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treevet said:
Speaking from someone about to hit 60, all the kids are thru college and the chasing through the house still happens only not on a daily basis.:)
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Here's to you and you better half.:cheers:

My folks went into their 70's, till my Mom's back pain made it impossible. They still hold hands all the time though.:angel:
 
ropensaddle said:
I think every man has done some stupid stuff when
the ladies are in view:cheers:
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I was blasting down Walnut street in Philly on my mountain bike ( I was a messenger). I was always on the lookout for the ladies when I spied one. I kept looking back as a drove on and didn't see the car turning in front of me. I hit the front fender pedaling at top speed, creased the crap out of it and went bouncing off the hood and landed on the street. Someone was handing me my wallet back while I was trying to hook up with the driver of the car I had just hit. She was cute to. We went to the 16th Street Bar and Grill later on.
This is really not the only time I have hit cars with my bicycle although I have never been hit by a car while on my bicycle.
 
bicycle incident

HAHAHA i did the same thing except i wasnt looking at a girl. (it would have made the story that much better)

i was biking across a college campus late for class, got busy watching the moving cars and forgot about the stationary ones. ran headlong into a car just ahead of the left front wheel.

next thing i know im above the car hood. from this vantage point i can tell that it is white, not made in america, this is gunna hurt, and i cant find the stop button.

the bicycle was a 70 dollar walmart special, the dealer quote to fix the car $700! her boyfriend did the work for like $150.

funniest part was the campus PD tried to book me for a hit and run!
 
371groundie said:
HAHAHA i did the same thing except i wasnt looking at a girl. (it would have made the story that much better)

i was biking across a college campus late for class, got busy watching the moving cars and forgot about the stationary ones. ran headlong into a car just ahead of the left front wheel.

next thing i know im above the car hood. from this vantage point i can tell that it is white, not made in america, this is gunna hurt, and i cant find the stop button.

the bicycle was a 70 dollar walmart special, the dealer quote to fix the car $700! her boyfriend did the work for like $150.

funniest part was the campus PD tried to book me for a hit and run!
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Its called " a John Ritter". Now when you are laying on the ground with all your stuff scattered around ( the bike, backpack, walkman,etc) that's called a " yard sale".
You say " Dude, I was booking down the road when I pulled a John Ritter but nobody came to the yard sale.":)
I used to antogonize the taxi cabs to get them to chase me but you have to be real special to smash into a parked car. I know that from experiance.
 
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Way back I was working in a auto repair shop as an apprentice. I really didn't know very much. The owner, an experianced tech and I were standing there talking about putting more fluid in the in ground lift. I thought I was paying attention when they said " put the lift up and pull the plug." It made sense to me cause the plug was under the lift and the lift was acting like it was low- it was shaking and vibrating when you ried to put a car on it.
So I finish the car I was working on and took it out. I came back and raised the lift all the way and stuck my 1/2 inch air gun on the fill plug...
I got blasted off my feet from the oil shootin out but was able to catch the plug which I was trying to get back in when someone pushed me out of the way of the falling lift.
The shop owners' 67 vette convertable ( a real show car) was in the bay next to mine so you get the idea. The entire shop was splattered in tractor oil from floor to ceiling.
The lifts the guy had were crap. If you know anything about in ground lifts you know how dangerous they can be if they aren't working right. They have a support rod which keeps the main piston from turning in its bore, well at least they are supoosed to. I didn't know this when I stuck a big pry bar under a truck and spun the whole thing pretty much right off the lift. The lift stared to spin as well but then after about 90 degrees it just stopped, the truck didn't stop.
When I think back I should have sued the guy for letting an apprentice mess around with broke stuff like that. Happens a lot in this work. Guys just send novices out with no real supervision.
The guy was real apologitic about the lift spinning thing and the oil? Well, I swear I thought they said to put it up first. I mean you had to get to the plug somehow. I could barely use the lifts because one: I was untrained and two: they was broke... but I was supoosed to to... everyday.
 
OK here's mine..

I was running the rope for Big Jon in July... He was roping out wood on a 85' oak in the backyard between the drive and the woods... I forget why I set it up like this, but I was using the pindle hitch on the pickup truck, parked in the drive, as an anchor point for the porta wrap.. I asked some question about why he wasn't taking bigger pieces... Anyhow a couple cuts later, I AM looking up, and just as the piece begins to fall, I look down at the rope in my hand and realize that is all I got... a rope in my hand... no wraps!

