As a youngster, I remember my mother warning be to not attempt to jump up, grab a catalpa bean and jerk it from the limb.?ÿ She told me of some playmate of hers from her youth had done that.?ÿ The result was he slammed the tip of a hard bean into his eye, blinding him permanently in that eye.?ÿ Thus, I have never tried that.?ÿ Probably the most effective childhood warning put forth.
My son was clearing line in a swamp, once, and had a dead Alder, about 3" or 4", on line. He gave it a shake, and looked up just in time to get hit in his left eye with the top.
That was about 17 years ago, he's got an odd shaped pupil (like Rick and Morty) permanently dilated. Other than that, it doesn't bother him much; yet...
Yesterday I surveyed a lot in a Subdivision very near a National Champion Willow Oak which has a stated circumference of 337" .
It is deep in the subdivision, and as you round a curve within the subdivision, there it is on a small rise within a COS.?ÿ It was impressive.