Wear your helmets, they really do work

[tramp bushler]

Ya. Hopefully this winter I'll work for a while falling real timber on a coastal island. It gets real windy and there is no sense going there if you don't know how to cut timber in high wind. This is a specialized skillset that only comes from experience. I know so many Fallers that either got killed or hurt real bad I know how deadly hanging onto a power saw for a living is. People who think they don't need a hardhat are not worth dealing with.

 

[pdqdl]

Just dont think a hat will save you every time, not that hard to break a neck.

No, your hard hat can't save you every time, but it will never hurt to have it on for something worse. Your argument is kinda like saying your steel cap boots won't protect you from broken ankles.

I have broken both head and neck. I was in intensive care for 4 days on the broken head, I walked out of the hospital the next day with 3 broken cervical vertebra. I got the head injury from falling down on a curb while standing up and I got the broken neck from a head-on car crash.

I'm not saying that a broken neck ain't bad, particularly if it damages your spinal chord. I'm not saying that all head injuries are worse than all neck injuries. It's just that your brain is much more fragile to fast blows from hard objects than your neck is. A sharp blow to your skull easily causes a hematoma (subdural or epidural) and before you know it, you just died from getting whacked on the head.

If you can wear a hard hat and laugh off a pine cone hitting you on the head, it's worth wearing it. If you get clubbed by a falling branch and get off with some stitches instead of permanent brain damage, it's all worth it.

 

[Fedaburger]

Glad your okay and thank you for posting. I was always complaining about hard hats but it didn't take long to realize and appreciate we need lids!!!

 

[husqvarnaguy]

My cousin was shaking a powerpole with a brick on top of it. The brick fell and hit him in the head. The brick broke but he was unhurt. Dont know how high it was but still thats a hard head.

 

[tramp bushler]

I don't know if I give him higher marks for being able to shake a powerpole or for being able to break a brick with his head. .????:msp_ohmy:

 

[lone wolf]

I don't know if I give him higher marks for being able to shake a powerpole or for being able to break a brick with his head. .????:msp_ohmy:

 

[pdqdl]

My cousin was shaking a powerpole with a brick on top of it. The brick fell and hit him in the head. The brick broke but he was unhurt. Dont know how high it was but still thats a hard head.

That's a really dirty trick. Somebody should have been beaten for that.

 

[tramp bushler]

2 questions come to mind ,,, who would put a brick on top of a power pole. And why put a brick on top of a powerpole. ??.

 

[lone wolf]

2 questions come to mind ,,, who would put a brick on top of a power pole. And why put a brick on top of a powerpole. ??.

It had to be placed not thrown that leaves out kids. I have no idea why?

 

[pdqdl]

No other possibility than a lineman leaving a dirty trick for the next guy that climbs the pole.

 

[lone wolf]

No other possibility than a lineman leaving a dirty trick for the next guy that climbs the pole.

Lost his job maybe.