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Post by itsnick350 on Nov 12, 2020 23:31:18 GMT 1
Here’s mine:
I wanted to feel how coked up my rd400e piston was and thought it was a good idea to stick my finger up the exhaust port and try and move the piston via the kickstart so I could feel the top of the piston.
Managed to chop a little piece of the end of the finger as I little reminder that I can be the most stupid person in the world.
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Post by 4l04ever on Nov 12, 2020 23:36:21 GMT 1
That will sting...
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Post by JonW on Nov 12, 2020 23:41:04 GMT 1
Ouch!
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Post by steve h on Nov 12, 2020 23:58:16 GMT 1
Good job you didn't use your nudger rather than your finger.
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Post by YZR654 on Nov 13, 2020 0:43:40 GMT 1
thats a good one, very funny
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Post by doohanno1 on Nov 13, 2020 1:03:55 GMT 1
Ugh, that would cause ones' bottom end to have an automatic clean out.
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Post by stusco on Nov 13, 2020 8:46:34 GMT 1
I once had a journeyman that taught me never to move anything when you have your finger in a hole (on a job) we were trying to line up the bolt holes on a piece of machinery we were fitting,he decided to pull on the chainblock holding up the job,he now has four fingers on his righthand🥺
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Post by shaunthe2nd on Nov 13, 2020 10:01:29 GMT 1
I had a mate whose tie caught in a rotating chain on a machine, and all he could do to stop himself from being strangled was to grab the chain with his hand. He was successful but lost half of 2 fingers in doing so. After that he was known as '2 pints and 2 halves' as that was all he could order across a crowded pub!
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Post by lcmarky on Nov 13, 2020 11:43:39 GMT 1
Ouch..
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Post by chrisg on Nov 13, 2020 12:09:23 GMT 1
Reminds me of an assembly fitter at Massey Ferguson, where I worked 1979-1988, whilst trying to align a 4in1 bucket bush/pin with the link bar, he put his finger to check where the bush was and as he moved his head down, the guy in the cab thought he wanted him to move the link (under power). It took nearly all his finger off, however it was sown back on at Withington hospital and he got 80% of use back. Surprisingly not a lot of blood !
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Post by JonW on Nov 13, 2020 12:44:46 GMT 1
A guy I know from a watch forum decided to hop the fence at work rather than walk round it to exit the site. caught his wedding ring on the chain link and pulled his own finger off using his own weight. Lovely bloke too.
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Post by jackjabba on Nov 13, 2020 13:14:22 GMT 1
A guy I know from a watch forum decided to hop the fence at work rather than walk round it to exit the site. caught his wedding ring on the chain link and pulled his own finger off using his own weight. Lovely bloke too. Been there, doing house clearance training in the Mob, almost lost the wedding finger by holding onto a low hanging beam as I stepped across a large hole in the floor. A nail had gone under the wedding ring. It nearly pulled me back right over the hole with a good 12 foot drop below me. Luckily my buddy grabbed my webbing and saved the day. Thought it was going to come off. I never wore the wedding ring at work again. He still takes the piss that he saved me that day.
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Post by veg on Nov 13, 2020 13:21:14 GMT 1
Mate at work did something similar he was a dog man (canine unit) training his dog one day, he climbed an enclosed skip to put a training dummy on it for his dog to search out went to get off the skip, slipped and as he did so he reached out his wedding ring got caught on the top he fell and his body weight pulled his finger off. V nasty.
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Post by bernardo on Nov 13, 2020 13:50:17 GMT 1
My uncle caught his wedding ring jumping down from some dexion racking. They called it a degloving injury. Recovered though
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2020 14:15:23 GMT 1
Was doing brick paving at our new house about 20 years ago
Was busy tamping down a paver with a rubber mallet, something distracted me momentarily and I whacked my left thumb with the mallet, I was on a roll and did it again a fraction of a second later, two whacks with the mallet
It took the time for the second blow for the pain to register, things then went black including my thumb as I just about passed out with the pain
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Post by steve h on Nov 13, 2020 14:24:34 GMT 1
I once had a journeyman that taught me never to move anything when you have your finger in a hole (on a job) we were trying to line up the bolt holes on a piece of machinery we were fitting,he decided to pull on the chainblock holding up the job,he now has four fingers on his righthand🥺 The journyman was correct. Pity he wasn't around to instruct a dear friend of mine back in the day... it was his girlfriend that moved when she sat down..thus breaking his middle digit.
