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yamahaman89
08-09-2004, 11:48 PM
Hi this is yamahamans mom. He wanted me to let you all know that on Friday he cut his finger off on the sprocket of his 200x. I was with him. He had to be transported to a different hospital about 40 miles away. They reattached his finger in a 2 hour surgery. He has to keep his arm up all the time. What happened was his chain fell off, he tried to put it back on, but he started his 200x and thats what took his finger. He says he knew he should of shut it off but it was stuck behind the sprocket and he thought it would suck it in.
Tomorrow we have to go see the Doc. Will let you know how it goes.

Wickedfinger
08-10-2004, 12:18 AM
Ouch!!!! ...... I'm glad he's alright and they were able to sow it back on. Keep us posted and good luck to you.

smokinp
08-10-2004, 12:23 AM
Hi this is yamahamans mom. He wanted me to let you all know that on Friday he cut his finger off on the sprocket of his 200x. I was with him. He had to be transported to a different hospital about 40 miles away. They reattached his finger in a 2 hour surgery. He has to keep his arm up all the time. What happened was his chain fell off, he tried to put it back on, but he started his 200x and thats what took his finger. He says he knew he should of shut it off but it was stuck behind the sprocket and he thought it would suck it in. ouch is right!I hope it heals up and he has use of it... :Evil

Macs
08-10-2004, 12:29 AM
i lost two of mine on a cr125. the rehabiltation is nasty but it will heal up fine. on my pointer finger it sheaded the meat off the bone. i mean nothing but bone left. they had to graft meat off of my forarm and fused the middle finger which was reatached to the pointer finger to get circulation back to it. that was when i was 13. i am 25 now and i will never make that mistake again. luckily i had the help of the hand surgeons of texas which is an elite group of surgeons that did a hell of a job. if yall want i will email pics so you will see how yours will lokk in 10 years

Red Rider
08-10-2004, 01:59 AM
Hey Yamahaman, sorry to hear about your finger. Hopefully you'll be back riding & posting in no time at all. Thank heaven for loving & understanding moms, huh? No pun intended, but we'll keep our fingers crossed for a full recovery for you. Get well soon.

TrikeKid
08-10-2004, 03:53 AM
my dad lost part of two of his fingers to a dirtbike. he crashed and the peg was stuck up and he couldnt get it down with his foot so he used his hand and the tips of his pointer and middle finger ran through the front sprocket. they werent saved though he got to keep all his joints but the part of the finger with the nail was destroyed so they grafted nail from his toes onto it. they dont grow but theres nail there at least. he screwed his finger up again a few years ago he pinched it bad enough to actually make it burst it damaged some nerves and he doesnt have feeling in the tip anymore. get well soon dude.

petesatc
08-10-2004, 07:43 AM
hey dude.....i cut the tip off my middle finger in a lawn mower when i was 12....they sowed it back on....i'm 32 now and you can hardly see it...i have most of the feeling back...
anyway good luck dude....and hopefully back on the 200x soon....
pete ;)

jeswinehart
08-10-2004, 07:50 AM
i can relate ,,,, a 185-s let me know it didn't have a chain gaurd on it 14 years ago.

very nice of you to give us the update yamahaman89's mom ,,, thank you.

john

Muddy200x
08-10-2004, 09:00 AM
Are those what I think they are? (in the bottle)

Dan Tenn
08-10-2004, 09:58 AM
Remind me never to order anything with rum in it at swineharts house. ;)

Jeb
08-10-2004, 10:00 AM
I hope the rehab and healing is speedy and problem free!


Hey John, I was watching Discovery this weekend and they had a program on about the world's most dangerous job which they said is Alaskan Crab Fishing.

Anyway one of the guys had lost his finger after getting his hand caught in a winch. He wore that finger on a chain around his neck!

My dad lost the entire end joint of his middle finger from a roping mishap. I was real little when it happened back in the 70's. I rolled my pinky finger on my right hand into my dirt bike rear sprocket and chain back around 89 or 90. The bike was on a stand and the engine not running. I was lucky and got out with just a small scar.

yamahaman89
08-10-2004, 11:32 AM
hi its me umm its a constant pain but whn it all happend thought it was a deep cut when it was stuck in the sprocket and rasn to get help and i took it out of gear and got it out and put it in my shirt and went to my home i didnt fearit through but i do now everyone told me to go buy a quad that made me very mad cuz it was my stupidity ot the trike well thanks!!!

84honda 200X
08-10-2004, 02:34 PM
Hope ya get better soon man.

AZ250R
08-10-2004, 03:57 PM
WOW, good luck and heal up quick mang! :)

I can't believe how many people on here have lost or have family who've lost fingers!?!?! Now I definately know to respect thy chained sprokets.

Glad it wasn't your right hand THUMB though, that would be the worst possible digit IMO :Evil

atcmatt
08-10-2004, 07:00 PM
Mate thats gotta hurt, i know it hurts bad enough in a bmx bikes chain! Cant imagine a motorbike :(

Oh another glory of the old shaft drive :Bounce

Get well soon mate.

Matt

Meat-BoX
08-10-2004, 09:39 PM
Hang tough Yamahaman, hope you get back on the Trails soon. Remember to be carefull with any Machine as they tend to Bite. :rolleyes:

threewheelin-feelin
08-10-2004, 09:56 PM
damn sorry to here that hope hes ok and nice to meet you mom

83185s
08-10-2004, 10:59 PM
hope ya get better man..az250r is right..just be glad it wasnt trailprotrailpro right thumb...ud have to buy a twist grip! all i gotta say now is....GIT R DONE! lol the finger of course

rob0781
08-11-2004, 01:30 AM
a friend i work with lost his finger greasing a motorcycle chain..

greenhuman
08-11-2004, 08:25 AM
I went to the doctor the other day because when I touched my arm, it nearly killed me. Then I discovered wherever I touched myself, the pain was terrible. You name it. Touch my leg, terrible pain. I even touched the top of my head and couldn't stand it. The doctor gave me a full examination with all kinds of tests. When he finished, I asked what was wrong with me he told me I had a broken finger.

Meat-BoX
08-11-2004, 12:01 PM
Maybe you tough yourself too much. :beer

slippy4
08-12-2004, 10:58 PM
that finger looks discusting, now just get rid of the x to my friend ;) If you dont know by the way this is erics friend....... Very nice X, Nice steal

Russell 350X
08-13-2004, 02:00 PM
ouch man sorry to hear that. a buddy of mine lost the tip of his ring finger on his blaster doing the same thing. hope you get better and get riding soon.

ATC crazy
08-14-2004, 09:08 PM
Sorry to hear about that man! Good luck on recovery.

My nephew cut off his finger on a BMX bike chain...and my cousin cut hers off with a Band-saw

Dirtcrasher
08-15-2004, 07:48 AM
I hope it heals up well for you.

We had some spanish people working in the factory one time that were hard to communicate with. A machine operator asked one of these girls to wash the machine. Well, just like most factories half of the guards were missing along with the emergency stops etc. 2 sprockets were about 6"s in diameter and two feet apart. This girl decided to reach INBETWEEN the 2 sprockets with a rag on her hand and clean the grease off of the housing behind it. All we heard was screaming and when we ran over she had lost her entire index finger but we couldn't find it. I stopped the machine and jogged it and noticed the finger was stuck on grease to the back of the sprocket just going around and around. They could not reattach the finger.

Three weeks ago at a job site the electricians were pulling large wires underground for a couple hundred feet with a wire pulling machine. One guy was at the beginning feeding the wires into the conduit through the panel and somehow he got his right hand sucked in. He hit the emergency stop which again had been bypassed and then grabbed his right hand with his left to try and get it out. These pulling machines are geared super low and have no mersey. A few seconds later it was both his arms stuck in the wires and raceway and both arms were ripped off of his torso. The job super would not let us even near the building but he told me the story.

edog
08-20-2004, 10:54 AM
Ya,sorry to hear about your finger.Get well soon.

hondaATCman
08-20-2004, 11:35 AM
Three weeks ago at a job site the electricians were pulling large wires underground for a couple hundred feet with a wire pulling machine. One guy was at the beginning feeding the wires into the conduit through the panel and somehow he got his right hand sucked in. He hit the emergency stop which again had been bypassed and then grabbed his right hand with his left to try and get it out. These pulling machines are geared super low and have no mersey. A few seconds later it was both his arms stuck in the wires and raceway and both arms were ripped off of his torso. The job super would not let us even near the building but he told me the story.

WOW, screw that!!! You know how scary and painful that had to be?!?! Damn.....

Fox250R
08-21-2004, 12:16 AM
Ouch!............................

Mr. Sandman
08-24-2004, 04:09 PM
It wasn't the hole finger was it? ;)

250rAL
08-24-2004, 09:18 PM
What is this with bypassing E-stops and removing guards?!!! That's nuts! How can a business stay in business like that? Can you say HUGE lawsuit? Glad I don't work at a place like that.

triking
08-24-2004, 09:23 PM
man this should be a war-amps site . how many people lose body parts ?