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Arich · March 14, 2008, 07:27:35 PM

Gotta bum leg :'(

beenthere · March 14, 2008, 07:46:49 PM

What happened?

zopi · March 14, 2008, 07:48:11 PM

eh...sucks..

had surgery on my rear end this morning...1.5 " splinter..0.0225 bd ft...<GRIN>

they cut it out and i wound up with 12 stitches and a big bottle of vicodin..

hatin' it...i've got fresh lumber outside needs stickering..

Burlkraft · March 14, 2008, 08:13:14 PM

You ain't gittin' by that easy........ :

:

We gotta hear the splinter story ...... got any pics.... ??? :D :D :D

zopi · March 14, 2008, 08:40:55 PM

Meh...If i gotta hijack the thread and tell my story so does he^ ;D

crap...I was sitting out in the smoke pit at work having a smoke with a buncha my
buddies, and the lovely and talented lady chief that i flirt with most was tugging on my
shirt to get me to scoot (groan) closer...i'd imagine she wanted to tell me a dirty joke..anyway,
I scooted, and screeched...much to the general mirth of the looky loos...

So i hobbled into the head (bathroom for you landlubbers) and yanked the *DanG thing out...only
i didn't think i got it all out so I went to the ER...and of course in the process of examination the guy couldn't tell
the other half of this *DanG log was still in there...I didn't discover it until after i had driven the 50 miles home..
sooo...I went back to the ER this morning and hunted down my favorite corpsman, who has done surgery on my carcass before, and after he got done laughing at me, went out and got this adorable blue eyed blonde young lady who (after she got done laughing at me..i love corpsmen..) actually did most of the work on me..she cut the bloody (!) thing out and the other guy sewed my butt up like a hatian guy in a baseball factory...

and yes, I have pictures...and no you aren't gonna see them..this is still a family site...besides...you WILL lose lunch..think
hatchet wound... :

I think I will set the *DanG thing in concrete outside and pull a flag up it...

Arich · March 14, 2008, 08:46:34 PM

how come my picture wont show???

beenthere · March 14, 2008, 08:48:30 PM

This one?

Hope you didn't get caught underneath it.... :

woodsrunner · March 14, 2008, 09:00:57 PM

hey zopi,
so smoking really is bad for you, huh?

woodsrunner

thecfarm · March 14, 2008, 09:07:09 PM

Zopi,I'll pick on you first.12 stitches!!!!!!! that was some piece of wood.I put one almost through my finger once.

Arich,update your profile so we all know where you are from.Hope you did not get hurt with your skidder.

Radar67 · March 14, 2008, 09:10:49 PM

The stitches were probably more from the hack job than the splinter. Them corpsmen have to get even with the Chiefs however they can. :D :D

woodsrunner · March 14, 2008, 09:13:41 PM

Sorry zopi,
couldn't resist that. it is friday evening and my brain is almost shot after this week, guess i'm a little goofy tonight. besides being a smoker myself I never get to razz someone else about that .

woodsrunner

woodsrunner · March 14, 2008, 09:18:05 PM

hey arich tell us about your fun day with the skidder

zopi · March 14, 2008, 09:32:43 PM

ah..believe me, you guys can't do worse than a bunch of chiefs...I have taken alot of crap over the last couple of days..

Dave Shepard · March 14, 2008, 10:47:23 PM

Arich, I hope you aren't busted up too bad!

Dave

ronwood · March 15, 2008, 12:11:18 AM

zopi,

Are you sure you weren't using a rough board has a slide!!!

Ron

Radar67 · March 15, 2008, 12:28:39 AM

Maybe they made him walk the plank and he slipped before he made it to the end...being a Navy man and all. ;)

Reddog · March 15, 2008, 12:27:08 PM

Arich,

Did the rim blow out?
Or did the tire just slip off?

Never any fun jacking a skidder up and wresling a tire back on. :(

Corley5 · March 15, 2008, 12:37:28 PM

Quote from: beenthere on March 14, 2008, 08:48:30 PM

I hate it when that happens :(

Arich · March 15, 2008, 06:37:17 PM

That tire always worried me. It had lost a lug about 15 years ago and the guy ran it like that ever since. I was pulling in a hitch and pow. It took me two days to limp it out of the woods about 2500ft. All this only to find out that used 28L 26 tires are extremley rare, however I found a firestone for 400$ about 4 1/2 hours away. 150$ tube and a 100$ mount and I should be pullin wood in a few days (I hope)!!

Dave Shepard · March 15, 2008, 06:46:01 PM

Ah, so your skidder has the bum leg, thought you'd been smooshed.

Dave

donny hochstetler · March 15, 2008, 07:56:28 PM

hey guys, I have a set of 28 in. tires -rims for a timberjack came off of a 230 d. the tires are bald but they do hold air. rims are good. 50.00 apiece payable to the forestry forum good luck fixing the flat always a bummer.