Comedy near misses on garden DIY

Not a gardening story . But it was in a field so that's close...

It was middle of winter and I was trying to get my horse in for the night into a warm, stocked with food and hay stable, he decided otherwise , so I basically followed him around in a 5 acre field and it had also started raining I manged to get him into the corner of the barn which had a hay baler in the corner , so I thought I have him now as he went behind it, with that I stepped on to front of the hay baler and the spikes that gather up the grass came shooting out towards me I fell backwards into all the mud and wet and the spikes went into the ground 6 inches each side of me I just lay on the floor thinking have I been spiked or not and then thought no one will find me behind the barn . I manged to pull my self out from underneath it, and then looked at the spikes in the ground.

I left him standing looking at me and I just waked out of the field and realised he was only 6 feet behind me , I turned around and stopped he walked forward rubbed his face into mine .

And yes was all lovely and tucked for the night.

 

Last summer at work, we were doing a little strimming here and there around the garden. Right next to the large pond (which is about 5 or 6ft deep in places) there are some rock 'stepping stones' across the stream, right where it runs into the pond.

This is a useful short cut across the stream, saving a longer walk between two lawns. As I was crossing, I slipped and teetered for a second on the edge of oblivion (and a good soaking).

Luckily I was carrying the strimmer in my right hand, which was the side away from the pond. My right arm shot out instinctively and I swear it was only the counterbalancing effect of that strimmer which prevented me from toppling sideways into the water.

 

Its always the wife with the hose , never the other way around !!

 

I've done the same with a strimmer and a putrid dead rat

 

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well thats sorted out

Spruce 6667

 

BTDTGTTS ...

In my case when I lost my balance and reached out it was for the ... electric fence I had just put up to keep the pigs in!

 

Last summer my son (4 at the time) got his first electric shock. That was from an electric fence too. We'd gone to watch the motorcross racing, and I guess the farmer that rents a chunk of his land to the motorcross club on race days had forgotten to switch the fence off.

I saw my son's hand heading towards the wire, I shouted NO but it was too late. He quickly yanked his hand away and looked both puzzled and excited at the same time. His explanation of what happened cracked me up. It was something like this:

"Daddy, something funny happened. That fence is shaky. Its not moving but when I touched it it felt all shaky, in my arm". I think that's the first time I've ever heard anyone actually describe an electric shock. I'd always just assumed before that that everyone knows what its like and it needs no explanation.

 

I grew up with my Dad's D/C transformer on his OO guage railway so knew all about voltages and what they felt like And the local electric fences, and the faulty lamp from Woolworths that was plugged into the 30amp circuit