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Today I was simply trying to remove the end cap from a lock on grip, the flat bladed screwdriver slipped and ended up halfway under my thumbnail, the nail is flapping about now.
There was blood, lots and lots of blood, and by god does it hurt.
Any tips for reduction of throbbing, I’ve tried ibuprofen and codeine but neither have helped.
Alcohol. Copious amounts.
Stuck my finger tip into a rotating hope disc rotor and chopped a bit of the end.
Ouch @ the OP!
Pushing rather than pulling often causes skinned knuckles!
Got a nice set of park tool scissors. Packaging was a nightmare to open. Didn’t have another pair of scissors to help. Tried with my nice penknife. Almost cut my thumb off, there was blood all over the garage, street outside, stairs and flat door!
Apparently some bloke hit his head hard and fitted his fork the wrong way round
Tried to stop a front wheel spinning by grabbing the disc rotor = skinned the tip of my thumb down to the bone.
Holding a steel rear triangle apart to get a wheel in got finger tip trapped between cassette and frame.the joys of youth.
Some of these are worse than mine, I feel good.
Alcohol. Copious amounts.
Working my way through a bottle of Hedgerow gin. It’s helping, but I’ve also had a lot of painkillers. Could get interesting!
Slipped trying to free an old square taper bottom bracket and smashed my face into the top tube. Sliced the bridge of my nose open on the gear cables routed that way. Nearly fainted having to get it glued at minor injuries.
Cable routing is downtube or internal routed on all my frames now!
Slipped my impact driver off a 120mm screw driving straight into a joist. The bit landed right where my nail meets the rest of my thumb while I still had my finger on the trigger. Lots of blood at the time, but duct tape meant I could finish the job. 10 years on, my nail is still marked. (Possibly scar tissue trapped and growing out veeerrryyy slowly)
Sort of similar to the OP but not as bad, I was using a needle file and managed to stab it through my thumb nail a good way into my thumb. That hurt for some time so the OP has my sympathy.
Also punched myself in the face when removing a pedal from a crank having forgotten to do it before removing the crank from the bike. Sort of deserved that
Drilling a hole out in a bracket. The drill bit gripped and stopped.
I lent forward to see what was going on, whilst pulling the trigger on the the driver.
The driver span out of my hand and the battery hit me on the eye brow.
Blood...swearing...blood...driving to a&e with blood in my eye...because one stupid thing a day isn't enough.... blood...pee taking by a&e staff who recognised me from previous visits....lots of super glue.
long day of DIY, had some short bits of 4x2 left at the end which I thought id chop for kindling, got distracted, swung hatchet and bounced it off finger bone at the knuckle. Lots and lots of blood, trip to A&E, sadistic nurse made me wash it out. it was then stitched and next day I was leading a club ride....
Lol @ speshpaul, sorry but
Lost more finger and toenails than I care to remember. Ice water. Lots of ice water. 20 mins out of every hour. Doesn't help the healing but it makes the pain bearable.
Also punched myself in the face when removing a pedal from a crank
😂 that’s hilarious, sorry!
that hurt for some time.
I was hoping it would be ok in a day or so ☹️
Ice water. Lots of ice water.
I've used all the ice in my G&T’s
I was wiping the chain of my fixie while turning the cranks quickly.
Long story short, 3.5 months later, my nail is still on but is yet to rid itself of the blood that has accumulated under it
Stick your thumb in the G&T then. Will need an a G&T 20 mins of every hour, obvs.
If you haven't punched yourself in the face you're not trying hard enough.
My current one is, I was removing some random wiring from my car that previous owner had bodged in, and while removing a cable tie managed to mangle the tip of my thumb with a bit of the cable cutters that I'd sort of forgotten was there- the crimper part. Took a couple of weeks, but in the end the mangled bit went "nah, ahm outta here, see ya" and dropped off.
Worst ever, was drilling a hole in some thin titanium strip- instead of clamping it, obviously I just held it down with one hand. The drill bit gripped, twisted it, and wrapped it round the bit at about 30000 rpm and suddenly quite a lot of skin went missing and I could see loads of the wee tubes and stuff that make up your fingers. Lost the use of the hand for 2 months...
