Loader Don't let this happen to you

[Kentuckyfarmer]

A little off topic, but losing your spleen, nearly what, 36 years ago? how has that affected your life medically?

I lost my spleen, almost 2 months ago, (September 14th, 2017), in a motorcycle accident. I have busted ribs and still recovering, but I definitely don't feel like I used to before the accident. Which I guess is expected considering my injuries.

To the OP, I'm glad you're still around!

Well it's hard to say really. A few years after it being removed I got real sick, some kind of infection and was in hospital for about five days and a couple years later got sick again same kind of sick feeling. Bad fever and right side hurt so bad couldn't lay down, sit, I could only stand up for comfort. Second time test were done and they said it was a bad gallbladder. It was removed. The surgeon that removed it said it looked like a normal gallbladder and still today my side still hurts some times I can't stand it. Haven't had a fever like those two times and other pains since spleen was removed I just learned to live with. I just make sure to get a flu shot every year and have taken the pneumococcal vaccine. They say the new shots are just a two shot deal. Got the first one a couple months after the spleen was taken out and was told then wouldn't have to take it again but over the years different doctors have said different things and have gotten probably a dozen or so. Guess I'll never die from pneumococcal. Other wise I don't think it's affected me at my age I wake up with a new pain all the time. Just get up and get going. Not one to sit still and have to do something even if its wrong and have to do it again. Sorry not meaning to hijack thread but from someone that also knows those nice shade things are dangerous. It don't matter if its just 3 inches in diameter they can end your day. OP is right - careful!!!!!!!!!!

 

[CobyRupert]

Goes to show, you can be very cautious and careful, and watch and protect yourself from every danger imaginable, but Mother Nature is WAY more imaginative than you are and can invent one (or many) dangers you didn't think of.

I once cut down a ~65' pine tree, one of many on a routine day, but didn't notice that the contour of the land where it was to fall combined with a (perpendicular) log on the ground about 25' away created a situation where the log on the ground would become a fulcrum for the falling tree (like a see-saw) and shoot the trunk of the falling tree about 8'-10' up into the air.
That was a surprising thing to witness when your standing next to the flying tree wondering where it will land.

..but by the grace of God (go thee)..

 

[RSKY]

Glad you are okay. I still think a small tractor is more dangerous than a larger one because of the operator's closeness to the ground. I have been hit, slapped, pinched, and struck more times on my little Kioti than I ever was on the bigger Ford.

That was just a warning to be careful.

RSKY

 

[kevin37b]

Do you notice the brush sweeps on large dozers ? There is a reason . You rookies had best understand that a tree will hurt or kill you if you have HUA .

 

[Volfandt]

Lucky it didn't get the HST fan! J/K Glad to hear you survived and lived to battle your ponderosa another day. I've let my 2 long fence rows grow out too much lately, (trying to add more privacy from the new sub division that's sprung up ) and haveing to duck and dodge new growth thats forever growing outward to catch the sun. Nothing is more aggravating now than for one of those thin branches to smack me in the kisser and knock my hat off... I've been remiss it trimming and some of the branches are getting big enough to do damage like the one that got you. Thanks for the heads up and reminder, I know what I should be doing this winter...

 

[oosik]

Lucky to be alive - I think you should put a few bucks on the Lottery today. I've had limbs come up and slap me as I was falling, limbing and sectioning my big 'ol Ponderosa pines. Sometimes they have hit so hard - I've had to sit down for a while - they hurt soooo bad that I can not stop crying for a while.

 

[John Fitzgerald]

Do you notice the brush sweeps on large dozers ? There is a reason . You rookies had best understand that a tree will hurt or kill you if you have HUA .

One of our local dozer guys welds brush sweeps onto his dozers before use unless he buys a used one with brush sweeps already installed. He says it protects the radiator as well as the cab.

 

[Ivan49]

You are very lucky. I was pushing some trees out of the trail and I did not see one was sitting a a spring loaded one. It came back so fast I did not see it. If it had hit me I would not be here today but it went over my head and hit the roll bar then shot up and hit another tree which had a limb hanging by a thread. That came done over the roll bar and my head and dented the hood of the tractor. After I cleaned my drawers I went to house and got the dozer and finished the job. Never had a close call like that before and it made me look things over a little more

 

[Texasmark]

Another excellent reason for a cab.

 

[gwstang]

How do they put staples in the head where they won't go into the skull? Just wondering.