How to smash your thumb (post your thumb smashing stories)

[jeepsr4ever]

I was doing some demo work a long time ago for a expansion at 3M and i had a 300 lb piece of conrete fall and I was on a manlift...I moved my arms in quickly to dodge the piece and the damn thing bounced of my thumb

I slammed my thumb in a car door

I slammed my thumb under a jeep hood

I had a 401 roll over onto my thumb

Ive hit my thumb numerous times with a hammer by accident

I did a drive by high five and dislocated my thumb

I am constantly dropping things on my thumb

I have had my thumb pinned between a tire and a rock



I think thats pretty much it

[Mudrat]

Just 'thumbing' around the board and found this thread

That's some pretty 'thumb' stuff there MC Guess you don't thumb your nose at too many people do you? (or was that the instance of the rock and a hard spot? )

Guess if your 'thumb' enough to keep putting it in harms way, you could always cut it off to spite your hand

Mudrat
opposing thumbs are what makes us human

[pyagid]

My only real thumb smashing experience was More my hand I guess. At the base of my thumb near my wrist.

Me and 1 other guy were building a platform for a small bridge in a shop starting at each end nailing the blanks on working towards the center. Then all of a sudden in mid swing he got up and bumped the platform just enough to move it and I blasted the edge of my hand hard enough with the blunt end of the hammer that I just watch my skin blow apart . I did not think it was possible at the time so I did not think anything of it and continued working, just did not look at my hand until there was a big puddle of blood under my work area.

The only other thumb experience I was cutting something with a razor blade, slipped and cut the tip straight down into my Finger nail and just about to the bone.


other fingers are crooked and scared from breaking and abusing as well

[jeepsr4ever]

Hey Pyagid

Cripple Hi-five

[jerry]

I smashed my thumb when I ran my first finger though a chain and sprocket the Dr.cut the end of the finger off the thumb just has a deformed nail. I tell kid I was picking my nose and a bugger bit it off.

Jerry

[iqsr2]

When I was in high school I got my thumb smashed between two football helmets. I thought it was ok , and didn't pay too much attention to it after the pain went away. About 3 days later it started turning green. Went to the doctor it was severly infected. They lanced it and puss jumped out. It smelled so bad it made my Mother leave the room (just talk of it makes her weak in the knees now ). The bone in the tip had been crushed and caused the infection to set in. They saved my thumb but it is a little flatter than the other now.

[jeepsr4ever]

iqsr2

Mudrat had a boil on his neck once..cleared out a whole jeep event with the smell....If I remember right =D>

[Mudrat]

iqsr2

Mudrat had a boil on his neck once..cleared out a whole jeep event with the smell....If I remember right =D>

Man you have a sensative stomach - so it started to ooze a little - didn't think it was that bad But the FSJ Invasion in an open air 2-3 acre field with a breeze shoulda kept the fumes to a minimum. Be thankful it didn't happen in the tent!!!!

Mudrat

[jeepsr4ever]

=D> yeah me 2 pal...although I would have snored right through it

[jeepsr4ever]

=D> yeah me 2 pal...although I would have snored right through it