Close shave and thankfull

[High Scale]

that makes me a prick.

i climb in shorts, its just too hot here not to. rather keep my wits about me than become tired and lax from heat exhaustion.

i'm not condoning it and once i'm back home i'll go back to chainsaw pants. but it does make you a very vigilant saw operator, knowing that your at such a higher risk of injury. so you become very wary of kick back, and chains running on.

my legs are nice and brown though.

 

Hmm, I have to also admit my guilt for wearing shorts while I worked out there.

[Lancstree]

Lancstree,

plenty have close shaves but few will talk about it! Power to you mate, you got a lot of pluck.

Now others will be more aware.

The worst thing I did was fell out the top of of tree with my life line still in it. Lucky the top was tied into the main trunk!

What did I learn ? Never take Hay Fever medication!

 

Thanks mate. Sometimes when taking out large sections I find the best position is got by staying on the life line to make the gob. I shiver at the thought of not remembering to take the line out before making the back cut. You were lucky that piece was roped. Thanks for posting that. All the best

[Jamie]

my hand is good. I had no pain whatso ever the whole event. When the surgeon was investigating he turned round to get something, when he turned back i had the tweezers in my hand looking around. Cant beat a bit of self investigation

 

these kinda pictures should make up an HSE type gallery of what can go wrong, honest (anon of course) explanations of how it happened.

 

i might print them off for the new guy.

 

Jamie

[madmatt]

A mate of mine runs a shop selling arb gear one of his matescut through his knee with a saw, they now have pics above the rack of trousers in the shop its amazing what influence it has on the kids from the local college!

[Marc]

A friend of mine (he's not a treeworker) was cutting firewood at the place where he works, he had a log horse and a MS440 with 25" bar, to big a saw I told him, especially as he cuts nothing bigger than 16".

 

Well he just had a new chain fitted and was loving how fast it cut through his 10" logs, he started getting a little aggresive cutting quicker and quicker, he flew through one cut and the saw banged against his leg, he thought nothing of it at first untill,, he saw the blood soaking into his tracksuit!! bottoms.

 

On the follow through he badly hit his leg leaving a 10" ragged wound! He was extremly lucky that it was only a glancing blow!

 

He now has my old Husky bib and brace balistic's (and is welcome to them)

[tree monkey]

I did this a couple of weeks ago.Cutting a stub up the tree someone pulled my climbing rope i grabbed out and touched the saw.A bit blurred thought it was my eyes lol

[Ben]

I hope you had words with them

[bill]

nasty. they are the accidents that can happen to anyone i think. you slip or a branch snaps or something happens which is out of your control and you react by moving your hands into the saw.

[Rowan the Bruce]

I've no sick pay and a wife and two infants to feed. Thats the best incentive for being careful I can think of, as soon as my wife fell pregnant I felt like I had to simmer down an do things properly!

I don't have any pics but the bloke I replaced was cutting a log with an 020 on the ground whilst holding it with his left hand.The saw slipped and tore across the back of his hand shredding the tendons, he was out for 6 months, on statutory sick and a mortgage to pay.His first day back to work cutting and chucking, 'pang' the tendons went again, back to hospital. Poor bloke, this was a guy with 15 years experience! Complacency sucks alright! This is a morbid thread init!

[andythesquirel]

This is a morbid thread init!

 

Reality often is!