Well it was only a second or two before I gave up even trying to slow the wood down... And watched it take out the service line to the house.. Of course I had to listen to John for a long time, about how I was asking him to take bigger cuts when I couldn't even handle what he was givin'...

Well it all worked out...The reason the tree was coming down is becasue it had recently dropped a large limb that took out the same service line. So the siding still needed to be repaired from the original damage.. No harm there... and the electric company came out and restrung the line n/c..

And with the line out of the way, the rest of the tree was dropped in one easy cut and fell right next to the drive, making it a much easier pick for the log truck than fishing it out of the woods.. Still in 25 + years, that is the only time I can remember even seeing anyone forgetting to take the wraps...
 
murphy4trees said:
OK here's mine..

I was running the rope for Big Jon in July... He was roping out wood on a 85' oak in the backyard between the drive and the woods... I forget why I set it up like this, but I was using the pindle hitch on the pickup truck, parked in the drive, as an anchor point for the porta wrap.. I asked some question about why he wasn't taking bigger pieces... Anyhow a couple cuts later, I AM looking up, and just as the piece begins to fall, I look down at the rope in my hand and realize that is all I got... a rope in my hand... no wraps!

Well it was only a second or two before I gave up even trying to slow the wood down... And watched it take out the service line to the house.. Of course I had to listen to John for a long time, about how I was asking him to take bigger cuts when I couldn't even handle what he was givin'...

Well it all worked out...The reason the tree was coming down is becasue it had recently dropped a large limb that took out the same service line. So the siding still needed to be repaired from the original damage.. No harm there... and the electric company came out and restrung the line n/c..

And with the line out of the way, the rest of the tree was dropped in one easy cut and fell right next to the drive, making it a much easier pick for the log truck than fishing it out of the woods.. Still in 25 + years, that is the only time I can remember even seeing anyone forgetting to take the wraps...
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We would have had an operation to get my foot outta yer:censored:
Well maybe not but there would have been some bitc?ing for sure
and plenty riving for a long long time.
 
murphy4trees said:
OK here's mine..

I was running the rope for Big Jon in July... He was roping out wood on a 85' oak in the backyard between the drive and the woods... I forget why I set it up like this, but I was using the pindle hitch on the pickup truck, parked in the drive, as an anchor point for the porta wrap.. I asked some question about why he wasn't taking bigger pieces... Anyhow a couple cuts later, I AM looking up, and just as the piece begins to fall, I look down at the rope in my hand and realize that is all I got... a rope in my hand... no wraps!

Well it was only a second or two before I gave up even trying to slow the wood down... And watched it take out the service line to the house.. Of course I had to listen to John for a long time, about how I was asking him to take bigger cuts when I couldn't even handle what he was givin'...

Well it all worked out...The reason the tree was coming down is becasue it had recently dropped a large limb that took out the same service line. So the siding still needed to be repaired from the original damage.. No harm there... and the electric company came out and restrung the line n/c..

And with the line out of the way, the rest of the tree was dropped in one easy cut and fell right next to the drive, making it a much easier pick for the log truck than fishing it out of the woods.. Still in 25 + years, that is the only time I can remember even seeing anyone forgetting to take the wraps...
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See? Being sucessfull in this work just comes down to dumb luck.
 
I never quite understood the phrase" I'd rather be lucky than good" ( or something like that). You all have heard it?
I guess it could mean a lot but I never really subscribed to it.
 
Not me, but my best friend. Just out of High School and working for a landscape company removing concrete patio slabs (24x24x1" thick). Day is very hot and were in loose fitting shorts and work boots (working on our tans).

We were always having contests (how many rolls of sod you can fit in a wheel barrow and still move it, etc.), so as we are loading these patio slabs into the wheelbarrow, by buddy has stacked 4 of them in there (flat) with the 5th on in his hands when the wheelbarrow starts to tip towards him, he leans his pelvis into the wheelbarrow to stop it from tipping over and then drops the patio slab he is carrying, flattening the area in the front of his shorts.

He screams like a little girl (I'm thinking that is what he's become) and then thrusts his hips back to "pull out". He hits the ground before the wheelbarrow does and is screaming and tearing out chunks of sod with his hands when the boss comes over and asks what the *&%$ is going on.

At that point my buddy lowers his shorts to examine the damage. (I hope to never see that color again) The boss drives him to the hospital.

I dropped by his house that night and teasingly asked him if they splinted it up or down or if the Doctor told him to keep it elevated. He said that it was just badly bruised and scraped, but everyone working in the emergency ward that day had to come by to examine it.
 
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