a couple of close shaves here. A couple of years back, walking out of greenhouse carrying orchid, with stick, stubbed my toe on base, fell forward, hit my face on the stick, just missed my eye. I went down to the veg plot, lent into a bed to tie up a chrysanthimum, fell into the bed, hubby had made supports for the beans from small metal posts, and thin metal wire, thankfully, a post came out, otherwise I would have been garrotted!. I am pretty careful, after 5 years in the ED. Punkdoc, seriously, aaccelerant and fire, NOOOH, I worked in a burns hospital, (and have been at the receiving end,as a child)
Bro was about 4 when one day we arrived to visit my Gardening Granny when she was spiking the lawn with her garden fork. She put the fork to one side and went indoors to put the kettle on and chatted to my parents … Bro picked up the fork and, in an attempt to copy Granny, started spiking the lawn … firmly securing his foot to the lawn with the fork … right through his Start-rite sandal!!! 😱.
His big sister’s yells brought adults back out into the garden … Granny was a Red Cross volunteer so knew that the fork shouldn’t be removed, and he was whisked off to the Luton & Dunstable where he and the fork were parted the wound was dealt with and Bro received the first of many tetanus shots of his life in farming. 🙄
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Over the years I've managed to chip a tooth on the mower handle. I was bending forward to get under the lower branches of a crab apple and the mower caught on something so I smacked my mouth on the handle. I worked in a garden centre when I was much younger and was cutting hose with a large penknife which I had just sharpened. It still caught on the hose and folded onto the side of my finger - it did prove I have very red blood.
Worst injury to somebody I know was when they were mowing a steep slope on their garden with a Flymo. To keep their footing they wore spiked golf shoes. They were turning and the spikes stayed in place but the momentum of the swinging Flymo took the rest of their body round. Serious damage to knee and ankle ligaments was the result, and they never fully recovered.
@Dovefromabove I feel the L&D sees more than its fair share of stupid injuries. (My neighbour just broke his foot kicking a concrete fence post.)😁
We moved from Bedfordshire shortly after the aforementioned incident ... A&E at Ipswich were the lucky folk treating Bro's later 'stupid injuries' .... e.g. demonstrating how a fish is 'hooked' with a piece of fishing line and hook dangling in front of his face and then 'pretending' to 'snap' at it with his mouth .... but the pretence became reality and the barbed hook went through the frenulum under his tongue ... Pa had to pop him in the car and drive the 12 miles to A&E to get that out ............ the story was recounted with glee by his best man at his wedding 🤣
Oh, and dislocating his shoulder by sneezing while his arm was resting on the top of a door (he's quite tall).
More serious was the time he did what every farmer knows should never be done, and that's attempt to dislodge a large stone from between the blades of the sugarbeet harvester with his foot while the machine was still running .......... the doctors said it was only because he shares our family's very sturdy 'large boned frame' that saved his leg!!!!!
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Husband was up the ladder pruning/sawing off branches off a large tree. I was below, stabilising the ladder, branch fell on me, knocking me sideways. No permanent damage so far.
Moral of the story - wear a hard hat as a minimum when pruning trees. You can get the lightweight ones that look like a cap rather than a builder/tree surgeon too.
I've had a few little accidents mainly while using a hedge trimmers. I had one this year somehow managed to attach the hedge trimmer blade to my knee in like a pincer, blades had to be loosened not much damaged fortunately a cut to the knee but it didn't cut my trousers.
Another one with a long reach hedge trimmer , top of the spark plug cover had a tiny hole unknown at the time. Just finishing up and it started to rain reaching for the very last bit and I got a electric shock , drop the hedge trimmer but it swung back with vengeance with the blade smashing my arm with the blades fortunately not moving, small deep cut but it rendered my arm useless for a few days as it turned black / purple . The week before I had smashed my thumb with a sledge hammer splitting it open like a sausage in a frying pan . I was have a bad week .
Bracket broke on a scaffold tower ( while doing a hedge ) fell off softened the blow with my head on top of the ladder for the scaffold tower , deep cut to the forehead .
I've done other little things like who put that finger there while using secateurs or that rake I should of picked up numerous times decides it getting me this time
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Oh, and dislocating his shoulder by sneezing while his arm was resting on the top of a door (he's quite tall).
More serious was the time he did what every farmer knows should never be done, and that's attempt to dislodge a large stone from between the blades of the sugarbeet harvester with his foot while the machine was still running .......... the doctors said it was only because he shares our family's very sturdy 'large boned frame' that saved his leg!!!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Steephill I think you got off very lightly with the chainsaw incident!!
Another one with a long reach hedge trimmer , top of the spark plug cover had a tiny hole unknown at the time. Just finishing up and it started to rain reaching for the very last bit and I got a electric shock , drop the hedge trimmer but it swung back with vengeance with the blade smashing my arm with the blades fortunately not moving, small deep cut but it rendered my arm useless for a few days as it turned black / purple . The week before I had smashed my thumb with a sledge hammer splitting it open like a sausage in a frying pan . I was have a bad week .
Bracket broke on a scaffold tower ( while doing a hedge ) fell off softened the blow with my head on top of the ladder for the scaffold tower , deep cut to the forehead .
I've done other little things like who put that finger there while using secateurs or that rake I should of picked up numerous times decides it getting me this time