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Yesterday afternoon I'm peeling some old paint off of the heat shields on my current project, when unexpectedly and certainly quite unannounced, this bulldog tries it's best to take off my right kneecap. Whooeee! That thing cuts like a razor!

However, I thought it somewhat rude, to say the least.

We get the Wranglers changed, get the blood all cleaned up and the wife wants me to go to town and have the knee sewed up by the saw-bones 'cause it is kinda nasty.

Of course, I promptly put an end to that silly talk and had her bandage the thing up since it wouldn't stop bleeding and I had old tractors to work on. 'Taint got the time, ya know? :>(

Didn't have any trouble whatsoever waking up this morning..... the knee talkin' to me again. But now, this mornin' I'm gimpin' around here like a grumpy old man.

Well, on second thought and come to think of it, I am a grumpy old man.

Ya'll have a good 'un, :>)

Allan

Don't be offended, just haveing fun working on tractors also...poor widdle finger.

That happened to me one time. After the wife left me, I just started rebuilding my life. :>)

Allan

Yeah, I hear ya. I guess a guy has just got to check the color of his ol' bones every once in awhile. :>)

Wife is still harpin' 'bout "bone infection" and it bites a little more this mornin' than it did yesterday; still bleedin' too. But heck! So far, the leg is still functional and we gots old tractors to fix!

Hey! Don't ferget if you want to get it done in 2005, ya better be for gettin' 'er done! :>)

Allan

I went in a few years back for a knee replasement.....got a Staff infection ,should have killed me, sometime I wish it had....

Your having a good time with your tractors.....I have 6, cant get on or drive any of them.....

you see they took the leg off 50 weeks and 19 operations later..... .GET THAT LOOKED AFTER, please..... ..Don SW Ohio

The "Be Careful" must be one of those "In the eye of the beholder" thingys.

I've been shot three times and had two real close misses by a couple of idiot kids, so a darned grinder or a little tractor tire doesn't seem like much to be "wary" of. :>)

When I was young and stupid(er), one of the past-times of us country fellas was to put a steel bolt in each electrode of an arc welder, grab a bolt in each hand, turn 'er on and see how much current ya could take before ya turned 'em loose.

We were easily bored back then. :>)

Be my luck that I'll probably get killed by a silly horse kickin' me in the head while I'm bent over 'er sometin'. :>)

Allan

However, our shotgun "wad fights" - (all shot removed) was really not a good idea, matter of fact, plain stupidity, even though we made very clear rules for safety reasons, I can't even imagine kids our age then doing things like this today by any means, how we never get caught is unbelievable, none of us were really stupid, or malicious, a little crazy sometimes. Without a doubt, not any way to handle firearms, we did not carry on with wad fights for long, ( was fun i hate to admit ) but we all smartened up and decided hunting was a much better hobby soon after and all of us practice the utmost firearm safety no matter what. Now you can't even leave your kids in the back yard without supervision in many neighborhoods, you never know who is around. Some really good things kids miss out on today, quite different now and was not that long ago.

Must be a generation thing 'er somethin'.

To this day I am in total awe of those ol' boys who went thru WWII and I could listen to 'em recount their memories for hours on end.

Listenin' to 'em tell how they didn't know if they were goin' to live thru the next 15 minutes or not, let alone the whole day.

Really got to admire those guys; they are a grizzly bunch and not much bothers 'em day to day in today's world.

Allan

Jim

Allan

And dumb me, I had to buy that big one to get more done. Turn 'er on and it darn near breaks yer wrist! :>)

'Course I'm the guy who doesn't have a steering wheel or a seat on my tractors 'cause I lost my a$$ and don't know which way to turn anyways. :>)

Allan

casey

p.s. a pair of wranglers ran me $25 last week for christmas.

Where the heck you been anyway? Was thinkin' bout ya yesterday, that haven't seen hide ner hair of ya in quite some time.

Thought maybe you were getting that 766 all tuned up fer me? :>)

Glad to have you back!

Allan

give me your formula again for posting multiple pics please!! talk to you later...

casey

Okay, here goes:

Left carrot, img, space, src, quotation marks, address, quotation marks, right carrot

Allan

I forgot. When I switched to the braded-wire style of head, it kind of put an end to that "wire-pickin'" stuff. :>)

Allan

I consider myself a real nice guy, just not too darned bright. But, I play with the deck I was dealt and it has served me pretty well so far. :>)

As far as that axle deal goes, I, fer the life of me, can't figure out what all the hub-bub was about. It's a pretty small tractor and I've been wrestlin' those little guys since I was 10 years old. All of us do that grew up with 'em. They just are not all that difficult.

Never even gave it a thought; a heck of a lot safer than drivin' down the hiway! I ask you, where's it gonna fall? Down? I'm slow-witted, but not dumb enough to be "under" the silly thing. If it falls to the ground, I pick it up again; it's not that big of a deal.

Wife kinda went nuts on me tho. :>)

Thanks fer the kind words, I think you guys are super!

Allan

Jump in yer truck and get up here. I'm gettin' ready to do the other side.

(This time I'm doin' it on the QT tho. :>)

Allan

casey