Dangerous log splitters

[NI Tree]

Johny it is not alway the operator unfortantly parts can fail with next to no warning, just from every day use. but thankfully it does not happen to often, it far more commen for something to be not fixed properlly, bad servicing, i know lots of cases of this happening, and the driver/operater never knew till it failed.

even operator health can take a turn for the worse,

 

ps most problems with a plane happen within 30hrs of being serviced due to something being misted of not completed croccetly.

Edited October 13, 2012 by NI Tree

[treequip]

i had a single leaver splitter for yrs no body ever got anything but wood stuck in it ,no fingers no feet ,nothing just wood

 

And yet in the case in point a youth was put on the machine and now faces the remainder of his life minus a thumb. If the machine had a safeguard on it the lad would have gone home and not to the hospital.

 

I have no problem with anyone taking safeguards off machines as long as the person taking them of accepts the risk to himself, allowing someone else to operate it is unacceptable.

[combined tree services]

Did the youth have an acceptable level of training ? was he supervised if new to the operation of the machine ? Removing safeguards if anyone other that the person who removed them is downright foolish and as far as i can see there should be a prosecution brought against whoever left the machine in that condition and the same if the youth had not been trained or supervised !