Knocked unconscious

rrlund

Well-known Member
So just in case it turns out to be a slow day and you need something to talk about,anybody ever been knocked unconscious?
I was,probably 15 years or so ago. Darndest thing was,it wasn't a hit to the head. A cow kicked me in the side of the leg with the back of her knee. Hurt like crazy. I layed down on the barn floor,Dad asked me if I was OK and I said yea,just let me lay down for a minute. I had no sense of fading away,no sense of time passing,but instantly the pain was cut by about half. I started getting up and my wife came running in out of the milk house. She hadn't even been in the barn. Dad had gone to the house and got her,that's how long I was out. I wasn't groggy or anything,got right up and went back to work. I could hit that spot on my leg with my fist and it didn't hurt as long as I tightened up the muscles. If I relaxed and even touched it,it was like an open wound. I must have had that leg relaxed when she kicked me and the muscles must have parted a little so that narrow knee hit a nerve down deep.
 
Knocked myself out several years ago washing my loader tractor, i had lifted the loader about half up to wash the hood panels, and when i walked to wash the other of the tractor the pipe caught on the tire treads, so i "ran" to untangle it and managed to smack my head on the bucket cutting edge... as far as i can tell i was out for about 10 minutes... woke up lying on the ground in a puddle of water... note to self, look where you're going
 

Several years ago, chasing a cow on 4 wheeler. Cow zigged and I zagged, machine ran up her back leg. Unloaded me hard, laid in the field for I don't know how long, working alone. Had too go back 15 feet to get my glasses and cap. Machine setting in the soybeans running, cow had put herself away. Stiff and sore for a couple weeks, otherwise fine. GARY
 

Sounds to me like you passed out due to shock. I encountered similar situations numerous times on Fire Dept. rescue calls. I will admit to being an adrenaline junkie, and getting knocked out twice having hit my head hard when getting off my trail bike at speed. Also got knocked out in a bicycle mishap at about twelve years old. I totaled my Arctic cat in a collision a few weeks ago. I flew about 25 feet but was unhurt.
 
Funny now---but was not so funny when it happened.
Many years ago, I was driving metal fence post with a home made driver. The driver was made from a 2" heavy wall pipe with a cut off axle hub welded for extra weight. I then welded a 2' length of 1" rebar across the top for a handle.
I needed an extra long post , so I welded two post together. This pit the top of the driver a good distance over my head. I had to grip the Pipe section to get the post started. I never realised that the cross rebar had turned and It hit my head.
Knocked me out cold!!
 
Well, LOL I have been knocked out so many times I could not count them all.

Several times where when I was in the service. Funniest was when another DI and I where horsing around when racing to the mess hall. I turned my head just as I approached the door to the mess hall. Some one open the door just as I looked back toward the door just in time to run full bore in the edge of a heavy metal door. I knocked myself out cold. LMAO Several weeks later I was running a unit through small arms training when the other DIs came carrying in a metal door all painted up with this on the side "Beware Danger to Senile OLD men". We all had a good laugh about it. That door stayed on the range until I retired.

On the farm I have had my butt handed to me several times by livestock. The most painful was when I was bedding some heifers. They where about 5 weight calves. One of them Jacka$$ kicked me just as I was in front of a barn post. Both her feet hit me in the privates against the barn post. I was out like a light. The next day my man boys where swelled as big as grapefruits, black and blue too. I could not wear jeans for a week. Even sweat pants hurt. Walking was a lot of fun too. Lets just say the wife was in NO danger from me for a while. SHE thought it was funny. Women have a warped sense of humor.

Another time was when I was a kids showing my younger brother how to hit a base ball. I was standing behind him and he swung the bat. He missed the ball. HE had swung so hard his follow through turned him clear around and he hit me square on the head with the bat. I had a knot for a week over than one too.

The wife always said I did not have any sense left as it all had been knocked out. LOL.
 
