wroughtn_harv
Super Member
A week ago I was picking up a couple of round bales at a friend's place. He had a Mahindra with remotes at the back and it had a bat wing mower that we had to bring the wings up so we could change out remotes so we could use the front loader with hay spears.
Mahindra needs to go to John Deere school when it comes to remote hydraulic line couplings.
Bud was in the cab and I was on the wrong side of the tractor. So I hauled butt around the mower to the other side. Well, that was the idea. Instead I collided with the beam for the wheel on the wing, didn't see it coming. It was like you cold cocked me with an ax handle and you were really angry. The next thing I knew I was on the ground trying to catch my breath and bud was all concerned. I had came down the on the main frame wheel of the bat wing with my right side ribs.
That was last Wednesday. Yesterday and the day before I was forging some pieces for a hand rail and making jokes about the best remedy for bruised ribs was swinging a 3 1//2 lb hammer making orange iron change shapes. This morning I got to the shop and I couldn't bend over or pick up anything without a lot of pain in the chest area.
Ribs are like your thumbs, you never realize how much you use them until you hurt one pretty bad. Now Miss Glenda has been on me like a bad coat of paint on going to the doc but I've had ribs separated before and the only therapy is time. I assumed I had bruised a couple and it would be like before.
So we went to the doctor today and they did Xrays. Number seven on the right side is fractured. Doc recommended rest and let me know I should be good as new in six to eight weeks.
I feel better already, hope to be welding at the shop tomorrow. We ain't got time for this stuff.
I'm attaching some photos of a sample we made up for a duck hunting club's hand rails. The duck heads are teak and one of the rails we powder coated camo, kewel or what? The others will be textured flat black.
Mahindra needs to go to John Deere school when it comes to remote hydraulic line couplings.
Bud was in the cab and I was on the wrong side of the tractor. So I hauled butt around the mower to the other side. Well, that was the idea. Instead I collided with the beam for the wheel on the wing, didn't see it coming. It was like you cold cocked me with an ax handle and you were really angry. The next thing I knew I was on the ground trying to catch my breath and bud was all concerned. I had came down the on the main frame wheel of the bat wing with my right side ribs.
That was last Wednesday. Yesterday and the day before I was forging some pieces for a hand rail and making jokes about the best remedy for bruised ribs was swinging a 3 1//2 lb hammer making orange iron change shapes. This morning I got to the shop and I couldn't bend over or pick up anything without a lot of pain in the chest area.
Ribs are like your thumbs, you never realize how much you use them until you hurt one pretty bad. Now Miss Glenda has been on me like a bad coat of paint on going to the doc but I've had ribs separated before and the only therapy is time. I assumed I had bruised a couple and it would be like before.
So we went to the doctor today and they did Xrays. Number seven on the right side is fractured. Doc recommended rest and let me know I should be good as new in six to eight weeks.
I feel better already, hope to be welding at the shop tomorrow. We ain't got time for this stuff.
I'm attaching some photos of a sample we made up for a duck hunting club's hand rails. The duck heads are teak and one of the rails we powder coated camo, kewel or what? The others will be textured flat black.
