bigfellascott wrote:Mick, it's amazing how an incident in someones life can change it forever, the brain injury doesn't sound like much fun at all mate, hopefully it doesn't stop you from enjoy other aspects of your life too much mate.:
Gaznazdiak wrote:bigfellascott wrote:Mick, it's amazing how an incident in someones life can change it forever, the brain injury doesn't sound like much fun at all mate, hopefully it doesn't stop you from enjoy other aspects of your life too much mate.:
It's all relative though Scott.
Sure I'd prefer to not to have ticked "headbut a speeding semi" off my bucket list, but mate, I was extraordinarily lucky to survive.
So a few little niggles like not being able to handle hot weather without getting the vapors, I can handle. At least I can live almost normally, do my own thing and wipe my own bum.
There are young people out there in nursing homes because of catastrophic acquired brain injury from far less than what happened to me.
While in the Brain Injury Unit I met a young guy who had fallen 2m from a tree in his yard.
He was alone, so by the time he was found, a small bleed from the surface of his brain, into the surrounding cerebrospinal fluid had raised the pressure, squeezing shut tiny capillaries all through his brain resulting in him becoming a ventilated quadriplegic. He'll spend the rest of his life in an old folks home with his electric ventilator breathing for him.
His biggest dream was for a midnight blackout.
I truly hope the poor bugger got his wish.
bigpete wrote:I wish I had a wood fire....
Daddybang wrote:As Jim Tom said we don't get much of a winter but we still love a good fire. Cutting wood with a mate a couple of sensible beers in the middle of the bush(or just in the back paddock) is a very special way to spend a few hours then later a couple of not so sensible coldies and what we like to call Inferno Nite !!
Cooper wrote:Yes. I quite enjoy cutting firewood. I find it relaxing. Even though using a chain saw is something that you need to make sure you do safely.
Got a bit caught out this year. Had to order a few metres of red gum in as couldn't lift anything and I was home off work for 7 weeks so I was burning a fair bit of wood.
Daddybang wrote:F@#kin oath BigFella that'd keep ya warm on a cold night!!!!!
bigfellascott wrote:Daddybang wrote:F@#kin oath BigFella that'd keep ya warm on a cold night!!!!!
Yeah she was welcomed alright, you can see in the pic with the bobcat the snow had just started coming in so a good fire was sure welcome!
Daddybang wrote:bigfellascott wrote:Daddybang wrote:F@#kin oath BigFella that'd keep ya warm on a cold night!!!!!
Yeah she was welcomed alright, you can see in the pic with the bobcat the snow had just started coming in so a good fire was sure welcome!
I've heard about that snow stuff but never seen it in real life except from a distance(Ayers rock back in about 98 but I didn't get out of the truck ) ...at least ya wouldn't be wasting dollars on ice for the beer. Just sit the carton on stump in the paddock!!
bigfellascott wrote:bigpete wrote:I wish I had a wood fire....
What's stopping ya Pete?
bigpete wrote:bigfellascott wrote:bigpete wrote:I wish I had a wood fire....
What's stopping ya Pete?
Money,and no real place place to put it
Die Judicii wrote:Yep, I love a wood fire when it gets cold.
But I made sure I don't raise a sweat when I'm splitting it up.
bigfellascott wrote:Nice setup Ed, what's the story? Yep splittings a bitch and so is loading it into the ute (it really knocks the piss out of me now I can tell ya) this year is really going to be hard on me I think, hopefully, I can get enough in before it gets too cold.
bigfellascott wrote:This video demonstrates what I mean by knocking the sides off the wood that is harder to split, you will also see him try and split it the more traditional way by splitting in half then half again and you can see the difference in how knocking the sides off is to going more traditional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTroXIXQHIY