Log burner warriors

[woodyguy]

If they're his trees and he's the one at risk then simply evolution in action.

Why will it add to insurance when surely he won be carrying insurance.

[Mat]

It's the extra expense on all our insurance and the extra h&s measures we will all have to take when he does kill himself that worries me more

 

Why would it cause you extra expense if he came a cropper?

 

I shouldn't think he is insured, and surely no health and safety law would apply either.

Edited November 29, 2014 by Mat

[waz77]

I would imagine so

Funnily enough his mate nearly killed himself last year, tried pulling a wind blown ash out of another tree but a big limb was stopping it coming free, so he got out to cut the limb off, bearing in mind he had now put it under massive side tension with the tractor, last thing he remembered was the tip of the bar touching the limb, he eventually woke with the saw on top of him still running with severe head and facial injuries, and lost a lot of blood, to top it off he also ended up with septicaemia from it.

[waz77]

Well I'm no expert on insurance matters, but I would imagine the more accidents there are in tree work, the more dangerous it is deemed to be, and so the higher the premiums?

And as for h&s matters, it does impact on our industry.

They aren't his trees, it's the local cricket ground.

[Mat]

Your origional post made it sound like he was doing a bit of felling for recreation / hobby fun. Both HSE and insurance companies will totally ignore these accidents (which is good for you)

[jamesfwpurdy]

Whos trees were they?

[peatff]

Did he have permission to fell them ? Tell him how to put a gob cut in and leave him to it. I'm only a firewood cutter but I think I could get them down a bit better than that. You might get some work out of it cleaning up after him

[Wood wasp]

Much as I'm great believer in leaving people to do as they like and let them bear the consequences! personal responsibility is the term I think. However, the OP has a point ire what happens when (if) he cocks up. A chainsaw accident is just that and will end up in the statistics which hse etc all refer too

[spiral]

there were some much worse than this that he felled last year

 

Well if hes still about & still learning in a couple more years he might have learnt a lot by then & be doing it properly....

 

Think of him as a pioneer!

 

If doing it commercially? A different matter.

[Mat]

Much as I'm great believer in leaving people to do as they like and let them bear the consequences! personal responsibility is the term I think. However, the OP has a point ire what happens when (if) he cocks up. A chainsaw accident is just that and will end up in the statistics which hse etc all refer too

 

An injury or fatality whilst undertaking recreational chainsawing will NOT be recorded in HSE stats, and will be on no intrest to them.