Caught by my own plugs...

[Rockfish9]

I've been watching the ice lose it's wintery grip on my local testing grounds day by day, yesterday the water was runnining free with no rim ice, seeing as the weather gods are serving up a nor'easter for the weekend, I went home loaded a bunch of plugs in a pair of 5 gallon buckets,grabbed a bottle of beer and made a test flight... all went well, only a few minor adjustment needed and only two duds out of about 30 plugs....

I get home and go to hang the good ones with the "working girls"
I have two rows of plugs, one hangiong on a rope, the other stuck in the pipe insulation, as I reaced between the row of giant pikies and the goo-goo eyes, my hat gets snatched from my noggin, this of coarse cases a turn reaction and now my arm gets snagged, before I know it my shoulder is caught, those of you that have met me know that I'm not the tallest tree in the forest, so, I'm standing on a bucket, trapped like a fly in a spider web,not wanting to sink any of those hooks into flesh and being to dam short to lift the offending plugs off the wire or out of the insulation i have no recoarse but to wiggle out of my sweatshirt... glad I got out of trouble before the wife got home....

Moral of the story.. dont be so lazy...get down off your perch and move the bucket!.. Lesson learned.

[Karl F]

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Great story and picture.. I can see it like i was there..

[daceman63]

Well, now you know they work. lol.

That's a great story!!!!!

[Flaptail]

I get hooked all the time in my cellar. I keep band-aids in my tying bench.

[Rockfish9]

It's pretty funny now, there were a few scary moments when the shirt was half over my head and I couldnt move my arm just right to finish the job, I final manged to squat down and let the plug caught on my shoulder finish pulling the shirt off....

when I finaly told my wife, and showed her the picture, she had to sit down she was laughing so hard... glad I waited until after dinner.

[gldnbear93]

Sounds like Clark Griswold

[baldwin]

I was hanging plugs in my basement one day while standing on a chair. Phone rang, I went to step down, got caught by my hand. A little more painful than the above post, but I got down a little easier.
Pinch down your barbs.

[baldwin]

Oh, I find that threaded rod works well, keeps plugs from sagging to the middle of your rack. Push it through an eye screw on the bottom of each ceiling beam, secure the ends to the end eye screws with washers and nuts. I have a nice little tool I made to make retrieval and stashing of plugs easier, too. Maybe sometime soon I'll post description, along with pics.

[DZ]

You're lucky no one "Kicked the bucket"