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[Kensie1988]

Scary $h!t there, get well soon. Same thing for me last winter but it only got my left shoulder and collar bone. 2-300lb live wet red oak chunk missed my unprotected head by a inch or 2. Stuff happens so fast, I had no idea it was comin. I was a groundie tending ropes when I got hit.

Yeah, it's isane, no matter how careful you are sometimes you just slip up and don't see it coming.

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[NeSurfcaster]

I try to always look up before going under tree but when the tree is 100+ high w/ leaves on the branches it's impossible to see everything up there waiting to crush you. Between the chipper/saws running and wearing ear muffs you can't hear much. So you won't hear it cracking/coming down or possibly hear some one yelling Run!

 

[s sidewall]

Sorry to hear about you getting hurt, Murphy's Law. Glad you weren't hurt real bad, take care. Did you're better half throw alcohol on it for ya?

Steve

 

[Kensie1988]

Here is a better pic of where it grazed me

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[s sidewall]

Ouch

Steve

 

[s sidewall]

I'd still think that might sting a little bit with some alcohol thrown on it.

Steve

 

[Kensie1988]

I'd still think that might sting a little bit with some alcohol thrown on it.

Steve

Ohh yeah, that's why. Not going to put alcohol on it lol

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[Kensie1988]

Surprisingly I still have an itch to fall trees, but I will now be forever skittish of trees with broken tops or have had other trees fall into them, because that's ultimately what got me.

On a good note I feel alot better today than I thought I would lol.

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[Kensie1988]

Ohh and I won't ever try to wedge a big hardwood against it's lean, because that's what started the hole thing, if I would have originally planned on falling the tree that way I would have removed the trees that got me first so there wouldn't be anything for it to fall against

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[s sidewall]

Dad has tried to get me to drop a few trees against it lean, no way, not without the Bobcat forcing it against it's lean.

Steve

 

[Kensie1988]

Dad has tried to get me to drop a few trees against it lean, no way, not without the Bobcat forcing it against it's lean.

Steve

Pine trees are easy, their center of gravity is not far from the main stem and they aren't that dense, but when you add the weight of a large crown, the density of the hardwood and a 20"+ stem, you get so heavy traditional wedges won't lift it, which I learned the hard way

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[s sidewall]

We've forced a few hard woods, not many, and those were Sweetgum trees. Oaks, they go with the lean.

Steve

 

[Kensie1988]

We've forced a few hard woods, not many, and those were Sweetgum trees. Oaks, they go with the lean.

Steve

Yeah sweet gum is a lot less dense than oak, and this stuff was pecan so it was even more dense than oak

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[s sidewall]

Had a pecan bust the frame on my Craftsman/Poulan one time, limb kicked back while it was falling and landed on it. Limb looked like a spring board when it came down.

Steve

 

[brandonstc6]

I picked up a nice vintage snap on toolbox to store my tools for working on chainsaws. It is a very heavy duty toolbox.

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[s sidewall]

I've seen those before, good box

Steve

 

[s sidewall]

Along with the stickers

Steve

 

[McCullochCollectorPNW]

Picked up a 3-25 this weekend. Its in pretty rough shape to say the least but its got a few redeeming qualities


Also snagged another 250-

Maybe if I collect two or three more of these I might actually have enough parts to piece together one w/o any major flaws. jk

 

[Yukon Stihl]

Had to drag this thread back from page 3...
This old girl found a new home today,missing a couple of original parts,but in pretty nice shape otherwise.

 

[Kensie1988]

Very nice i e l! I really need to get me a two-man saw!

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