Posted on 04/01/2014 5:44:13 PM PDT by kingattax
Edited on 04/01/2014 5:44:45 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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I remember a story about a carpenter who fell off a second floor and ended up with a piece of rebar going through his head (back to front) with it sticking out between his eyes and his co-workers sawed it off and left it in place. They removed it at the hospital. It went right between his brain hemispheres. He survived with no brain damage and was just left with a vision problem in one eye. Saw an X-ray. nasty injury. But the point of this is on those kinds of injuries, leave the implement in place or you'll bleed out.
Cant imagine what it was like for the poor bastard when they had the sawsall cutting that rebar off.
Happy visual for the day!
Many chainsaw kickback stories have a less happy ending. I was never into the one-handed limbing technique.
I use a saw regularly. I’ve never seen the chain break like this. Come off the bar? Yes. That alone freaks me out.
This picture scares me.
Safety gloves, apron, and eye protection are not going to stop this.
How common is a broken chain?
Before someone else makes the remark: I should have listed a safety helmet, too.
When I was a kid we were cutting wood with a friend of my dad. His saw kicked back when he hit dirt and it landed on the toe of his cowboy boot and split his big toe down to the foot. He pulled the saw out and the blood followed. Pa and I looked at him. He looked at me and said boy, get my coat over there. I did. Now gimme that can of Skoal in the pocket. I did. Then he took a dip and sat down and cursed a while.
They are the most dangerous tool in the tool chest and there are skills necessary in using them. The problem is that everyone seems to think they know how to use them. They don't and end up bleeding.
There are five orange pro saws on my back porch right now that I'm getting ready for summer. I'll take down a couple hundred trees, cut, split, and deliver well over two hundred cord of wood. That is a normal year for my boys and I. We will do it all without stitches and broken bones.
Chainsaws are not voodoo science but you better know what you are doing with them and you damn well better respect what they can do to you.
Holey moley....
Chainsaws scare the willies out of me. I’ve used them many times. I’ve felled trees with them. I’ve cut up logs with them. I still don’t like them. Not one bit. They’re just pure motorized death and mayhem on a stick.
That looks like a fun movie.
I’d pay to see that.
Chain saws are like dope
Indeed, they are. I think it is nothing short of miraculous that I've been using them since 1972 without an accident since I'm just not that mechanically inclined. But one could happen tomorrow. You've got to pay constant attention to what you're doing.
“Feets Don’t Fail Me Now” was written by Barrere, George, Kibbee.
Your daddy says I’m no good
Your momma says keep away
Got to tell you truthful girl you can never make me stay
I got something up and down this coast
Bet you my last dollar girl I can love your love the most
Don’t the sunrise look so pretty
Never such a sight
Like a rollin’ into New York City
With the skyline in the morning light
Roll right through the night
Roll
Roll right through the night
I said Roll
Semi-smokin’ mama, you got to give me some
Heard you got the biggest — hmm — the biggest truck in town
Right on through to Baltimore you got to love me now
Got to do me gently, well it’s feets don’t fail me now
Don’t fail me, feets don’t fail me now
Don’t the sunrise look so pretty
Never such a sight
Like a rollin’ into New York City
With the skyline in the morning light
Roll right through the night
I said roll
Roll right through the night
Roll right through the night
I can understand the rebar, that’s stuck where it is stuck. Chainsaw in the neck, kinda has to be held in place
Craigslist; slightly used, bloody chainsaw. Blade will be fixed after from neck
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