Close shave and thankfull

[MattyF]

complacency sucks

Jamie

 

agree with that fella 100%

[dryadlad]

Thanks for posting these wake up calls ,just brings it home how dangerous our job is .I have a friend who skydives she always checks the skydive mags for near misses and fatalities to keep herself on her toes .Seemed weird until i started climbing trees..

[Treebear]

Couple of years ago a bloke in Norway almost cut his head off. He was sectionfelling, the groundie said he heard the climber struggeling with the saw that was pinched and suddenly he heard the saw speed up and a flow of blood came down. Climber died momentarely.

What they believed happened was that the saw was pinched and the climber tried to pull it out when holding in the throttle. When it came free it hit him in the throat on full speed.

[Buzz]

Ouch ! Hopefully Pete will post his picture soon as that was the one that woke me up for a good few months last year !

[Buzz]

BTW I tripped over out in the wood over a saw log i'd cut the saw was switched off but went straight through my jacket and left me with a nice cut requiring 8 stitches.

[madmatt]

I haven't got any pictures, but in November 06 I was cross cutting a big ash with the 066, we'd been at it a couple of hrs one sunday am, out of the blue, the saw kicked back and came back at me. I had full PPE on and the saw was well maintained. The chain brake came on, it was just the shear momentum of a saw that big that knocked my helmet off and the staionary chain just caught the edge of my right eyebrow!

 

4 hrs in our local walk in centre, 8 stitches, half a tube of glue, 3 steri strips, a bucket of nurofen, one very black eye and large headache , a new helmet + 1 week off work later, i was back the following sunday finishing the cross cutting.

 

I have allways worn my PPE as I am a big wimp and don't like hospitals or injuries and that will never change. I dread to think of the consequences of the brake not working on that saw or a slightly different body position to the saw it would at the least been blindness or worse serious head injuries/fatalty.

 

Jamie, hope your hands better, thats the last time I check unread posts while eating me lunch!!!

[Andy Collins]

Reminds me of an old boy in the pub one day, we were chatting about saw work, and he was going on and on about the old days, and the high risks of the job. He rolled his trouser leg up and showed me this bloody great scar from his left knee and up his thigh. Turned out he was snedding out,day was running out, so in the rush he speeded up snedding. Saw kicked out at some point and in his words he felt a "bit of a bang" to his leg. As the day faded, he couldnt see the damage. drove home, saw the state of his leg and passed out!! He was so lucky not to hit any major arteries/veins. The hospital reckoned that the cold weather may have helped the blood to have congealed quickly, thus the lack of flowing blood. This was in the time before PPE coming in, so he'd only be wearing jeans.

[madmatt]

Cold weather does slow blood flow. I've had several mishaps when working in a cold engineering workshop as soon as I've come into the kitchen or house and warmed up the blood starts to flow.

[Buzz]

My old man worked as a countryside ranger in the days of danarm moster chainsaw. They were issued with ear muffs and overalls lol !

 

He had a saw kick back into his leg, that was sewn up without anesthetic at he royal military hospital Aldershot ouch !!

[Andy Collins]

Aye, they dont make em like they used to Matt!! I blame all this namby-pampy H&S for raising a nation of softies!