep it bit me,,,, still have the scar.
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