Some could find this funny.

[Jackrat]

I'm starting to see the funny side now but yesterday it wasn't quite.
I'm out at Whananaki north of Whangarei delivering a water tank.
The new owner has given me crap directions an told me I can turn a truck an trailer unit around at the end of the road.Yeah right,I get there and you couldn't turn a car an trailer around.So this is nothing new,happens all the time.I disconnect the trailer an turn the truck around then grab the draw bar on the trailer to pull it around by hand.No worrys right,WRONG,the jockey wheel mount snaps an the draw bar lands on my foot.Oh yeah this really hurts :shit:
an I'm going nowhere,a bit of flapping about but that don't help much, I can't lift the draw bar from the position I'm in,my cell phones in the truck an that's ten meters away.Swearing really loud an trying not to cry doesn't help much,but it gives me something to do.The property owner is due to meet me at 3.30 an it's now 3.00.So much for the principal of always being early huh.
Well the guy was on time but it's the longest half hour I've spent for a while.
They were really good.Hey what else do you say about somebody that lifts a heavy wheight off your foot.They were all for calling an Ambo' an having me carted away, but I didn't think it was that bad as long as I didn't take me boot off.My foot was really HOT but I could walk on it so I just carryed on with the job at hand.Took me boot off when I got to the hotel I stay in when up north and apart from heaps of swelling it looked ok.
Got home today and it's starting to change color,should look quite neat in a day or two.
Going back up north tomorrow,think I'll make sure I'm not early this time.
Cheers an have a good one.

[Blakamin]

farqin 'ell... I'd get an xray... guy I worked for in bundaberg hurt his foot... went to the quack 3 months later... now in a permanent plastic cast....

I learnt not be be real early in the same way... "only got 4 steps" says client... try farqin 22!!!!!


spot the hop-a-long fucker

[onearmedbandit]

Apart from your injury and pain, the rest of it reads kind of funny. Cellphone in the truck, 1/2 hour to wait and you can't go anywhere. Thats the funny part! :lol:

[Storm]

Get your hoof checked out man, It'd be a bugger riding with one half screwed foot :doctor:

[DEATH_INC.]

Whananaki nth eh?I usta live about 15 k's out that road....yeh,yer lucky you could drive a truck all the way out that road let alone turn around.......
I second that you should get yer foot checked properly though.....

[SPORK]

Apart from your injury and pain, the rest of it reads kind of funny. Cellphone in the truck, 1/2 hour to wait and you can't go anywhere. Thats the funny part! :lol:
What!? I think I got it wrong then, I thought it was funny he was driving to Whananaki. My bad. I never was any good at this new fangled "humor" thing anyway.

Good story though

[FzerozeroT]

photos?............

[MSTRS]

Phark....black (& blue) humour. Get it checked properlike - I don't got quads wif armchairs you know.

[Jackrat]

Yeah,the Mrs been at me all Avo'.
Will get it looked at tomorrow morning.
Then take a Pic' when it colors up a bit.
Cheers.

[John]

bloody el mate.

Spose the half our gave you time to think about stuff to do to your bike...

But get it checked, broken feet suck nuts, cuz if they set wrong then your screwed for life - just like my hand - if I punch anything *snap* broken, so I just slap manly in a fight cheerrrrr...

[toads]

that's quite a scary story Jackrat, far from amusing, just as well the guy turned up on time, you could have ended up losing your foot altogether, I would imagine the blood flow would have been very limited. Glad to hear you are going to get it checked out. Truck driving is a scary job when you are picking up and delivering stuff in remote places, by yourself and it causes drivers to take risks and lift stuff heavier than they should simply because there's noone else around to help. Take care of yourself, hows the bike project coming along by the way?

[Kickaha]

Apart from your injury and pain, the rest of it reads kind of funny. Cellphone in the truck, 1/2 hour to wait and you can't go anywhere. Thats the funny part! :lol:

I'd go along with that,glad you survived the ordeal :niceone:

[SPman]

dude that sounds nasty maybe you should get it amputated
:thud::killingme:killingme:killingme:killingme

[Biff]

Ouch!!
You should have used the force.
Seriously though, ouch!!

I vote X-ray. :yeah:

I forgot to laugh. There. I just did. Still ouch though.

[Jackrat]

that's quite a scary story Jackrat, far from amusing, just as well the guy turned up on time, you could have ended up losing your foot altogether, I would imagine the blood flow would have been very limited. Glad to hear you are going to get it checked out. Truck driving is a scary job when you are picking up and delivering stuff in remote places, by yourself and it causes drivers to take risks and lift stuff heavier than they should simply because there's noone else around to help. Take care of yourself, hows the bike project coming along by the way?

The bike,,,,Yes it's sitting in the shed waiting on a tail light at the moment.
Got the new seat fitted up an painted,really happy with the way it's come out.I've now decided to change my ways a bit in relation to doing things that can get me in trouble with no help at hand.
I also had plenty of time to think about it,an I reckon possums don't really deserve leg hold traps.
Odd thought,but you had to be there aye.
Cheers.

[inlinefour]

farqin 'ell... I'd get an xray... guy I worked for in bundaberg hurt his foot... went to the quack 3 months later... now in a permanent plastic cast....

I learnt not be be real early in the same way... "only got 4 steps" says client... try farqin 22!!!!!


spot the hop-a-long fucker

Its a right proper arse if it resets the bone in the wrong place...

[ManDownUnder]

Got home today and it's starting to change color,should look quite neat in a day or two.

Jackrat - if it's possible to say this in a complimentary way - you're bloody nuts!!!

Good luck with the foot chap - and don't underestimate the power of slightly broken bones. I broke one of the smaller bones in my foot a while back and JEES did it hurt... but only the day after.

MDU

[ManDownUnder]

I reckon possums don't really deserve leg hold traps.

Agreed... poor little buggars. If they need to be dispatched, do it promperly, don't hurt 'em and hold 'em till you finally rememeber to get around the checking them (as a lot do).

Lead poisoning is the best way IMHO. 40grains doing about a mile a second tends to do the trick

[750Y]

dam that woulda hurt. it does sound like a predicament only frank spencer could outdo..(dam i loved that program) best you go see RiderInBlack when you get back up that way, he'll sort you out with a new shoe 8-)

[Timber020]

I can well imagine how that would happen. I guy who worked on the farm next to ours managed to get the fork of his front end loader spear down inside of his gumboot and into the ground. (we never figured out how it happened.) He was stuck for hours. apart from bruising he wasnt hurt.

Hey if you had a buck knife with you, you could have cut your foot off! Youd be famous!

I got stuck for a while by a log roll while bucking a while back. took me a long time to get myself.Its not hard to get pinned badly by a bike either.....

Hope your foots okay

[scroter]

I'm starting to see the funny side now but yesterday it wasn't quite.
I'm out at Whananaki north of Whangarei delivering a water tank.
The new owner has given me crap directions an told me I can turn a truck an trailer unit around at the end of the road.Yeah right,I get there and you couldn't turn a car an trailer around.So this is nothing new,happens all the time.I disconnect the trailer an turn the truck around then grab the draw bar on the trailer to pull it around by hand.No worrys right,WRONG,the jockey wheel mount snaps an the draw bar lands on my foot.Oh yeah this really hurts :shit:
an I'm going nowhere,a bit of flapping about but that don't help much, I can't lift the draw bar from the position I'm in,my cell phones in the truck an that's ten meters away.Swearing really loud an trying not to cry doesn't help much,but it gives me something to do.The property owner is due to meet me at 3.30 an it's now 3.00.So much for the principal of always being early huh.
Well the guy was on time but it's the longest half hour I've spent for a while.
They were really good.Hey what else do you say about somebody that lifts a heavy wheight off your foot.They were all for calling an Ambo' an having me carted away, but I didn't think it was that bad as long as I didn't take me boot off.My foot was really HOT but I could walk on it so I just carryed on with the job at hand.Took me boot off when I got to the hotel I stay in when up north and apart from heaps of swelling it looked ok.
Got home today and it's starting to change color,should look quite neat in a day or two.
Going back up north tomorrow,think I'll make sure I'm not early this time.
Cheers an have a good one.

sorry to laugh at you mate but this is funny. hope the foot heals all good, its not the gear changing foot is it.
One thing kinda confused me. On my truck and trailer the trailer has got springs to hold the drawbar off the ground not a jockey wheel, secondly there is no damn way i could move it by hand unless the wheels were off the ground. just a query i am in awe of your popeye muscles if you can do it.

[saiko]

Just as well you didn't need to take a piss whilst pinned!

[pete376403]

Gearchange foot or braking foot? - you dont need the braking foot that much, but if its the gearchange foot I'd get it looked at. Either that or buy an Indian with a hand shift (but what side is the foot clutch on the Indians?)

[Jackrat]

sorry to laugh at you mate but this is funny. hope the foot heals all good, its not the gear changing foot is it.
One thing kinda confused me. On my truck and trailer the trailer has got springs to hold the drawbar off the ground not a jockey wheel, secondly there is no damn way i could move it by hand unless the wheels were off the ground. just a query i am in awe of your popeye muscles if you can do it.

It's a tandam trailer that only carrys 2000kg.
It's also a joke for the job it does "only just legal"
But it's the cheapest way to move plastic tanks.
Imagine an oversized boat trailer. :wacko:

[bear]

Cheers for the chuckle, hope the foot heals up okay, best get it checked out though.

[scroter]

It's a tandam trailer that only carrys 2000kg.
It's also a joke for the job it does "only just legal"
But it's the cheapest way to move plastic tanks.
Imagine an oversized boat trailer. :wacko:

ive often wondered how those things dont fly away when a gust of wind comes along, some of those tanks are so huge they make the trailers under them look like matchbox toys.

[Jackrat]

ive often wondered how those things dont fly away when a gust of wind comes along, some of those tanks are so huge they make the trailers under them look like matchbox toys.

Odd you should say that,I wonder the same thing at times.
Just before Xmas was a fun couple of weeks for wind :crazy: