This is why I always wear type c's

[Bren.]

LiveLeak.com - *WARNING - GRAPHIC* Chainsaw Accident

[Mortimer Firewood]

Wow that's bad.

[Stubby]

Looks like a bore cut ?

[shendy]

That's one mistake he will never make again.

 

 

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[AA Teccie (Paul)]

OMG...would Type C's have really stopped that I wonder!

[Gerbutt]

I've just started wearing type A's and have noticed that I take more notice of how I'm cutting and where. Type C's may give people a false sense of security?

[Al Cormack]

OMG...would Type C's have really stopped that I wonder!

 

Not necessarily Paul.

 

Many moons ago I got caught on my right leg from kick back. I was up an oak Tree crown reducing it. One of the lower branches forked, as I stood on the lower fork and reached out to cut the end, the fork split and was tearing back. I reached under to cut it off quickly and caught the tip of the bar, top quarter iniating kickback. By the time the kevlar had gone from the top of the bar to the sprocket to jam it up, the saw had already cut through my type c's, into my leg and thigh muscle almost to the bone.

The speed the saw moves on kickback is amazingly fast, and not something I want to repeat.

 

Al.

[likeitorlumpit]

everyone should see that

[Garyjp]

Mother flipper! Thats nasty!

 

Wearing Cs is no replacement for proper technique tho.looks like the bar has gone into his leg and out the other side. I wonder if he was wearing any ppe (class A and boots)

 

 

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[Ross Smith]

That's a very bad cut.

Surely he was wearing no protection and must have slipped and dropped the saw pretty hard onto that part of his leg.

Possibly not even climbing at the time.

 

 

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