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Loser Araysar
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Loser Araysar
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BrutulTM
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Mowing the lawn barefoot is kind of a cool feeling, but I always feel like it might cost me a toe sooner or later.
Gavinmad
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I never cared until I got a rock thrown at my shin one time that left a bleeding welt. I made sure to have shoes and at least some socks on after that. I mean anything can be thrown at your feets at any time. A high velocity sick or rock fucking hurts, never mind something metal or sharp.
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Goatface
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think this was the closest i come to seeing some get really hurt with a mower.
growing up (around 12), 2 houses down, girl was 17/18, pretty, big rack, all summer would wear daisy dukes with a bikini top. one day i was on my front porch and saw she was mowing their lawn, barefoot with previous outfit (our group of houses had a steady drop from back to front of about 5' over 100'ish feet. at the very front, there was a steep drop like a 2' 45 degree slope to shoulder of the road). at the top of the slope, she pushed the mower down the hill, but it hit the ground or something and stopped moving. she slipped and fell. she did like a split with the back wheels of the mower hitting her inner thighs a few inches off the ground. she was so close to going under it, but was lucky and hung on the handle and was able to push it away. this was before mowers had run control bars.
Hateyou
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Friend of mine was 10 or 11 (so ~40 years ago) and was watching the neighbor lady trying to fix something on her mower. She had it running and on its side. She put her hand near it and it sucked it right in. Lost her whole hand, he was the only other person there so had to run for help. Says he can still remember it pretty vividly.
A couple years ago an old neighbor I’m still in contact with sent me a pic of a bloody piece of trimmer cord like 1/2” long. He was trimming and had something hit him, said it hurt but thought nothing of it until a couple weeks later when it was swollen and infected. They pulled that piece of cord out of his shin, it was embedded in there and he didn’t even realize it. Wears jeans when doing yard work now lol
A couple years ago an old neighbor I’m still in contact with sent me a pic of a bloody piece of trimmer cord like 1/2” long. He was trimming and had something hit him, said it hurt but thought nothing of it until a couple weeks later when it was swollen and infected. They pulled that piece of cord out of his shin, it was embedded in there and he didn’t even realize it. Wears jeans when doing yard work now lol
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Well thats just plain stupid, lol. If it wasnt the mower, it would have been something else or worse.
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Lanx
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yea i wear jeans and sneakers when i mow. (mainly cuz bugs eat me alive on the lawn) also now i had to get safety glasses w/ foam lining, cuz when i now edge an errant rock or pebble could (and has) shot right up under my glasses
Hateyou
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Yeah eye shit is scary, I wear glasses but I still get kind of nervous. A friend of mine worked at a machine that would shoot little crescent metal shavings out of it from time to time, like a fingernail but glowing red and metal. He had one shoot at his face bounce off his cheek, into safety glasses interior, and stab right into his fuckin eyeball. It was so hot it cauterized itself and had to get surgically removed. He was fucked up for like a month while that healed.
Now I’m thinking about all the injuries of friends and coworkers…I knew a lot of people with fucked up accidents lol
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Lanx
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yea i doubled up on eye ppe when i was cutting up a tire (it has steal treads) w/ safty glasses and a face shield, only got two eyes and my eyes are weird, the left one is almost 20/20 for seeing far, but if try to use it to see even my keyboard keys it's blurry, while my right eye is the opposite.
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I wear safety goggles when I mow or use the trimmer. I had a big-assed wasp go to town on the side of one when I was mowing. Could have easily lost an eye if I didn't have it. And .5 second of dipping a trimmer into gravel at max RPM can kick up a lot of stones.
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When I was about 13 I had a weird lesion on my shin that wouldn't heal properly for months, maybe the size of a dime, and it itched ferociously. I ended up picking the scab off with a knife because I got so sick of it and found something hard inside. I grabbed it with tweezers and pulled, and it turned out to be a fucking inch and a half long splinter maybe 1/8'' wide that had embedded between my tibia and fibia when I ran over some pressure treated wood with a lawn mower the previous summer. I'm amazed that it didn't cause more problems than just itching.
I always wear pants now.
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