close call

[oldwoodcutter]

Had a wake up call this afternoon when my 200t came back at me.

Yes,i was using it one handed,and on he ground too,which of course are both no,nos,but ime as guilty as the next man for occasionally doing it.

I was very lucky on 2 counts - firstly as it came up the brake somehow brushed hard against my abdomen and the chain stopped just as it hit my chest,and secondly the bar finished up flat against my shirt.

So no harm done,just a bruised chest and torn shirt.

Ater ide gathered my thoughts,had a drink and a sit down i tried to replicate how my tummy had activated the brake - not easy,someone was certainly looking down on me.

I hope by posting that someone somewhere in the future will not be sliced open as i nearly was,and that it can happen so very very quickly.

Edited May 28, 2012 by oldwoodcutter

[felixthelogchopper]

Glad you are ok. Fair does for posting.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Oops. God bless the chain brake.

[silky fox]

Very lucky escape there indeed..One handed up a tree at a full stretch...Maybe. on the Ground...never...To me it just doesn,t look right... it,s what a 26 is for... Small and compact and light but you,ve always got the saw in control because of your rear handle...Good man for posting...Someone up there likes you!!

[spudulike]

Not sure if that was lucky you got away with it or unlucky it happened, glad you survived.

 

Was that the saw I rebuilt? If it was, I am hoping cleaning and checking the chainbrake helped it work as it should- there are a couple of components that fail and generally not too many clean out the crud that builds up in them.

 

Keep safe - Personally I never feel happy about having my hands so close together when using a saw but I am not a climber!

 

Glad all is well apart from the change of underwear:thumbup:

[Rich2484]

That was lucky.

 

Thank god for the beer belly I think

[Jdtrees]

Its that 1 second lapse in concentration in an 8 hour day that we all work against I guess. Glad your ok and cheers for 'keeping it real'

[George Gorman]

Had a wake up call this afternoon when my 200t came back at me.

Yes,i was using it one handed,and on he ground too,which of course are both no,nos,but ime as guilty as the next man for occasionally doing it.

I was very lucky on 2 counts - firstly as it came up the brake somehow brushed hard against my abdomen and the chain stopped just as it hit my chest,and secondly the bar finished up flat against my shirt.

So no harm done,just a bruised chest and torn shirt.

Ater ide gathered my thoughts,had a drink and a sit down i tried to replicate how my tummy had activated the brake - not easy,someone was certainly looking down on me.

I hope by posting that someone somewhere in the future will not be sliced open as i nearly was,and that it can happen so very very quickly.

Ouch![emoji13]

 

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[jomoco]

Makes me think that a chain brake activated by releasing the trigger?

 

Might make more happy endings like your's possible?

 

This is the 21st century you know..

 

I've heard tales of rear handled saws with trigger brakes, but never a top handled gas powered trimsaw, the electrics are superior in that sense. But that's no valid excuse for keepin the gas powered trimsaws in the stone age dang it.

 

Jomoco

[BishBashBosh]

The chainbrake may have been activated by inertia, so there's no need for it to have physically touched anything. Something I do periodically check and one more reason to keep saws properly maintained as you have.

Glad the consequences weren't permanent, and thanks for sharing.