Got "Clocked" but good...

[growalot]

I'm always saying to be careful of widow makers..and one got me...I heard the snap but wasn't quick enough.BAM! Hit my right eye..Counting my blessings I had turned my head but hit pretty hard...Mr B checked it..Said your eye lids covered in bark flakes! Bruised the orbital bone pretty good.

SO AGAIN..BE CAREFUL WHEN OUT IN THE WOODS.

[thphtm]

Be careful when cutting trees by yourself , we lost a couple of old timers last year , they have been cutting trees most of the llives. I My self have been to the ER once already ,chain saw got me.lucky not serious.

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[grampy]

Glad you're OK grow. A few years ago,I left a ground blind about 11am. It was a very windy day. Came back at 1pm, and an eight inch diameter tree limb was sitting in the middle of the blind. Still gives me the willies every time I think about, what could have happened.

[Merlot]

Hope you are ok. Better stay in and watch football the rest of the evening with Mr.B.

[F-150]

Sorry to hear of your accident, I had a similar situation about ten years ago and I was wearing a Chainsaw Helmet. BEST OF LUCK IN RECOVERY !  

[Jeremy K]

Jeez,that could have been much worse. My buddy got one that went through his eye and destroyed his sinus cavity and my dad woke up on the forest floor with no idea what happened or where he was. Glad you walked away with just a shiner.

[22Plinker]

Gald you are ok and it wasn't permanently debilitating.  The guys that do work details with me for my ATV club smirk and make comments when I tell them I don't want anyone going out and doing trail work with power equipment by themselves just for that reason.  I've seen way too many people do stupid things with chainsaws and those electric bush trimmers.  Last thing anyone wants is to get hurt alone out in the woods 15 miles from the nearest bit of civilization...

[growalot]

Thanks. Ya I was just out for my walk..I'll tell ya..I held my eye a while before so was brave enough to pull my hand away..I was afraid of what might be on it or what I wouldn't be able to see when pulling my hand away.

[hunter49]

Glad your ok, gotta watch those suckers!

[Zag]

it really is a dangerous game. Tueday I was cutting trees down in the wind. As soon as the tree woud start to move, i was running like a girl. Glad your ok

[Deerthug]

Glad to hear you are ok! He was watching over you.

[DirtTime]

Glad you are OK grow. This is why we do not look up when we hear cracking and branches breaking.

[thphtm]

I have one that has been hung up on a trunk of a maple tree about 20 feet up.It is around 5 inch diameter and 15 feet long.It has been up there 10 years and with all the storms we had it will not move. I have orange tape all around it., scsrey just to look at.

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[fasteddie]

I couldn't find the original pictures but have a picture of a couple years after a widow maker came down on a permanent tree stand . Used this stand for several years . It is about 18' up in the tree . Great visibility across the woods and ditch . Killed a half dozen deer from that stand and got my 1st archery buck from there . 

The woods are in what they call 'the bottoms" . Water doesn't run off from the woods .

Glad I wasn't in the stand when the tree came down !

Also pics of some deer on the way back to our vehicles ........

[growalot]

So should have checked the eye closer..but it was sore...wake up several times last night with my eye hurting...this morning ..I go and check it out. Talk about blood shot! I am rolling it around looking, when a 1/2 in long piece of bark appears in my lower eye lid...eeewww I pull it out and it's covered in white gunk...wash my eye out with saline drops...now I suppose I have to see if it got infected at all...symptoms will be a severe pain...right now it's just irritated...wonder where that was hiding all this time....

[grampy]

Don't want to mess with your eye's. Better go to the Dr's. to get it checked out, just to be safe! 

[Elmo]

Holy smokes. Hope your eye wasn't scratched up too bad by the bark. During REM sleep, you eyes twitch a lot. I'd imaging having a bark on top of it while your eyes are twitching back and forth shouldn't be too good.

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[ants]

Glad you're OK.. I have had close calls, with falling limbs, both while in stands, and having them just snap and fall, and while cutting stuff.

Live and learn..

[growalot]

Elmo... it's been blood shot for a few days...and then didn't I swipe my coat sleeve right across my eye ball putting on my jacket the next day! Now it feels like when they got flash burned welding many years ago. Instructor didn't know my mask didn't drop before he touched off..me leaning over his shoulder...Oh well this too shall pass....lol

[ny hunter]

Sorry to hear about your mishap...............hope you get well soon.......A little discomfort is great if thats all it is....

[Elmo]

Get well soon.

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[Lawdwaz]

So should have checked the eye closer..but it was sore...wake up several times last night with my eye hurting...this morning ..I go and check it out. Talk about blood shot! I am rolling it around looking, when a 1/2 in long piece of bark appears in my lower eye lid...eeewww I pull it out and it's covered in white gunk...wash my eye out with saline drops...now I suppose I have to see if it got infected at all...symptoms will be a severe pain...right now it's just irritated...wonder where that was hiding all this time....

 

Hoping you get that feeling better soon.

 

 

Back in 83 or 84 I was helping bale hay for some friends in Clarence Center and had something get into my eyeball.  At the time I figured it had to be a from the bailing process as I was on the wagon lugging the bales then stacking them.  I didn't think much of it and it appeared to come out pretty easy with a rub or two.

 

The next morning I woke up and could NOT see out of it, the pain was intense when I looked at the light.  I was just a young buck and thought I could tough it out, boy was I wrong.  I drove to work with my hand over my eye and lasted 30 minutes before my boss grabbed the Yellow Pages and started looking for a eye doc that would see me. (no pun there) 

 

We found one in Amherst and I went over right away.  It only took a few minutes after he numbed me up to locate something way down in me eye socket.  The doc probes around and brings this ugly little thing out.........turns out it is an insect wing!!

 

I was better immediately.

[growalot]

Thanks all..LOL same ole same ole...Just makes me laugh any more. It's amazing how much pain a little thing can cause. Our daughter got an eye infection. From God knows what....she described it as an ice pick being poked in her Eye.