Do you ever move something you wished you hadn't?

[Mikey]

Over the weekend I decided to take down a small wall, but I couldn't find my sledgehammer so I used my pick axe, (mistake no 1).

I then had the bright idea that my daughters wendy house which I built a few years ago and that she no longer plays with would look good if I moved it over a few metres and filled it with logs to season, (mistake no 2).

Today I'm suffering, I'm down to typing with one finger on each hand as the others don't work, and my thumbs I wished didn't belong to me.

I've attached a picture of the wendy house, it looks completely innocent sat there, built out of 4 x 4 frame, 4" half round logs, lined with 12mm ply and 22mm stirling board roof. It couldn't possibly weigh more than 650kg ish. The three others that helped me, begged to differ.

So have you ever moved something that you wished you hadn't?

[Nicos]

Yeh- about 40 barrows full of liquid concrete

My upper half disowned me for several days- and when it'd recovered I noticed I'm badly damaged my eternity ring
...it'd have been cheaper to have paid someone else to have done the barrowing- and I wouldn't have suffered for several days afterwards!

[Bren In Pots]

Its usually things that we placed in the garden 30 year ago
but now they seem much heavier.

[Mikey]

It seems to get harder as I get older, the minds willing but the body is questionable...

[SarzWix]

3 bales of straw a couple of months ago. They were heavy, so I cut the baler twine and moved each one in about 4 sections. I still have no idea what was so bad about it, but my back locked up for several days, absolute agony, and took a couple of weeks to get over

[wizzbang]

A few tons of paving bricks I got from Freecycle a few years ago. I have no idea how many tons to be honest but there was a stack 6'x6'x6' I moved them from their original home, they were stacked, not laid, then I carted them in a lot of trips in my car to my old house, then I took months laying them here and there wherever I needed them over that summer. It did me a world of good
By the way, what has that poor flowerpot man done to deserve being strung up like that in the tree! Is it dead or are you torturing it?
Lynne x

[Mikey]

Its deceased Lynne, its there to warn off any of its friends from trespassing in my garden. I've seen Gnomeo and Juilet I know what they get upto.

[Samurailord]

About 10 years ago I was emptying my son's waterbed as he needed a new mattress (the old one had a pin-hole leak around the valve that couldn't be patched).

This was the first time I had tried to empty one by using a hosepipe and gravity out of the window, and I misjudged how much water was remaining.

I only realise my mistake when I got the mattress out of the frame, and suddenly got the whole weight of the remaining water.

I had to pivot 180 degrees to put it down, and two days later my back locked solid as i lent over my desk at work.

I was diagnosed with 4 ruptured discs, off work for a week and in physio for four months.

My back still troubles me even now, if I do too much it starts to ache so I have learnt to listen to it and back off for a bit.

Andy

[RedThorn]

Over a ton of pea gravel a couple of weeks after having my gall bladder out(the old fashioned way not keyhole) and tore the wound open... Which then became infected

Edit:
Moral of the story- the mind can override the bodies common sense

[Mikey]

If I was to do that Redthorn, I'd get no sympathy whatsoever, BH would look at me and say 'Its your own fault, don't expect me to fetch and carry for ya'.

[Seahorse]

I've not injured myself badly whilst moving anything (yet!) but I've broken two front doors by foolishly thinking I could lug heavy furniture about on my own. The first time I was attempting to carry a large wooden wardrobe down the stairs (bear in mind I'm quite a small woman) and it got the better of me, sledged away and whacked the door at the bottom. The second time I was trying to stand a very long bench on end in the hall (can't even think why now?!) and it slowly but surely toppled into the glass panelling of the door with an almightly crash. I really shouldn't be left unsupervised.

[eirish]

The top of my dining table is a slab of slate, 1 m x 2 m x 3 cm thick.

After the first few times moving it we've started hiring professionals. They hate us.

[Mikey]

Are you sure thats a dining table eirish, it sounds like a snooker table to me.

[RedThorn]

If I was to do that Redthorn, I'd get no sympathy whatsoever, BH would look at me and say 'Its your own fault, don't expect me to fetch and carry for ya'.

Hmm sounds like they're related... guess what? I didn't....

[veggiechicken]

Anything big that I've tried to move always seem to trap me on the wrong side of it - so I'm stuck in a corner and have to clamber over the top, or at the top of the stairs when something is wedged around the half-landing
Mikey - remind me about that Wendyhouse - weren't you going to turn it into a tree house