When I was a kid growing up in the 1960s and 1970s there was no shortage of old-timers around the farm community I grew up in who were missing a few digits, that is fingers.
I also remember more than one old farmer wearing those old Osh Kosh Bgosh bib overalls that had a metal hook type clamp where their hand used to be.
Being a curious kid, I wasn’t shy about the question, “Mister, what happened to…