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Jeff in TX
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Big oweee yesterday, I’m too old for this
My buddy and I were painting the front gate yesterday. I was on the 12’ ladder painting the cross bar 13’ up. Was at the end. Went up to finish the last two feet. I had a rock under one ladder foot to level it. Right as I got to the top the ladder foot shifted off the rock. Then I had the Ricky Bobbie moment as I was coming down. I really think the ladder landing on the barb wire fence lessened my injuries but I broke my right foot and big toe good. Not really sure how or what I landed on
Doc got the toe toe back in place which makes it feel 10000 times better. Have to see a ortho or foot doc on Monday for what’s next. Thank goodness god had me on that fall, it could have been a lot worse.
Have a blessed Easter everyone!


Doc got the toe toe back in place which makes it feel 10000 times better. Have to see a ortho or foot doc on Monday for what’s next. Thank goodness god had me on that fall, it could have been a lot worse.
Have a blessed Easter everyone!


Distance is not an issue, but the wind can make it interesting!
John 3: 1-21
John 3: 1-21
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ECHO...ECHO....echo...
Ah......One savors the hypocrisy!
Karma.........It’s a bitch.
I hate ladders.
And also ice.
Just before we sold the house in Colorado I was on the ladder painting the trim above the garage door, the driveway was what we called "P" rock, I reached out to far the ladder started falling and i bounced off the winch on my Jeep, extreme pain, CAT scan showed 2 cracked vertebrate in my neck, said I was gonna need major surgery, went to my Chiropractor, 6 sessions and I'm fine, now 8 years later I'm still good with no pain.
JAY
Congrats, you just became a statistic.
Hope you heal quickly, and with as little pain as possible.
Adam J. McCleod
Get better soon....and don't use rocks to level the ladder...but, of course, you already figured that out...
ah Jaysus it'll fine
big toe bone pain?
should be coccyx pain from a size 12
hope you heal up good
No ladder involved, but a few years ago I tripped on an air hose in my shop and did a face plant onto a piece of equipment about 4" off the floor. That one fractured my left eye orbit in 4 places- - - -in the exact shape of the frame of my safety glasses. I've still got a left eye, thanks to a piece of polycarbonate plastic a little bigger than a silver dollar. Safety glasses really do work!
I didn't think of it until yesterday, I should have had my buddy lift me up in the tractor bucket. Would have been so much simpler!
John 3: 1-21
Glad you're on the mend...
Debbie lifts me up in the tractor bucket to change the light bulbs in the horse stalls and I think that's far more terrifying than using a ladder but a ladder doesn't work well for that task.
Ladders suck. Rock levelers suck even more. Hopefully it continues to be a good recovery.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again! -- Mark Twain