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So many woe-is-meees :bang:, so many troubles to share. Let's tell all about your latest body part in trouble: injuries, backs, slices and dices, falls, groin dilemmas,
and assorted maladies that Facebook-like you can share . Stoics need not apply. Accidents and real injuries belong in the Injury Forum

Here goes. Cut 4 Paper Birches (ave. 15" DBH) today after a couple of hours swinging the brushcutter to clear spruce and fir saplings; the start for next winter's firewood. My back hurts, cut my baby finger sharpening, fuel mix overflowed onto my pants burning slightly what's under, dropped a butt on the right big toe--it hurts. Breathed hard and wet the T-shirt. Sunset @ 3:53, ~ 34 F, had to stop and have a single malt. No shower.:( Oh woe.

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Got that one while stripping wire in an electrical panel. Knife slipped, went right through my glove, too, darn it all. I let out a howl, I can tell you!


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I got sloppy and ran a saw through my foot. Ten thousand dollars later, I can still walk and tell when the weather is changing.....:msp_thumbup:

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ETA...I filed that chain myself....;)
 
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I Was in to much pain to take pics of my worst accident 5 years ago. Two broken fingers and one needing to be amputated.

Just imagine a hunk of meat in a food processor.
 
Did this one today. If you ever wondered what happens when a 20 inch diameter wet ash round hits your little toe on the edge here ya go! Worst part was I was standing on a log at the time so no give under it. Yes, I had steel toes on but it hit on the side just behind the cup. Not as bad as the others for sure but just p'd at myself.

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hanniedog said:
Don't know what good steel toes are stuff always hits right behind them.
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I think they are there to direct stuff where to hit! I can't tell you how many times I had 600 lb sows step there.

Probably the worst pain I had was one time working cattle. A week earlier I had scun my shin to the bone on a metal edge and they cut more skin out. Pulled it all together and put in 10 stitches. Was scheduled to get the stitches out that day and we were working cattle in a head shoot. One of them ran forwards and I was going for the gate to squeeze it in when the steer put it in high speed reverse. I was at the gates edge when it did a mule kick and hit me square where the stitches were.

My leg snapped backwards. Had such force it made me kick myself in the butt with my heel so hard it was bleeding on my butt, let alone the stitches. That was the only time in my life I actually went blind and couldn't see for several minutes. Not a good day ;)

Nothing like kicking your own butt!
 
Kevin in Ohio said:
Did this one today. If you ever wondered what happens when a 20 inch diameter wet ash round hits your little toe on the edge here ya go! Worst part was I was standing on a log at the time so no give under it. Yes, I had steel toes on but it hit on the side just behind the cup. Not as bad as the others for sure but just p'd at myself.

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I did the same thing about 3 weeks ago i didn't take a picture though.... I feel your pain. Termite
 
Several years back we were moving a boar, he raked his head up my hurdle catching my finger. So off to the E room to get my figer looked at. Seems everyone on duty had to come see a "hog bite". Told them if he actually had bit me my hand would have been shreaded. To top it off they wanted to quarintine him for rabies for 60 days. The vet had to call them to say hogs don't get rabies.
 
Most recent injury was not work related per se, but actually quite painful...and irritating. Was collecting signatures for an initiative in downtown, and got into a scuffle with several of those Occupy Wall Street urchins who were pretty much opposed to our initiative, and didn't want us collecting signatures on their turf. During the scuffle, I reached into the front pocket of my pants for the pepper spray, and the thing discharged in my pocket. Drenched the family jewels and other nearby parts with some of the most potent capsicum that money can buy. Also dyed the whole vicinity for about a day and a half. A good rash broke out for about two days, replete with stinging, burning, and itching. Certainly didn't take photos of that, but I can tell you that there are definately worse places to be pepper-sprayed than in your face.

Cutting wood this year, I have experienced a spate of good fortune. The worst I've had this year was picking up one of my wedges, it slipped through my hand and a shard or spar of metal stabbed me in the hand. Didn't come out easy either. Taught me to stop putting off cleaning up those metal wedges from weeks of mushrooming during splitting.
 
my elbows hurt so bad from hauling rounds I can hardly pull over the splitter. Once the leaves went down I started seeing down trees laying on the root balls up off a snowmobile trail, and I got greedy. Tried to get as much as I could before deer hunting, and went too far. Was healing up nice, then had some time off and went at it wednesday again, before we get snow. Now its all sore again.
At least the BADGERS WON!!! ROSE BOWL!!!
 
Been down the past month with a bad case of shingles. Hurts like h&^% ! At first, it feels like your skin is on fire. Still not over it, but I am back to being able to somewhat function at least... Lots of wood to stack, but it will have to wait. Finally back to burning the stove in the past week. Hurt too much to carry wood in before that. If you have not got the vaccine, get it. It's better than a month of really hurting.
 
Fortunately, I have yet to be injured cutting wood, other than just normal aches and pains.

Last major injury however, I was throwing old display cases in the compactor at work. Had my hand on the rail around the compactor and one of the display cases bounced off the far rail, came back and smashed my right thumb against the rail, splitting the skin over the knuckle about an inch long, all the down to the bone. I could see my knuckle miving around :D

See if I can locate pictures...
 
hanniedog said:
Several years back we were moving a boar, he raked his head up my hurdle catching my finger. So off to the E room to get my figer looked at. Seems everyone on duty had to come see a "hog bite". Told them if he actually had bit me my hand would have been shreaded. To top it off they wanted to quarintine him for rabies for 60 days. The vet had to call them to say hogs don't get rabies.
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Yea, I learned when I go to the ER never to say my injury happened at the farm. They hear the words farm and absolutly flip out. I sliced my arm a few years back and they heard it happened on our farm and they start asking questions and start wanting to throw the IV on who know's what.

About 7 years ago I got slashed by a boar while breeding, tore my leg from my #### to just below my knee. You want to talk about the Nurse's and Dr's going crazy... Then they needed to clean everything out before they stitched me back up...

I now never go in to the ER unless I know they need to sew something back onto me.


Boars can be mean SOB's can't they:hmm3grin2orange:
 
TheGenius said:
Yea, I learned when I go to the ER never to say my injury happened at the farm. They hear the words farm and absolutly flip out. I sliced my arm a few years back and they heard it happened on our farm and they start asking questions and start wanting to throw the IV on who know's what.

About 7 years ago I got slashed by a boar while breeding, tore my leg from my #### to just below my knee. You want to talk about the Nurse's and Dr's going crazy... Then they needed to clean everything out before they stitched me back up...

I now never go in to the ER unless I know they need to sew something back onto me.


Boars can be mean SOB's can't they:hmm3grin2orange:
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Years ago we bought 2 duroc boars from the same supplier. They were great, but man did they get HUGE, During the summer months we had a water pit for them to cool in but one of them either had a heart attack or heat stroke so it was decided to sell the other one. When we sold the other one it weighed 998 lbs. Luckily these were a docile as they come. When they heard you mess with the gate chain they would start chomping and foaming at the mouth. They knew what was up! I'd grab his tail and pull to one side and they'd turn that direction. If they were mean I'd hate to see the results from messing with them.

Why? Here are a couple pics of one of his tusks.

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Ground sharp as you can see
 
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MORE WOES......:cool2:
P.S. Pics will win you acclaim, the desired "likes", and nada.
P.P. S. Gologit is skulking.... what about your woes ? :hmm3grin2orange:

PPPS Maine got no boars. Some pulled pork.
 
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