Just fell off a ladder-edit

[M-61]

Never made it to the ladder stage. Step ladder (2
step) was it. Apparently that was good enough. Get up and work and then get off on the wrong side with no steps. Overextended or whatever it’s called hurts like crazy. Here’s the good part. After doing this at least 4 times in a year I found I could throw an aluminum step ladder over 50 feet!
New step ladders now. One has steps on both sides and the other a grab bar on the top.
I think 50+ feet is a pretty decent throw.

 

[338 Mollett]

You guys be careful ! Not many of our kind left !

 

[Downhill]

My wife gets upset anytime I have a ladder. She states that I have fallen off of every roof on our property, house, carport, shop, gun shop.... But I disagree, I have yet to fall off the lawn mower shed.

 

[Shooter13]

Well, I've had 3 neck and 2 back surgeries. I can't shoot prone, turn my head, or bend over. I do not have any pain though anymore.

Are you telling us even BIDEN can't bend you over???? LOL I'm joking, I've fallen too but much more lucky than all y'all!

 

[Shooter13]

I've been an insurance adjuster for well over a decade and after last spring I'm doing flood claims only! I've worked from Texas to NY and everything south of a straight line from the tip of TX to NY, fallen once in 2016 in WV as insured wanted me to use his ladder (after a long and intense discussion I should have just left), at the top of ladder making the step to the roof the ladder collapsed! After throwing the ladder against his house I used my ladder and finished the inspection.

 

[NorCalMikie]

Been 50+ years ago. Guy (mechanic) on the last step of a 6 foot ladder reaching into a car to turn the key. To this day, I can still hear the CRACK as he hit the floor when he fell off the ladder.

 

[Dave M.]

Hope you didn't do any serious damage and get back to normal very quickly. I've fallen from the lower steps on a ladder, but never been hurt badly. My 6'4" 240 lb BIL came off a ladder 6 ft up cleaning the ceiling on a covered porch the day before his wedding and broke his coccyx. Bruised up all over his torso, but thankfully nothing life threatening. Barely mobile for the service, and months before he was really better.

Grandma goes to the dunes??

Sorry, I couldn’t resist the Napoleon Dynamite drop after reading the broken coccyx line above.

 

[Pawnee Bill]

I ain't never fell off a ladder, but I have fell off a turnip truck.

 

[762willdo]

My friend I worked with for 25 years fell off a ladder 2 weeks ago and broke a hip, had surgery and the next day had a stroke the day after that 2 more strokes, could only move his eyes and thank god he passed 2 days ago, prior to the ladder incident he was in perfect health……
and yes he was totally vaccinated with three boosters, make of that what you will…

 

[RegionRat]

@762willdo Sorry to hear about the loss of your friend.

 

[Joe Maisto]

I fell from a short 3ft ladder. The ladder tipped over and I landed on one of the legs, The ladder leg punced a retangular hole in my jeans about 1" x 3" that was my clue to what actually happened. The leg went into my body between my anus and testicles. It ripped my euthera out of its sheath and split my rectum about 5" or 6" and messed with my prostrate gland. I went into a denial mode telling myself if I stay calm it will all be ok and proceded to get dinner. The bleading wouldn't stop and one look at the jeans amd there was no mistake about what had happened. A trip to the ER was needed.

I have a love/hate affair with ladders....they love to hate me. Over the years, I've had three different unintentional dismounts with the worst injury being fracturing the joint capsule around the right elbow.

Each year in my 'day job', we'd see at least one serious, paralyzing spine injury involving ladders and hanging Christmas lights. After the initial injury, we'd see those patients routinely during follow ups and pre/post surgical proceedures.

One that sticks in my mind was a guy that went on the roof to put up a Santa and sleigh display. Being cautious, he tied a rope around his waist with the other end tied to the hitch on his Suburban sitting in the driveway below. His wife jumped in the Suburban and took off down the long rural driveway to check the mail and jerked him clean off the roof. He landed in a 3 foot snow bank before being drug down the snow covered driveway.

Good shootin' -Al

Are they still married?

 

[Toolbreaker]

Just finished cleaning the gutters & climbing up 9 trees trimming with a 16" Poulan. Had this thread parked in the back of my head the whole time. Scary movies for kids involve clowns, aliens and monsters. For older guys they're 16' ladders, PO'd wives and certified letters from the IRS lol.

 

[Just Say Moe]

Never made it to the ladder stage. Step ladder (2
step) was it. Apparently that was good enough. Get up and work and then get off on the wrong side with no steps. Overextended or whatever it’s called hurts like crazy. Here’s the good part. After doing this at least 4 times in a year I found I could throw an aluminum step ladder over 50 feet!
New step ladders now. One has steps on both sides and the other a grab bar on the top.
I think 50+ feet is a pretty decent throw.

Exactly what happened to me except it was a 3 foot wood ladder and in my 30's. Hyper extended my knee. After buying a proper ladder with a hand rail, I had the pleasure of rendering the wooden one into pieces with a splitting maul.

 

[M-61]

Exactly what happened to me except it was a 3 foot wood ladder and in my 30's. Hyper extended my knee. After buying a proper ladder with a hand rail, I had the pleasure of rendering the wooden one into pieces with a splitting maul.

If mine was 3 feet I would have left my balls on that top step.

 

[Dave M.]

Done with ladders, hit concrete at 8 feet couldn't clear rungs, rode it down. Crushed L5 35 %. Already had a plate in C5 C6 fusion. Will haunt me the rest of my life. Arthritic type pain all the time. Best of luck. Hope you are ok.

I had a C6-C7 fusion about 7 years ago. It changed my life. I could barely look up at the sky before the fusion. I feel for you.

 

[mousegunner]

I had a C6-C7 fusion about 7 years ago. It changed my life. I could barely look up at the sky before the fusion. I feel for you.

My C4-C5 fusion makes it hard to shoot prone. I can do it but have to break position after each shot to rest and my scores suck.

 

[AlNyhus]

Cleaned 250 feet of gutter today. Must have been up and down 50 times with no unintentional get-offs. -Al