Bloody knee

[Tharrell]

Try and guess how I did this one today.

[jacob land and]

you were hanging off the back of a ztr trying to be a human striping kit?

[G.M.Landscaping]

Chainsaw???
Hedge trimmer??

[dcgreenspro]

trying to cut trimmer line and slipped?

[dfor]

Hedge trimmers!!!

[lawnmaniac883]

Hedge trimmers, been there done that.

[Lazer_Z]

I'm going to say hedge trimmer as well.

Rob

[mattfromNY]

Looks like a scar I've got from not removing my trailer receiver, in a hurry to get something out of the truck... WHAM!... Close??... OK, so my truck is jacked up a little, you'd probably get your shins on your truck.LOL.

[chuck bow]

i say hedge trimmer...... iam like a few others been there done that and man they sure bite hard !!!

[mattfromNY]

We dont hit our knees with hedge trimmers... but man, you should see my employees' neck... how someone can keep working with a gash like that!! If it doesn't kill him, it only makes him stronger. LOL.

[cantoo]

My wife has the same scar on her knee. Hedge trimmers. She ended up passing out. She was doing hedges at a commercail account. They called me to say my wife was laying on their lawn.

[Tharrell]

Heh heh heh, I knew some of you had probably been there.
I was trimming some hedges and backed off a curb. I ordered some chaps after I got out of the ER. I have some loaners until then.
Dang, some of you guys were spot on the money sure of it!
Now, the question is. Do you own a pair of chaps?
That cut is about 18" from my nads. I don't take chances!
By the way, where am I? I think this got moved or something.
Anyway, I used chaps last winter on the right of way crew and I guess I should have known better and bought some before now.
I hope you guys will buy some chaps if you don't have any yet.

[lawnmaniac883]

Yea, I thought about chaps after I cut myself the first time. Never did get around to ordering a pair though plus they would be hot as hell to wear in one of these 100+ degree days...

[mike lane lawn care]

i'm going to say it had something to do with a trimmer, possibly loosing your balance and falling. my grandfather has diabetes and has lost a lot of control in his left leg, makes hard driving in his f-250 manual. he fell once and cut his knee, fell again and cut his ear almost completly off.
hope you heel soon.

EDIT: opps, you posted the answer before i finished typing

[G.M.Landscaping]

Hey, I guessed it first...what do I win? Please tell me it isn't the old stiches:laugh:

[lawnandplow42]

thats nothing- a few weeks ago i was tightening a lawn mower blade on my walker and the ratchet slipped off the bolt (idk why i wasn't using the impact wrench) and my thumb hit the blade. Six stitches and blood over everything.... nice

[iluvscag]

ehhh...BobbyGedds daycare service? Cause you were in his office while he was eating his Big Mac and fries and observing his competiton across the street tell them what they could do better.

[lawnmaniac883]

Speaking of Bobby, wheres he been lately?

[iluvscag]

I was just thinking that.

[lawnspecialties]

Just above my left knee is a scar from two years ago. It is a lovely V shape as well. Those RedMax hedge trimmers will fly!

It's pretty much a permanent one and very visible as well. I still remember how clean and deep it went. You could pull it apart and see the white of my knee stuff (ligaments maybe?). My doctor's office was booked and the emergency room at the hospital was packed. It was back during all that flu vaccine shortage time. Well, I just bought some saline solution in a can and shot it down in there to clean it out. Then kept it together with steri-strips.

I do still have all my fingers and toes, though. So far.;)

[UBRKIFIX]

Stop begging it just cost u!hope it gets well soon:hammerhead:

[Brendan Smith]

Try and guess how I did this one today.
GREAT, now i'm hungry...

[sheshovel]

Remember now if you start to loose your balance
RELEASE THE HOUNDS!
Or just always look back before you step back when power tools are in your hands.

[jazak]

You know what feels real good a Stihl 044 with an 18" bar going full throttle and bite your knee cap. :cry: Its happened to both me and my son and I have also gotten the hedge trimmer to the knee.

[jazak]

Heres a pic of my son's right knee 4 months after it was stitched up and healed. All that left is that small scar. Not the best pic but you get the idea.

[Audrey]

That is one lucky guy. Both of you in fact.
TWO hairy legs never looked so good eh? :)

A

[topsites]

ewwww.... ack

[StBalor]

hEY MAN, nEXT TIME CLEAN THAT DIRTY TRUCK OUT BEFORE TAKING ANY PICTURES IN IT, LOL. J/K, You'll be alright. All i want to know is, Did you finish the job before you went to the er?

[Tharrell]

Ha ha ha! Yeah, that truck is just plain nasty. On the other hand, I can always find a peanut or part of a biscuit if I have to.
Anyway, the chaps are around $75 and the ER visit will probably be 4 times that. I wish I could learn mistakes the easy way sometime. Here's your chance to learn the easy way. Go order some chaps (from your dealer).
I used them today for about an hour and a half with shorts on. It wasn't too bad at all.

[jazak]

hEY MAN, nEXT TIME CLEAN THAT DIRTY TRUCK OUT BEFORE TAKING ANY PICTURES IN IT, LOL. J/K, You'll be alright. All i want to know is, Did you finish the job before you went to the er?

Yes we finished the job. My son actually wanted to stay said it didn't hurt and for a cut like that there wasn't a lot of blood.