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This I needed to share this with you all. Some of you may remember a profession winemaker in his own right Mr Al Fulchino had a carboy of his prized wine break, costing him many bucks. If I remember right he was spared major injury.
Well folks it has happened again.................
This winemaker has experienced the same, only it was a 6 gallon carboy of average wine. I vacuum racked to carboy and brought it over the twenty five feet to it's resting place. As I set it on the lower carboy storage shelf, the carboy slipped off the edge a bit and I started to fall backwards. I put my foot under it to cushion the blow. Too late, I was off balance and the carboy crashed the rest of the way to the floor sssssmmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaassshshhshs. And I proceeded to fall backwards sitting on broken pieces of carboy in a pool of wine. I had to put my hand down behind me to break my fall a bit. I picked myself up and went to the house to assess the personal damages to myself.
I told the boys arriving home I was coming up to change and make sure I wasn't bleeding to death. That got their attention! I couldn't tell how much was blood and how much was wine! Stripping down in the bathroom, I had my wife check for injuries. Below find a picture of the major gash right after one of the spilled wine and broken carboy.
Well folks it has happened again.................
I told the boys arriving home I was coming up to change and make sure I wasn't bleeding to death. That got their attention! I couldn't tell how much was blood and how much was wine! Stripping down in the bathroom, I had my wife check for injuries. Below find a picture of the major gash right after one of the spilled wine and broken carboy.