RDrancher
Veteran Member
John, I think I can say I've just been lucky that I don't have a matching hand. I carry a piece of 2" diameter schedule 40 PVC pipe behind my seat to use as a cheater on the QAs. One end is broken and jagged from splitting while applying pressure. I need to get a 18" section of 2" galvanized pipe instead of the PVC, but I had the PVC and it is handy. How in the world did you break your hand?
Jim, I had the loader up at face height pulling on the cheater hard with the right hand while I pried above the roll pin with a screwdriver in the left. She gave way and I hit the back of my right hand on the corner of the other QA faceplate.
But...apparently that wasn't the end of my week...
I usually don't ride horses unless I'm working cattle...just don't have time for it. I consider them to be like any other tool. But...I agreed to go on a trail ride with my wife and friends up at Ray Roberts today. Our friends two young fillies were feeling their oats this morning, so they were a bit skittish. I was on my buddy's "bomb proof" cutting horse. He started out a bit frisky since he hadn't been ridden in a few months, but I got a handle on him. Then...he decided to play dumb a** when I gave him a turn to wait for the others and headed off the trail with a lung/jump. Problem was...a couple of feet off the trail was a 5 ft deep gully. Since the rye grass was the same height across the gully it spooked him as much as it surprised me. The rodeo was ON! Buck, kick, buck, kick. By the third gully (after him hitting his knees), I got my right foot out of the stirrup (since it tends to hang up) and started to get off, but I thought for a sec, "I got this". I was wrong. By the fifth gully (still bucking and kicking), I jumped off. The grass was even deeper then I thought and I landed on my other hand! Now my left wrist is messed up more than my right broken hand.
While I held my buddy's skittish filly..."Mr. Cowboy" was going to show me the handle he had on the "bombproof" horse. He now has a broken nose and glasses, a hurt back and a seriously bruised ego. :laughing:
I'm going back to work tomorrow where it's safe.