Spotted Owl
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Well MRS. and me had a deal one more time hurt and I would be done for the most part. I can still do small scale stuff with guys I know really well and that I am able to take the boy along. That is my favorite by far any how. No more big stuff with different folks around and using vacation from the real job to be able to keep cutting as often as possible.
Today was the day a messed up hand and 4 busted and separated ribs along the spine. Oh how I wish they could have broke up front. That same stupid kid wasn't what I thought him to be after our talk. So while I was bucking, bent over he let one fly from just over the rise. Another guy was in that strip that I have trusted for years and was tipping them the other direction so I didn't think anything about the saw working. The kid was supposed to be on the other side of the thin. These are nice creamy slick 200, 220s, 30 - 40". He broke the rise just around a quarter of the length and sent a shower of crap down on top of me.
Just a word to the new, even a slight graze from a 6" chunk of crap falling will mess you up.
Couldn't get out of the way from everything fast enough and the butt end of the limb clipped me on the back between my spine and a clean close miss and knocked me flat. I thought I was gonna die as I was still crawling away what I had been bucking shifted and rolled on my hand giving the super squeeze. Ripped that to shreds pulling it away so I could keep moving out of the shower that was still hung up above me.
The only and last time I will ever use my whistle. That is a spooky sound when you hear it. Just hearing it, is nothing compared to being the one who is blowing it. It was all I could do to make that thing sing. Took about 10 min for two guys to get there to help me out. When the kid apologized up on the road all I could do was literally spit in his face, couldn't yell. Bull took me to meet the medics, and told the side rod setting up corridors to take care of the kid. Met the medics and they told Bull to take me the rest of the way, I was stable and moving me could have compromised the situation.
Mrs. got me home about 2 hours ago. No hospital just x-ray at the quicky stop and a prescription for what the Dr. said were killer pain pills. He said I will feel this one for years as the pressure changes with the weather. I don't even know what town we were in I had to breathe and to do that it seemed like everything else just kinda shut down , eyes closed couldn't hear all that other stuff. Bull got me back to my truck where Mrs. was waiting. She got me home and he brought my truck and hung around to be sure everything will be alright, she took him back to his rig. I am DAMN glad I was not in on that ride, she was pissed. He will take it well and should be able to calm her down a good bit too.
Another word to the new, trust your gut and people only get one chance when the play with your life. I broke that rule this time and could have paid for it with my life.
Gonna go lay down for awhile. Got to let the pain drugs kick in good again and figure out what I'm gonna tell the real job on Monday if I can even make it in.
That dumbass kid I just want to scream but all I can do is cry. That sound like a pu$$y I know but damn I'm mad and not a hoot holler in he!! I can do about anything. It's as much my fault as the kids but he took a great joy out of my life as only those of us can understand what that is.
Thanks for lettin me blow a bit and snivel some more, and tell the new guys that this is the best thing going but it also real when it comes to to the nut cuttin and brass tacks.
Owl
Today was the day a messed up hand and 4 busted and separated ribs along the spine. Oh how I wish they could have broke up front. That same stupid kid wasn't what I thought him to be after our talk. So while I was bucking, bent over he let one fly from just over the rise. Another guy was in that strip that I have trusted for years and was tipping them the other direction so I didn't think anything about the saw working. The kid was supposed to be on the other side of the thin. These are nice creamy slick 200, 220s, 30 - 40". He broke the rise just around a quarter of the length and sent a shower of crap down on top of me.
Just a word to the new, even a slight graze from a 6" chunk of crap falling will mess you up.
Couldn't get out of the way from everything fast enough and the butt end of the limb clipped me on the back between my spine and a clean close miss and knocked me flat. I thought I was gonna die as I was still crawling away what I had been bucking shifted and rolled on my hand giving the super squeeze. Ripped that to shreds pulling it away so I could keep moving out of the shower that was still hung up above me.
The only and last time I will ever use my whistle. That is a spooky sound when you hear it. Just hearing it, is nothing compared to being the one who is blowing it. It was all I could do to make that thing sing. Took about 10 min for two guys to get there to help me out. When the kid apologized up on the road all I could do was literally spit in his face, couldn't yell. Bull took me to meet the medics, and told the side rod setting up corridors to take care of the kid. Met the medics and they told Bull to take me the rest of the way, I was stable and moving me could have compromised the situation.
Mrs. got me home about 2 hours ago. No hospital just x-ray at the quicky stop and a prescription for what the Dr. said were killer pain pills. He said I will feel this one for years as the pressure changes with the weather. I don't even know what town we were in I had to breathe and to do that it seemed like everything else just kinda shut down , eyes closed couldn't hear all that other stuff. Bull got me back to my truck where Mrs. was waiting. She got me home and he brought my truck and hung around to be sure everything will be alright, she took him back to his rig. I am DAMN glad I was not in on that ride, she was pissed. He will take it well and should be able to calm her down a good bit too.
Another word to the new, trust your gut and people only get one chance when the play with your life. I broke that rule this time and could have paid for it with my life.
Gonna go lay down for awhile. Got to let the pain drugs kick in good again and figure out what I'm gonna tell the real job on Monday if I can even make it in.
That dumbass kid I just want to scream but all I can do is cry. That sound like a pu$$y I know but damn I'm mad and not a hoot holler in he!! I can do about anything. It's as much my fault as the kids but he took a great joy out of my life as only those of us can understand what that is.
Thanks for lettin me blow a bit and snivel some more, and tell the new guys that this is the best thing going but it also real when it comes to to the nut cuttin and brass tacks.
Owl
