I guess things happen for a reason...

[John Paul Sanborn]

Yeah Dan,

I effed up big time. I am usually much more aware of my surroundings. This is the first time I have damaged/lost one of my saws. Usually its the hands that are destroying my gear.

I had a sliky polesaw go that route, I looked in the mirror as a semi rolls over it

 

[BlackenedTimber]

I had a sliky polesaw go that route, I looked in the mirror as a semi rolls over it

hahahaha that sucks bro!

I had a guy back the chipper over 2 ground saws in 1 week, and had a guy drive the bucket truck over an MS200T that same week as well.

Had a guy get nervous and run while felling timber, leaving an 044 in the kerf of the back cut as the tree was falling. The tree bounced when it hit, and the butt slammed back down and obliterated the saw- you could have picked up the remaining parts with a shovel...

I have had lots of saws go bye-bye, this is just the first one that I was directly responsible for.

Oh well :censored: happens.

 

[BlackenedTimber]

I rented a house near a huge wind farm in Medicine Park when I was out there for artillery school. That wind farm seemed to double in size while I was there.

I was on that job. Part of the Blue Canyon project. I remember the artillery practice, shook the whole countryside. Hell, It shook the windows in my hotel room in Lawton. And I remember what looked like CH-47s flying in and dropping off artillery and a bunch of guys jumping out and blasting the living crap out of nothing. Had what looked like Apaches buzz our location more than a few times. Think they did it just to mess with us. Makes me proud to be an American when I see all that firepower rolling around the hills of Oklahoma as I'm installing wind turbines.

 

[USMC0802]

I was on that job. Part of the Blue Canyon project. I remember the artillery practice, shook the whole countryside. Hell, It shook the windows in my hotel room in Lawton. And I remember what looked like CH-47s flying in and dropping off artillery and a bunch of guys jumping out and blasting the living crap out of nothing. Had what looked like Apaches buzz our location more than a few times. Think they did it just to mess with us. Makes me proud to be an American when I see all that firepower rolling around the hills of Oklahoma as I'm installing wind turbines.

I was out there from July to December last year. The house I rented was on Big Rock Road, off 58...about 4 miles from the impact area, and we'd feel it in the floors and it rattled our windows. There's so much bedrock out there.

There were a lot of Apaches, Blackhawks, and 47s flying around out there. We had a few F-16s in from time to time for training on dropping bombs and what not.