Tell me something stupid you did!

Hope you slowed the drinking down after that incident... Did you make Megan's law list????

Serious brain damage from that kind of head trauma can last a lifetime and lead to all kinds of bad outcomes: depression, anger issues, headaches, impaired memory, mood swings etc..

https://www.npr.org/2013/03/15/174409382/can-just-one-concussion-change-the-brain

This psychologist quit talking about "what happened with your mother" when he figured out from brain scans that 70% of his patients had diagnosable brain trauma.
https://www.quietmindfdn.org/

After seeing the movie concussion, I waited for the crowd to leave and then stood right on the theater and cried like a baby.
 
Childhood confession time,
Was doing qualudes about 43 yrs ago walking up a hill revving up my gear reduction Homolite chainsaw and slipped on some wet grass falling face first onto the saws chain...My mouth was open and the blade hit my front tooth breaking it at a 45° angle and somehow knocking the chain off the bar...the tooth and a slightly cut lip were the only injuries...did I mention my mom used to pray a lot :)
 
Back on subject, had a neighbor 2 weeks ago said he had a tree leaning over his fence, how much would it be to just cut it down and throw the wood over the fence.....asked him how big and he said it was about 8 inch's so I quoted him 250 labor.....lost my ass on this one.

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Yeah...never trust homeowner dimensions. I did a cat rescue that was on a “sixty foot tree about two feet in diameter”. I arrived to find an arching tulip tree 11” in diameter and about 30’ tall. Problem was, cat was at the top, which was horizontal because of the lean. Bouncy climb.
 
rico said:
Would running a 518 skidder with bad brakes classify as stupid? Drove that fucker until the brakes completely gave out and the skipper ended up upside down in a creek. Oops!

Does sticking chainsaws into your flesh count as stupid? If so, kindly color me stupid

Does standing in front of a stump as it is being pulled out with a self loading log truck classify as stupid? Stump broke loose and hit me right in the chest. Left my boot prints 2 stories up on the side of a house. No shit!

Does loosing 5 front teeth to a camper shell door and a tailgate count? Don't ask.

Would trying to shit on the hood of a cop car classify as stupid. I surmised as much right about the time said cops began delivering me the best ass-whooping I have ever received in my miserable life. I couldn't eat solid foods for a few months after that one.

I could go on and on here, but I think you get the point. I think it goes without saying that I am not the brightest bulb in the pack?
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I want the deets on the five front teeth.

Got me a old school friend “Shorty” who managed to get away with the shitting on a cop car during a wee little riot as I was standing down the calvery mounted cops keeping most all of them occupied.. She would also break into liquor stores not once but twice to return the empties to the shelf in the same night.

Once backed over the boss. Older small k-boom truck, where there wasn’t a switch on the clutch to start it. We were doing a shit ton of work, he asked for me to start up, and to load the logs. He was behind the truck loading in a big face cut by hand, and I reached inside he cab and fired off the truck. He left it in reverse.. The only thing that saved both of our asses is the face cut, which he dropped as he was being pinned between a fence and the truck, acted as a wheel chock. His body did break a few boards, he was a little tender for a few days, but that was the worst of it. From then on I will never start anything without sitting in the seat with my foot on the brake.
 
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Daniel said:
Hope you slowed the drinking down after that incident... Did you make Megan's law list????

Serious brain damage from that kind of head trauma can last a lifetime and lead to all kinds of bad outcomes: depression, anger issues, headaches, impaired memory, mood swings etc..

https://www.npr.org/2013/03/15/174409382/can-just-one-concussion-change-the-brain

This psychologist quit talking about "what happened with your mother" when he figured out from brain scans that 70% of his patients had diagnosable brain trauma.
https://www.quietmindfdn.org/

After seeing the movie concussion, I waited for the crowd to leave and then stood right on the theater and cried like a baby.
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I guess I have been pretty lucky after all the head trauma I have sustained. Other than developing an extremely low tolerance for fucking idiots on the inter-web, I seem to be OK? Go figure? Must be my strong constitution and shitty attitude!
 
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Taking off the nuts for to change the bar and the brake was engaged and i was messing with it and finally got it and put it together with a new bar and chain then i realized it was backwards. Haha only time ive done it and man is it embarrasing
 
Another is not notching a 8 ft dying stem it was off the edge of other trees anyway right in front of the home owner it slid down and fell right on me practically. Deffinetly didnt go where i was thinking haha. And dragging brush going back and forth my dad was dumping trees over and i walked right under an 8 inch 40 ft tall spruce it folded me right to the ground. And not paying attention walked under a small cherry that was being chunked out and took a hunk of firewood right in the helmet. And pulling down a tree i used my micro pulley it was all i had but the tow rope was bigger and we pulled all that we could pull with the rope. I just let him burn his tires for a bit haha
 
