Thread: How many fingers do you have?

I'd like to meet the people with ten fingers - do they also have thumbs?

8 good fingers
1 finger missing part of 1 side
1 mangled thumb from tractor accident followed by cut on saw bench (which improved the mess made by the tractor)

I voted 10 but strictly speaking I only have 9.95 ish as I had an accident with a cheese slice about 20 years ago ( caused by a rash attempt to use it to slice bits off of a raw cabbage rather than look for a knife ).

The result was an amazing amount of blood, one keeled over jackie ( you DON'T want me as your only available helper if you are bleeding profusely!!!) , and ultimately one thumb minus a corner and no feeling left in the healed end. It took an incredibly long time to heal up, couldn't get my motorcycle gloves over it which meant going to work on the bus, which meant getting up at sparrow fart for weeks and weeks .

I now avoid cheese slices and thoroughly don't recommend chopping off even tiny bits of your fingers.

I've got 'em all!!

I do have a couple of serious scars on the ball of both hands (one from a broken snap-blade mid cut) and 14 stitches still visible across the knuckle of my left thumb after making a slight misjudgement while: (this is absolutely serious)- demonstrating the dangers of using a knife sharpener incorrectly to a bunch of four new employees.

As far as I know none of them was injured in their time with us, so the demonstration must have been quite effective.

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Originally Posted by jackiew

I voted 10 but strictly speaking I only have 9.95 ish.

I'm in the same boat.
Soon after getting back here after a lay-off ['poota went toes up]
I submitted something about wearing safety glasses and ear protection.

Within an Hour I'd run my Left 'Peter Pointer' into the table saw :eek: :eek:

Held onto it not knowing what damage had been done, blood enough for an amputation. took a slice out between;
and including, the nail, and edge of the PINKY.

Count.........1 2 3 4..... 9.95

I counted my thumbs as fingers and came up with 10. I didn't study or take much interest in that topic of biology.

- Wood Borer

Luckily, I still have all my digits, but have a few scars from early days - an oilstone slipped while I was sharpening a chisel & I almost removed the end pad from my left ring finger.

At the WW school I went to, 10 students, most of whom hadn't used any of the large range of power tools & machines available. By the end of the year, there was only one entry in the blood book...from a hand saw .

I still have 10 (o.k. 8 fingers & 2 thumbs for the pedants ) and I REALLY would like to keep it that way.

I consider myself very lucky to still have all my bits.

The closest I've come was when I tried to split my left thumb up the middle with a chisel about 16 years ago. I now have a permanently cloven left thumb nail as a constant reminder of which way to point a chisel. I have more scars from the glazing days than anything else but nothing serious.

It's interesting that we assume 10 as the limit - the number of people who are born polydactyl (more than 5 digits) is of the order of 1 in 1000. The extra digit is normally surgically removed at birth.

Still have all of mine (a couple of them currently crossed!)

I was very lucky about 18 months ago. Using my Triton in cross-cut mode to cut a mitre. I was holding the work against the mitre fence when the saw baulked and the workpiece kicked upwards. My right index finger slammed into the aluminium rail. That finger is now more sausage-like than hitherto. It stopped aching about 6 months ago but the bone is cracked.

The really stupid part of this episode is that, without moving my feet, I could have picked up a clamp and secured the work properly.

A lesson learned - fortunately without too much damage.

Col

Try as I might, I can't seem to get rid of the things. I have had run ins with chisels (scary sharp, didn't even feel it) dog food cans, very sharp boning knife and an angle grinder. The first three I put down to acts of stupidity of my own making, the last was somone elses stupidity.

My old foreman used to use 14" cut off saw disc till they were too small for the drop saw, then put them in the 9" grinder. then into the 5" grinder. The 5" was slightly too small for the discs so he removed the guard. I refused to use it.

He thought it really funny to swap it with the grinder I was using whilst welding. I had the helmet on and didn't see that it had been swapped. I normally rest my thumb on the back of the blade guard when using a small grinder. I think you get the picture. One 3mm kerf straight down the end of my thumb, one 5" angle grinder thrown across the factory at the foreman.

Dan.

even got me appendix and tonsils. some loverly scars however.

G'day.

Nine & a third, it's wasn't woodwork or even a work/tool related.

I was climbing on a tankstand at school with wet sandshoes on....
Slip, rip, lost a knuckle & a heap of flesh so the doc chopped off another knuckle as well. :eek: