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- Mar 11, 2012
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- 7
I second all the warnings here from personal experience. One day thought it a good idea to clean my mucky motorcycle chain and how much quicker this would be if the engine was turning and moving the chain round for me. Wearing gloves plus using a spirit soaked rag. You can guess what happened. Rag caught then glove and hand was dragged into the front drive sproket crushing the tip of my right ring finger until the engine stalled. IfI had more wits about me at the time I would have realised I could have disengaged the clutch with my left hand and gotten my finger out with less damage.
I had almost severed the last cm of the finger but they sorted me out at the hospital and it all looks normal now. Small scale compared to the stories here but it serves as a reminder to me every time I work on the bikes or use the machines.
John
I had almost severed the last cm of the finger but they sorted me out at the hospital and it all looks normal now. Small scale compared to the stories here but it serves as a reminder to me every time I work on the bikes or use the machines.
John