Twice. At 6 years old was riding my bike down to the pond and 2 guys were racing horses to the pond. They came over a small rise in the field and hollered at me. I looked back and saw a horse coming up on my left behind me. I swerved right into the path of the other horse. I woke up to a bunch of people looking down at me to see if I was alive. My neck still bothers me 54 years later.
About 12 years ago, I was sitting on the tail gate of a pickup as my son drove across the creek. He sped up and I started sliding on the slick bed liner. Landed on my feet and fell backward and hit back of head on the ground. After I came to, I lost my memory for a a couple of hours and the next morning had blood pooled around one eye. Doc said I had a concussion.
I guess I am alright now.
I guess I am alright now.
Did I say I guess I am alright now?
Richard in NW SC
 
Was taking the drive wheel off a 7700 jd combine one time. When I got the nuts off the wheel I hit the wheel to break it loose from the hub and the combine fell off the jack and the cab platform hit me on the head. I woke up laying in the wheel with the combine resting on the tire. The lucky part is that this was the second time I had taken the wheel off and the time before I layed under the combine to remove the hydro drive and re-install it, all while sitting on a jack. I look back on that now and can't believe my stupidity that day.
 
Bent forward to pick something out of my horses feed bunk just as he raised his head up. Top of his head connected with the point of my chin, came to with 3 horses standing over me.
 
One sunday morning we went to church I was about 13 yrs old. We stood up from kneeling in the pews and little black spots started filling in what I could see. Soon everything went black. The man next to me caught me and took me outside. I don't remember walking out just remember sitting on the steps outside the church. He asked me if I had breakfast and I said no. I can't remember what happened after that...
 
I was rigging up a chute so the custom combines could unload right into my old wooden grain bin. I was in a hurry because I could see grain in the combine tank from the ground. I was using a vise grip to twist wires to hold up the chute and the vise grip slipped off the wire while I was pulling it toward my head, and it hit me right in the right eyebrow. I staggered and then dropped to the ground. I don't think I was out for more than a couple of seconds.
 
Being a carpenter the one time it happened someone was working right above me and dropped his 22 oz. framing hammer right on top of my head.Don't know how long I was out but I was on the floor and he was on the same floor.His brother told him to get down as he was fearful when I came too I would have grabbed him and hauled him down.I am not that kind of guy but I used to have a bad temper.

Vito
 
It is true, I did see stars. I was putting in a doorway header. It was a tight fit and I drove it in with a hammer. I bent over to pick something up and that header let loose and hit me in the head, Idiot that I am sometimes. lol
 
I don't remember if I got knocked out of not, but when I was 4-5 I ran out to the barn to get my Dad for whatever reason and he unknowingly dropped a bale on me. My head was completely covered in blood and I ended up getting 6 stitches. Another time when I was 8-9 I ran into the hitch on a gooseneck trailer running full speed. I seem to remember being knocked out momentarily from that one. Hurt like anything.
 
I have been knocked out two times.
1. I was replacing the steering wheel on my Ford 800 and the wheel was corroded to the steering shaft. I used a gear puller and a long handle cresent wrench. When the wheel came loose it hit me under the chin and when I awakened I was lying next to the outside rear wheel. my mouth was bloodied and I first thought my jaw was broken however I had just biten the end of my tongue.

2. I was unloading a lawn tractor from my pickup. I ignored every safety rule that my dad tought me. I was using alumimun ramps not anchored, unloading on concrete and was sitting on tractor. I guess the deck hit one of the ramps and the tractor went one way and I went the other. I landed on my bottom and it threw me backward hitting my head on the concrete. our neighbor who is a nurse saw it happen and applied ice to my head. It was touch and go for a few hours with brain swelling. The accident happened at approx. 6:30 p.m. however I don't remember anything from noon that day until 3 days later. It was several months before I regained short term memory.

As a foot note: a couple of months I had a call from a law firm and was told they could get me money from the ramp company. I told them why would I sue someone for my carelessness.
 
Chased a big quarter horse out of anothers stall for about the third time and was waving my hat at him. He had a lot longer right hook than I thought! I was down for the count with one punch from that sob for a short while.
He departed the herd shortly thereafter!
 
Unconciousness brought on by holiday traffic on Lake Shore Drive, Jack Daniels with Richards Wild Irish Rose and -from what ER tech said about my cussin' in multiple languages-a Buick making a lane change into my old R69/2 BMW. 8 days in Weiss of which only 6 are clear. One incident early at the time was a minutes wakeup as catheter inserted, then back to sleep. Officer said later when he came on scenee that I'd gotten cycle to side of road, told him F@#$%^ car run me off, didn"t signal- and then said "I don't feel good, can you call someone about bike" then slow fall down to ground. Bleeding head indicated a likely problem so haul to ER. Got a ticket for being in a personal injury accident- hard to argue about that. Officer called Outlaws instead of city tow truck for cycle- Pappy Al came and straightened handlebars, road cycle back to garage- it got used as loaner next couple months until plastered shoulder healed enough to reach throttle after cast removed. Can't actually remember incident, just going by what people told me was done at the time, what I said. RN.
 
