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Lumberjack
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Oh.... well someone forgot to tell you about the kryptonite. My point is that contact with the tip can be avoided (unless that is the idea). If you cant then you must not be so great after all.
What a let down..... or not!
Maybe I am like Captain Obvious, I will let you figure that one out.
Oh, what did the racoon have anything to do with anything? Did you just want to through that in to show that you have sprouts of hair on your chest?
Carl
Lumberjack
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Originally posted by netree
Carl,
Of course contact with the tip can be avoided. Why do you think I cut them off?
DUH!!
Oh gawd I am dumb. I am gonna cut mine off too. Those dumb@$$ manufactures must have not been thinking. I mean they made a one handed saw, but didn't remove the risk of kick back. Man, thats a let down. I am sending them a letter.
Better yet, I am gonna get a patent.
Carl
Lumberjack
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Yea, we can break the 333 million record with this one!!!
Who started that suit?
Carl
Who started that suit?
Carl
Lumberjack
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Nope... an envirmentalist started it.
There was a movie, and the actress that played her was Julia Roberts.
Carl
There was a movie, and the actress that played her was Julia Roberts.
Carl
Lumberjack
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Erin Brokovich (spelling) against ker magee doin stuff with nuclear stuff.
And the pissing test has inadvertantly started.
Carl
And the pissing test has inadvertantly started.
Carl
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All your talk about avoiding contact with the tip of the saw is well and good, but most accidents while one handing are not kickback, not to say that's not a valid concern. There is a safety picture of a man, and on the illustration are dots indicating the common contact points, the points where a saw is likely to hit the operator. There are very few on the right hand, arm and shoulder, but many on the left hand, arm, shoulder, throat, and face. Most of these could be avoided by keeping boths hands properly on the saw.
The point about cutting a 'coon was that when you cut flesh, blood goes everywhere, it sprays off the chain. I was pointing out that by the time you realize the saw is kicking back, the event is over.
The racoon was inside the tree, I didn't know it. PITA would be mad I guess, 'cus I didn't eat the tasty animal.
MasterBlaster
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I cut a raccoons tail off once, and then I crushed him.
Poor little fella!
Poor little fella!
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The classic kickbacks are pretty easy to forsee if you have much experience with a saw and are not so likely to be the ones to catch us. It is the freaks like where another block or limb falls into the saws kick zone. I once snagged on a piece of wire that looked like a twig and it jerked the saw almost into my left ankle. I think in that case 2 hands saved me. It sure is tempting and time saving to control limbs with one hand and cut with the other. If you have a lot of strength in your hands etc. it is probably the more attractive. It is hard on human nature to avoid things that seem to pay off just because of the rather rare horror times. I know people who are safety freaks in some areas of their life and yet they smoke tobacco. Tempting the gods gives us a feling of power I guess.
Frank
Frank
MasterBlaster
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Erik, yur a wildman!
Uncle Teds got nothing on you!
