stump grinding incidents

[MasterBlaster]

Did someone say stump grinder accidents?

[christreeroot]

Ouch, i like that second pic it makes you look like a cyborg....lol

[treejumper]

Thats gotta hurt MB - was it your leg?

[bill]

a tree surgeon lost his leg in sheffield a few years back using an dodgy stumpgrinder.

[Stump1971]

Have had chunks of embedded metal thrown back towards my feet. Also struck a pile of old cats eye blocks that the council had kindly dumped on the verge where I was grinding out roadside stumps. It was the first outing for my Toro 38 and I broke one mount and three grinder teeth..........gutted!

[dumper]

Rubber duck with a mounted flail doing ditches, hit French drain usually no problem, but right next to a BMW dealership an interesting claim

[Mark Bolam]

Ouch.

They don’t make that German glass like they used to!

[dumper]

Glass was only half of it they claimed for every scratch and ding on multiple cars even ones not on the forecourt at the time!

[Timbermcpherson]

On 07/05/2008 at 10:58, MasterBlaster said:

Did someone say stump grinder accidents?

Hey thats Jims sexy leg. If memory serves me, Jim was using a backpack blower and wearing a set of clogger chainsaw trousers, this brother was operating pedestrian stump grinder. The brother pulled the grinder out of the hole and rested it on his handlebar with the cutting wheel spinning at calf height.

 Jim walked backwards into it. it took his chainsaw trousers clean off and broke both his fibia and tibia. It was a long road to recovery for him.