Injury prone activities

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I was wondering what is that activity that you get hurt the most often while out in the bush. For me its when I am mindlessly whittling, you aren't really payin attention and next thing you are frantically trying to stop the blood spurting over everything.
So whats yours - don't need to confine to blade activity.
 
I've been clearing out some dense overgrowth, getting some use out of my 20+ yr. old Ontario machete. :thumbup:

I had nearly forgotton all those nagging little minor hazards :eek:
-Sticker bushes, my legs look like they were at a barbed-wire party.
- Poison ivy, lucky, I knew I was in it, so i washed down good with TecNu, kept rash to a minimum, especially considering a PI vine was ripped down, all over my shoulder, neck upper arm...yuck!
-Debris: nails in wood, small pieces of broken glass, barbed wire, etc. etc.

Oh wait, I have a picture!
No, I am NOT an Eco-Terrorist ;) It was a trashpile, overgrown with stickers and junk, just going to reclaim and replant.

But I am glad that the original settlers of North America didn't have chainsaws and tractors! :eek: Speaking of chainsaws, another potential hazard.

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emulating bear grylls comes to my mind..

although i dont do it myself :D
 
Working in the backcountry at Philmont Scout Ranch for ten years I saw a lot of first aid cases, some real, some not so much. Here's the order of incidents, as I recall:
1) dehydration and fatigue .
2) hiking - blisters, twisted ankles, sore knees, buises, etc
3) natural illness - stomache related, cold/flu, fever/chills, allergies, heart disease, etc.

Very few cases were program-related. A couple of "good ones" at the mountain biking camp...
Even fewer cases were campsite related. A couple of burns and minor cuts.
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Personally, I've lived and worked outdoors for years. Mountains, desert, forest. I've suffered a few minor injuries like bee attacks, one or two minor falls, millions of bug bites, cuts and rashes from vegetation, and some minor illnesses. The only time I was unable to continue walking was due to a hangover. Getting kicked by that burro sucked too.

-Bob
 
Running down feral goats ...

seriously , its not realy hard , to get the billys , their horns tangle them in the scrub when they are bolting and they are relatively easy to get , just the stalking to get within sprint range is hard tho ... ( some of them are cashmire / angora cross and have horns that go straight out each side of their head , they take paths that dont allow for their head gear and get stuck )

grabbing the kids is better , they are better for eating or canbe kept if they are young enough to tame down , and eaten later / bred from etc

but yeah , the falls , trips , slips , face slides and stakes gravel rash and grazes .. and trying to explain to the missus why I was doing what I was doing in the first place :) women just dont get it ..

besides that taking the kids fishing , between their casts hooking me , and stabs from fish fins and hooks when they get excited and Im unhooking their catch ...
 
Unbelievable as it seems the worst injuries to Los Angeles County Sheriffs is during the annual softball tournament. We get more broken ankels and busted knees, pulled groins, hamstrings, than any other time of the year.
 
For me it's mountain biking. I have wrecked so many times over the years. One perticular wreck i tore ligiments in my hand and shreaded skin on my elbow and knee.
 
For me I think its rock climbing, I love climbing rock formations, cliffs etc and I have twisted some ankles and done some other damage doing that. I also tend to get dehydrated doing it as I do not hydrate as much as I do when I am merley hiking.
 
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