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Chapeau well played. I removed 2 and a bit from R hand when I was flattening skis in NZ and the stone exploded dragging my hand in. Put them back on and 21 years later (Jesus I am old) it mostly works. So well done, you win.

@ kayak23 - same as the chef in my school. He lost his during the Falklands war.

That's right - lopped it off in a field kitchen....

I found out how my colleague's dad shot off his index and middle finger

50 yrs ago he was walking with his pregnant wife and carrying his hammer-lock shotgun. To free his hands in order to help her over a stone wall he put the gun down by holding it by the muzzle and leaning over the wall to place it down. Hammerlock's are tetchy beasts at the best of time, but placing it down on its butt and against the stone wall was enough to...

...Kablooooie!: The butcher of Wigtown was now short of a few joints of meat.

NZCol - it doesnt count if you stick'em back on again. Sheesh! 😉

That would make the most excellent valve cover 8)
Preserve it in PEG, then hollow out and glue in a cover off a spare innertube.

Stoner, you utter fsckwit.

Glad you are ok and all that, but you really are stupid for doing that. Have you learned?

Learnt what?

Stoner, [url= http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/my-dl-1000-took-my-hand-off-tried-to.1131836/ ]could have been worse[/url]

ooof. (*jambalaya, do not click on Craig's link 🙂 )
Could have been worse indeed. I take my episode as a little nip of a reminded not to be so dumb ever again.

Learned not to do silly things with motorcycle chains.

Mind you, I did something similar (but not as bad) with a cleaver when I was younger, so I should not be to harsh on you.

ooof. (*jambalaya, do not click on Craig's link )

Hmm. Sounds bad....

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Nah, it'll be fine.

Have you managed to succesfully adapt your nose picking technique succesfully yet?

Just seen the pic (as couldn't view that on the tablet) and surely duck tape would have sorted that? My sympathies to you although I'm personally disappointed as you [s]are[/s] were one of my DIY heroes on here. You're definitely more gnarly now but I'm a less blood/all my digits type of bloke. Shame you're not a Moon Jelly as they have a solution...

Hope it heals well.

I always like being in good company.

The Yakuza will be sending you their welcome pack and an orientation video.

The video is in MPG format and is posted out on this novel thumb drive

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Will you be in S-JdA / Morzine ?

@mac 😀

Stoner

Will have to swap to shooting left handed bow.

No you don't! Just shoot a compound 😉

Hope the recovery is speedy.

Thumbring for you.

Get well soon.

Ps on my next shoot, i'm try some differing loose types.

Healing nicely. Changed the dressing today. Looking good. Jambalaya, do NOT look at the link

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/wjdevxtccoi_oepx0_rJrdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink

No risk there at all !

Seems ripe for a pen prosthetic. Or maybe the business end of a Ritchey Torque Key?

Inspector Gadget?

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Your approach to this whole episode is so goddam British, it brings a tear to my eye.

Gross photo, but Mr Feinnes has way less bits of digits and is the pinnacle of manliness.

Healing vibes Stoner, but this just makes you more of a legend; maybe more of a fingerend, thinking about it.

I think it's photoshopped. 🙂

Blimey, that's a lot gone!

You seem to be coping with it all very well. An example to us all (well, if you ignore the stupidity that got you into this predicament!)

In the hospital the nurses were wondering if I were OK in the head given how chilled I was. I just pointed out that no amount of bitching or whining was going to make it grow back, and as for getting bumped down the OP list there were going to be worse cases coming in front of me. Spending 24 hrs with an open ended mangled finger was interesting though. Makes you think about battle wounds and their treatment through the ages.

You've shopped at image above surely. This was your xray.
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Either that or the surgeon got a bit greedy!

Either way, well played for your attitude to this and I hope you are comfortable with picking your nose with your left pinky.

single finger braking will be a new challenge 🙂

They can't close the wound / terminate the stump at the point where the chop fell as there is not enough skin. There's also not much point retaining a sliver of bon the other side of the joint, so they whittled the bone back with a pair of snips to a point behind the second knuckle and finished the finger there.

Single finger braking is easy enough to compensate for, just shuffle the pack.

Ouch! 😯

Fingers crossed for a quick recovery.

😈

fair play then!

Think of the money you could earn as a children's entertainer! Bit of a one trick pony and your card skills are not going to be all that but the sliced he finger off in a guillotine routine will be second to none.

Think of the money you could earn as a children's entertainer!

Holy crap!

