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WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER !!
lordedmond:
after reading the posts and my own past I would pose the question "how the **** are we all still alive "
no HSE to nanny us ect
But I do think the dangers that we put ourselves in whilst younger made us more respectful of the dangers in later life
Stuart
Bernd:
--- Quote ---Turned off electric fence then carried drum down to the end of the paddock on our bikes, connected spark plug to dead electric fence after giving the drum a jolly good shake, pedalled back to the fence controller and turned it on. Nothing happened for several 'ticks' then a great blue flash followed by yellow flames and black smoke. It had blown both ends out of the drum!
--- End quote ---
Perhaps we didn't kill ourselfs because we had a bit more gray brain matter. Reread what John wrote. How many kids at that age today would remember to turn off the fence and get far away?
I fear not many. They'd want to stand in fornt of the dam thing to watch the ends coming flying at them and then the family would blame the electric fence maker for not making their electric fences safer. :scratch:
Bernd
mike os:
mind you I came very close a couple of times.... once I started making home made explosives of various sorts :lol:
John Hill:
We built a 'tree house' in a big macrocarpa tree, it must have been 30' off the ground. One of the 'features' of this project was a fireman's pole made from metal irrigation pipe (I remember words being spoken that this was only a 'loan'). For some reason two of us went up there on a wet day and when we came down you can well imagine, no grip at all on the pole at all and I hit the ground with a bone jarring thud, my brother laughed as I staggered away. Then he did the same! Two sore and sorry kids... but alive.
mike os:
LOL.... I can see me doing that.... :)
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