Yep, those are healing mighty quickly...... have you been soaking them in Miracle Gro® solution? :greenchainsaw:
Good job healing up!
Good job healing up!
Then he'd end up with the whole hand in the saw like the 200T postd recently:greenchainsaw: Sorry Ian. Got to have a little fun here.
2 weeks later... I'm healing much faster than I thought possible.
Ian. I'm glad that your OK. When I started cutting fire wood when I was 15, 27 years ago, My Father made it Very Very Clear to me, When I felt I was getting tired, it was time to Quit. That is when somthing happens, when you don't quit when you need too. Bruce.Had a reality check today. I was cutting up a maple for firewood, it was 90ºF out and I was whooped. I let my bar tip get a little too close to a previously cut round while limbing and guess what. Yep, tip hits in that upper quadrant and kicks back. The chain break worked like a charm thankfully, but I was lucky in that it kicked back instead of up, shoving the rear handle into my thigh.
Ya know where my brain bucket and chaps were? Yep.. in the back of the truck. I had opted for safety glasses and ear plugs instead.
I'm glad I can post this here instead of up in the Injuries forum. Be careful out there guys!
Ian
Well, since you guys have told about some of your worst moments, I guess I will, too.
About 10 years ago I was cutting a red oak that had died after the power company dug up its roots to put in the feed to my house. This area was pretty well clear cut about 120 years ago and most of the trees are only about 16" to 18" at the base and most don't have any limbs below about 30', this one was about 70' tall. As is typical of most of my trees, it only had about 3 or 4 big branches near the top. It fell right where it was supposed to and never even came close to the power lines.
I trimmed all of the little stuff off of the bigger branches and was starting to cut the big branches off when it rolled. I still don't have any idea of why it rolled, it looked to perfectly stable on two of the large branches, but roll, it did. One of the big branches caught me and THREW me to the ground, it didn't just knock me over, it really slammed me into the ground on my back. The saw came down across my stomach, right across my bell button. I had to lay there for a few minutes getting my breath back and then I pulled my sweat shirt to see how large the cut across my stomach was. I was lucky, there were saw teeth marks all across my stomach but apparently the chain stopped as soon as I released the handle, the brake never engaged.
All of those little teeth marks were bleeding, but not like I had expected to find them. The saw was an old Husky that had lots of idle problems, you let the handle go and it would sometimes stop the chain and other times it would only slow to a crawl. The clutch just wasn't reliable, coupled with an erratic idle and it was a lot more dangerous than I had thought at the time.
I was lucky that time, the idle worked and the clutch disengaged just like it's supposed to. If it hadn't, I would probably have bled out right there in front of the house.
So, make sure your idle is set properly and that the clutch disengages quickly, I sure do now.
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