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Post by steve h on Nov 13, 2020 14:29:19 GMT 1
Does urinating on an electric fence count? I was about 10, I thought it might be fun...it wasn't Ahh well...I must be the original steveo. Poked my finger into a mangle aged about 7...with obvious consequences..
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Post by julianboolean on Nov 13, 2020 14:54:49 GMT 1
Nearly did the finger up the exhaust port thing myself years ago, but fortunately I was using the flywheel to turn the engine over rather than the kickstart. Another member of this forum nearly chopped my finger off turning over my GPZ1100 engine while I had my finger in the wrong place when we were putting the barrels back on, to be fair to him he had told me he was going to do it and I hadn't thought to get my fingers out the way as the barrel came down.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2020 15:37:54 GMT 1
Does urinating on an electric fence count? I was about 10, I thought it might be fun...it wasn't Ahh well...I must be the original steveo. Poked my finger into a mangle aged about 7...with obvious consequences.. That doesn’t bare thinking about - ouch on both accounts I’ve had a couple of belts from electric fences but not in that manner
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Post by jon on Nov 13, 2020 17:47:43 GMT 1
I once had a journeyman that taught me never to move anything when you have your finger in a hole (on a job) we were trying to line up the bolt holes on a piece of machinery we were fitting,he decided to pull on the chainblock holding up the job,he now has four fingers on his righthand🥺 I would think +99% of the population has 4 fingers on their right hand . Jon
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Post by stusco on Nov 13, 2020 17:55:58 GMT 1
There’s always one 😡
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Post by steve h on Nov 13, 2020 18:02:30 GMT 1
I have worked with a couple of people who were all thumbs...
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Post by st66 on Nov 13, 2020 18:03:19 GMT 1
Bless, when I was much younger I decided to put my cr 250 into the back yard to do some work on it so, picture it pathway back yard doorway, so I blip the throttle to lift the front wheel over the kerb as didn't want to risk buckling the front rim, as the door was wide open I'm all cool,, so forward at rapid speed and yep the bars, an inch and a half wider than the door frame each side, pins my fingers on both hands to the bars via clutch and brake levers at about 3/4full throttle and the back wheel is spinning on the edge of the kerb , and I can't pull my hand out to stop the pig. All I remember was immense pain in the fingers then the revs going daft,,, was pinned to the door frame for about three mins till my bro who's pissing himself, came and hit the kill switch,, lesson learnt the hard way never did that again fingers still not straight years later lol,,, oh the stupid things one does 😑😑
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Post by jon on Nov 13, 2020 18:10:59 GMT 1
As a kid I took my bedroom side light apart to spray it. On reassembly I realised after plugging it in for testing the switch was the wrong way round. In my haste I took it apart to turn the switch round without unplugging it from the mains! Had a numb arm for a few minutes.
When I first moved into my house at the age of 25, we had a huge scaffold pole in the garden used as a washing line. It had a pulley for the line and a cleat at wast height to make the line taught. I stupidly decided to shimmy up to the top. Slide down and the cleat caught my stomach on the way down. I remember pushing my stomach together in case there was a Hugh gouge. Then slowly releasing it to see if any blood started flowing. There was only a bit, but to say it was a large graze was an understatement.
Making some kitchen cabinet doors some years later I was leaning over a router doing around 28000 RPM when my substantial necklace got dragged into the cooling slots.
Clearing up the garden found an old aquarium I’d put outside RWU. Full of leaves. So I turned it USD and the leaves were stuck to the bottom. Hit it a few times to loosen the leaves before putting my hand through the glass. Trip to A&E.
Angle grinder with no goggles ended at A&E with them picking bits of metal out of my eye that had melting in with a pin.
I’ve had a whole lot more injuries, but would just call them normal accidents as opposed to doing anything stupid.
