Chipper safety.

[craig]

Seen this on you tube and thought it may usefull on here about chipper safety.

 

 

[ame]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ji_-m_ylq10&feature=related[/ame]

[Steve Bullman]

i remember reading about that incident

[madclimber]

just makes you realise how dangerous our job is

[Tom D]

I used to work for a firm who had a 12" bandit on the front of a U1900, On one job we were chipping whole spruce trees using a winch mounted above the infeed chute, the side branches kept hitting the sarety bar and stopping the rollers. On small chippers you can pull the bar back and hold it out but with such big trees this was not possible so the safety bar was disabled. Sends a shiver down my spine thinking about it, with 190 Hp going through a 12" chipper you wouldn't even drop the revs.

 

Fairly recently in Dundee I think, a guy left a 16yr old chipping with a 6" chipper. A piece got stuck and so the kid tried to kick it through... lost all his foot and some of his ankle. I hope the guy got screwed by health and safety.

[skyhuck]

I hope the guy got screwed by health and safety.

 

I don't,i think he had paid for his stupidity already.

[Tom D]

I don't,i think he had paid for his stupidity already.

 

I meant the guy who ovned the chipper noy the Kid who got chipped, pretty stupid i know, but this was his first time using a chipper and he was left on his own to do it.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I think the guy said the chipper feed rate was two feet per second. Doesn't give any time at all to react.

 

I know it would effect productivity, but the feed rate should be lowered to enable someone to react to an emergency.

 

Perhaps there should be a maximum industry feed rate.

[Log-ologist]

I meant the guy who ovned the chipper noy the Kid who got chipped, pretty stupid i know, but this was his first time using a chipper and he was left on his own to do it.

 

 

would that still have happened if he had done his NPTC chipper test?

[Mr Ed]

I think the guy said the chipper feed rate was two feet per second. Doesn't give any time at all to react.

 

I know it would effect productivity, but the feed rate should be lowered to enable someone to react to an emergency.

 

Perhaps there should be a maximum industry feed rate.

120 ft per minute is farly common, some manufacturers are even faster.

[Zenfordinner]

That is awful.