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I had my thumb on my left hand taken off at the joint. I had it on the flywheel of a mercury outboard when I was 16. My brother started it and pulled it off. The first surgery was to reattach it. The next two where tendant and ligament reconstructions. 25 years later and I still cant bend it beyond where it attaches to my hand. To this day I hate anything mercury, and my little brother a bit.

Lost front half of right foot and 3" of shin bone to a toe popper serving Uncle Sam in 'Nam.
When someone asks where it went I say, "up my kids azz" so he doesn't make the same mistakes I have.

Takes just a little inattention for a sawmill to bite you; hard! I've seen it. GD

Never put your fingers where you wouldn't put your dick.

No digits lost...I did have my nut sack set back a couple inches to get a longer stroke ! heehehehehe

Renegade claims that they had a wake for the foreskin and wound up making a lampshade out of it.

True story.

I've got all of mine, but I've known several 'chain hands' that lost fingers.

That be fact.

Knock on wood I've never been hurt but my dad almost lost his right arm in a swather header.


Closest hay field to town or the doctors said he would have bled out.

I wasn't there.

Lost my left ring finger many years ago, it was a brutal divorce.

The good news is that I can flip a bird with less effort than most. And I can do other tricks that are useful from time to time, but I won't bother y'all with the fine points.

I felt like I was going to lose toes this morning. I ran my buddies trapline for him because he is out of town. Stuck over and over! Not so much as a damn ermine in his sets. Got stuck in some overflow and it seaped into my right boot. I was sure a toe was coming off! Been home for a couple hours now. Im good.

I grew up in the oil patch, my dad used to have the guys show me the "Driller's Handshake" hoping to make me pay attention...or to seek another career


mike r

Renegade knows one of my uncle in laws, he worked at Frosty Morn, on the bacon squaring line. He went zippity doo dah on the back the knuckles on his left hand. Couple of fingers or nubbed off two joints back.

I can’t help but stare at his hand when he’s down at the barn and we’re working on something.

And my brother in law, he got his hand caught up in a chain-n-sprocket on a ‘homemade go cart’ made from a Snapper riding mower. It’s all jacked up.


Lol I got some fugged up inlaws.

Damn! my finger hurts just watchin' that.

I came damn close to losing a finger or two with a bad dally.

Had to rope a damned calf this evening to remove a coyote snare from it's foreleg. Don't know how it got up close to the shoulder before tightening, but it did.

Didn't rope it off a horse though. That calf really had to work to get in that snare, as I had pulled them all down awhile back. Good thing I caught it in time. That leg was swelled already.

I worked with a guy who had his thumb ripped off by a lathe.

He was an azzhole, anyway.

I didn't care.

Worked as butcher for about 18 months and have done tons of chain sawing. Still have everything. One of my butcher bosses band sawed his index finger twice. It was not reattached the second time around.

I called my wife when I accidently cut off a finger at work.
She asked me if I cut off my whole finger?

I said, "No, it was the one next to it."

I read it three times and then LMAO! 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