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Re: Getting injured on your farm homestead lets hear it.


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Posted by K Effective on November 24, 2015 at 18:24:43 from (162.235.236.141):

In Reply to: Getting injured on your farm homestead lets hear it. posted by jocco on November 24, 2015 at 16:15:05:

tl;dr

four generations of pain:

Grandpa dislocated his knee unloading a truck full of 100 pound feed bags a his old general store one night. Had to drive the old two-ton to the doctor's office- he turned him away, so Grandpa went home and waited to go see the doctor one town over the next morning. That knee was a pain to him for about 70 more years- you could hear it grinding as he climbed steps.

Dad thought he threw his back out hooking the hay wagon to the baler a few Springs ago- when it wouldn't pop back in, he went to see his vet- that's when we found out that bone cancer can turn your vertebrae into hollow boxes, easily crushed.

I guess the worst I got hurt besides dropping that car battery onto my toe, was the time carrying an armful of something through the barn and found the stub axle of the 2630 with my thigh in full stride. Deep bone bruise.

Absolute worst day of my life was nearly crushing my son. Both boys were riding the drawbar of the MI back from the field as we hauled empty gravity boxes out for corn harvest. The younger son, four at the time, started to fall off, but didn't just let go- as he leaned outside, the tire tread grabbed his coat and pulled him between the tire and fender, then flipped him in between the front tire and rear tire, where we had added a step for Grandpa to access the tractor. His shin slammed into the angle iron- didn't really break it, more like a wedge compression. I somehow stopped the tractor prior to running over his head. That Christmas, as we sat by the pool in Arizona with my In-Laws and he ran around with a swimming cast on at full speed, the guy in the chair next to me asked how he had gotten hurt. Seems that fellow had killed his son in a similar accident many years prior, I felt terrible dredging those memories for the guy.

Typing all that out makes me happy to be alive, but wondering why we do this...


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