Don't show this thread to your mom

I remember one time I was framing a wall:  I was holding a stud end up to a bottom plate and when I shot the gun the nail hit a knot in the wood and glanced over and through my two fingers instead of the stud.  I had to pull my fingers off the nail to get free.  Another time I was framing a rim joist on a 2nd story floor system and my foot was wedged between the rim joist and the 1st joist when instead of toe-nailing the rim joist the gun slipped and shot the nail straight through the rim board and my boot, lodging it into my foot.  I had to have another crew member come up a ladder and pull the nail with a nail puller before I could move my foot...and there was the time I was framing some blocking into a partition wall and the nail glanced off the block and into my employee's chest, where it not only stuck him but it actually went in and just missed his heart...I remember the time I was remodeling an office building and using a brand new wonder bar to pull old nails.  The sharp bend part slammed my pinkie up against the wall, slicing through all but the top layer of skin.  When I pulled the bar off my finger fell over, and was being held together just by skin, as the bone and tendons were completely severed.  I passed out on that one.  But I didn't pass out when I lost my eye:  I was getting ready for a concrete pour and was rolling out the last part of a roll of 661010 wire mesh.  It was really springy at the end of the roll so I was holding it down with one foot while attempting to cut it when it got loose and sprang up, one of the tines poking me in the left eye.  I instinctively turned my head away and this action caused the tine to rip sideways and pull my eye out with it.  I put my hand over my eye socket to try to save some of the eye but it was too late.  I continued to work right up until the ambulance arrived for me, not removing my hand until the paramedic asked me to.  With my good eye I watched his expression as he looked at the injured eye and the look on his face told me all I needed to know...I remember when we were unloading a semi-truck-trailer load of gas pipe (15" diameter heavy-wall pipe) at the ski area when the whole load came rolling off the trailer toward me.  I leaped away, tried but failed to jump over a ditch and the pipes tumbled into the ditch with me, crushing me in the move.  I was unconscious and didn't come to until I was in the ambulance.  My right leg was broken, and my left leg was broken backwards at the knee, my right arm was also broken and my ribs were broken as well...I think dirtbikes are safer than working...    LOL my poor wife has had to endure way too many trips to the emergency room...  
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NW Montana
Where the pavement ends and the fun begins  
2005 KTM300exc

...I remember when...LOL  What a life!  
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NW Montana
Where the pavement ends and the fun begins  
2005 KTM300exc

i would love to sit around a campfire and listen to all u guys tell ur
"when i was a kid" stories  
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1998 cr125
its better to own nothing worldly and still have your identity
then have the world and no identity
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this is the internet equivalent to campfire war stories LOL.  Too bad we can't  show you the scars...  
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NW Montana
Where the pavement ends and the fun begins  
2005 KTM300exc

lol
thats true
my dads best friend was a logger and he has a *** load of stories  around the campfire deer hunting..... good times forsure
i havnt got a tag in three years...  
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1998 cr125
its better to own nothing worldly and still have your identity
then have the world and no identity
---------------------------------------"We were born of the night. We live in it. We will die in it. But tomorrow there will be light, for those now crying in the night. For those to whom day is denied. To whom death is a gift. To whom life is forbidden."

Paul I too am a carpenter and have seen several bad things happen to good people many having to do with stick nailers. I have always had that fear of a glancing shot from a nail gun, accedents happen all to often. Glad your still around to share stories and give advice, bet the arthrits is a killer.  

seriously be carefull on those rockets man, my worst wreck was on a streetbike too.  suzuki 1200 crotch rocket, hit a telephone pole going 55 and wraped myself around it backwards, i kicked myself in the back of the head around the pole.   left hip broke in 9 places, pelvic bone, tail bone, vertibra in spine, punctured lung, lacerated spleen, and the wound on my back went septic and they had to cut out 30 pounds. glad i had a helmet on. if ya dont believe me i got the scars to proov it. so back to the point you guys be carfull on the street, learn from my dumb**s  

paul man you are hardcore, you talk about all that like its nothen. ive said it before and ill say it again! construction sucks  

i got nothin compared to some of y ou guys. im almost on my 8th week of a separated shoulder from the 8 hr endurance race, GOD does that suck a**! im lifting weights and can lift over my head now. other than that ive only had a concussion, and lots of scrapes cuts and bruises. cant freakin wait to get back on the saddle.  
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heroes are remembered,  legends are forever

a seperated shoulder aint no walk in the park either tom. pain is pain!  

i feal like a light weight lol the first day i rode my 86 cr-250 i was ridding on frozen ground and it was slippery i was goin like 2 miles an hour and the front tire slid out from under me and the bike tipped over on me i got my foot stuck in between the engine case and the ground my toes were pointing into the ground and my heal was against the engine case luckely i had my work boots on i dint have riding boots at the time i couldn't lift the bike and pull my foot out it was one of those things i couldn't stop laughing but it hurt my dad picked the bike up for me lol soon after that i was riding down the trail fast well fast as i was comfortable going like mid 4th gear i dint see the turn in time and went straight into the woods hit a log laying down and it stopped the bike right there i went over the handle bars and landed flat on my chest layd there for a second and made sure i was ok and got up good thing i hit were i did there was trees on both sides of were i landed with in 3 feet i know this doesnt compare to most or any of those other posts but its what i got hopefully its all i get  
Mike
86 Cr-250r
its not what you buy its what you build

but the potential for serious injury was there, the thing is, is that the more hours on a bike the higher the chance of getting hurt you have, on average riders probably get hurt once out of so many riding hours. It is just how it works, we going riding when the bike is done mike?  
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the bodies just a vehicle, transporting the soul, it is whats inside of people is beauty to behold

SOUTHERN MAINE

I love Pauls threads lol. Mine are on the board already. And to stupid and painfull to re do. But like reading all yours.  
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DIABETES SUX!

ahh riped a hole in my leg from my peg twisted my ankle couple of times broke my coxey bone got knocked out a couple of times once on a quad seen it going past me later thought i was dreaming lol   hit my friend in 5th gear hit his bars thought i broke my knee and alot of burns and other things  
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live fast ride hard
NOR*CAL
YZ 250

Ouch, the coxie bone. Heard that is some serious pain! Cant even lay down and get releif from that one.