((Process of moving a log with a plow truck)) Guy told me i was putting the chain on wrong so i let him do it and as soon as he reversed the log rolled off its limb and drove his front end right into the ground
 
JeffGu said:
Stopped at a Runza Drive Inn for breakfast. Had gas so bad, I pretty much just had to hold onto the rope and jet assist up the tree. Should have charged the customer for killing all those termites and bark beetles for him. I was starting to wish somebody would just burn a fuggin' cat, or something, to cover up the smell. I'm either going to have to stop eating there, or add a gas mask to my PPE box.
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Yep........... I was retrieving my lanyard from a crotch that was about 6 ft away horizontally and about 8 to 10 ft higher than my head. I thought before I started to pull it back.............. is that crotch just a little bit to tight to pull it through? Naaaaa!!! I can get it!!! Lock kaaaaa ruinal right in that old crotch......... so what do I do? I jiggle, I throw slack in the line and whip it, I stare at it, then stare some more. Ok time passes as I think.......how stupid can I be and instead of throwing the tail of my line up to climb and remove it from its now really locked in position, I jerk on it as hard and fast as I can before I become very winded. Then I really pull on it thinking it ain't gonna come free!!! Well that was the ticket, it came out of the crotch and I'll say that it had to be traveling faster than a speeding bullet riiiiggghhhttt at my old melon. It hit me so hard right at the brow line of my hat that I had a sore spot that was red........ under the protection of my hard but pliable hat. Yeppppp!!!!!! If it would have been a little bit lower it would have smacked me in the face.

I had trusty steel rope snap tied on to the end of that lanyard.

You know that happen in 2014, and I was in that tree last week. Flash back..... Flash back........ wow I remember that brilliant day!
 
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Yep........... I was retrieving my lanyard from a crotch that was about 6 ft away horizontally and about 8 to 10 ft higher than my head. I thought before I started to pull it back.............. is that crotch just a little bit to tight to pull it through? Naaaaa!!! I can get it!!! Lock kaaaaa ruinal right in that old crotch......... so what do I do? I jiggle, I throw slack in the line and whip it, I stare at it, then stare some more. Ok time passes as I think.......how stupid can I be and instead of throwing the tail of my line up to climb and remove it from its now really locked in position, I jerk on it as hard and fast as I can before I become very winded. Then I really pull on it thinking it ain't gonna come free!!! Well that was the ticket, it came out of the crotch and I'll say that it had to be traveling faster than a speeding bullet riiiiggghhhttt at my old melon. It hit me so hard right at the brow line of my hat that I had a sore spot that was red........ under the protection of my hard but pliable hat. Yeppppp!!!!!! If it would have been a little bit lower it would have smacked me in the face.

I had trusty steel rope snap tied on to the end of that lanyard.

You know that happen in 2014, and I was in that tree last week. Flash back..... Flash back........ wow I remember that brilliant day!
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When this happens (and it happens often) I just look around to see if anyone else saw it ;)
 
SterrettTree said:
removing a heaved oak we had back guyed into another tree i was just buzzing it all off on my way up, cut a limb watched it fall hit the guy line did a somersault and landed on a fence 20' behind me. that sucks im thinking. next limb, same thing in the next section of fence.

removing a white oak, hot end of day, tired, we decide there is room to cut it in half. i spike my happy little ass up there set a block notch it and cut it. ground guy lets slack in the rope and it jumps a wrap on the portawrap. never been beaten so severely in my life ~10" where i cut it. from then on i just head on up and do it right. still have a scar from 6 years ago where a stub had its way with my abs. i also no longer leave even little stubs.
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Bango Skank said:
This thread is frikkin beautiful, I'm bumping it. For those who haven't seen it before, I'd really encourage you to read it all through from page 1.

I idled the chipper down and went in the box to pee. Heard it fire back up, midstream, I started screaming but he couldn't hear me by then, and I couldn't just stop in the middle lol. I didn't get blasted, but I had to duck until there was a break in chipping to get the guy's attention so I could climb back out.
I always told someone I was going back there after that. Or shut it down and take the key with me.

Back when I was really green and 19 years old I was sent to remove a small blue spruce with the boss's wife. I didn't understand hinge wood, I just went through the motions notching and back cut like I saw everyone else do. Cut right through the hinge and dumped it right on the house. Little dented gutter and a bruised ego. I had thought I was getting better, and it felt good to be sent to a job where I was responsible for getting it done.

I remember walking up to the base of a tree, slinging my lanyard around it (steel snap) hearing " BONK! OWW MOTHERF'ER! " Lol I didn't know a coworker was over there. Right in the temple.
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Thanks for bumping this thread. I've only gone back about two pages, and the stories are bringing me to tears, I've been laughing so hard. Really great bump. I look forward to reading the rest of it.

Tim
 
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