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About 12-13 years ago I ran a 026 across the top of my foot. I knew better than to do what I was doing, but done it anyway. Had several stiches and a cut ligament to my big toe, but all healed well.
Buckin' logs, buckin' bulls, buckin' broncos...they can all buckin' hurt.I had an old Mac gear drive with a 60" bar get pinched in a bucking cut. It came back out of that log like a battering ram and one of the handle bars hit me in the chest. Two broken ribs. I had just started the cut and the saw was still above chest height. I'm lucky it didn't take my head off.
Other than that, not much. A few cuts and scrapes while handling or sharpening. The usual stuff.
I had an old Mac gear drive with a 60" bar get pinched in a bucking cut. It came back out of that log like a battering ram and one of the handle bars hit me in the chest. Two broken ribs. I had just started the cut and the saw was still above chest height. I'm lucky it didn't take my head off.
Other than that, not much. A few cuts and scrapes while handling or sharpening. The usual stuff.
Oh ; yeah; that wasn't all that long ago Jon. How's it doing now?I had about 35 feet of two foot beetle killed pine come over while knot bumping. I missed getting clear by about a foot. The tree came down on the outside of my legs resulting in separating my shin bones from each other, breaking both of them, and tearing four ligaments in my ankle. I spent about forty five minutes finishing up the section of the tree, then loaded up, and drove myself two hours to the emergency room.
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The long screw is through the two pieces of my tibia. The buttons above are connected by the surgical wire that was used to pull my shin bones back together.
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You can barely see the tunnel they drilled through for passing the oval shaped button, and wire.
It's somewhat of an internal weather station.Oh ; yeah; that wasn't all that long ago Jon. How's it doing now?
Had an 895 do that in a bucker's break, pistol grip caught my right shoulder on the way by, rearranged it some, got a landingman duct tape and innertube repair. Bucked logs left handed for a couple hours until I got a truck ride to the Redwood Mem. ER.
I don't know if you read my post, but I was really lucky that something similar or worse didn't happen. Really, how do you lop your ear plumb off, without putting a mark on the rest of yer face.Making bread loaf cuts in a log for a home, NOT using the tip of the bar mind you. The saw kicked back and hit me between the eyes, eating my safety glasses, the break didn't activate so the rotating chain proceeded to eat the right half of my nose. Felt like I had been punched and bled a lot. The boss had gone back to town for lag bolts so I stopped the bleeding and went back to work. He showed up and took me to the ER. The 1st doc said he didn't even know where to start, the surgeon came in and said he couldn't fix it, I'd have to goto Butte to the plastic surgeon. I'm thinking "come on it's just a few stitches let's fix it and go back." The plastic surgeon was a little old guy with a lazy eye, kinda scared me. He cleaned it up and smiled, grabbed a mirror and showed me the mess. There was nothing there to stitch up, the right side was gone. So he drew some lines in my cheek and sent me to the OR. He ended up cutting into my cheek and folding a piece over and rebuilding my nose. Since my nose had been broken so many times as a kid the cartilage had a curve to it so he shaved a piece off and grafted it in so my nostrils has a normalish flare to it. He hid the scar on my laugh lines so it's not as noticable. 16 stitches on the outside 84 on the inside. Only downside is that my facial hair now grows on the right side of my nose. He lasered the hell out of it but it's persistant and keeps on growing so I have to shave the outside of my nose daily!
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