Saw Stuck in cut and carried away with falling branch

[recycledsole]

Hey guys, not exaclty sure what its called, but i was doing one of my first dismantles today, nothing huge and the chainsaw got stuck for a split second with one of the branches that was falling. it was no big deal, but i can see it being one if the branch was bigger. What did i do that caused this and how do you avoid it? I cut a notch and followed with a back cut.

thanks so much!

[colemanjessenz]

pull it out when its starting to move mate , because you are cutting in limb that is going over, when your chain stops sometimes it makes a little grove that your saw can get stuck in , dont worry about it and just make sure you take your saw out of the cut before it goes over or if your chasing a hinge (forward leaning limb etc) dont let chain run down and take it out sharply.

 

I have heard of guys doing chopper jobs and finishing the step cut on the wrong side and getting the saw ripped out of there hands.

[silky fox]

A tearaway strop is a good piece of kit...Buckingham do a bungee that breaks at 50 kg? correct me if i,m wrong lads...better the saw goes than a large lump of would hanging off your harness!

[Taupotreeman]

Had that happen. Not funny. In fact, pretty damned scary. Any decent sized wood and I unclip the saw. A mate dislocated his knee when the 66 went with a chunk of Gum and dragged the chainsaw strop down over his knee. As someone else said; sharp saw is a must.

 

 

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[Reddog]

As Matthew stated, most likely your top and bottom cut were miss matched.

 

Where you doing a snap cut, or had you cut a notch for it to hinge on?

[recycledsole]

thanks everyone

 

i had cut a notch for the hinge

thank you

[aquatoo]

It happened to me. It was my fault. I cut into the hinge and the timber went sideways instead of away from me. Fortunately I was able to turn the saw with the timber and freed it as it went over.

Shan't do that again. Better to wedge or lever probably

[chrisgilltreesurgery]

That happened to one of my lads who was taking down a black pop on Thursday, he was using an MS650 with a 25" bar, he had got down to the main stem which had a lean of aprox 15-20 degees off straight, he proceeded to put a gob in and when nearly completed the back cut the piece of timber started to fall and pulled the saw out of his hands consiquentaly pulled him off his spikes and ended up hung and swinging by his strop!

The other grounds man and I were far more shocked than the climber, suppose it looked far worse than it actually was.

 

Scary though! He was more bothered about damaging my saw! Silly boy lol although that was in the back of my mind lol

 

Everything ok though climber and saw phew...!

[Le Sanglier]

Bent the bar of a 288 once when that happened on a large horizontal branch, cost me 60 quid; Match the top and bottom cuts exactly, should be ok.

Mind you that's good advice about taking a little more time to shorten the branch a bit first.

[Mark Bolam]

Chris, that sounds very similar to something that happened to me before Christmas.

 

We had a pull line on a piece of cord and it went a bit quicker than we had anticipated, before I'd pulled out the saw.

 

My back cut was a bit too high and my 440 got jammed in the kerf. Luckily it freed up after pulling me down the stem and off my spikes. No harm done to me or saw. I remember thinking 'that's the 440 knackered, and I didn't bring the 660' as I was heading upside down.

 

The strop held, but as Silky says, a breakaway strop would be my choice in these situations in future.

 

So will taking the time to get the back cut right....