Just got engaged (again) now a question

[Tubby’s Canteen]

You could always cut off your ring finger like I did.

You went one further than I did I cut my middle one off square with my ring finger changing a pitman arm in a sicklebar mower.

 

[Wyatt Smith]

@Wyatt Smith
Lucky it was your ring finger not your trigger finger
Bob

Indeed, that’s the first thing my buddy asked when I told him.

You went one further than I did I cut my middle one off square with my ring finger changing a pitman arm in a sicklebar mower.

I got this one in a log splitter, I’m lucky that all I lost. A boy about my age lost his in a sickle on a grain platform.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

Indeed, that’s the first thing my buddy asked when I told him.

I got this one in a log splitter, I’m lucky that all I lost. A boy about my age lost his in a sickle on a grain platform.

Old man always said hydraulics don’t care. Did they try and re attach yours?

 

[Wyatt Smith]

Old man always said hydraulics don’t care. Did they try and re attach yours?

It didn’t slow it down much.
They did not, the top knuckle was too far gone, so they trimmed it back square and capped the end.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

It didn’t slow it down much.
They did not, the top knuckle was too far gone, so they trimmed it back square and capped the end.

Mine was just in front of the top knuckle they re attached it and then worked on it most of the summer. Made hay all that summer one handed good times. Handling 5500-6000 square bales two or three times sucked.