frashdog
ArboristSite Operative
Just found this pic. Happened last fall. Doctor was great, let my girlfriend take pics in the ER.
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Scored 20 stiches from that one (10 outside, 5 in the cut and 5 inside the mouth)it looks bad in the pic cause the doc is holding it open after he numbed, epied and cleaned it. It closed up nice.
Was cutting the second to last limb off of a huge birch we fell, when I noticed some movement. I stopped cutting and looked up to see the last limb on the tree coming at me as the tree rolled. Smack! Off my feet and on to the ground. I could not see, but I could hear the saw running and I was feeling my mouth expecting broken jaw or missing teeth. In a few second I could see so I went ofer to the truck to look in the mirror, once I realized it was just a split I really realized how lucky I was not to have gotten hit in the thoat. Lesson learned! Pay attention to how the tree sits when limbing!
View attachment 33872
Scored 20 stiches from that one (10 outside, 5 in the cut and 5 inside the mouth)it looks bad in the pic cause the doc is holding it open after he numbed, epied and cleaned it. It closed up nice.
Was cutting the second to last limb off of a huge birch we fell, when I noticed some movement. I stopped cutting and looked up to see the last limb on the tree coming at me as the tree rolled. Smack! Off my feet and on to the ground. I could not see, but I could hear the saw running and I was feeling my mouth expecting broken jaw or missing teeth. In a few second I could see so I went ofer to the truck to look in the mirror, once I realized it was just a split I really realized how lucky I was not to have gotten hit in the thoat. Lesson learned! Pay attention to how the tree sits when limbing!