anyone on long island

[deersniper17]

New to the site and have some time off after breaking my hand last week. just figured id say hi. Im 26 work for asplundh, as their log truck driver,stump grinder,groundman extrordinaire. i know most of you have little respect for my company because of the little care we show when trimming, but i would like to say your right. except we do also have some excellent professionals working there. so just go easy on some of us. we're not all bad lol.

 

[formationrx]

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welcome! .....that sucks about your hand... how did you do that?
im a native from LI... worked my ass off from yaphank to the ends of both forks... i still go back in the summer to work with some old tree dogs..... anyway.. hope you are feeling better...

 

[deersniper17]

got it caught between a short 6" diam piece of japanese maple and the top of the 280's chipping feed table........stupid stupid stupid.

 

[Bomber]

did your bucket operator get out of the truck to help you because I know he wasn't dragging brush

 

[tree md]

One of the Asplundh guys here picked the logs off of my log trailer with his knuckle boom for my groundy last week at the green waste. Nope, not all bad.

Welcome to the site.

Hope you heal up quick!

 

[tomtrees58]

good luck with that

 

[formationrx]

got it caught between a short 6" diam piece of japanese maple and the top of the 280's chipping feed table........stupid stupid stupid.

wham!!!!! huh!?... thats a common one... lesson learned ..... LET GO!....
....a long time ago i worked with a new guy who would feed the logs by holding the wood under one side of his jaw and pushing real hard...... we all kept telling him over and over not to do that.... he wouldnt listen or he'd do it when he thought no one was watching.... about 2 weeks later i was hauling brush up this hill..... when i got to the crest of it...... i saw the chipper blast this guy in the face with a huge log.... he flew up in the air and did an upside down flat spin then landed on his back like a rag doll.... i threw the brush down and ran over to him..... one of his cheeks was missing and i could see half his teeth....i got him up and he was holding his face.... i yelled "let me see it!" over and over...... i wanted to make sure he was not going to bleed out right there. then he showed me... and as he stared at me staring at his face.... his head swelled up in pulses like pumping up a beach ball.... some of his teeth started falling about and dark red blood was pouring out the side of his head... anyway we got him to the hospital and he lived....later the POS tried to sue the company i worked for.... but when they realized there was a witness they dropped the whole thing....

 

[tree md]

wham!!!!! huh!?... thats a common one... lesson learned ..... LET GO!....
....a long time ago i worked with a new guy who would feed the logs by holding the wood under one side of his jaw and pushing real hard...... we all kept telling him over and over not to do that.... he wouldnt listen or he'd do it when he thought no one was watching.... about 2 weeks later i was hauling brush up this hill..... when i got to the crest of it...... i saw the chipper blast this guy in the face with a huge log.... he flew up in the air and did an upside down flat spin then landed on his back like a rag doll.... i threw the brush down and ran over to him..... one of his cheeks was missing and i could see half his teeth....i got him up and he was holding his face.... i yelled "let me see it!" over and over...... i wanted to make sure he was not going to bleed out right there. then he showed me... and as he stared at me staring at his face.... his head swelled up in pulses like pumping up a beach ball.... some of his teeth started falling about and dark red blood was pouring out the side of his head... anyway we got him to the hospital and he lived....later the POS tried to sue the company i worked for.... but when they realized there was a witness they dropped the whole thing....

Scary.

About 17 years ago I was working for a service and was feeding a limb log about 7-8" in diameter into a 18" mobark chipper. The log was crooked on one end. I started to feed it, let go and turned to grab another one about the time the feed wheel caught the crook and flipped it up, catching me square under the chin like a huge undercut punch. It lifted me off the ground and I saw pretty colors I did not even know existed. It didn't knock me out but came dam close. I think I got 9 stitches and a week of light duty riding around in the log truck. Doc said I was lucky my tongue was not in between my teeth or I would have bit it off.

 

[ROPECLIMBER]

Welcome, I am fairly new too, hope your hand heals right, a friend was running a woodsman 17 and the feed wheels are horizontal and he didnt pull the lift up in time and it flipped the 10-12" 4 ft log up and snapped his partial in half, that had to hurt
my chunk and duck glove destroyer will brake your fingers if you load 4-5" wood and try to "put it in" I show my helpers like Phoose ball hand ontop and sllide it in let go before it hits the drum, blarrrrap,
Paul

 

[deersniper17]

ive been chipping a while, long enough to know hand on the bottom or side and to let go lol. except my predicament was the piece of wood hooked my thumb and flipped up and over in one motion. lots of pain , but i still got all 10 so im happy lol.

 

[lone wolf]

wham!!!!! huh!?... thats a common one... lesson learned ..... LET GO!....
....a long time ago i worked with a new guy who would feed the logs by holding the wood under one side of his jaw and pushing real hard...... we all kept telling him over and over not to do that.... he wouldnt listen or he'd do it when he thought no one was watching.... about 2 weeks later i was hauling brush up this hill..... when i got to the crest of it...... i saw the chipper blast this guy in the face with a huge log.... he flew up in the air and did an upside down flat spin then landed on his back like a rag doll.... i threw the brush down and ran over to him..... one of his cheeks was missing and i could see half his teeth....i got him up and he was holding his face.... i yelled "let me see it!" over and over...... i wanted to make sure he was not going to bleed out right there. then he showed me... and as he stared at me staring at his face.... his head swelled up in pulses like pumping up a beach ball.... some of his teeth started falling about and dark red blood was pouring out the side of his head... anyway we got him to the hospital and he lived....later the POS tried to sue the company i worked for.... but when they realized there was a witness they dropped the whole thing....

Why couldn't he sue because he was told over and over not to do it that way?And that is good enough for the law?

 

[formationrx]

legal mumbo jumbo...

Why couldn't he sue because he was told over and over not to do it that way?And that is good enough for the law?

....yeah he was told over and over... as i recall comp. paid for his medical bills.... but he got real greedy..... he threatened to sue on a number of BS claims... he said that the injury caused him to have a speech impendiment.... but that was horse #### cuz it was already a pre existing condition... then he said it was the chippers fault.... but that machine was in perfect working order and he could not prove otherwise.....then he said no one trained him.... but several crew leaders did and could have testified to that fact.... then he said he was using the machine right and still got hurt.... he initially thought no one saw what happen.... basically he tried to lie his ass off and ride the system too far... but when it became clear he would have got buried and possibly put in jail he dropped the whole thing..... years later i talked to my old boss about it..... he regretted not firing him before he ###### himself up...

 

[flushcut]

If i saw that he would have been told once to stop doing what he was doing and if it happened again I would have fired him on the spot. A chipper will F$%k you up and not to be treated like a baby bunny.

 

[lone wolf]

You got to watch the new guys around a chipper for quite some time.Gloves can pull a person in to the chipper if they get hooked by a branch,you can get hit in the face real hard putting long logs in and not keeping your head away from the end you are holding when it shoots the tail end up.No eye protection need I say more!