Just a reminder, an accident can happen anytime.
I was cutting down an old oak with an good overhang, 90 degrees to the road, so we needed to motivate it into the right direction.
We used an other oak as an anchor, a 4x4 to pull a climbing rope.
I said to my mate, I would have used the pulley system and some heavy duty straps to not strain the rope to much, but he was sure it would be fine.
I made the back cut, and in the corner of my eye I saw somebody cycling by, swirved around the trailer that was parked on the path, ducked under the rope that was full under tention, didn't care for my swearing and moved on. Note that the 80cc's where still at WOT.
Tention dropped because my brother from an other mother didn't want to crush an a$$h0le.
Gave it some gas, the rope snapped. Tree fell in the acre.
2 Seconds, I guess I was flabbergasted about what just happened, still standing on the other side of the path. And started to contemplate how to get the thing on the road again, a huge branch hit my shoulder and broke the backhandle of my chainsaw, with my hand sandwiched between the branch an said chainsaw.
It felt like I might have lost most bones of my arm.
First positive signs where, if it hurts, it's still attached.
After vision returned, I tested if my fingers still worked.
Which they did.
So I even started to think an enormous amount of pain was the only problem.
After no sleep for two nights (wife is a doctor who tested if anything was broken, and it appeared not to be at first) we did the broken bones test again, and now the pain was distinguishable from the other pains and went to the ER to repair my metacarpal bone.
In the end, a lot of ifs.
If I did what I would have and should have done, the rope would not have snapped.
If the m0r0n wouldn't have put himself in danger, I would have stepped back behind an other tree as usual.
If that big branch would not have been hollow at the base, I wouldn't have known I escaped death.
If the branch landed 20cm more to the right, I wouldn't have been typing this.
I was cutting down an old oak with an good overhang, 90 degrees to the road, so we needed to motivate it into the right direction.
We used an other oak as an anchor, a 4x4 to pull a climbing rope.
I said to my mate, I would have used the pulley system and some heavy duty straps to not strain the rope to much, but he was sure it would be fine.
I made the back cut, and in the corner of my eye I saw somebody cycling by, swirved around the trailer that was parked on the path, ducked under the rope that was full under tention, didn't care for my swearing and moved on. Note that the 80cc's where still at WOT.
Tention dropped because my brother from an other mother didn't want to crush an a$$h0le.
Gave it some gas, the rope snapped. Tree fell in the acre.
2 Seconds, I guess I was flabbergasted about what just happened, still standing on the other side of the path. And started to contemplate how to get the thing on the road again, a huge branch hit my shoulder and broke the backhandle of my chainsaw, with my hand sandwiched between the branch an said chainsaw.
It felt like I might have lost most bones of my arm.
First positive signs where, if it hurts, it's still attached.
After vision returned, I tested if my fingers still worked.
Which they did.
So I even started to think an enormous amount of pain was the only problem.
After no sleep for two nights (wife is a doctor who tested if anything was broken, and it appeared not to be at first) we did the broken bones test again, and now the pain was distinguishable from the other pains and went to the ER to repair my metacarpal bone.
In the end, a lot of ifs.
If I did what I would have and should have done, the rope would not have snapped.
If the m0r0n wouldn't have put himself in danger, I would have stepped back behind an other tree as usual.
If that big branch would not have been hollow at the base, I wouldn't have known I escaped death.
If the branch landed 20cm more to the right, I wouldn't have been typing this.