Nose picking options are a bit limited now

Have you still got the bit that got chopped off? You could play one hell of a mean joke next time you make cannelloni....

Nice battle scar
I amazed I have never lost a limb with my cack handled fettling

You need to work on a better excuse - [url=

I lost my finger[/url]

Oh I'm going to cultivate a few tall tales for use this summer. Rich pickings amongst the Morzine gullible. 🙂

First there will be the honey badger proctologist story, followed by the accidental testing of a cigar cutter.

I was at a car show many years ago when the owner of a Cosworth was 'helping' unload his car from a tilt bed trailer. The driver was winching it out and for some reason he put his hand into the wheel to help guide it down the ramp.
When the wheel had rotated 1/4 turn his hand met the brake calpier , which then removed all of fingers one by one.
Last seen being driven away in his Cosworth with the remenants of his fingers in a bag hoping the hospital could sew them back on

eurgh - stmind your story made me feel a bit queasy - (funny) Stonner's pics didn't?

Healing vibes Stonner / take up 'slide guitar'?

the nurses were wondering if I were ok in the head

I've been wondering that for a long time. 🙂

Healing vibes n' ting - quite a chop, but it looks like a tidy job.

followed by the accidental testing of a cigar cutter.

Don't forget to sing the song

Well the demi-digit and I are forming an uneasy alliance, if not exactly loving each other's company.

Lost and of note are those every day skills cultivated over 40 yrs of over-reliance on a full-fat-finger.

1) whistling with finger and thumb. I did previously teach myself to do it with my middle finger so it's time to get out that rusty technique again

2) pointing with authority. I'm going to have to work on my delivery if I'm going to pull this off again with half a pointing device

3) drinking water from your hand under a running tap. I now have a leaking bucket. Will have to adapt

4) skimming stones. This one came as an upsetting shock I can tell you. Middle finger back spin will never feel right.

More relevantly I've had a fiddle with the bike. Although I joked about riding SS, out here in France is my FS with gears. Fortunately I quickly realised that new slx are dual release so I can go up and down the gears with my thumb. Hoorah!

Single finger braking was coming up short however

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So a rejig required. Reverb lever now underside of LH (bit cramped under there isn't it?) and brake lever shoved across, perfect line up for middle finger braking. Sorted.

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Unfortunately I've also found my slx caliper seal is leaking so off into town to find a replacement as I understand they're not serviceable.

2) pointing with authority. I'm going to have to work on my delivery if I'm going to pull this off again with half a pointing device

Start smoking a pipe. Nothing points with authority more than a pipe.

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By jove I think he's got it!

Are you going to try out for a place in the Paralympic Subbuteo team?

Jesus christ. That what you get for (what I assume was) "turbo oiling". Glad your are on the mend. I was going to text you for a pint yesterday, but remembered you would be away!

Wait a second...

out here in France is my FS with gears

Sell out........

Fewer witnesses out here Moe

Bigger hills too.

Paralympic [s]Subbuteo[/s] Fingerbanging

Flicking the V's at someone is going to look a little odd, hope you get used to the truncated digit soon.

Head for the comedy circuit,and may your god go with you.

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In that first picture, it looks like you've had a willy grafted onto your hand. Have you considered having rude thoughts, might sort out the authoritative pointing issue?

least the mrs is no longer concerned that you'll run away to Spain to become Flamenco guitarist 🙂

Cougar, post a pic of your knob coz I think you need a diagnosis

Good to see it's healing well.

Have you had to develop a new flamboyant signature and do you write like a doctor in a cement mixer now?

Glad to see you are doing well

High 5....

....err, high four and a half

My writing makes me look like an orthopaedic consultant.
With Parkinsons

I'm resorting to hieroglyphs in blood these days.

Cougar, post a pic of your knob coz I think you need a diagnosis

His nickname was stumpy in school.

Kids can be so cruel 🙁

How's all things foot, WCA?

Actually, cheesy, you've made me wonder whether I can replicate my signature with wonky hand or will have to tell banks etc I'm a new me...

Many banks are now doing authentication via fingerpri.....

Ah. Erm......

Do you think, what with cougar's knob and all, that bellend prints are unique?

Hush, Knobfinger.

You could sign using shorthand...

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Knobfinger

I prefer their earlier work. Before they became famous.

(I remember a contemporary in my childhood who had one MASSIVE finger. Freakishly large, in fact. At the time, we all gave him a hard time for it. Suspect it became very popular during his more adult relationships.)

Hush, Knobfinger