stupid is as stupid does

[sedanman]

Marty, Did you cut yourself with the saw you sold me? When I bought the saw you were on crutches from "knee surgery" were you the surgeon?

 

[chainsawworld]

paul,
no, yours is not the saw. i still have it. it has a sign in it that reads" warning-carnivorous". marty

 

[WOLF_RIVER_MIKE]

haven't had a saw injury. Woodsjunkie, I had a similar looking injury from stepping on a nail. Was doing some salvage of some goodlumber, and was carrying some lumber out to throw on a pile and stepped down on a 16 penny just behind the ball of my foot. Had Leather steel toed boots on. Sh*t, that hurt. Became infected and looked alot like your injury. I limped on that so long, I think my other side got funky. Anyway I sprained the other side ankle twice. The second time, I was stepping down off a lawnmower and cracked that ankle. I hit the gound screaming. Anyway's it's always something ain't it? Ya'll be careful up there. WRM

 

[chainsawworld]

here is hopefully a picture of an accident that was about to happen. one guy cut the tree at about five feet. un-able to controll the cut, he hung it in another tree. the other guy squirreld up the tree and cut some top. i stopped and offered a machine to pull the tree down. they refused the offer and said they were going to place a ladder on one leader and cut the other leader. i asked when that was going to take place and they told my when the ladder gets here and a bunch more of these(holding up a can of bud). later they asked for a backhoe from a neighbor. marty

 

[chainsawworld]

from the road

 

[jokers]

I can`t share any pics of nasty chainsaw injuries with you guys, guess I`ve been lucky, but the evidence of close calls remains on my chaps and steel toe boots. I will tell you about the time I was cutting a bunch of 2 1/2" red sumac that were encroaching on my 3 yr old apple trees though. It was a very close call and I can see where some one else might not be so lucky. The sumacs grew up in the year and a half since I had planted the apples and not only made it impossible to mow around the trees with the tractor, but were also shading the trees, and besides I figured it was only a matter of time before one fell on one of the apple trees. So I`m out there with the 019T in my right hand, holding the tops of the sumac with my left hand while I cut so they don`t fall on the baby apples. No problem, cut about 15 or 20 like this, make the cut and then throw the top out of the way with my left hand. Maybe I was getting tired or maybe the last one that day was just alot heavier, but the last one I cut immediately fell straight down as soon as I severed it, right past the spinning chain. I felt a "nick" as my hand went past the saw, and as soon as I could recoil my hand I could see nice clean cuts through the tips of my gloves middle and ring fingers and the skin underneath was just barely scraped. WHEW! Russ

 

[eyolf]

Regarding marty's leaning tree:

Were these guys clearing a lot, logging, or getting firewood? Why didn't they just try to piece it down? That tree doesn't look all that dangerous, unless one is trying to save a 10 footer off the butt, and even then doesn't look like it would be too much trouble to shake it down with a pickup and a long cable.

I've got a 100 foot, 1/2" cable for that type of thing.

Oh, wait...I think I just read that they cut it off 5' from the ground. Darwin award contestants?

 

[chainsawworld]

i also forgot to mention they were going to place the ladder in between the two main leaders. marty

 

[Gypo Logger]

Hi Marty, sometimes it's amazing the antics that people will go thru to bring a tree to the ground with their main tools being a hope and a prayer. There is lots to say for having the right equipment, such as a tractor or cable skidder. In the picture of the leaner I would do the "cut and run", as in fall the tree the leaner is leaning into. This is also crazy, but at least you can run when the whole teepee comes crashing down if you dont have a skidder. Blocking the leaner in several sections works and is safer if done correctly.
John

 

[Gypo Logger]

You may have seen this picture before, but I caught it live last winter.
John

 

[Gypo Logger]

Oops sorry I forgot to give credit too the two individuals in the picture. The chopper is Rotax Robert and the straw boss is Dennis Greffard. The tree was a Manitoba Maple.
John

 

[chainsawworld]

john,
i don't know how they got as far as they did. the BIG saw was a homelite super e-z and the two trim saws were a homelite bandit and a homelite super 2. by looking at some of the stumps, i think they also hired a tall beaver. marty

 

[Dennis]

Dan Hicks, whom most of you dont know, was here today...he builds alot of the bars at Cannon Machine works...they build bars for pretty much every Stihl Series Race saw...as well as rollernose bars for every application...my new 24"race bar will be built monday But, to the topic...he is a chopper...races all over the world...and was telling me about guys with only two toes on each foot...he had some of his practice axes with him, and you can shave with them.....these guys wear chain-mail armour on their shins and feet while they chop, just in case of a mis hit...big and i mean big bruise but still keep the toes...this practice axe of his buried itself prolly 5 inches in the wood with only a half @ssed swing...not even close to trying...safety is not something to be laughed at....I believe i mentioned it before, but Robert and I were the only ones to wear chaps at the Sequim show...out of prolly 25 chainsaw racers....that just doesnt seem right...

By the way Robert pulled on that rope hard enough (practice pulling rope?) to sway that tree over and out of trouble...

 

[sedanman]

Dennis, How's the finger? Should be on the mend by now eh? Two schools of thought when the chain bites you, first says the chain has a taste for blood and should be put down, second says let each chain have a little blood then tell it "That's all you're ever gonna get" I prefer to keep my blood on the inside.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Hey Dennis, how ya makin' out, did your glorified hang nail get better yet?
John

 

[Dennis]

Hey Zypo, I am finally back in the land of the living nnow, new computer, well..reformatted with Linux and wireless internet....

The finger has healed well over the last two years, thanks for asking...lol....but it served a valuable lesson.

-I cut it twice and it's still too short.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Hey Dennis, now all you have to deal with is the frost bite. At 40 below tires become square.
John