These have been life lessons.
Jon
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Post by tony2stroke on Nov 13, 2020 19:09:10 GMT 1
At the age of 4 I turned on our record player and nothing happened, I thought check its plugged in and turned on, grabbed the cable from behind record player and followed it down with my hand to find an open end (cut cable) did same from socket and found the same, I now have 2 wires in my hands, 1 from record player and 1 from the socket, both cut off, don't know how the wire got cut without blowing fuse, I decided to join them together (just putting the wires together holding in my hands) the record player started to turn wonkily as the power went through my body and my fingers started smoking, it was a weird feeling, I think what saved me is that I was wearing rubber soled boots at the time, so power went through me instead of going to ground, or that's what my dad said, I was only 4 years old, still got the scares from that on my fingers.
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Post by Gitram on Nov 13, 2020 20:37:49 GMT 1
I think i was about 5 when i had my first encounter with an electric fence, big WAHH's and floods of tears... anyway, i've had a few buzzes off them over time and they never really bothered me if i didn't bother them..
so one day when i was 16, me and my mate were round at some girl's house and they had horses. well, i'v never really been on a horse but i was enticed onto one's back just before it got a huge slap on its rear.. no reins or saddle, it's heading for the hedge, i don't know much but i reckon it'll stop but i'll go flying and didn't fancy that so rolled off to the side, got up dusted my self down, as you do.. and strolled back to the gate on which the girls were sitting. The young ladies found much amusement in my actions and i was pleased that they were happy. as i approached, i noticed the electric fence and a rusty bolt on the gate, putting my right hand on the bolt, i engaged their attention with some witty banter to put them at their ease before gripping the fence with my left...
when an electric fence is touched it gives off a series of pulses rather than a constant zap. the first went unnoticed, the second had them looking puzzled and the third was a belter which had them all jumping off the gate screaming..
i have'nt been on a horse since..
marti
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Post by reedpete on Nov 13, 2020 20:41:29 GMT 1
There’s an easy way to avoid wedding ring accidents ....and all the associated mental injuries caused by them...just saying !
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Post by itsnick350 on Nov 13, 2020 21:53:10 GMT 1
Thank you all for sharing, clearly I am not alone....
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Post by st66 on Nov 13, 2020 22:30:40 GMT 1
Speaking of electric fences a group of us kids thought it was great fun to get the new guy in town to piss up against one one day we all new it was electric he didn't, so he's pissing on this fence for about 30 secs then well we all greased laughing he was in tears bless him lol,, when I was five or so I asked mam can I have an orange, yes son so gets a huge orange to big to peel at 5yrs old so I get the bread knife out the draw and on the bread board start to cut in half, a min later I think whys it not cut though yet so I cut harder,, I have a 6 inch scar on my left hand between thumb and four finger,, before I realised I was sawing through my hand holding the orange,,,, bright lad, doh lol
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Post by tony2stroke on Nov 13, 2020 22:39:38 GMT 1
I have nearly killed myself loads of times mate, when I was 3 true story honest, my dad had a Willys jeep, he used to wash it every Sunday outside the house, we lived half way up a hill, there was a cross roads and train track at the bottom of the hill, my dad came into the house and said I had to park half way up the street, sat down to have tea while he waited for the car parked in front of our house to go, so guy moves his car and I say to dad cars gone shall I go and get the car dad, he obviously didn't hear me right as he said yes yes, out I go to the jeep (no doors) hop in, girl across the street says what you doing, I say I am taking the car down for my dad to wash jump in, I had watched him driving and knew about the handbrake, so I try to put down handbrake, can't do it, I know I will pull with both hands while you push the button, we do this, handbrake off, jeep starts rolling, we are coming up to the house and I realise I don't know how to stop it, I pull up handbrake, makes little difference, start to go past my house, I knew bottom of street bad news because of train track, so the pair of us manage to turn the steering wheel and I plough through the next doors hedge and into a tree in her front garden, I do wonder how I am still alive sometimes, there are plenty more like these 2, no wonder my mum was on valium with me and my 2 brothers.
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