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...Hurts a lot more when you're 60 than when you're 16.
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I am MAGA.
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I thought this was another JeffO thread... Jeff got PTSD from it. I hope you are ok.
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Are we talking Image one, two or three?
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I had a good friend who was standing on a ladder in his garage putting some things on a high wall shelf. He slipped, fell, bashed his head on the concrete floor and died of a fractured skull and terminal brain damage three days later. Never regained consciousness.
Ladders can kill you.
L.W.
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)
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Hope you are ok. Been there done that. It sucks.
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Cutting an aerial service wire from a midspan strand can send you for a ride if you do it wrong. Ladders are no joke. Wear your hardhat.
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."
2 Thessalonians 3:10
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Dammit Steve. Hope your OK.
And to think, I have to swap a light fixture out for a ceiling fan on a semi-vaulted ceiling in the next few days. I'm leaving the king bed in place just in case, I'll try to fall in that direction.
Ladders kill. Maybe only professionals should have ladders? Permitted ones?
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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I don't care for ladders much. I had a cheap ladder fold up under me once. Luckily I wasn't up very high. I ended up with a pretty good scrape on my leg and a sore elbow. I've been on roofs of burning buildings cutting holes but since I've retired I've only been on my roof a couple times and for some reason it really gave me the willies.
Fight fire, save lives, laugh in the face of danger.
Stupid always finds a way.
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Are we talking Image one, two or three? Three. Was leaning over a beam taking a measurement for a rafter I was cutting. Ladder came out from under me. Grabbed the beam, but that spun me and I landed on my upper back. About eight or so feet. Smacked my head pretty good, too.. Luckily it was just dirt I landed on. One of my best friends is in a wheel chair because of a fall. Went through my mind as I moved my legs to make sure they worked.
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Hope you are ok. Been there done that. It sucks. I'm fine. Just going to be really sore and stiff.
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Glad you made it through so far.
The bees need you.
Family too, no doubt.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Dammit Steve. Hope your OK.
And to think, I have to swap a light fixture out for a ceiling fan on a semi-vaulted ceiling in the next few days. I'm leaving the king bed in place just in case, I'll try to fall in that direction.
Ladders kill. Maybe only professionals should have ladders? Permitted ones? Thanks Geno. Thankfully I wasn't from the top of the shed I'm building.
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Dammit Steve. Hope your OK.
And to think, I have to swap a light fixture out for a ceiling fan on a semi-vaulted ceiling in the next few days. I'm leaving the king bed in place just in case, I'll try to fall in that direction.
Ladders kill. Maybe only professionals should have ladders? Permitted ones? Thanks Geno. Thankfully I wasn't from the top of the shed I'm building. I gave that up. The local Mennonites build them and deliver! I don't even have to break out a saw.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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Guy from work was cleaning gutters on a ranch house. Pivot off foot hung up in ladder, whipped the ol skull into the concrete and popped his gourd. Catch it just right and stuff comes apart big time.
I've done roofing and other, been on some big ladders, old victorian homes.
Was young and dumb. Look at that chit now and go no freakin' way.
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Hope you are ok. Been there done that. It sucks. I'm fine. Just going to be really sore and stiff. That'd be a good title for an autobiography.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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I've been on ladders a lot in the last 3 weeks - painting my shop and the ceiling of our new 24 x 34 shed, and also clearing overhanging limbs on our long driveway. I found that operating out of the bed of our dump truck shortens the amount of ladder needed. I'm a few years older than Steve and I'm super cautious on ladders. If they don't feel stable on the first or second step, I dismount and make a better position..
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Trying to use a ladder near a house with round river rock sucks.
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."
2 Thessalonians 3:10
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