[Jeff]

A couple weeks ago I started having lots of PVC's - in the neighborhood of 15,000 a day. While the number is pretty big, it's not that unusual for my "really bad" days.

Over the years I've come to realize that some things stress me more than others, and I'm not always paying attention beforehand when I engage in certain activities that are going to make my palpitations worse.

For example, I'm not a big fan of running construction equipment on steep slopes. I own a small company in a construction-related ield, and I'm often running skidsteers or excavators on a jobsite. But on a slope they can be very tippy and almost roll right over. A few times only a bumper has stopped me from rolling end over end down a 40' hill.

So going into these kinds of projects, I stress about them, thinking about all the stories of people who've died in equipment rollovers. In the second pic below, there's a dozer operator underneath that dozer, crushed when the dozer flipped while he was unloading it.

I'm in the first pic - and you know my heart was turning back flips as part of that machine's tracks started to leave the ground.

Rrrrr....

I can't wait for this project to be over.

[fla_bill]

I knew a guy that broke an arm when the equipment he was running (not sure what it was) fell over and his arm got trapped as it rolled over. he's fine now, but he said it scared the you know what out of him.

[Jeff]

There were times when I had to put my feet up on the front glass of the machine to keep myself from spilling out of my seat in that thing. We'll be wrapping up that project in a couple days and moving on to a project that is flat, flat, flat. Thank God.