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25 minutes ago, Spaulding Smails said:

Team #SanAngelobar here on the nomenclature.  I keep one at the house and one at the ranch.  Just replaced the one at the house.  Bent it trying to leverage up a big boulder.  The point was worn to a nub, so it was time.  

It's a handy tool for sure. I used one a ton on a retaining wall project when we had to bust up the old sacks of concrete where the tractor grapple couldn't get on them. Getting blisters through gloves is no bueno. 

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As someone born in Tom Green County and spent too many fucking days in a neighboring county digging post holes on top of the divide till I was 15 and moved away, #TeamSanAngeloBar.

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Posted
3 hours ago, CycleTex87 said:

T-post driver, digging bar, yo-yo, etc. all gave young CycleTex blisters on his hands (insert joke).  

My Papa called 'em a "Texas Toothpick".

 

*Grandfather 

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About two years ago, I was putting in some temporary fencing along the road through my front pasture.  That area is mostly caliche, so it wasn't too tough to drive in T-posts.  Not as easy as loam, but much better than solid rock.  I had about 30 or so 6 footers to get in the ground before I strung the barbed wire.  It's the middle of summer, just shy of beer:30 in the afternoon, I'm on the last post, and I'm dog tired.  I've got it almost all the way into the ground, so the top of the post is pretty low.  Evidently, I lifted it up a tad too high and the driver caromed off the top of the post, turned a few degrees away from me which mean I slammed the butt end of the driver down squarely in the middle of my forehead.  I think the brim of my baseball cap saved me from needing staples and probably prevented a concussion.  I was still seeing stars and bleeding like a stuck pig.  I walked the 200 yards back to the house with blood dumping down my face.  My wife turned white as a ghost when I walked in the house.  I told her "tis but a flesh wound" (which it was).  Crazy how much you can bleed from a scalp wound.  I had to throw away my shirt and jeans.  

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57 minutes ago, Spaulding Smails said:

About two years ago, I was putting in some temporary fencing along the road through my front pasture.  That area is mostly caliche, so it wasn't too tough to drive in T-posts.  Not as easy as loam, but much better than solid rock.  I had about 30 or so 6 footers to get in the ground before I strung the barbed wire.  It's the middle of summer, just shy of beer:30 in the afternoon, I'm on the last post, and I'm dog tired.  I've got it almost all the way into the ground, so the top of the post is pretty low.  Evidently, I lifted it up a tad too high and the driver caromed off the top of the post, turned a few degrees away from me which mean I slammed the butt end of the driver down squarely in the middle of my forehead.  I think the brim of my baseball cap saved me from needing staples and probably prevented a concussion.  I was still seeing stars and bleeding like a stuck pig.  I walked the 200 yards back to the house with blood dumping down my face.  My wife turned white as a ghost when I walked in the house.  I told her "tis but a flesh wound" (which it was).  Crazy how much you can bleed from a scalp wound.  I had to throw away my shirt and jeans.  

Yep - anything on the head and it's a mess.  I've got scars on my chin, cheek, hands, forearms, and knees from doing dumb shit at the ranch.  Mostly from barbed wire, sharp rocks, mesquite thorns, livestock, and power tools.  In that order.  

Pops had a gnarly scar on his knee that looks like it was from replacement surgery - chainsaw accident.  Old fart was cutting mesquite trunk low and parallel to the ground, hit a knot and the blade kicked back, caught him square on the knee and "bounced" on the patella.  Few inches in, your talking softer tissue, and of course the femoral artery.  Cabin looked like a Civil War infirmary.  Blood and bandages everywhere.  He treated the cut and drove into Ballinger and got medical attention.  

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