Hand in Cast - how to keep warm?

[Canoepaddler]

My wife rides 2-up with me. She fell and broke 3 bones in her hand. Has anyone had to ride with their hand in a cast? It's a soft cast now, but will be a hard cast when the swelling goes down. How do you keep it warm when gloves won't fit and will she be able to use it to hang on at all if we have to cobble something up to keep her fingers warm?

Thanks,
Dave

 

[blkhwkbob]

Tap into the sleds cooling system with vinyl tubing. Wrap tubing around the cast and wear an oven mitt over it. Velcro oven mitt to sled. Wa-la!

 

[polarisrider1]

Use doubled up wool socks. The Brawny lumber jack kind. slide over cast. I did it when I was 12 and rode the entire winter (we had winters back then). Wore like a mitten and I could do kermit the frog imatations with it.

 

[scottiking]

A pair a choppers and 3 handwarmers!
or a bootliner and 2 handwarmers,duct taped on!
or cut the arm off that old sled coat thats in the closet that you'll never wear again and sew the end shut, and 1 handwarmer?
I'm sober and drug free!
goodnight!
Scottiking OUT

 

[whitedust]

Every time I rode 2up I needed both hands to hang on for dear life. I think the bigger problem is how do you keep her on the sled? If she is a small person might be able to saftey strap her to you like a back pack.

 

[tourguide]

I rode with a broken wrist a couple years ago, just used a wool sock and kept it dry. No problem.

 

[wags]

Easy, if it's a true 2-up sled there should be hand warmers on the handles just guy some gauntlets for them then slip a wool sock over the hand and cast.

I have 2 Yamaha 2-up's and both have the passenger gauntlets and with the heaters they work great! I have had passengers out with me who took off their gloves off due to overheating.

 

[northbound08]

A big a** mitten or the handlebar grip gaurd boots?????

 

[LivinLarge]

This isn't going to help much now, but tell your wife if she's going to choose to fall down, it best be done in the summer time. Cutting in to an already short sled season is simply unacceptable. Serioulsy, best of luck, I hope you can rig something together.

 

[Firecatguy]

I rode with a broken wrist at the last few weeks of healing....took alot longer than normal to heal!!! doc blames snowmobiling.....something to think about....

 

[windingtrailgal]

This isn't going to help much now, but tell your wife if she's going to choose to fall down, it best be done in the summer time. Cutting in to an already short sled season is simply unacceptable. Serioulsy, best of luck, I hope you can rig something together.

Those little packet hand warmer thingies are AWESOME!! so whatever combo of sock, oven mitt, etc u use, those are great to have. I keep them in the back of my sled for the just in case - put in the toes of boots too - altho they make them for feet too!

 

[1-snowbullet]

-- sorry to hear that -- Broke my left Wrist -- shattered it had it in a cast rode my sled had to put a big mitten - glove on hard to pull break that season but was able to ride .. that hand never got cold .. only problem all that jaring from a sled holding on can do damage to the break so keep that in mind ..

 

[dcsnomo]

Every time I rode 2up I needed both hands to hang on for dear life. I think the bigger problem is how do you keep her on the sled? If she is a small person might be able to saftey strap her to you like a back pack.

Duct tape her to the sled!

 

[Canoepaddler]

Thanks for all the advice. Maybe we're being optimistic thinking she can even hang on and ride back there, not to mention do it without causing more damage...even it's in a hard cast. I've never been in the back, so I better have her really think about this. I guess we'll just have to see how things go. When she couldn't get her normal work coat on this morning, that brought up another issue...need to check if we have a snowmobile jacket that she can get her arm through with a cast. More problems than I guess we were thinking of. Looks like no way she'll be riding the 1600 miles she rode with me last year.

Dave

 

[Canoepaddler]

Every time I rode 2up I needed both hands to hang on for dear life. I think the bigger problem is how do you keep her on the sled? If she is a small person might be able to saftey strap her to you like a back pack.

Whitedust - just to be clear...you were on a 2-up sled? Hopes are deteriorating rapidly. I've never ridden in back before, so I don't know what it's like. Sounds like we need a serious discussion tonight.

Dave

 

[windingtrailgal]

Whitedust - just to be clear...you were on a 2-up sled? Hopes are deteriorating rapidly. I've never ridden in back before, so I don't know what it's like. Sounds like we need a serious discussion tonight.

Dave

This had me LMAO!! Not sure why...just the thought of 'Johnny Cash' on the back of a sled, your hopes being dashed and the intervention!!

 

[thebreeze]

I rode for a month last season with a soft cast on my right hand/thumb. I had to look everywhere, but I found a pair of mittens that would be able tp taken on and off with the brace on. It was a hassle, but it worked and mittens always do a much better job providing warmth. If I did not find a pair of big enough mittens, I was going to cut a slit down a pair of leather eskimo gloves and have my mom sow on a zipper or some velcro. Just some ideas.