Had a couple uncles that shouldn't have survived - one rolled an 8n brush hogging and broke his back; another had his clothes ripped off on a pto shaft, got away with just a broken arm.
Myself? Nothing major, yet. It's tough to remember all the minor things, but here's a few: - the widowmakers dropping standing dead trees that "just missed" (one 8' length of limb just 4 days ago - it's getting so I spend a lot of time looking up, before, during and after a cut); the time I laid open my right thigh pulling the knife from a 9' NH haybine; the 4" gash in the other leg when I slipped off a baler tire in a packed machine shed and ripped it open on a bolt (both should have had stitches, but got butterflies instead); getting beat up sorting calves just in off pasture in the autumn; kicked / stepped on by horses and cows; getting laid out on my butt or back smacking my head in a low clearance barn (at least 4 times - love/hate those ball cap brims); the dung fork I put through my boot, right between my toes; the wood chip splitting wood with a maul that hit me in the left eye (went to the ER for that); the wagon tongue that fell off the tractor drawbar and landed on the arch of my foot (ER for that too - nothing broke, but it was over a week before I was walking good again); etc, etc. In the close but no cigar category: the Allis WC bringing a trailer load of fire wood down a hill with wet fall leaves that took a 100' slide before catching a tree with the right rear that nearly threw me off...
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Today's Featured Article - Old Time Threshing - by Anthony West. A lovely harvest evening late September 1947, I was a school boy, like all school boys I loved harvest time. The golden corn ripens well and early, the stoking, stacking,.... the drawing in with the tractors and trailers and a few buck rakes thrown in, and possibly a heavy horse. It would be a great day for the collies and the terrier dogs, rats and mice would be at the bottom of the stacks so the dogs, would have a busy time hunting and killing, all the corn was gathered and ricked in what we c
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