Himself has a huge chop saw and a horror story.
Square, very long stock of chromoly tubing, not properly clamped.
The end jumped up as the cut finished.
Then, as he always does, specifically to make me crazy, he comes into the LR and says “Honey...don’t freak out....” which of course makes me instantly freak out.
He unwraps his hand and blood is gushing from the severed fingertip.
Off we go to a hillbilly ER [seriously] where they attempt to _stitch through his finger, right through the fingernail_ in order to affix the fingertip back on.
It did stay on but deformed his finger and it’s still numb to this day.
He clamps religiously, now.
Prior to that, he was using the mill and screwdriver he’d used on the chuck was “forgotten” and when he fired up the mill, it went ripping right by his head on its way to embedding itself in the wall.
Even pros screw up now and then.
I could list my own youthful mishaps, ad nauseum but it’s not for nothing I picked “Salamander”.
Through some means a mystery to me, I can successfully regrow various body parts...such as an entire thumb tip, pulverized brain matter, the “web” between my thumb and forefinger,, an entire ankle bone, the whole top layer of my right hand, etc etc etc.
I’m not sure what my regenerative “limits” are but I’m in no hurry to find out...LOL
[suffice to say I’ve conducted some *really* stupid experiments over the years]
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