how many times have you been hurt?

[Guy Meilleur]

That would be the swan dive onto the driveway. Happened at an old sausage-maker's mansion on Lake Drive, turned convent. A nun from there visited me in the hospital and saw an xray of my navicular bone, the biggest wristbone, broken cleanly in quarters and appearing as the sign of the cross to her eyes.

She told me it signified that I was bound for acts profound, but I was too dazed to get into it at the time. Moved to Key West FL to recuperate and stayed7 years off and on. I had to tell the state of WI to stop sending WC$. When MM talks about the high cost of doing business in WI, I understand. They also paid for grad school at UW-Mad as "voc-rehab".

Sheesh, this memory lane I didn't need to go down. I shoulda pulled a Dunlap/John Dean--sorry jps I forgot you're too young to remember Watergate--and said "I don't recall."

 

[Guy Meilleur]

Rich reminded me one good thing I can say about my care-less career--chainsaw blade never touched flesh (though handsaw still does at times--knees especially, on the followthrough)

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I remember Watergate. It preempted a number of saturdays worth of cartoons! Man was I mad !.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Originally posted by rich hoffman
It seems that the climbers that I know get cut more with a hand saw than with a chainsaw. Handsaws will getcha good!!!

I've whacked my knucles hard enough, a few times, That the tendons were swolen for months.

 

[Ryan Willock]

Rich, funny you should mention getting cut with the handsaw.... I was deadwooding a pecan tree last week and niped my left index finger good!! looked like a spiral cut ham!! Man that silk's sharp!! JPS, do you remember back in January when you stoped by the jobsite I was on out in the county??? well the idoit I was subbing to almost dropped a tree on me when I was pushing slash facing away from him. No one was suposed to be felling ANYTHING ANYWHERE at the moment, just bucking logs. Well evedently xxx decided that was a good time to fell a 20'' oak in my direction!!! I saw it just in time to get smacked in the face with thumb sized branches, glad I was wearing my helment!! So far other than the minor cuts and scratches I've been VERY fortuneate.:angel:

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

He didn't even yell headache!?

Sorry could not resist it.

 

[Ryan Willock]

JPS, he didn't even know what a figure eight was!!!!! how the He11 was he going to know to yell head ach??? that was the last first and LAST job that I ever did with xxx Tree Service!!! and on top of that (lets talk sever wallet injury for a second here) he didn't even pay me the full amount according to our contract, he only paid me $580 for three weeks of work with my tractor!!! it was suposed to be 25% of the gross from the job which would have been $3,000!!!!

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Ouch, did you have a contract? I would take a lein out on his property.

 

[Ryan Willock]

I had a contract (by the way $3,000 for three weeks work is DIRT cheap!!! the job was only suposed to take a week!!) but trying to enforce it on him was like trying to nail jello to the wall.... POINTLESS!!!! The only thing he owned free and clear was his 1975 ford F-600 log truck which barely ran and had ALL kinds of problems, like no brakes from time to time!!! Found out he didn't have the $$$ to pay me because of a coke habit, his employees didn't fare any better than me on that deal. Back in march he managed to drop the top of a large oak right down the middle of a horse barn in Hillsborgh!!!

 

[Reed]

Sounds like perhaps we should be addressing this person - for a moticum of accountability - then spread the word about him - for his own sake and especially other's.

It's difficult to judge people because we aren't them and don't factor-in whatever it is that makes people do what people do, but cocaine and tree work don't mix - if that's his problem.

I can't accept needless deaths or injuries, and this guy sounds like he's a weak link about to give way.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Thanks for reminding me Reed

 

[Mattman]

This topic reminded me of the Darwin Awards. Please be a little more careful (myself included!).

 

[treeman82]

Figured I would bump this up to the top seeing as how Dr. Ball published his article in this month's TCI.

 

[NeTree]

Originally posted by Mattman
This topic reminded me of the Darwin Awards. Please be a little more careful (myself included!).

Words to live by

 

[duff]

On the handsaws...Silky never bites, but the ARS folding handsaw, for all I love that little saw...I beleive the branding is an acronym for Always Rends Skin.

One other ARS incident; this one with the telescopic pruners(not cut-and-hold head).

Their fundamental flaw is no hangy thing, so I craft a heavy-gauge wire hook-like organ for them around the shaft down near the trigger...works great...BUT

My first year as an arborist...up on a ladder, pulling Cup of Gold vine from a Coast Live Oak...one pesky section hung on good...so I McGyvered it with the hangy hook, still a wrestle...finally broke loose, per my determination, freeing the business end of the pruners to bury itself in my upper thigh...I never got down a ladder so fast, and I never have used those hooks for anything but hangy-duty since. 8 stiches & I have a lovely centipede-looking scar where I pulled out the blade.

One last...never approach an agave americanum quickly, variegation notwithstanding.


:blush: :blush:

 

[TimberMcPherson]

Injured hand

PS Typing with one hand stinks!!!!

I have strained a couple of tendons in my left hand, dont know exactly how but was doing some climbing for a mate ricky, hand started off hurting a bit climbing, then starting the 394, another hour and I couldnt start my 020. Think im off work for a while curse it!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Re: Injured hand

Originally posted by TimberMcPherson
PS Typing with one hand stinks!!!!

I have strained a couple of tendons in my left hand, dont know exactly how but was doing some climbing for a mate ricky, hand started off hurting a bit climbing, then starting the 394, another hour and I couldnt start my 020. Think im off work for a while curse it!

Try wrapping your wrist real tight, or even a couple of inches below your elbow.
Sometimes that helps.....

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

ice it regularly

 

[xander9727]

Contrast baths have always helped me. Put the affected area in a 70/30 ice/water mix for two minutes and then in 105 degree (hot tub) water for one minute, repeat.

 

[DadF]

I hope that Timbermcpherson realizes that the 105 is in Fahrenheit and not Celsius