Your funniest chainsaw accident thread

[Chainsaw_Maniac]

Put your funniest chansaw accident(s) in this thread.

My funniest chansaw accident was about a week ago where I falled a maple that was about 2 feet in diamiter. I didn't care that I was falling it into another tree (and damaging that other tree) cuz they were both trees marked for firewood. The tree I falled got stuck in a fork of the second tree and when I put my skidding winch on it to get it down the whole thing balanced in it like a see-saw and both ends were at least 20 feet off the ground. Too bad I don't have a picture put you can imagine it.

My buddy was limbing a tree once and cut a branch that was under tention and hit himself in the nuts with it when he cut it through.

 

[Clem]

Not so sure there should BE a thread like this, but here goes...
Cutting a bunch of oak and hickory for firewood off a site where a bulldozer had been used to push them over prior to construction of houses. Of course I am cherry-picking, taking the best and easiest wood while it is available, and I start down this nice sized oak. Well I get about half way down the trunk from the top, and all of a sudden the remainder of the tree, powered by an impressive rootball, stands straight up! Needless to say I am scared to death, and glad I didn't have any "help":angel: standing around behind that rootball. There was a nicely cut-off oak standing about 15 feet tall, reminding me how little I knew about cutting trees... Older, and hopefully wiser,
Clem.

 

[cbfarmall]

Might be an even funnier postscript to your story if you had to fall the same tree twice. Bet that doesn't happen too often.

Chris B.

 

[MasterBlaster]

During my first week of EVER operating a chainsaw, I was paying more attention to the skirt across the street instead of the task at hand - Bam!! 26 stitches across my left hand!

What a hoot!!!

 

[Steve Bunyan]

More of a close call. Trying to think of too many things at once I set my chainsaw on the back of the bucket truck and dealt with the customer and the bill. We got to the next job which was across town and the saw wasn't in the side box. Went around to the back of the truck and almost soiled myself to see the saw was still there. There was nothing keeping it there but dumb luck.

I've had a brand new saw fall apart during use because the dealer just slapped it together and didn't tighten anything.

My groundman put 50' of rope thru the chipper and didn't notice until the rope started to smoke and burn.

 

[spacemule]

Hey Clem, you didn't mix any viagra in with you bar oil, did you?

 

[TREETX]

Originally posted by MasterBlaster
During my first week of EVER operating a chainsaw, I was paying more attention to the skirt across the street instead of the task at hand - Bam!! 26 stitches across my left hand!

It is always hard to look cool when you are bleeding.

Your funniest chainsaw accident thread

Funny ha ha or funny odd??

 

[ranger]

Was just wondering if anyone has ever fallen a tree that had a porcupine in it. I never have and never want to but imagine that would hurt a bit if one landed on you!

Matt

 

[TREETX]

I don't want to hijack a chainsaw thread, but I have managed to tangle with a porcupine. Ouch!!! Those things are hard (and painful) to pull out.

.02

 

[tony marks]

just my guess but if the porcupine landed on u . the chances are good the tree mite too .. if thats the case and the trees any size .. u probably aint gonna be able to feel that porcupine quill . all of this being speculative ,,in any case..
i guess one o the funniest thats happened to me ,,is the fella that conned me into taking a pioneer farmsaw of his hands for 80 bucks. turned out he had somehow doctored the sprocket ...[worst worn out sprocket iever saw],, so he could let me see it run. i found out what he had done after i got home ,,and put it to some wood. thru sparks everywhere but ,,i could of held the chain still with my hand[i didnt ].. the funny pt,,, he thot it was shot .. a 17 dollar srocket ,,with a back up bought ,just in case they become unavailable. i got an almost like new commercial 65 cc saw ,,that runs ,cuts with the good ones of today,,and has that quirky no compression feature ,,which i dont understand at all.. and so the funny was on me,,until i was able to turn it on the guy who sold the saw,, for that money. when i go out on weekends,,i put it in the trunk,so if i find the guy ,,i can show him the real punch line. its gonna happen. these creeps make the circuit of flea markets.guy just hasnt learned any better . sorry for the long post.

 

[SilverBlue]

Hey Hermann! Good to hear from you, how’s it goin?

 

[Chainsaw_Maniac]

Originally posted by SilverBlue
Hey Hermann! Good to hear from you, how’s it goin?

I'm doing good. Trying to get a whole bunch more firewood cut so I can sell it. I might hire my first full time employee soon.

The rest of you guys.....don't get me wrong about accidents being funny. Most of them typically aren't. But most people have probably had one that's worth sharing. And as long as nobody gets badly hurt it's all good in the end.

 

[JimL]

There was a 3.5-4 foot beech tree that uprooted in the tornado, along with alot of other trees. Well i cut it off about 6 foot from the rootball, sprung back up. the hole was full of water, completely showered my buddy


funny me

 

[MasterBlaster]

I did that once on an 18' log(still attached to the blown-over root ball) and it catapulted my wedge that I left sitting on it into the woods- Ha!

I allmost lost my wedge!

 

[Gypo Logger]

The most pleasurable experience I had in the bush, was when I encountered a lost tribe of blonde women, who captured me for 40 days and forty nights. These voluptuous women weren't mean at all, but rather, I knew what my job was. They were very beautiful and of perfect feminine form. In tune with nature and their habitat, I learned lots from them, ekeing out a paradisical existence within the canopy of that virginal hardwood forest on high. Picture in your mind falling in love with 40 inocent woman, purer than the driven snow, where there was no jealousy or insecurities whatsoever, well that was what happened to me.
Pretty is, as Pretty does.
John, the Nature Man

 

[Marky Mark]

Here’s my accident, I had a 2100 built by Mike Rupley. I have decided to use it as a Boat
Anchor since that’s the only thing it can do. This is how I have it rigged right now, I have more testing to see how it works in the duck blind.

 

[Marky Mark]

Here's a better shot, this professionally modified muffler can fill with water and the dogs will Drag so you can drift at a nice even pace. Sometimes when you are out in the bay in a Barnegat Sneak Box you need a little more weight in the front of the anchor. I am temped to take the worn lame ported cylinder and have that drag about three feet before the 2100 anchor so it will dig in the sand. Duck season is right around the corner so I can make some timed drags and report back.

 

[johnb]

Not as big a deal as others posted but I watched my buddy take his new 066 to the woods. He started to block out a large dry elm trunk. the first cut sounded like metal on metal grinding clanking. I wasn't wearing hearing protection like he was so I new something was'nt right. I said WOah!! and waived my hands. He stopped and said it's ok, just some viberation. I said your crazy thats screwed up!! After four cutts the chain flew off. after removing the side cover, it was apparent the 404 chain sprocket wasn't ever going to match the 3/8 chain!! OOOOPS Guess we should look. the Hoosier




Curley fries for everyone!!!!!

 

[Gypo Logger]

Hey Mark, according to Huskyman, it was the 038 that works best as a boat anchor, I guess we all stand corrected.
I hope Mike comes out of the woodwork about this.
Not being a Sh!t disturber, but rather the self appointed chainsaw meadiator, you two weirdo's ( Mike & Mark), better duke it out soon, right here, right now. Since it has come full circle, let's see who has the most social skills. Lets call it: East v.s. West- Boat Anchor, or Hotsaw?
John

 

[rahtreelimbs]

Since I am from PA. being weird and all, putting a chainsaw in my hands may be an accident in itself!