Be careful folks.

[peter]

I'm out of action for at least three days!

Used both rotovators at the allotment, when I drove the Howard 350 back ito the garden I parked it outside, opens the gate, drove through, parked it, in neutral and turned to shut the gate.

Damm thing rolled back into me and I must have managed to knock it from neutral into reverse.
It bowed down onto its nose and picked me up on the handles, shoving me into the gate, then it back the wrong way through its hinges by a foot, bursting through the home made gate stop.
Leaving me wedged in the gap and dangling in midair, where I gashed my leg on the gate stop.

Son came running to my shouts and we cut the engine, he pulled it forward and I, seeing my blood soaked combat trouserleg, sock & boot with blood running out, promtly got down onto my back with the leg in the air.
Son called paramedic, I undid the bottom lace of the combat leg and pulled it to my knee. The blood flow stopped while waiting and I undid the boot lace without moving the foot, didn't dare look under the sock more than once.
Boot & sock off, dressing on, up to the house, paperwork, no ambulance free, wife drove me to A&E.
Two and a half hours, local anesthetic, a good root around in the wound, clean, seven stitches, iodine pad, dressing, tetanus jab and I'm back home.
No gardening for a bit two-three days of keeping the leg elevated.

Could be worse, one resuscitation crash call in A&E, plus around ten blue light vehicles surrounding a huddle of fluorescent jackets working on a motionless person on front of a car less than a quarter mile away from the Hospital.

[oldherbaceous]

Morning Peter, these things always happen when your least expecting them, and so quickly too.

These sort of stories always remind me of when, i almost had a howard gem land on top of me in a very deep ditch.
First time i had ever used it and was in reverse and the end of the plot, clutch was dragging like mad so wouldn't stop so it pushed me into the ditch followed by the machine.

Anyway hope you are soon fighting fit, and getting back outdoors,

Bet your family will be wishing the same after 24 hours.

[Colin Miles]

best wishes - enjoy the sunshine!

[Beryl]

ooooh how painful. Hope you soon recover Peter.
Best Wishes
Beryl.

[peter]

Just nicked my boot, the foam is actually yellow, recoloured by me.

[oldherbaceous]

That's just reminded me, must tell cook i'll have my steak very rare tonight....

Think you got away fairly luckily, Peter.

[Westi]

Very lucky escape there Peter - wishing you a quick recovery.

Westi

[donedigging]

Get well soon peter

[Tigger]

Love and hugs Peter.

[oldherbaceous]

I can't remember the last time anyone said that to me.

I did get a little splinter in my finger yesterday....

[Shallot Man]

peter. I suppose asking you to do a bit on my plot is out of the question.

[Geoff]

I think you are not telling us the whole story - what did you do to it on the plot to make it turn on you like that? Did you give it a Basil Fawlty type beating because it wasn't performing or are you saving that for when you get better?
Seriously, get well soon, not the time of year to be laid up for long.

[peter]

Cheeky lot.

I'd praised it for starting third pull and for leaving five rod in near seedbed order with not a Peter print to be seen.

After being abandoned down the garden on Friday it again started third pull late yesterday evening and my son drove it carefully in bottom gear up the garden and then along the patent gangplanks over the threshold into the shed.

The machine is blameless, the idiot who parked it on a sloping smooth concrete path was to blame.

Many aches today, from barely using my left leg. Took the dressing off last night, the bad gash was dry, the seepage through the bandage had come from a surface scrape nearby.

[Monika]

All the best, Peter! Sounds a nasty accident, but at least nothing broken or worse - so do recover quickly!

[Catherine]

Get well soon Peter Do as you are told and rest till it is getting better. Or you will be off your feet for longer.