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Thread: Lost all my brownie points!
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15th May 2018, 08:39 AM #1
Lost all my brownie points!
I need to replan and rerun my Monday. Time machine anyone? After a couple of days working on a hard prune of my mangoe tree I was doing the final trimming back of the spiky stumps of the main branches - using the wrong tool for the job - a corded ozito electric pole pruner. I should have reverted to the bow saw for the girth I was attacking! I thought I had it all planned out, branch tied off etc, but when I eventually cut through something went wrong and I parted way with the lower half of the ladder I was standing on and landed akwardly. Now in hospital recovering after surgery to do a plate repair of the ulna, there was a cm or 2 of light between the ends on the xray. You know you've done a real job when the radiographer whistles and says I haven't seen that before.
Franklin
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15th May 2018, 08:57 AM #2GOLD MEMBER
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Cripes! You don't do things by halves, do you?
Hope the recovery goes well, it will certainly slow you down for a while.
Alan...
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15th May 2018, 09:03 AM #3.
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Ladders (after grinders and mowers) are the number 3 DIY injury cause for attendance at hospital emergency, #1 for DIY injury cause Hospital admission
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15th May 2018, 09:45 AM #4
Doc just showed me an xray of the plate. LOTS of screws. I suppose a nice dovetail joint would have shortened things too much.
Fingers crossed for a healthy heal!Franklin
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Hope it all goes well.
After a fall from a ladder. a specialist told me that the only place for a ladder owned by anyone over 50 was out on the nature strip for hard rubbish collectionTom
"It's good enough" is low aim
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15th May 2018, 04:24 PM #7
Yes I had used one of those small rolling platforms for the last few indoor jobs I completed inside rather than ladders and is was brilliant, but my sloping garden is a greater challenge. Unfortunately the only truly useful solution would be to terrace it somehow, but there is very limited access for machinery and I have already tried getting quotes from a number of local landscapers who all say just too difficult. It's really a civil engineering job and they like big machinery.
STA_7517.jpgFranklin
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15th May 2018, 05:57 PM #8
I'm back home again and have had a look at the scene and it's fairly clear now what went wrong. It looks like there wasn't enough slack in the rope I had tied to the butt end of the branch i was cutting through. It must have swung somewhat before hitting the ground knocking the bottom of the ladder and sending me flying off it. And with only three more cuts to finish the job... next season maybe.... from the ground only.
Franklin
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16th May 2018, 02:53 PM #10
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16th May 2018, 09:05 PM #11
I guess Fuzzie was not only your name when you landed.
Speedy recovery.
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17th May 2018, 11:31 AM #12
Hi Fuzzie,
Sorry to hear you hurt yourself and hope it all heals up soon as possible.
You would not be the first to come unstuck messing around with trees and I confess to doing a few dumb tree cutting stunts in the past. A couple of near misses finally made me see the light.
Regards
John
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17th May 2018, 11:47 AM #13
Thanks to all for your thoughts! I think I appreciate how lucky I am that things didn't turn out worse, there was a real possibility it could have been my head that took the blow and not my arm. It probably is one of those life changing moments.
And for Ian who asked...Franklin
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17th May 2018, 12:08 PM #14SENIOR MEMBER
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Ladders are the cause of so many accidents, particularly the elderly - anyone over around 50. I have a mezzanine type shelf in my workshop for storing wood, this requires me to use a step ladder I made. The ladder is only around a metre high and has a single pole attached to the top to hang onto, not ideal. My hands are useless now so I avoid ladders as much as possible. I hate to think of the damage if I was to fall, might have to lower that shelf, but requires the use of a ladder???
I made another recumbent the other week but the seat ended up so high that I fell over trying to get on the thing, putting a nice gash in my leg, back to the drawing board I think.
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18th May 2018, 09:25 AM #15
Sac, by recumbent do you mean a bicycle? Or is it some new lay upon workbench? I might need to find a new relaxed setup to use in the shed for the next few weeks.
Franklin
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