I think my best timed one was just after I got married and my wife invited a life insurance salesman round. I was outside on the deck working on a bike wearing sandals while they were inside talking. I dropped an extra-long Phillips screwdriver and it speared down onto my toe, just where the toenail joins. Unbelievably painful, so I let out a screaming curse and collapsed holding my foot right in front of the insurance guy. Wife was not pleased with the show.
I think Northwind is winning for severity!
Stick your thumb in the G&T then. Will need an a G&T 20 mins of every hour, obvs.
I was on that pace!
Today my thumb looks like some weird venison charcuterie. I can’t write and I have a full day of study ahead involving the need to make lots, and lots of notes!
All this for a bloody end cap!
punched myself in the face
Yup.
Trying to be clever and wind a belt tensioner back with a spanner while lying under the car. At point where I thought "If this lets go", it let go.
Punched myself square in the face. One of those hits where you feel queasy and have to sit down with your head between your knees. You could see where the open end of the spanner had made contact from the symmetrical cuts. Followed by a black eye. The bridge of my nose now has a dent in it.
Total dumbass.
Some of these are horrible.
Thankfully it's been a while since I did anything to myself My previous "slips" usually centered around touching things that I forgot were hot or touching wires that I forgot were live.
Tried to change a bit on an air drill without disconnecting the air line. Touched the trigger by mistake, chuck key whizzed round in my clenched palm. Lots of blood
Also stopped rotating wheel by inserting finger tip into brake disc cut out. Wheel stopped suddenly, and with pain. Finger tip the size of light bulb within 24 hours
Big on stupid, but only loosely "workshop"
When I was 10 or so I was in charge of mowing our lawn and keeping the hedge trimmed back
The hedge trimmer one of those reciprocating things with multiple sets of blades either side of a central spine ... so you can see, one could easily place a finger on the top layer of blades and pull the trigger without any penalty at all
<ahem> had a bit of a recoil, that trimmer 🙄
^ how many fingers do you have left?
10
(9.66 with any feeling in them)
Old cup and cone BB, tools slipped, still have the scars on my nose.
Or the day I picked up a plug from which I had earlier removed the cover and without thinking plugged it in to a socket.......that was before RCD's were invented! I picked myself up from the far side of the room wondering how I was going to unplug it!
Well, it was *in* the workshop so it must count. Several rows of cheap metal shelving from Aldi. Went to sling a bag of cement on to a shelf and in the process caught my knuckle between the bag and the unprotected metal edge of the shelving unit.
Blood. Everywhere.
I've put tape over all the edges now. Can't say that I don't learn.
Mechanic in the first shop I worked at chopped the tip of his finger off in a chainring / fixie interface. Put his hand on the chain to check the tension forgetting that wheel spinning = chainring spinning.
Ambulance, jar of ice with his finger tip in it. A lot of blood on the workshop floor.
Made some ice tyres with 100 screws. Thought I should check the chain alignment on single speed by turning bike over spinning back wheel and then putting face to tyre looking down the chain line. I froze when O realised I was cm from a face removal. muppet.
I filed this under a close call.
changing over a rim with the wheel in a jig, genius me decided to cut the spokes rather than loosen them off. The significant point is to remember to make sure that the spokes point away from you if you have removed the rim tape.
I was damn lucky to be wearing strong jeans as anything less I would have had black and blue balls
Not me (honest), and a workplace rather than a workshop, but somebody I used to cycle with is a veterinary surgeon, and he admitted to once slipping on some blood on the surgery floor and mid-fall, somehow managed to staple his hand onto a horse's penis. Your honour..
somehow managed to staple his hand onto a horse’s penis
we've all been there, surely ?
After reading all that... Its the horse I feel most sorry for
Speared myself with a high carbon wood carving knife the other night. I still can't get the blood off the tool, tried 3 in 1, alcohol, elbow grease, to no avail. It is a sharp tool so my finger's recovered quite well.
managed to staple his hand onto a horse’s penis
Umm ...say what now!
Stuck my finger tip into a rotating hope disc rotor and chopped a bit of the end.
Had this when trying to align my rear caliper, not even sure how my finger ended in the rotar, but span it to check for pad rub and then it suddenly stopped and I felt an odd throbbing sensation..ended up with the rotar slicing 2/3rds of the way through the nail.