With Chipper Deaths and injuries still happening; even among those that should know better; and the high level of potential devastation, instantly, under cover of noise etc. of highest power equipment to destroy that most are around........
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Chippers kill far fewer than cars and it is not likely that cars will be off limits. Chippers are designed to chip and they do chip about anything that gets in them, we would be back to burning brush without them. A wildfire has no conscience either, which is the lesser of the two? I don't have think long on would I rent a chipper if I needed to, I would rent one and have used them. Knowing they are dangerous andhow to avoid the dangers is important. I cut pushsticks and lay them out next to the chipper for the guys to use and explain that I expect them to be used.
Chippers kill far fewer than cars and it is not likely that cars will be off limits. Chippers are designed to chip and they do chip about anything that gets in them, we would be back to burning brush without them. A wildfire has no conscience either, which is the lesser of the two? I don't have think long on would I rent a chipper if I needed to, I would rent one and have used them. Knowing they are dangerous andhow to avoid the dangers is important. I cut pushsticks and lay them out next to the chipper for the guys to use and explain that I expect them to be used.
NeTree
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The scary part is, it's the supposed "pros" who are getting killed.
"I cut pushsticks and lay them out next to the chipper for the guys to use and explain that I expect them to be used."
Geo... how many warnings would you give before you fired someone who obviously was heading to get seriously hurt or killed?
"I cut pushsticks and lay them out next to the chipper for the guys to use and explain that I expect them to be used."
Geo... how many warnings would you give before you fired someone who obviously was heading to get seriously hurt or killed?
What is car use to death ratio?
Can you rent a gun(or tank)?
Should it come loaded, and with complimentary brown Aris Isotoner gloves and ski mask for sanitation purposes?
Have you ever stood in the stillness of ground zero?
Do you know the air breathes in diffrent there?
Hey, hey........Yo, git down........Maybe coming to a town near you soon!
Oooooh orrrrr something like that guys!
Perhaps as cowboy with reins controlling run away horse affirmatively on TV.
Jest a guy used to adjusting inevitable path with rope too long; So, still thinking tieing off 180degrees the other direction from force as quickest, most leveraged adjsutment, control, to put runaway (or forecasted potential)immediately on best path - if the line yo set, and how ya set it along with the anchoring support given can take the directed inertia already in progress of course....
As ya well know, if that gets close to failing the line or support, or too much heat etc., some slip yes, may have to be given till steered in to maintain system stability. Person-ally; i just don't feel that strain yet! So,....i ain't letting it slide?
But, i guess the only time ya have to look me straight in the eye about it;
is when i'm on my milk crate/ soap box,
Like JP says.
(Actually called a guy 'MilkCrate' all the time;
cuz on the production floor; when he peered around the corner/ over stuff,
head floating in air, from my perspective;
i just couldn't get it through my head;
that lanky, giddy guy;
wasn't standing on something!)
Naw, it wasn't JP; we just went to different schools together.
Can you rent a gun(or tank)?
Should it come loaded, and with complimentary brown Aris Isotoner gloves and ski mask for sanitation purposes?
Have you ever stood in the stillness of ground zero?
Do you know the air breathes in diffrent there?
Hey, hey........Yo, git down........Maybe coming to a town near you soon!
Oooooh orrrrr something like that guys!
Perhaps as cowboy with reins controlling run away horse affirmatively on TV.
Jest a guy used to adjusting inevitable path with rope too long; So, still thinking tieing off 180degrees the other direction from force as quickest, most leveraged adjsutment, control, to put runaway (or forecasted potential)immediately on best path - if the line yo set, and how ya set it along with the anchoring support given can take the directed inertia already in progress of course....
As ya well know, if that gets close to failing the line or support, or too much heat etc., some slip yes, may have to be given till steered in to maintain system stability. Person-ally; i just don't feel that strain yet! So,....i ain't letting it slide?
But, i guess the only time ya have to look me straight in the eye about it;
is when i'm on my milk crate/ soap box,
Like JP says.
