U know that piece of skin webbing btwn index finger and thumb?
 

That skin piece: Never EVER EVER let it slide up onto the top of a metal spike so you can hit it with a perfectly swung sledgehammer. Don't do it. Trust me. Never ever.......

Pics or it didn't happen!

I'll trust you. Damn, probably the left hand, the way you described it.

AHHHH! No No No!

FUCH that!

Sorry for your pain 😔😉

I bet you looked at it before hand too and thought "I'll never miss"... Just had this discussion with some other buddies...always sucks.

Haha! DUDE!

I can laugh. I ripped that flap open into a big gashing hole with an angle grinder that snapped when getting jammed cutting off a muffler / exhaust pipe. I think it was the on/off button that ripped me open. No gloves of course (younger ... :rolleyes:). A big gash from thumb to index finger perfectly parallel to the skin webbing. It was late on a weekend. My wife ended up stitching me up at home without sedation. It was ugly :eek:!!!

Hang in there. And yes, send us a pic!

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Oh man vash, you must stop mutilating yourself. First was the table saw, now this? how ya gonna ride that mtb now? Feel better soon, dude

I'd ask if you've designated yourself as an organ donor if I thought there would, some day, be anything left to donate.:)

Lemme guess, you ran with scissors.

Back in the olden days before OSHA and stuff my dad would take my brother and I to work with him on construction sites once in a while.

Anyways, I'm walking around in my sneakers, which we used to call tennis shoes, and stepped on a board with a nail in it...

That nail painlessly popped up through the top of my shoe and there I was: nailed to a toobeyefore that was lying on the ground.

Weird thing was that big spike was not pointing straight up like you're probably imagining right now. It was pointing toward me, on a angle-like.

Doan no how but that nail went bullseye right between my big toe and the littler one next to it. Not a scratch on that foot.

Broke my head open bending over to pull that board off my foot on account of the toobeyetwelve sticking out from the scaffold that I didn't see, though.

Scars...
Evidence that we have actually DONE SOMETHING in our life.
Millenials - they do not get these. I'm sure theee is an app for that.

Arghh!:eek:

Vash, I will take that advice. My parents also taught me not to stick beans in my ears, and not to stick sharp things up my nose. I pass that along in case your parents failed to mention that to you.

I've got another data point. Never place same said webbing in the path of a 3/4" razor sharp wood chisel when preparing a tenon joint on a table leg in your woodworking shop. It causes about 7 stitches to repair. I've got the scar to prove it.

Or maybe we are smarter and more aware of our surroundings. :)

Keeping both hands on the hammer handle helps.

haha..

i am healing up fast. not like Wolverine fast..but fast for me. i was stupid. i held the metal stake 6" down the shaft..but as i was pounding it in..it got closer and closer to my hand as it went into the ground. i was talking, and didnt maintain a constant 6" down the shaft..duh! and all the contractor guys take a big 5lb hammer and cut about 15" off the handle. it is like THORS hammer. all short and heavy..really unwieldy for an deskjocky/office worker like me. :)

No, but it was time for him to switch hands anyway.

Probably wouldn't of happened if his skin were not so soft from all that hand lotion. :D

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Just kidding, that had to hurt - much sympathy Vash.

thats my yahoo password.

Sure would make a guy's pool game suffer to have a chewed up bridge hand.