O T Becareful

Dutchman · Sep 26, 2008

Things change FAST... Took a day off of work to finish putting the tin on a shed I been working on all summer..
The 1st pc. went great.... 2nd not so good... Got in a hurry and DIDN"T see the ladder was good..got up on the ladder and didn't relize it was falling w/me on it [ up about 8 -10 feet ]... OUCH...
I cracked 2 verbates and bruse my tail bone... Can't pick-up anything over 5 lbs for aleast 5 weeks...
I told you this ... knowing HARVEST is coming... TAKE that EXTRA MINUTE and check things...
I will heal ... just be TIME,.. [ up to 4 months ] .. so guys and gals ... TAKE that MINUTE ... hope you have a SAFE HARVEST...
THANKS for listening....
Mark

IH2444 · Sep 26, 2008

Sorry about the fall, glad you will get better though.
Most accidents happen from not paying proper attention, rushing, etc.

noncompos · Sep 26, 2008

BTDT, all too often. Best wishes.

old · Sep 26, 2008

Yep as you get older you do not bounce as well as you did when your young. Years back I could climb up high on almost anything and not worry but now days the higher I get the worse I shake

fixerupper · Sep 27, 2008

That's gotta hurt! Sounds like your body will be talking to you for awhile. It's kind of a bummer to be laid up, especially right before harvest. Good luck. Jim

Brian in MI · Sep 27, 2008

BTDT. I fell this spring trimming dead limbs out of some trees. Fell about 13 ft. broke 2 bones in my ankle, had to have surgery to fix them, and still not 100% and that was 6 months ago. The worst part was I broke the neighbors extension ladder.

GeneMO · Sep 27, 2008

About 25 years ago I rode a falling ladder down, with a running chain saw in my hand. It would have killed me if I did the same thing today.

Gene

formerly ny bill · Sep 27, 2008

in july, i was putting a plastic over a pile of round bales. i missed a step, fell off the 2nd bale up, broke 2 spinous processes. it took 3 weeks with a $900 back brace before i could move comfortably. i was lucky, as it sounds you were (relatively speaking).
it only took a second to happen.

El Toro · Sep 27, 2008

My neighbor did that 2 or 3 years ago. His wife was holding the ladder and I think the limb he was sawing hit the ladder when it hit the ground.
His fall was broken by his neighbor's top rail on the chain link fence. It tore the socket out his shoulder. He was flown to a shock trauma center. He's seems to be doing ok. When this happened his wife called me and I ran over and scratched the bottom of his feet and asked him if he felt that, after telling her to dial 911.
He said he could feel that, I told him he was very lucky. He even called me from the trauma center to get that limb down. The cut end of the limb was still resting against the tree. It was so heavy I had to cut off all the limbs so I could move it. He's lucky that limb and chain saw didn't hit his wife. He's still climbing on the ladder putting screen over his gutters to keep out the leaves. Hal

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