Twice that I can remember. Once in high school I was sliding the tub with all the basketballs across the floor to the equip room. I was bent over sliding it behind me running top speed. I went through the gap in the gym dividing tarp just as someone else was bringing a table through from the other side. WHAM! Second time was hand loading a trailer with straw bales. My cousin was throwing bales down and one bale hit me in the head slamming it in to the side of the trailer.
 
How do you think all the ambulance chasers stay in business? Frivolous lawsuits keep thousands of lawyers busy and is a good reason lawyers in general get such a bad reputation. There's also tons of greedy people that try to blame their own mess ups on someone or something else.
 
about three years ago,i fell asleep and rolled my pick up,they tell me they found me,head first under the glove box.(yes,i wear my seat belt now!)they tell me i woke up three days later,i spent a month in the hospital,i don't remember any of it! (thank god)i'm still not quiet the same,but i'm here!
 
I use to kickbox in college, happened quite a few times. No good stories how it happens, your face and someone elses fist, foot or knee.

This leads to another issue which I will post later.

I did have a 6"x8" x 30 barn beam graze my noggin. Didn't knock me out, but I did see stars for a few seconds and was bleeding pretty good.

Rick
 
No left over effects from the hammer drop.Everything is going along ok.

Vito
 
I was trimming broken hanging limbs after Hurricane Rita.Woke up in the hospital with 16 stiches in my skull.All I remember was throwing the running Chainsaw. My Neibor had lifted me in a homemade liftbasket for a frontloader with forks. As i cut a small limb about 2" in diameter it hit the ground bounced up hitting my neibors hand and lodging between the joystick and the tractor fender,dumping the basket and me on an asphalt drive .Lucky the safety chain on the basket was hooked to the loader forks or the basket probably would have fell on top of me.
 
Probably 10 years old. Sitting up on the edge of a gravity box watching/kicking oats into the little 4" auger setting in the wagon, going up through floor above center of drive through corn crib. I recall catching myself nodding off once or twice. Next thing I know I'm waking up, laying on my side, on the ground. Auger is rattling empty. I roll over on my back, and I'm looking up at the steel wagon tongue. Actually had to move quite a bit to get out from under tongue. I climb back up and go to work, just in time to see my cousin come down from overhead, thinking the wagon was empty.
It would have been a lot less of a fall to fall forward. But I would have ended up in the auger. I never felt a thing. No soreness later.
Anybody believe in angels?
 
Back in the 60's at the place where I worked, I was replacing a switch on the back side of a horizontal band saw. The pipe rack was on the other side right beside the saw. Our rammy fork lift driver who loaded the rack with 3/4 black pipe set one on the saw and gave it a good push. It slide throught the saw and hit me right in the corner of forehead at the hairline. It just about cut the circle out, and took 10 stitches to put it back in. I still have the scar.I also saw stars and it tipped me over but I don't know for sure if I went out or not. I thought somebody hit me with a hammer.
Irv
 
Murphy's law in full working order. Whadda ya suppose the chances of that are? It's a wonder any of us are here!
 
I was in gym and was about 10 yrs old. The kids would put one leg over a bar and swing around it. I forgot and did this on the parallel bars and the second bar caught me me right across the forehead. I sure was dizzy for a while. Never did tell anyone about that.
 
Bought a week old bull calf from a guy.His Momma had calved with mastitis so the calf stayed with her in a pen until she cleared up.When I got the calf home he was so rammy I put a rope through the vent on the top and tied it to a tree on either side because I was afraid he would flip the hutch over.That night I tried to give him a bottle.I was squated like a baseball catcher when he jumped at me forehead first.He was laying down when I got up.

Another time I was helping a buddy move and we tried to save a trip by leaving the tailgate down to hold a dresser and I rode on the gate.The dresser started to rock 1/2 mile later and I couldn"t hold it so we both hit the asphalt.The driver was standing over me when I opened my eyes.It took over 20 stitches to close the gash in the back of my head.Earlier when we moved the fridge we removed a box of wine to make it lighter.I"m not saying it was entirely the fault of the wine.
 
I am 67 years old and a retired Tool&Die Maker and Certified Mechanic. I have had many close calls and accidents, but I thank God that I have never broken a bone or had to have stitches.
I credit this, partly, to being safety minded and try to never be in a hurry. But I realise that regardless of how careful a person is---accidents do happen!
I have many friends that are missing fingers and have other work related problems, so I realise that I am in a great minority.
 
Hit a tree at 55 mph on my Honda, came to 67 ft past the tree with my face in the dirt--last think i remembered was looking at the speedometer while sliding off the sharp turn--honda dream folded like and accordion right into the tree.
 
As a smart teen, if I recollect right, I rolled my fist into a ball in front of Dad.

Seems that the moment passed without much adieu.

I think supper was had whilst I took a brief nap.

We get along great, now.

D.
 
Many times! Most of them are not funny, hit a deer on a motorcycle, dropped
a barn beam on my head while tearing down an old barn, etc.
I think the first time I was knocked out at least taught me a lesson.
I was riding a pony as a kid, and ignored what I had been taught about
re-tightening the saddle.
The saddle, with me still on it, slid around under the pony in between the
front and rear hooves. The rest is probably pretty clear. LOL
I don't remember anything that happened for the next two days.
 
I don't know, but one time people were trying to revive me and one guy kept yelling "how many fingers up?" I could see a couple but could only say "Thursday".
 
As kids I had a go cart and the neighbor kid had a mini bike which was much faster. We rode cross country to his farm. We decided to try switching. I made a big circle in the yard on his minibike in front of their big ole wooden barn. What I didn't know was, there was a manhole in the lawn for the well pump. I hit and swerved head on into the side of the barn. He was elsewhere. I walked around and found him. He said "wheres the minibike"? I didn't know! It was layin in the lawn with the forks bent back so the tire wouldn't turn. I'm not sure if I went out but was missing a few minutes of details.
 
I was with my dad over at the neighbors helping put a corn dump together. I was around 5. I went around the end of the dump to get a wrench for my dad when the cable slipped and the dump fell. It hit me in the top of my head. I woke up on their side walk across the road and saw their daughter, a nurse. I remember her saying he's alright, he has his eyes open. I have a flat place on top of my head still and say I got my brains knocked out. Probably more truth than poetry. Today when some asks how am I. I just say "I am getting dumber every day". Now that is the truth!
 
We were chasing a wild cow last fall when our other guy thought he had a clear path across a wash. There was a clod in it, he went off over a front corner, bounced and had to jump up and run to keep from getting run over. Guess it was fairly humorous, according to the one of us who saw it.
 
Never have been myself, but I watched a big mouthy foreman crank an old Wisconsin engine on a welder and knock himself out. He made fun of all of us for not getting it started, then told us to step back and he'd show us how to crank it. It was about 10 degrees that morning - he bent over, stuck the crank in and whipped it over real good, but he was pulling the crank out as he cranked. When it came loose from the engine, the end spun around and hit him right on the chin. He went down like a big oak tree, and just laid there. Didn't even quiver. I'm ashamed to say that we couldn't even check on him because we were laughing so hard. We got him by the heels and drug him over by the fire barrel, and he finally came to. Every morning after that we'd holler for him to come show us how to start that old welder and he'd get red as a beet.

I watched the same guy lop a finger off one morning too, but that's another long story. . .

He was a dangerous man.
 
Absolutely believe in angels. I have been miraculously saved from serious injury twice. No other explanation but my guardian angel.
 
Back in 1968 while working at Pacific Clay Products in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. - (Worlds largest manufacturer of vitrified clay sewer pipe) - I was working on the ground level of our new, experimental, 11 story tall Iso-Press Tower when a co-worker accidently dropped a 12 inch Crescent wrench from the 7th floor. The wrench hit squarely across the top of my Alumilite hard-hat, knocking me unconscious. I don't know how long I was out, but when I came to, there were about a dozen people around me including a bunch of BIG bosses from the front office. They took me by ambulance to be checked out, Doctor said I had a concussion. When I returned to work several days later, they had my hard-hat & the wrench mounted on the wall in the front office, with the wrench in the crease it made in my hard-hat - that crease was a measured 1 1/2 inches deep. To the best of my knowledge, that hard-hat & wrench still hang on the wall in the front office as a reminder to everyone to wear their hard-hats.

Doc
 

We sell tractor parts! We have the parts you need to repair your tractor - the right parts. Our low prices and years of research make us your best choice when you need parts. Shop Online Today.

Back
Top