(Actually called a guy 'MilkCrate' all the time;
cuz on the production floor; when he peered around the corner/ over stuff,
head floating in air, from my perspective;
i just couldn't get it through my head;
that lanky, giddy guy;
wasn't standing on something!)
Naw, it wasn't JP; we just went to different schools together.
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kf_tree
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a few years back at hertz equip rental i rented a 65ft crane. all i needed was a drivers license and a credit card. seems to me alot more people could get hurt in a crane accident than a chipper.
John Paul Sanborn
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Some rental companies will not rent chainsaws around here, due to the liability.
Let the rentors cober thier tails as much as possible let me rent a chipper when I need it.
Let the rentors cober thier tails as much as possible let me rent a chipper when I need it.
Years back, Stump grinders where harder to rent around here.
Seems, some fella got foot caught in a rental toe-trimmer style,
that places teeth at your feet not on other side of machine body, no hydraylics neither;
so ya hold the bar to keep the bulls snout grinding in the ground, bucking with shoulders to re'aim forces, and feeding into power; but ya can see what you are doin' better.
Course it gets caught in fence, has power and leverage to uppercut jaw, sometimes throwing operator over top i guess!
The model or manufacturer rumored to take a hit or shut down, rental agency sold out in legal mess too; then area was high risk stumpgrinder rental zone on insurance charts or something was the story.
So drove 20 across the county line...........
Seems, some fella got foot caught in a rental toe-trimmer style,
that places teeth at your feet not on other side of machine body, no hydraylics neither;
so ya hold the bar to keep the bulls snout grinding in the ground, bucking with shoulders to re'aim forces, and feeding into power; but ya can see what you are doin' better.
Course it gets caught in fence, has power and leverage to uppercut jaw, sometimes throwing operator over top i guess!
The model or manufacturer rumored to take a hit or shut down, rental agency sold out in legal mess too; then area was high risk stumpgrinder rental zone on insurance charts or something was the story.
So drove 20 across the county line...........
warnings
First warning, take him off the chipper and he only drags brush and hands it off to the guy feeding the chipper that does use the push sticks, after the job I tell him why and what he was doing wrong out of earshot of the others though it may be the topic of tomorrows safety talk. Not a good thing to chew a guy out in front of the crew, work stops and everyone already knows why he was told not to feed the chipper any longer and the guy in charge of the chipping will be ask why he didn't take the guy off the chipper. It's a team and everyone on it should be looking after the other guys on the team to see they don't get hurt.
Cars and chippers are machines, we don't stop using them when someone dies. We ask what can be done to make them safer to operate. Spyder, you use this analogy to say we need to be certified to operate the machines or you would like to see all who use them certified? I get your point that knowledge will help you live longer but is it required to certify someone who has used a chipper for years or the new guy who has never used one, where do you draw the line? You can see this in the lawncare here if you are using more than X horsepower you need to have a union operator on the mower. How often should I be recertified to operate the chipper?
First warning, take him off the chipper and he only drags brush and hands it off to the guy feeding the chipper that does use the push sticks, after the job I tell him why and what he was doing wrong out of earshot of the others though it may be the topic of tomorrows safety talk. Not a good thing to chew a guy out in front of the crew, work stops and everyone already knows why he was told not to feed the chipper any longer and the guy in charge of the chipping will be ask why he didn't take the guy off the chipper. It's a team and everyone on it should be looking after the other guys on the team to see they don't get hurt.
Cars and chippers are machines, we don't stop using them when someone dies. We ask what can be done to make them safer to operate. Spyder, you use this analogy to say we need to be certified to operate the machines or you would like to see all who use them certified? I get your point that knowledge will help you live longer but is it required to certify someone who has used a chipper for years or the new guy who has never used one, where do you draw the line? You can see this in the lawncare here if you are using more than X horsepower you need to have a union operator on the mower. How often should I be recertified to operate the chipper?
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