Chainsawing accident....

[forest tink]

think he may be looking for a claim,story doesn't seem to reign true to me

[oldwoodcutter]

Well he seems to have made some sort of recovery leastways.

[Wood wasp]

To be honest it doesn't really look like a chainsaw cut?? Well not from a running chain anyway

[Gus McWilliam]

Surely the gp was required to help under the hippocratic oath he swore? It doesn't look like a chainsaw cut either if im honest

[woodyguy]

Looks a dodgy story to me. GP surgeries don't usually treat lacerations that need stitching, they normally suggest you go to your nearest Accident and Emergency department who deal with emergencies. Suspect this is what happened here.

[Agi-Smash]

Who really "cuts their arm to the bone" then runs to the doctor, then drives to boots, then drives ten miles to hospital? Hmmmm me thinks youd be a tad loght headed after all that.

[Kenty]

Who really "cuts their arm to the bone" then runs to the doctor, then drives to boots, then drives ten miles to hospital? Hmmmm me thinks youd be a tad loght headed after all that.

 

Some years ago now there was a farmer in the US who got his arm ripped off in a thresher & drove a hundred odd miles to hospital to get it sewn back on.

[bumble B]

Looks superficial what was it 10 butterfly stitches? Maybe it was suggested somewhere else would be of more help rather than buggering up everyone else's day that had waited 2 months for an appointment to treat a scratch.

[Lumberjack_84]

He says he's a first responder but doesn't think it's necessary to carry a 1st aid kit while chainsawing as he has to go to boots to bandage himself up, and doesn't go to hospital because his wound will need bandaging first???

 

As others have said the drs surgeries will prob have just advised him to go to a and e.

 

He's trying to make a story out of nothing.

[spudulike]

Local surgeries can be a bit sniffy about having to register, we have had good experiences in Norfolk when the wife had a serious chest infecton and a useless response down in the West country when I was suffering.

 

I am guessing that the local Doctors didn't know the extent of the damags to his arm and yes - that chain is mega lose and have seen the same on a few saws of weekend wariours and gardners - I always give a ten minute lesson when I see this along with pointing out what happens when a chain comes off:thumbup: