Fell off of my coop today.

[BBQJOE]

Let me start by saying, I hate ladders!
About 8 years ago, I was trimming a large branch on top of a 12 foot ladder. I knew better to take a number of smaller cuts, working my way to the tree.

For the sake of being in a rush, I decided (stupidly) to take it in one fell swoop. The branch went down, hopped, and flew into the ladder. Instinctively, I let go of the chain saw, and ended up doing a faceplant, and broke a wrist. The wife caught the saw on the head, but fortunately the blade didn't get her, but she was horrified by the whole incident.

I bought some tin roofing yesterday, and proceeded to install it on my refurbished coop from years ago.
The coop is 6 or 7 feet tall. I had one foot on the step ladder, and one foot on the roof. Suddenly everything went south, including me.
The look on my wife's face as I fell, surely took her back to the horrendous eucalyptus fall from years back, as well it did I.

I have a scraped up shin, but will spare you pics, but man am I sore.

The good news: 10 birds moving in tomorrow!

 

[PureBarnevelder]

Hello and let me be the first to sorry about the fall. I hope you are ok. The good news is the 10 new members moving in! Keep us posted on your progress.

David

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I am in the I fall down a lot club too, dogs knock me down, fell off my bike, slipped down the stairs, tripped on a stick,and I fall on the ice every winter, glad you are okay, the older I get the more it hurts.

 

[chickmomma03]

I'm glad you didn't get too hurt! I built my coop 6ft tall and almost dumped myself off the ladder several times putting the roof on (and I checked, double checked, and triple checked stability before climbing grrr). When I stuck a screw bit into my finger I almost fell completely off the ladder with drill in hand. I always find a way to hurt myself when I'm working. I've hurt myself more during this season than in quite some time. Stuck the bit into my pinky (deep), sliced my leg with a nail that was sticking out (that was awful, and I probably should have gotten stitches), took chicken claws to the face (it was an accident, not intentional from the chicken), etc. Not fun!

I hope your leg heals nicely! If it's really sore you can do ice/heat alternation if you can tolerate it. I usually just do ice though if there's inflammation.

 

[chickmomma03]

Also, I am SO glad you and your wife were NOT hurt by that chainsaw!

 

[BBQJOE]

I am in the I fall down a lot club too, dogs knock me down, fell off my bike, slipped down the stairs, tripped on a stick,and I fall on the ice every winter, glad you are okay, the older I get the more it hurts.

I'm glad you didn't get too hurt! I built my coop 6ft tall and almost dumped myself off the ladder several times putting the roof on (and I checked, double checked, and triple checked stability before climbing grrr). When I stuck a screw bit into my finger I almost fell completely off the ladder with drill in hand. I always find a way to hurt myself when I'm working. I've hurt myself more during this season than in quite some time. Stuck the bit into my pinky (deep), sliced my leg with a nail that was sticking out (that was awful, and I probably should have gotten stitches), took chicken claws to the face (it was an accident, not intentional from the chicken), etc. Not fun!

I hope your leg heals nicely! If it's really sore you can do ice/heat alternation if you can tolerate it. I usually just do ice though if there's inflammation.

Also, I am SO glad you and your wife were NOT hurt by that chainsaw!

I'm still working on navigating this board. If I missed a post in my reply, please forgive me. I want to say thanks for the replies.
A hot shower helped.
@oldhen, It's amazing how fast the ground will come up and hit you, Huh?

The worst part is living off the grid, out in the boonies, if something serious happens, help is only thousands of dollars for a helicopter away.

To add to the panic of the day, the wife overturned something today, and was nano-inches from being tagged by a rattler.
He was dispatched with zero haste.

She went straight up in the air, and backwards about 15 feet without touching the ground.

 

[chickmomma03]

Quote: Oh heck no! Yea, you guys had enough excitement yesterday. We have copperheads here. I killed a juvenile a couple days ago, then the next day I killed one that was almost fully grown. I HATE HATE HATE venomous snakes.

I'm about a 15min drive to the nearest hospital here, but you don't really want to go to that one, so the next closest is about an hour drive. I'm out in the boonies, but not as far out as you! Being that far from the hospital would make me nervous!

 

[drumstick diva]

Joe, please take care. We want you around here on BYC not in a full body cast. Maybe you need to start wearing a helmet when working outdoors. Get a passel of guineas and turn them loose, they kill or mob snakes and drive them off the property. They also sound alarms quite loudly people in the next state should hear them and might come to your aid.

I admire your wife's athleticism - would have made a great video on "beware of snakes."