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Moron thing I did this weekend ouch!

Linflas

Linflas

Lifer
I was mowing my lawn Sunday and getting very frustrated because the grasscatcher kept clogging up before I could complete one pass. I finally decided to turn the lawnmower on its side to see if there was a big clump stuck to the bottom causing all these problems but when I went to do so I grabbed the muffler with my left hand. OUCH! :| I ended up spending Sunday afternoon in the ER getting it looked at and dressed etc. I guess I am lucky I did nothing more than second degree burns to 3 of my fingers on my left hand but having only a thumb and forefinger to use for typing is a major pain. It is amazing how many things you do with 2 hands that you take for granted. All my neighbors assumed I had sliced off my foot or something since they saw the lawnmower laying in my backyard on its side with us gone. Worst thing is I was not even close to finishing the lawn and it will be even more fun with another week or 2 to grow. :frown:
 
I had a teacher in high school who did something similar - but the idiot was trying to clear out the blades...while it was still running. He lost all four fingers on one hand.

Then the following winter, another teacher did the same thing, but with a snowblower. He only lost 1 and a half fingers.

What did they have in common? Both were advanced math teachers. DOH!
 
dang man

unfortunately i don't know of the experience (never mowed lawns in my life), but dang, that musta hurt

static911
 
Oh that sucks! My husband and I were on our way home from a friends house and our exhaust was loud, so when we got home he decided to crawl under the car and check it out. He never gave a thought to it being hot, and when he got under the car (with no shirt on) he burnt his chest on the exhaust pipe! It left a very attractive 2 inch scar there. So now when people ask him how he got that scar instead of admitting his own stupidity he trys to convince them he was in a gang when he was younger and the scar is from a knife fight!
 
The only good thing about all this finger chopping is that it is a clean cut. if anyone here does woodworking, you would know if you got a hand stuck in a router, jointer, etc. it doesn't cut, it chews....at several thousand rpm. I came close once, was leaning against a router, Almost took out family jewels.
 
ouch!

that really has to suck! lucky you didn't do anything really stupid rendering your fingers sliced off or anything thou...

Asha'man
 
My dad was telling me about this kid in his shop class in highschool. They (not my dad) were messing around to see how close the could get to the blade without touching it. Well this kid got a little tooclose and cut off his finger. The teacher asked him what happened and the kid said "all i did was this"...he then proceeded to cut off his other finger! ouch:Q
 
owwww....:Q I almost got my hand stuck I a router. My fellow classmate warned my before my hand touched the moving bit going 10,000rpm.
 
ChrichtonsGirl My father in law did something similar with a snowblower but according to my wife he had some help from his friend "Johnny Walker". He was lucky and only lost his fingertips on a couple of fingers if I recall.

gittyup It is supposed to be a mulching mower which is part of the reason I was getting so annoyed. It does not mulch very well and left clumps of grass laying everywhere from the previous weeks mowing so I was bagging to get that stuff up as well.

This lawnmower is only a year old but has all the safety stuff that makes it almost impossible to get your fingers or foot in where the blade is while the mower is running unless you tape the bar down to the handle. Kind of wishing I was living in Santa Fe about now.
 
I have worked in a few ER's. You would not believe all the dumb things that people come in with. One of my favorites to date was a guy who cut his hand with a circular saw. He was cutting a piece of plywood, and had his hand under the wood to suppoert it. Only propblem was his hand was right under the line.:Q So, as you can imagin, he donated a little blood that day.🙂 He was lucky though, he only cut his hand half off, the blade depth was set just deep enough to cut through the plywood.
 
Linflas

I undersand. I used to have a mower that was suppose to be a bag and a mulching mower. To make it mulching, you inserted some plastic wedge into the discharge chute. It never worked. I now have one of those green LawBoy's. Works great.

BTW, I hope your hand feels better.
 
One time I was in a friends garage changing the oil in my car. While I was underneath the car my friend got his air compressor out and blasted it towards me. Needless to say he had a very dirty floor and I got so much sh!t in my eyes.
 
well.... sound's like fun... my dad was working on a radial arm saw once, almost dontated 4 finger's, but the blade was off.... just coasting, nicked 4 fingers, the index-finger to the bone...... yeeesh.
 
I remember when I was a physics lab assistant one summer, the experiment was using the spectrometer to anlalyze and differentiate various gas filled tubes with a charge applied to them. One tube wasn't quite lined up to view correctly so I casually took ahold of the top and bottom (where they make contact with the power source :Q) and proceeded to screech and jump in the air a few feet 😱 Needless to say my harrowing experiece was met with much... laughter from the class 😛
 
I used to work at a Sears service center and a tech grabbed a mower while it was running and cut off all eight fingers midway. The shop stank all summer because we could never clean all the blood up. He said he couldn't hear the mower running because there were many other engines running in the shop.

I also have a friend who slammed a door on his middle finger. The finger was severed on the middle joint and a dog caught the nub in mid air. The doctor in the ER laughed at that one.
 


<< When a person loses a finger in an accident is it pretty much permanent? Just wondering. >>



it depends... as stubby said, if it's a clean cut, with proper care, it can be reattached...

vascular surgeons are pretty talented... um, get one that can sew the finger back on correctly though....

realize that the finger will lose some mobility depending on where it was cut.
 
I was the student teacher type in shop class a few years ago and I was putting some finishing touches on my project. Anyway, I was working at the disk sander smoothing some corners when some fools decided to mess around. They bumped into me and a second later, I was staring at the new design on my fingers. You know that area between the first and second knuckle? Well, my index and middle fingers now didn't have any skin in those areas. Needless to say, it hurt like hell.
 
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