himiler
If I wake up . . . it's a good day.
I'm posting this here instead of the Injuries forum to hopefully direct you new guys over to that site and to preach a bit of safety.
Started off the day well enough, nice, cool, and had my son-in-law for an experienced groundie. We always repeat out loud the address of where we're working for that day and I leave the keys to the truck where they can be retrieved by anyone who knows where they are.
Before the day was over I had slipped out of the tree twice, allowed the chain saw to come dangerously close to my leg (the spinning chain actually left a scuff mark on the top of my boot), and tripped over a limb while working with a chain saw on the ground and instead of throwing the chainsaw away from me, I ended up having it hit me on the side after I fell.
Miraculously I walked away from the day with no injuries but I believe only by listening to others on this site preach safety and most of all by the grace of God.
When releasing the flip line to climb or reposition I had the slack taken out of the life line which meant when I fell out of the tree all I really did was swing out and have to re climb.
The chainsaw stunt was just plain stupid. I was using a 50cc ground saw up in the tree one handed without thinking through where that thing would end up after the cut. A scuff on my boot was the extent of the damage.
When I was on the ground and tripped at least I tried to throw the saw away from me. If I would have held onto it there may have been the chance for that thing to have revved up and cut me bad! As it was all that happened was an idling saw knocked me in the ribs.
It's not if accidents will happen, it's when. Make sure you all spend some time in the accident and injuries forum learning from others mistakes. There's a wealth of information throughout Arboristsite and this is one area you don't need to think you know enough of!
Steve
Started off the day well enough, nice, cool, and had my son-in-law for an experienced groundie. We always repeat out loud the address of where we're working for that day and I leave the keys to the truck where they can be retrieved by anyone who knows where they are.
Before the day was over I had slipped out of the tree twice, allowed the chain saw to come dangerously close to my leg (the spinning chain actually left a scuff mark on the top of my boot), and tripped over a limb while working with a chain saw on the ground and instead of throwing the chainsaw away from me, I ended up having it hit me on the side after I fell.
Miraculously I walked away from the day with no injuries but I believe only by listening to others on this site preach safety and most of all by the grace of God.
When releasing the flip line to climb or reposition I had the slack taken out of the life line which meant when I fell out of the tree all I really did was swing out and have to re climb.
The chainsaw stunt was just plain stupid. I was using a 50cc ground saw up in the tree one handed without thinking through where that thing would end up after the cut. A scuff on my boot was the extent of the damage.
When I was on the ground and tripped at least I tried to throw the saw away from me. If I would have held onto it there may have been the chance for that thing to have revved up and cut me bad! As it was all that happened was an idling saw knocked me in the ribs.
It's not if accidents will happen, it's when. Make sure you all spend some time in the accident and injuries forum learning from others mistakes. There's a wealth of information throughout Arboristsite and this is one area you don't need to think you know enough of!
Steve
