WARNING - WARNING the following events are real and very painful to me.

[TooMany2count]

Not really one to tell on myself for what some may say was stupidity on my part but here's my tale.
Late Monday afternoon I went to my buddy Robert Little Eagle's house because he said he'd help me w/changing some tires on our Trailblazer. He got me his hydraulic floor jack to use & we had done the passenger side w/out a problem. So I dragged the jack to the drivers side & started jacking the truck up. The truck was about to lift off the ground when the jack handle slipped out of my hand & flew straight up in the air giving me one hellva upper cut. I distinctly remember thinking "WTF was that & that hurt like hell" as I fell towards the truck, then sliding down the side of truck thinking "This isn't good" and finally bouncing off that nice soft gravel that Robert has in his driveway as I hit the ground. I remember thinking how nice & cool the gravel felt on the side of my face as I rolled over on my back & was amazed at all the pretty stars & lights I saw. Now being the good friend that I am, I informed Robert to beware of that "Mean Upper Cut" his jack has because I didn't think he'd enjoy the same ride I had just taken to the ground. Jaw still hurts like hell today.....

[rspears]

WOW! Laughing at your story, but really glad you're telling it with only a sore jaw! I've never experienced a hydraulic jack with a kickback before. They are generally a benign jack with check valve action, but I'll be leery from now on....

[MelloYello]

Thanks for sharing that story and glad that it wasn't any worse. Never hurts to get the dust shaken out of our brains, especially if they are like mind and tend to jump into idle more often than not.

Em

[shine]

be glad it was not a jawbreaker under a john deere . those things can kill !

[billy zz]

At first I thought for sure you were talking about a hi lift
those things are widow makers.
glad you are ok

[lamin8r]

Sheesh,Joe..Dont go damaging yourself this close to the family reunion..Not a good look,mate..

[Whiplash23T]

Sorry Joe, I'm still laughing at your story and how well it is written and not at your pain. A good lesson for all of us when using those types of jacks and one would think the manufacture would of placed a warning on the handle for you.

[TooMany2count]

Folks, I am laughing right along w/all of you also. I had never been knocked out before unless it was with drugs, but it was all surreal & movie like. Jaw is still a bit sore but nothing like it was that day. That damn handle hit me so hard on the left side of my jaw that the right side of my jaw even hurt afterwards. Thankfully the only thing that I got was dirty, a sore jaw & a bruised ego...joe

[cffisher]

That why I keep a long pipe around Leverage is a great thing

[falconvan]

Joe, this must have been official head injury weekend; I did a number on myself, too. Glad you're ok!

[glennsexton]

Glad you're okay my friend!

Please pardon the hijack - this has been around a long time and I still get a chuckle every time I read it...

A bricklayer working on a three-story-tall chimney had set up a pulley system so that his helper could raise the bricks up to where he needed them. As he was working, his helper complained about how difficult it would be to get the last of the bricks up to the flat roof of the building. Just then another contractor had some material delivered and it was placed on the roof by a fork lift brought to unload it. The bricklayer asked if the driver would load the rest of the bricks up there as well and the driver agreed. The bricklayer realized that he would not need his helper any more and sent him home.

When the bricklayer completed the chimney he noticed that he had quite a few bricks left over and that the fork lift was no longer at the jobsite. Now he had to figure out how to get the leftover bricks back down by himself. If he dropped them, they would surely break. So he decided to use the pulley he had set up earlier to lower them down.

First he went down to the ground and raised a large metal bucket up to the roof level using the rope and pulley. Next, he tied the rope off onto a railing and climbed back up to the roof and loaded the bricks into the bucket. Then he went back down to the ground. He knew that the bricks would be heavy, so he wrapped the rope around his hand a couple of times and then untied the end of the rope with his other hand. Well, the bricks were heavier than he imagined and with physics being as it is, he was immediately launched upwards at a high rate of speed.

As he was racing up towards the roof he encountered the bucket full of bricks coming down at an equally fast rate. He collided with the bucket and broke his nose and his shoulder. The bucket passed him by as he sped upwards. He reached the pulley just before the bucket hit the ground and broke a few of his fingers as they were pulled into the pulley. When the bucket hit the ground, its bottom fell out and all of the bricks spilled onto the ground. Now the fun reversed. As the now light bucket sped upwards, the mason took a shot to the groin when one of his legs slipped into the empty bucket.

He then tilted enough to fall out of the bucket and continued with his gravity experiment. Eventually he landed on top of the pile of bricks and broke both feet. He collapsed in pain there on the bricks, but was glad to be alive. He let go off the rope and cried out for help.

It was then that the bucket hit him in the head and fractured his skull.

[Whiplash23T]

Surely this bricklayer was of Irish descend , that is the sort of material Charlie Chaplin would of used in a movie. Opps , sorry if I have offended you Pat our famous Irishman here.

[johnboy]

Surely this bricklayer was of Irish descend , that is the sort of material Charlie Chaplin would of used in a movie. Opps , sorry if I have offended you Pat our famous Irishman here.

Ummm . . .

I too am of Irish descent . . .