Did a Dummy!
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Topic: Did a Dummy!
Posted By: john(MI)
Subject: Did a Dummy!
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 2:01am
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Yesterday I backed the truck up to a tree I need to cut down. While I was cutting branches I ended up falling out of the bed. Broke four ribs and cracked a fifth. Doc was impressed I didn't end up dead! Since I'm over 65 the nurse had to do a fall report. Now that there was silly in this case. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
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Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 6:40am
| This happens when our bodies no longer keep pace with our minds.BTDT |
Posted By: Dusty MI
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 7:07am
Well my mind is having a hard keeping up also. Dusty ------------- 917 H, '48 G, '65 D-10 series III "Allis Express" |
SteveM C/IL wrote:Posted By: bikley
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 7:11am
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get better soon at least you have a mind I lost mine a long time ago 
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Posted By: Chuck(ONT)
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 7:23am
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Sorry to hear that. I learned that over 65 you don't admit to anything. ------------- Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway! 1C 1 WD45 1 AC180 |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 7:48am
And I can't get up. 
Cracked and broken ribs are just about the worst.------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 8:14am
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John, Get well soon! Back of a truck, chainsaw, tree, yea not a good combination. Sure sounds like something I would do also! Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: old farmer
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 8:22am
| Get well soon. I have a pole saw so I can cut standing on the ground, no ladders for me. |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 9:22am
Broken ribs don't feel good at all. Sounds like something I would do. My mind is always writing checks that my body can't cash. Did you tell the nurse you fell jumping out of the bedroom window because your girlfriend's husband came home early?  ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 9:48am
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Ouch ! I lightly cracked one rib, falling off bicycle 25 year ago. Coughing and laughing da*ned near killed me. When we get older ,we're supposed to 'work smarter NOT harder'..... you are very lucky you didn't puncture a lung... Jay ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 10:00am
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Hmm - now i know why I have been just looking at the trees and say - ya I should cut those branches off - one of these days . Bought one of them pole saws but need to get the generator running as it's a 120 V electric one from Harbor Freight . ------------- Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." |
Posted By: weiner
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 2:34pm
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I broke 5 ribs in an accident so I know your pain. Will pray for speedy recovery. I put gas in my truck last night and stuck my card in the paper receipt space and had to get help to get it back out. Yes I felt really stupid, but the attendant insisted it happens all the time. ------------- Real heros wear dogtags, not capes. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 3:13pm
| I feel your pain, I fell and went 2 weeks before I went to the doctor, when they done x-ray I had cracked ribs a lung clasped, yes don't laugh or cough and move slowly |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 7:55pm
| I’m very sorry to hear of your pain and hoping for a speedy recovery. Very grateful you’re able to get on here and tell us and you’re not stuck in some hospital. |
Posted By: Michael V (NM)
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 8:38pm
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I had broke ribs way back when I was young,,I mean like early 20's...I don't care who you are,,broke ribs HURT,... So, if your ever in a fight and wanna hurt someone, break their ribs,, that will hurt til they heal up.... |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2019 at 10:24pm
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Thank you guys for all of your concern and the chuckles, it helps. I found that if I sniff it hurts all the way down my body. Who woulda ever thought your nose used that many muscles! I've just been taking pain meds and the doc also prescribed these patches you put on where it hurts, they have lidacaine on them and they help a lot. If I go to bed and lay on my back that's the way I will wake up, no tossen and turnin. Sure gonna be a rough six weeks to heal, but I bet the pain decreases week to week, at least I'm hoping! ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2019 at 1:54am
| I too hope you heal fast...I know that kinda pain too...uh...from doing something else that I won't mention here! I did find that having a flatbed onna pickup works well when trimming/cutting trees! with my bad back, sometimes I use my one truck to lean against while cutting a tree with a saw, have never dropped a tree on it yet! |
Posted By: Bob D. (La)
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2019 at 4:16am
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Prayers for quick healing John. Next time don't forget to tie yourself into truck so you can't fall out. When I was a youngster, several times I would fall off a wagon while shoveling off corn or beans. Guess I would get so concentrated on the work I would back up, hit the side of the wagon and out I would go. Glad I'm not so dedicated to my work these days. ------------- When you find yourself in a hole,PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!! |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2019 at 7:13am
| Sorry to hear of your accident. When working for MDOT the safety people told us to always work smarter! One older employee up in the high lift dropped a limb on the bed of the truck where another employee had just put a brand new chainsaw! Smashed that saw! And the man doing the cutting was our safety coordinator! Nobody liked to work around him as he was dangerous! If you wanted to work safe stay away from Pat! |
Posted By: Gordy
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2019 at 8:07am
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I know how that feels I was unloading some scrap iron from pkup picked up an old plow bottom was about 60 pounds there was a piece of rod on it that caught in the front pocket of the heavy jacket it had on and when I threw it over the side it took me with it landed on top of it. Friends still laugh but I didn't think it was so funny at the time. ------------- “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough” |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2019 at 11:55am
| Don’t read the funny pages for a few weeks. |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2019 at 1:19pm
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John you are not the only one. Last weekend I was on the four wheeler with the 4 year old grandson and he wanted to drive. That was a mistake as he nailed the throttle. I went off the back and he fell off the side. I got road rash on my back and sore from head to foot and he got a bump on the head. Lesson learned. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2019 at 1:35pm
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Stan your gonna make John laugh.
Hope you two are OK and can laugh about it too. ------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2019 at 1:44pm
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It was a definite what were you thinking moment. Lucky his mom and dad were not around so let's keep this on the down low. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: chaskaduo
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2019 at 5:25pm
Now that's funny, my little one would have been blabbing it as soon as he saw my daughter. 
------------- 1938 B, 79 Dynamark 11/36 6spd, 95 Weed-Eater 16hp, 2010 Bolens 14hp |
Posted By: Tracy Martin TN
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2019 at 8:32pm
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God Bless a speedy recovery! ------------- No greater gift than healthy grandkids! |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2019 at 11:43pm
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There was another guy there and I did ask him to hold my beer. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 18 Aug 2019 at 9:20pm
My chainsaw just quit,,,,,,,,it's broke,,,,,maybe thas a good thing? ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |