Wednesday ended as a bad day for me.
I took a fall, not from a tree, but during packing up the gear.
To put the chipper in his basement garage, my buddy has to remove the exhaust chute. The build-in folding point isn't low enough, although it's a small chipper, so the whole rotating part must be taken out. I was on the chipper to lift this heavy piece of steal. No worries usually, but this time the chipper was not level. After lifting and freeing the chute, I pulled it closer to me because it was leaning forward. I did that just a little too much, and as the 90° curve was over my shoulder, the weight of this crap began to drag me backward. I tried to retrieve my balance by putting my right foot on the fender which I knew it was behind me, but out of sight due to my position and the load in my arm.
Not far enough to the right, my foot missed it and jammed between the fender and the shipper's body. I went completely over and fall on my back, my foot still stuck up there.
Ouch! I'm not used to sustain such a pain.
My buddy managed to catch the flying chute and avoided it to fall on me. Good point at least.
I clearly believed that my ankle and my shin were broken.
After my buddy lift me up, I can free my foot and checked the damage.
No broken bone at first glance, but an ankle sprain, sure, and a big stress on the fibula (fender's side).
Of course, as I'm a little stupid on the health side for myself:roll:, I don't got a medical check-up after that. Instead, I continue working for some date constrained jobs (ground work for the last 2 days, and climbing this next week).
Not easy at all, but I can't complain on that, my bad.
I discovered two things :
- the muscles in the leg are constantly working to keep the body steady, allover on an uneven ground, that's hurt.
- there are so much steps in my stairs
