How Tough Are You?
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"Tough enough to chew a ten penny nail and spit out a barbed wire fence." A little saying I was raised on. As to my ranking, more like uses jerky for a sandwich spread. Ron
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I"m tough enough to make up for my mental short comings.
bnmc98
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Quote from friends mom I like.
"If your going to be dumb, you better be tough"
I think I fit that... and sometimes I wonder if I fit that cause I'm still in logging
"If your going to be dumb, you better be tough"
I think I fit that... and sometimes I wonder if I fit that cause I'm still in logging
!"WOOSIES"!! I am so tough, that after I **** I wipe my azz with a roll of 01.000 grit rock wool just to pamper the doodle berries! lol
Big_Wood
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ChoppyChoppy
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Slipped off roof decking and fell down. Ended up breaking my back in 2 places. I finished the roof and put in a people and garage door before going to the hospital about 2 weeks later. I didn't figure it was the serious. Hurt like an SOB for sure, I put down a 500 count jar of Tylenol in 2 weeks.
The doc put me on orders of not lifting over 5lbs. I asked... so those 70lb roof bundles... not a good idea?
This spring I almost died in the hospital. Went in to the ER because it hurt to inhale. Ended up having 3 broken ribs from trying to breathe, my right lung was fully collapsed and the left about 50%. The Doc said it made no sense that I was pretty much alive, never mind had been working in the woods the day before.
That whole deal turned into a big mess. They sucked 2 liters of infection out of the lungs and I had chest tubes on a bubbler thingee. About lost my kidneys and liver too, they never did figure if it was from the meds or from the lung infection spreading. I'm still not 100% 6 months later.
I told the Doc I wasn't dying anytime soon, I had firewood to still deliver!
Tell you what though, went that SOB ripped out my chest tube like they were the pull cord of a Briggs powered lawn mower I let some words rip that made the old crusty nurse blush even. Not sure how I didn't break the guardrail off the bed! Just imagine a tube that looks like a drain tile (with all those holes in it) getting ripped out from between your rips after the flesh has grown into it.
They gave me a button to push to inject Daludid, I pushed that SOB about 150 times (it's on a timer but still)
The doc put me on orders of not lifting over 5lbs. I asked... so those 70lb roof bundles... not a good idea?
This spring I almost died in the hospital. Went in to the ER because it hurt to inhale. Ended up having 3 broken ribs from trying to breathe, my right lung was fully collapsed and the left about 50%. The Doc said it made no sense that I was pretty much alive, never mind had been working in the woods the day before.
That whole deal turned into a big mess. They sucked 2 liters of infection out of the lungs and I had chest tubes on a bubbler thingee. About lost my kidneys and liver too, they never did figure if it was from the meds or from the lung infection spreading. I'm still not 100% 6 months later.
I told the Doc I wasn't dying anytime soon, I had firewood to still deliver!
Tell you what though, went that SOB ripped out my chest tube like they were the pull cord of a Briggs powered lawn mower I let some words rip that made the old crusty nurse blush even. Not sure how I didn't break the guardrail off the bed! Just imagine a tube that looks like a drain tile (with all those holes in it) getting ripped out from between your rips after the flesh has grown into it.
They gave me a button to push to inject Daludid, I pushed that SOB about 150 times (it's on a timer but still)
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I clean my eyes with carb cleaner twice a day
13TreeWorks
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Shots are for pussies I snort mine ..... when the oll lady bitches about me not listening I clean my ears with sulfuric acid then ignore her incessant whining anyways
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HuskStihl
Chairin'em for the sound
I've been receiving nonstop constructive criticism from "she who must be obeyed" for 18 years. During that time I've busted ribs 3 times, broken my foot, busted the bottom off my sternum, and krunked up a wrist. The spousal abuse hurts much more.
ChoppyChoppy
Tree Freak
Laying on the couch and being a bum seems like a great idea until you are forced to do it. After my lung infection deal, the Doc put me on bed red for 6 weeks. I about went stir crazy after week 2 and that was even with having no energy... I'm talking walking from the bedroom to the bathroom, a whopping 10ft I was worn right out. I could barely handle a 10 min phone conversation.
ChoppyChoppy
Tree Freak
Quit looking at F150s "snackies" or nude Rosie O Donnel photos.
backhoelover
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Lmao
That may have just joined "chowdered all to hell" in my vocabulary. Thanks!
Gypo Logger
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I pissed up a tree today and drank champagne with 5 great women last night. Do these sort of things count? Just askin.
