I bent my trailer jack and was unhooking trailer off truck with a handyman jack. Somehow handle popped up and whacked me in the head……it hurt.
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Yes and many other things.
I have a premonition some times that its how I will die.
I get hit in the head allot.
Colt
I had a very heavy old wooden garage door fall down at the top third and whack me in the back of the head. It knocked me to my knees and severely addled me. I wasn’t sure I wasn’t dead for a few seconds. What was fortunate was there was a six inch lag screw maybe a foot to the left of where it hit me. I had just met Stacey. It was her old garage door.
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Never had it happen to me but always heard those jacks are famous for that
Yes ,been whacked by them a few times
Hhmmm, I’m thinking maybe you influenced her more than you knew at the time! Sounds to me like she set a deadfall for you! LOL!
I bet it did hurt!
She had been trapping muskrats in the river when I met her.
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Once when I worked on barns full time me and Dad was rehanging a set of 16’ foot tall sliding doors. Well first thang you do is drop the doors then the track comes down you clean it up and rehang level extra. Well we was wrecking the track dad was on the ladder (wit h is wear he always dropped stuff on my head from) It was March and I had a stocking hat and hood on my head I packed a section of track from the other doors inside the barn to start cutting off the old rusted bolts dad was gonna nock off the other side. Just as I went in he hollered (allegedly) “are you outta the way colt?”
Witch I heard as
“Hey colt!”
Just as I stepped through the door I caught a glimpse of something coming at my head and I ducked left and the end of the whole section about 20 foot long hit me in the side of my timple in a glancein lick from 16 foot high and it fell with one end still atached.so it was leveraged fralled me pretty good. Daddy thought he killed me I thought he did to.
We went to a dollar store down the road and i got some ibuprofen and I worked the rest of the day with my head kinda puffy and swelled on one side cut deep enough it left a scar. If I had not have ducked a roller would have hit me.in the top of the head and prolly killed me honestly.
It hit me pretty hard so if you ever wonder about me ive got my reasons
Colt
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My great granddaddy made and boot legged moonshine and pretty much did anything else. Well he had 4 or 5 trying to woop him and he fought um off one witness said “he was the fighting little man they ever saw”
“Till they hit him with that axe”
He had pretty much got them off of him and he was gonna get to the woods and leave,as he came around a corner one of them swung at him with an axe and he hit up at it with his arms it flipped around and the butt end hit him instead of the bit. He was out cold
When I was a kid before he died he still had a sunk in spot in his skull you could lay your hand down in.
Colt
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It’s amazing how quick you can get hurt, hope you are okay! My nephews son was going up the stair last night and slipped and knocked his two front teeth out ! Six stitches in his lower lip! Bad thing they are his permanent teeth
Those old cats had it rough trying to make a living back then! Of course, that made them tough as hickory too!
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I had the best nights sleep in a long time after that thump.
Maybe that’s what I need , because I can’t sleep anymore
If I got traps out I can’t sleep past 4 or 5.All in my crazy head I guess.
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Before I retired, I was up around 4:30 am . I thought I would sleep later now , but seems I still wake up around the same time.
4 is very common for me 6 is late 7 and I better be headed for the doctor cause I’m sick.
Colt
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my dad was rolling sections of wood off the hill i nto the road and I was watching traffic and one came off at a high roll and busted in the road and one section hit me in the head. I went to the ER and had a concussion. Maybe that’s what’s wrong with me lol
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You know, In reading these stories, it is beginning to look like a lot of your Fathers, and significant others were doing all they could to get rid of you and make it look like an accident ! Reminds me of a guy I used to work with; He was working under a car that he had jacked up, and he and his loving Wife had been quarreling earlier in the day. She saw her chance, and went out and kicked the jack loose, and let the car fall on him! Believe it or not, he lived, and last I knew, they were still together!
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