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There have been several news stories concerning people who have been trapped in by large boulders or parts of their car and had to slowly cut through their limb with a pocket knife, shard of glass or other sharp thing that just happens to be laying around.
Sawing through one's own limb for survival
is a skill that I think few people possess. What the everyman needs is a portable guillotine type of device to make the cut cleanly and quickly. While I don’t think I could slowly cut through my limb with a pocketknife, I do think I could do it in one swell foop, so to speak.
The device should be compact and light enough to carry in a backpack. I imagine an assemble able device with a band to hold the limb in place and a razor sharp cutting device with a leveraged actuator allowing you to make a small movemant and have the blade go cleanly through the affected limb. Ideally the DIYAK would include one shot of your favorite anaesthetic (thank you [po]) and a one-handed tourniquet (thank you [DrCurry]).
I guess you could also just carry a flare gun or a cell phone... But where's the fun in that?
this idea may have taken off, if [ato]'s idea had been around
http://www.halfbake...20wedding_20fingers
[po, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Well, duh
http://www.psara.co...sletter03_21_03.htm
[Scroll down on right, under heading "Darwin Award Nominee."] [DrCurry, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
(??) Much more importantly
http://www.armymedi...2-11/tourniquet.htm
...the one-handed tourniquet, now saving lives in Iraq, and very handy if you ever need to cut off your arm without medical assistance. [DrCurry, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
climber pinned
http://www.cbsnews....al/main551979.shtml
[ato_de, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
fisherman trapped
http://www.gospelco.../odb-01-12-95.shtml
[ato_de, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Link for [BaconBrain]
http://www.answers....opic/apotemnophilia
some people like to cut off their own body parts. [Freefall, Aug 02 2005]
Kiwi Sandals
http://www.kiwisandals.com/lee.htm
I bought some sandals (style #41) from this guy (when he still had two arms). They are very good sandals. [hippo, Nov 17 2010]
Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
http://en.wikipedia...iki/Ranulph_Fiennes
Amputation the British way!(see the 'Adventurer' section) [DrBob, Nov 17 2010]
[link]
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Or just carry a pocket knife. |
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I would just hire one. for goodness sake how often would you use it? |
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I saw a 50 year old patent on this recently. Actually, it was a magic finger guillotine. You put a cigarette in it, and it chops it off cleanly. Then you put your finger in and, well, that was the magic part... |
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I have been unsuccessfully trying to find the story of the man who chopped off a finger under a guillotine at work and when the manager asked him how he had done it, he demonstrated by cutting off another. |
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po: three times at most, I would say. [In answer to your first question.] See link. [In answer to your second.] |
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Ugh. How about a portable set of jacks to lift the boulder off your arm? It'd get used just as often. |
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An excuse to link to the news story, methinks... |
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[waugs] as I read the news story, I thought I would not be able to do what the climber did. Then I asked myself; "Self," (that's what I call me) "What would you do?" I thought I could handle it if I did it all at once instead of in pocketknife increments, so the DIYAK was born in my addled mind. I linked to the news story because without that, this is just one sick puppy of an idea. |
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[snarf] this is marketed toward those who will be away from civilization and medical assistance, climbing, hiking, spelunking or shopping at Wall Mart. |
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you could have mentioned anaesthetic or booze for goodness sake. anyway a + from me because it *is* an original idea. |
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thank you Curry. Duh? hey you have been doing this 50 years longer than me <g> |
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Honest! If you'd kept looking at this page, you'd have seen that originally I posted the link as "Well, duh." Then after my "See link" post, I though it migh not be obvious that that was the link I was talking about, so I added " - for po" without thinking about any possible negative connotations. You know I love you, sweetie. |
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The kit should be available in left-hand and right-hand versions. |
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Ambidextrous would be better, it wouldn't matter which hand you trapped. |
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There should also be versions than can be operated by foot, in case both arms are trapped. |
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or the mouth which would bring the possible self-usage up to 4. |
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//or the mouth which would bring the possible self-usage up to 4.// |
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<*Evil*>If you were a bloke, I reckon you could bring that up to five </*Evil*> |
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Not that this portable guillotine isn't a good idea, but wouldn't it be safer if, before going out into the woods, you went to a nice, clean hospital and had everything amputated? |
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[baconbrain] - I doubt the doctors would do that. There is a psychological disorder where you get some kind of weird sexual high from having a limb removed - I'm trying to find a link, but then again, I'm not sure if I actually want to google it... |
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"This is a tricky one, inspector. There
appears to be a man's head wedged
between those two boulders up there,
and as you can see there's a bizarre
metal device next to this body here..." |
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HA Ha! I'll guarandamntee you there's a writer who's devised a take on that [Basepair]. |
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Um, thanks for the link, I guess. |
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//wouldn't it be safer if, before going out into the woods, you went to a nice, clean hospital and had everything amputated?// |
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I assume you haven't heard the *other* version of that classic song 'The Teddy Bears Picnic'? |
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The word "cheesewire" springs to mind. |
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In terms of compactude, the ideal would be a sort of
cheesewire noose with a battery-operated heavily-geared
winch to tighten it. It might splinter the bone a little, but a
nailfile could resolve that problem once you're free and at
leisure. |
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