Microlighters

On Saturday morning I went to the airfield. I was supposed to take Skidmark for a flip in his Challenger (waiting to complete his 3-axis conversion). His wireless headset was playing up and we didn't get to fly. While I was standing around CLU-less arrived back with his trike.

Now the trikes in our hanger are loaded up onto triangular trollies and pushed in sideways. There are metal ramps an each side of the trolley for the rear wheels. Once the trike is pushed onto the trolley the weight of the wheel causes the metal ramp to pivot forward, lifting the back and dropping the front

As they got the front wheel onto the trolley, the trolley moved sideways. I pushed it back using my foot (wearing sandals at the time) and held it in place while they got the back wheels loaded. What I did not notice is my foot was directly below the ramp. As the trike ramp started pivoting forward my toe was caught between it and the metal below, crushing the tip. I had what felt like the whole weight of the trike on my toe

I said something like "excuse me CLU-less old boy, would you mind removing you lovely trike from the trolley so that I can recover my toe"

Fortunately I had a medical kit in my car and I managed to doctor myself with a very concerned CLU-less looking on.

Lessons learned, preflight the trolley before using it and keep your feet away from offending objects.

Dude you are really in the wars

That has gotto hurt

IT WASN'T ME

Jjjjaaaaa as jy nie mooi oplet nie, sal n trike jou "BYT"

Did you say something bad about CLU-less's trike

Did you say something bad about CLU-less's trike

later, much later

Morph wrote: I said something like "excuse me CLU-less old boy, would you mind removing you lovely trike from the trolley so that I can recover my toe"

You mean you didn't use a short anglo-saxon word like "Golly" or "Gosh".

Eina-Pain Morph !!!

Eina, bliksem!! I suppose you were wearing shoes?? Maybe safety boots is the option you should consider.....

No I was wearing open sandals. So the toe took the full weight of a 200kg trike

Morph wrote:No I was wearing open sandals. So the toe took the full weight of a 200kg trike

200kg? You must be joking. With that balistic chute, video gear (he has more equipment than the SABC), 44gallon fuel tank, life raft and tool kit I am sure you can safely double that. You are lucky you did not loose the whole leg.

You're right, I knew there was something more to it. I am starting to feel feint, I wonder if the airfield has workmans compensation insurance

Morph wrote:...my toe was caught between it and the metal below, crushing the tip. I had what felt like the whole weight of the trike on my toe
...keep your feet away from offending objects.

Morph, dearest love, I would have offered to rush down there immediately and kiss it all better... but one look at dem 4 toes & I hate to say this but dem's offending objects, hehe

Just before Christmas, I was on Breakfast duty with Ministry of Home affairs (Guest House), decided to go for a nice solo jolly. Our hangars are pretty rusty, met Wally (ZU-DOC) opening his turf, he turrned around and his first casualty of the day, the hangar rail fell off smacked ZULU1 on the head and knocked him out stone cold...blood for Africa, wiped out, big bandage and pretty sore...So the moral of these stories is to wear safety equipment before you go flying....

Eina Zulu1

Mooi man!
As jy dom is moet jy k@k.............

Gosh Morph, dit was seker moerse eina!!!

Morph

I hope your Softness has more simpathy than these guys

This just proves how save FLYING is. Think about it, more accidents happen around the hanger, on your way to or from it.

Good luck!