Farming, and logging as a kid and a young adult.
Lead foot. Not a drag racer. Grit your teeth and see
just how fast you can make the turn, type of dumbphuckery.
Years in long haul, logging trucks, dump trucks, gas tankers.
Yep. Still have seat stuffing in my butt.
Wasn't go in to post, not sure which one was worst.
Probably this one.
Working construction at 17. (They never ask my age ;))
I was working on a faulty parking lot light mounted on a 100 foot tower.
The appliances were mounted on a winch cable, we could
lower them to ground level.
I was hooking up the winch inside the pole. Got my right ring finger
on a wire stripped too long. 270 volts in my finger. Left hand holding onto
the grounded metal pole.
It hurt, bad. Everywhere.
I couldnt get loose.
Knew I was going to die there.
Suddenly, I decided to throw myself off the 4 foot high concrete base.
That ripped me free.
Pulled that wire out of the breaker. It was that stuck to my finger.
Guys were running toward me.
I was standing, holding my right hand in my left, between my knees.
Afraid to look.
They tried to see it, i refused,
finally I left them.
Had a hole burnt in it about 3/8" deep and wide.
Just like looking at the end of a burnt welding rod.
Last edited by Dillonbuck; 12/02/19.
