First time I've ever worn 'Bibbed Coveralls

[stuckmotor]

How do you guys keep things from falling out of the bib when you lean over?

 

[5030]

I have to relate a funny story about bib's and me....

Had to go in for an MRI some years back and of course, being a farmer and country bumpkin, I had on my bibs. So I get ushered into the exam room by a pretty young nurse assistant (at my age they are all pretty)...and I lay down on the table. The MRI operator (another pretty lass) has me undo my suspenders because she said they would interfere with the scan.... All well and good until... I get under the machine (it reminded me of a washing machine sounded like).... and my brass buttons that the suspenders hook on start levitating and jumping around. I had to take off my bibs and do it again..... Oh well, live and learn. It was winter and I had on a Union Suit anyway....

 

[stuckmotor]

My mother was pretty sure my dad took a crap in one of those machines.:ashamed:

 

[oosik]

I have a couple pair of Carhart bibs. For me they are just too hot for summer and when chipping, a lot of the "chips" will collect in the upper part. I wear Carhart jeans and a denim shirt. About as cool as I can find and still provide a degree of protection.

My MRI story. I didn't have any idea that I was claustrophobic until they tried to run me thru an MRI machine a couple years ago. I got about half way thru the machine and then I came squirting out like being shot out of a cannon - and yelling like a banshee. I've never experienced that feeling before and I don't want to go there again.

For anybody who has had a similar experience - they make vertical MRI machines also. You stand up and the machine moves from your ankles to the top of your head.

 

[Gary Fowler]

For anybody who has had a similar experience - they make vertical MRI machines also. You stand up and the machine moves from your ankles to the top of your head.

I knew they had what they call open MRI but never heard of a vertical one. Good to know because I get claustrophobic in them also. I used to not be that way till I had to undergo and MRI while in severe pain and having to lay still for 30 minutes or more got me scared of them. Now I cant stand to even watch TV when someone is in tight quarters. I did manage to undergo and MRI on my shoulder a few weeks ago but I just kept my eyes closed all the time. The tech came in after 30 minutes (a guess, it seemed like 2 hours) and says she had to do the test again because I must have moved. She did another run at it and said it was still fuzzy. I said too bad, the Doctor will have to review it as is because I wasn't going back in there again.
I hate those things because they remind me of a human sausage stuffer. MY shoulders are wider than the tunnel so I get scrunched up to start with which doesn't help me with my fear of the machine.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I used to wear Carhartt bib overalls in the winter when I was welding. They are too hot for summer. I then found some Carhartt jeans with same design as the bibs with the side pockets which were perfect to keep a hand full of welding rods in. They are also more fire resistant than denim jeans. I went back to jeans when I started supervising. I don't know what happened to my jeans or bib overalls, may have given them to my brother. Haven't worn bibs in 35 years now.

Edit: I just remembered that I have a "super cold weather" outfit that has bib overalls with jacket that I bought to wear when I was in Alberta Canada but I don't think I ever wore it over 2 times. It is really too darned hot even for -40F temps.

 

[buickanddeere]

I have a couple pair of Carhart bibs. For me they are just too hot for summer and when chipping, a lot of the "chips" will collect in the upper part. I wear Carhart jeans and a denim shirt. About as cool as I can find and still provide a degree of protection.

My MRI story. I didn't have any idea that I was claustrophobic until they tried to run me thru an MRI machine a couple years ago. I got about half way thru the machine and then I came squirting out like being shot out of a cannon - and yelling like a banshee. I've never experienced that feeling before and I don't want to go there again.

For anybody who has had a similar experience - they make vertical MRI machines also. You stand up and the machine moves from your ankles to the top of your head.

When in an MRI machine . It helps to keep your eyes closed and think about the hottest girl you ever knew.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

When I was growing up in the late 40's early 50's, my brother and I wore overalls because they were cheap and we were dirt poor. I think they cost about a $1.25 and Levis cost maybe twice that. I hated them; they were my scarlet letter pointing out that we were poor. I hated them for other reasons also; living in the country, and heeding nature's call, you had to be careful going behind a bush if you didn't watch your gallouses (suspenders). I can recall soiling my suspenders in more ways than one, and having to wear my transgression slung over my shoulder the rest of the day.

I swore that I would never, ever wear another pair of overalls if I didn't have to. Since I got big enough to work and earn enough money to buy my own clothes, I have never, ever worn another pair.

I recall Mom washing them in her old wringer type washing machine, which played **** with the brass buttons, deftly removing they much of the time. I would have to take the "ear", that is the corner of the bib that contained the button, push it through the hook on the end of the suspender, and insert a matchstick through the hole left by the button, effectively replacing the button. Ah, the good old days!

 

[QRTRHRS]

It's been quite some time since I was had to have an MRI done and I don't much like them either. But as I recall, the open MRI takes longer so you need to lay still even longer?

As for bibs, I always felt that they pulled on my shoulders when I tried to wear them. I did spend a summer wearing suspenders after hernia surgury. The clip-ons were okay but the clips do pop off sometimes.

 

[5030]

I have to say that the machine never bothered me at all but then I'm not fearful of small spaces, never have been. The buttons dancing bothered the techinician but not me. I thought it was kind of funny.

I've had everything done to me, from upper and lower GI's to up my butt and in my weiner down my throat and up my nose too. I've gotten so good, I can tie a hospital Moo-Moo by myself. I've gotten shots in my butt, in my arms, in my stomach (Heperin), in my mouth and probably other places I don't remember because I was under. I've waltzed in the hospital hallways with my Intravenious bottles hanging in their rack too.. (they go along well, they are on casters...)

Been sliced, diced and cubed and had bad things sucked out of me through my belly button. (Laprascopic Surgery). That machine is the least of my fears.

Glad I have excellent hospitalization. I'm a bionic person, a miracle of modern medicine and some doctor's Ferrari payment tool.

I dread having the infamous up the butt polup exam, but give me 50 units of Demeral and you can use me for a punching bag.

I wear my scars well. They remind me I'm still alive and ready for another day...