This picture looks like it’s from an OSHA training video! I admire a man that gets it done, no matter what it takes.
oooh that has got to hurt
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This picture looks like it’s from an OSHA training video! I admire a man that gets it done, no matter what it takes.
pittpa
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I felt safer there than I did with my feet 6 feet up on that little giant.
By the way if you see paint on the carpet it’s because I was getting new carpet so I had wall to wall drop cloth. [emoji846]
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Chubbo
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Confession time
This humiliates me, but I’m truly guilty. The ones that haven’t done things of this nature, please bear with me.
I’ll share my most memorable, foolhardy, escapade. It also involves a ladder, the use of tools, a fall and poor judgment.
At about 8:00 in the morning, in an Ohio state prison, I was employed by an electrical contractor, and was standing on one tiptoe atop a 12’ stepladder, replacing my electrical supervisor’s, incorrectly installed electrical conduit, when the ladder shifted, and down I fell. I landed, on the concrete floor, first on my left wrist, it broke backward. There were 5 bones broken in it. I then I landed on my left hip, bounced, hit my head, and was momentarily dazed. The first thing that came to mind; “It’s amazing just how high one bounces”.
The second thing, coming to mind; "Don’t ever work standing on top of a stepladder again". I then forced my hand back into place, put it into the unzipped front of my Carhartt coveralls using them as a sling and drove myself 25 mi. to the hospital in Cols. OH. I had to wait until, 4:00 in the afternoon for the doctors to set the bones of my wrist and put a cast on It. I had ample time to contemplate my mistakes. The weather was freezing that day, and a great number of the old ladies in Cols. OH, were, shopping, falling, on the ice and snow, breaking their various bones, and then being treated for those ailments. Thus, the long wait.
My pain and folly taught me a valuable lesson. I hope that Others can benefit from it also.
Chubbo
This humiliates me, but I’m truly guilty. The ones that haven’t done things of this nature, please bear with me.
I’ll share my most memorable, foolhardy, escapade. It also involves a ladder, the use of tools, a fall and poor judgment.
At about 8:00 in the morning, in an Ohio state prison, I was employed by an electrical contractor, and was standing on one tiptoe atop a 12’ stepladder, replacing my electrical supervisor’s, incorrectly installed electrical conduit, when the ladder shifted, and down I fell. I landed, on the concrete floor, first on my left wrist, it broke backward. There were 5 bones broken in it. I then I landed on my left hip, bounced, hit my head, and was momentarily dazed. The first thing that came to mind; “It’s amazing just how high one bounces”.
The second thing, coming to mind; "Don’t ever work standing on top of a stepladder again". I then forced my hand back into place, put it into the unzipped front of my Carhartt coveralls using them as a sling and drove myself 25 mi. to the hospital in Cols. OH. I had to wait until, 4:00 in the afternoon for the doctors to set the bones of my wrist and put a cast on It. I had ample time to contemplate my mistakes. The weather was freezing that day, and a great number of the old ladies in Cols. OH, were, shopping, falling, on the ice and snow, breaking their various bones, and then being treated for those ailments. Thus, the long wait.
My pain and folly taught me a valuable lesson. I hope that Others can benefit from it also.
Chubbo
I have always hated ladders, no particular reason. Parents had a big apple orchard when I was a kid. My Dad rigged up a 30 foot ladder on kind of a tripod with wheels to move it around. No way would I climb on it. But I'd climb the trees all the time. Never did fall.
I'll do 3 steps on 6 ft stepladder and no more! That is just enough to change lightbulbs in my garage.
I'll do 3 steps on 6 ft stepladder and no more! That is just enough to change lightbulbs in my garage.
Tree work is very dangerous even for the groundsmen who know what they’re doing.
Get well asap.
Get well asap.
As “Tops” said above, I was always taught in the service about not interfering in “somebody else’s rice bowl”. My wife is a retired judge and when she was a private attorney she complained loudly about how badly people screwed up their legal filings when trying to do it themselves, but she wanted me to fix things around the house. Told her to “call somebody”.
mckenney99
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Ladders and I have an agreement, I won't climb on them and they won't throw me off.
I was a lineman for a utility company and retired at 60. I promised my self I was not ever getting any higher off the ground than a chair at the kitchen table. I forgot my promise and at 72 I was one step from the ground on a step ladder. When I stepped to the ground my right foot broke.
That was 2 mistakes. It was carpenter work so I should have hired it done and the second mistake was 72 is too old too be on a ladder.
Larry
That was 2 mistakes. It was carpenter work so I should have hired it done and the second mistake was 72 is too old too be on a ladder.
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I fell off a 50' ladder. Thank God I was only on the first rung.
But seriously I've been there done that and ribs are best eaten from a pig than broken in your body. Last time I broke mine was at the hands of a couple of very large much younger deputies during training. I said at the beginning don't hurt the old guy but they didn't listen.
Seriously I hope you recover fully and that nobody tells you any jokes for the next two months.
But seriously I've been there done that and ribs are best eaten from a pig than broken in your body. Last time I broke mine was at the hands of a couple of very large much younger deputies during training. I said at the beginning don't hurt the old guy but they didn't listen.
Seriously I hope you recover fully and that nobody tells you any jokes for the next two months.
Is there video? (asking for a friend . . . )
Hope in time you feel like new again. Broken ribs aren't fun!
If I hit the ground from a ladder they would have seismic readings at UCLA.
I have a big Norway spruce in my back yard that now has a limb extending to the house at gutter level. I was thinking about getting out the ladder to lop off the limb, but you good people have convinced there is no way I should getting up on a ladder to do this.
I get dizzy just looking at this!
pittpa
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I tried to turn the picture. I have no idea why it got sideways on this thread. [emoji846]
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pittpa
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I do not like painting. I have to tell you I had a $6000 quote to three coat the walls ceiling and trim with primer and paint. That was just for the living room dining room area steps and small upper hall. So there was an economic incentive. I opted to leave the ceiling alone and went to Home Depot and paid $53 a gallon for the Behr marquee guaranteed one coat paint. It’s only covered for specific colors. One coat was fine on the walls but you have to keep your roller loaded properly as well as your paint brush. It took two coats on the trim with another Behr product semi gloss. Plus I wanted to do it the very two days before the carpet was installed to keep the disruption to a minimum. Getting painters in these days is no small feat.
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Pittpa, that doesn't look safe even to me and i've been in more unsafe locations than I care to admit.
Too all that have responded thank you again for your best wishes and helpfull hints.
Tom S. "I can say they only hurt when you breathe, laugh or cough." You forgot to say, HICKUPS TOO. Please don't ask me how I know.
Too all that have responded thank you again for your best wishes and helpfull hints.
Tom S. "I can say they only hurt when you breathe, laugh or cough." You forgot to say, HICKUPS TOO. Please don't ask me how I know.
Ladders are nothing to trifle with. I fell off one and landed on one foot (right leg) with my knee locked straight. This caused my body weight to try to drive my femur straight down through the top of my tibia. The resultant damage to the tibia is medically described as a "bicondular tibial plateau fracture". Basically the top of the tibia (bottom half of the knee joint) exploded and reduced to a pulp. Nine years later I still get sweaty palms every time I have to climb a ladder...
Having broken ribs on more than one occasion (three times to be exact) I can say they only hurt when you breathe, laugh or cough.
Sneezing with broken ribs is the worst. That's what I remember from broken ribs.
