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[RobArb]

Whilst researching something else entirely I came across this little ditty on youtube of a young lad using an electric saw on the Heath during the weekend where I work.

 

Its not riviting watching but fascinating that someone would put a yubetube vid together on it but also that passers by are seemingly oblivious to the fact that an amateur is using a saw in a public open space with absolutely no ppe

 

 

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Sounds like Joe pasquale!

 

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[felixthelogchopper]

I want to know where I can buy the chainsaw trousers with the wires in to make the saw bounce off and the saw specially designed to be used one-handed ( the trainer's own descripton )

[David Humphries]

Sounds like Joe pasquale!

 

I thought it was at first

 

 

 

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[alex_m]

the saw specially designed to be used one-handed ( the trainer's own descripton )

 

Yeh that was a good one

 

I would of text the show but conveniently the piece was right at the end of his time slot so it wouldn't have been read out....

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Saw trousers will not stop a saw until you have done serious damage to your leg.

 

Most PPE only helps reduce injury, they rarely prevent it completely.

 

I put a flat out revving 036 into an an old pair of husky trousers with log inside; killed the saw immediately and long before 3 of the old 8 layers of BM.

[felixthelogchopper]

I put a flat out revving 036 into an an old pair of husky trousers with log inside; killed the saw immediately and long before 3 of the old 8 layers of BM.

 

Proof absolute that Husky is better than Stihl.

[skyhuck]

I put a flat out revving 036 into an an old pair of husky trousers with log inside; killed the saw immediately and long before 3 of the old 8 layers of BM.

 

I'm not getting into an argument, but many people have suffered serious lacerations, through their trousers.

[Mark Bolam]

I put a flat out revving 036 into an an old pair of husky trousers with log inside; killed the saw immediately and long before 3 of the old 8 layers of BM.

 

I've done that too John, with a 260 into an old pair of Hiflex.

Clogged the chain, but not before it had cut 2" into a solid Oak log.

 

2 blokes I have worked with have escaped without a scratch after catching their type C's with a running-down saw however.

[Rupe]

Was the worst thing I've heard on the radio for ages, total idiots talking rubbish and being of no help at all, but it was what 99% of the country will have wanted to hear and they will have forgotten it by now anyway.

 

ALL that was really said was "chainsaws are dangerous". If the public continue to think that then thats fine for us. It really doesnt matter that she said some saws are designed to be used one handed, we know waht she meant, they are one handed of necessary but there was no point her talking about work position and all that stuff.

[john p]

not getting into an argument Huck? you feeling ok?