That may have hurt me real bad

37chief · Jun 27, 2011

While mowing today in 7 ft weeds along a fence line. I thought I knew where the fence was, but was off a few feet. Next thing I knew wam, bam, I ran into the fence. A 1 1/2 in pipe slid past under my arm next to my rib cage. By the time I got stopped the pipe was sticking out behind me the other end of the pipe was way to the front yet. Needless that got my attention. All the rest of the day I keep thinking of all the places the pipe could have struck my body. Then to top that, a wad of barbed wire from the fence wrapped around my mower blade. Stan

BCnT · Jun 27, 2011

my grandfather was shredding a pasture and blade picked up a strand of barb wire...it came up and hooked around his left ankle...only thing that saved him was presense of mind to turn key off and the fact the tractor didnt have a ORC...it stopped before it pulled him under.
ya gotta be carefull...i wont take on a new shredding job without walking the entire place and marking hazzards...people dont want to pay me to check pastures i tell em to find somebody else.

ShadetreeRet · Jun 27, 2011

Don't we all have close calls from time to time! Kinda serves as a reminder to maybe think ahead and be more careful. When we are as fortunate as you were we just have to give an extra "thank you" to the Big Farmer in the sky.

showcrop · Jun 27, 2011

Years ago our rescue responded in early morning hours to a car part way into the town common. We got there and the guy appeared to have driven nearly straight into the corner of the iron pipe fence. He didn't appear to be hurt, just highly inebriated. We took vital signs then started the extrication process, though it didn't look like much of a job. When we went to lift him he wouldn't budge. turned out the car had driven into the fence so that the pipe went through the headlight, firewall, thigh, buttock, seat back, and rear seat. He was more or less stitched into his Lincoln. We "topped" his car to make room to work and he started yelling at the Civil War soldier looking down at him from up on the monument. He sang a different tune though while we sawed his pipe with the Sawzall. so we shipped him off in the ambulance with his pipe and he made a complete recovery with no damage to the jewells.

Richard from SE AZ · Jun 27, 2011

Back as a younger man, and after a night in the clubs in Mexico I fell asleep( didn't drink much, bad for a good time) on my way home and took out 70' of 10'chain link fence with a Volvo. A piece of the top rail came through the little wind wing on the drivers door,went under my chin and out the rear right side window. When I woke up, my chin was resting on the pipe. Gave me a real good look at my mortality.

JML755 · Jun 28, 2011

37chief,
just wasn't your time. Glad to hear you're ok. I think all of us who work around machinery of any kind have had one of those "whew, that was close" moments. Even if you're safety conscious, things happen quick and unexpected sometime and anyone who thinks they're safe because they're sitting up on a tractor and away from the implement has never had a close one like you just did. I tend to slow down when mowing near the edges of fields but even in the open, I've hit my share of rocks, cinder blocks, fence posts, old fencing, etc. that somehow wasn't there last time I mowed.

Rickstrir · Jun 28, 2011

IN the 60's I worked on an ambulance. We had a guy go off the interstate and hit the fence. Drove the a fence pole through is chest just under the collar bone. Firemen cut both sides and we took him to the ER sitting up in the jump seat, really hurt when he laid down.

That may have hurt me real bad

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