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Mike CHS said:

Those are all reasons we have sheep but I'm glad you seem to have gotten past those things.

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AClark said:

DH and I were cutting down a tree for my mom, because it had died and was leaning over her house. Her chainsaw was being a pain to start, so DH stood on it and had me pull the cord after we put a new blade and all on it.
It half started, jumped, and came down on his foot. He was wearing flip flops because we were just trying to get it started...
I have never heard the end of chainsawing his foot. He refused to go to the ER, and refused to let me stitch it - it bled all night.

An oldie but a goodie...my grandfather and I were taking down a log fence. He was swinging a large sledgehammer to knock the spike out of it. It slipped from his grip, flew, and hit me in the leg above the knee from about 5 feet away. Literally knocked my leg out from under me. Didn't break anything but my leg looked ugly for a week.

Had a mare rear up and go over backwards on me, landed on my leg. Also didn't break anything, but left a bruise on the entire inside of my leg, I got a concussion as well. I've also been fallen on two other times, one resulting in a broken leg, the other a torn meniscus in my knee. The torn meniscus was a lucky one, because when he fell he rolled over the top of me, and that was the only injury I got out of it.

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AClark said:

DH and I were cutting down a tree for my mom, because it had died and was leaning over her house. Her chainsaw was being a pain to start, so DH stood on it and had me pull the cord after we put a new blade and all on it.
It half started, jumped, and came down on his foot. He was wearing flip flops because we were just trying to get it started...
I have never heard the end of chainsawing his foot. He refused to go to the ER, and refused to let me stitch it - it bled all night.

An oldie but a goodie...my grandfather and I were taking down a log fence. He was swinging a large sledgehammer to knock the spike out of it. It slipped from his grip, flew, and hit me in the leg above the knee from about 5 feet away. Literally knocked my leg out from under me. Didn't break anything but my leg looked ugly for a week.

Had a mare rear up and go over backwards on me, landed on my leg. Also didn't break anything, but left a bruise on the entire inside of my leg, I got a concussion as well. I've also been fallen on two other times, one resulting in a broken leg, the other a torn meniscus in my knee. The torn meniscus was a lucky one, because when he fell he rolled over the top of me, and that was the only injury I got out of it.

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newton the goat said:

Geez... seems like you have it out for your leg or something glad both you and your husband are alright

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AClark said:

That is an unlucky leg for sure, it has been broken below the knee, the ankle (though that was not a farming accident, that was a drunk and fell down the stairs accident, lol what a dummy), the meniscus, and the hip all on the left leg, all at different times - I've never broken or injured my right leg. The hip was from being thrown by a green broke 4 year old - he had broken my arm throwing me into the fence the day before. Kind of like "note to self, arm will not break fall against a fence". I wasn't stupid enough to try to ride him a 3rd time.

DH gets hurt worse at work than on the farm. One of the privates turn a winch the wrong way and sucked his hand up in it trying to get a humvee out of the mud. He ended up with 8 stitches between his middle and ring finger and down his palm where it just split his hand. Lucky for him he had gloves on when it happened.

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AClark said:

Lol, I don't know, but it's one stiff sucker on a cold winter morning. At 32, I sound like I'm 80 getting out of bed, everything cracks and creaks. I am not going to the grave with a body in pristine condition, I'm going to it looking like a bronc saddle, lol.

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