I'vde been cutting firewood since 1967...alone. I do leave word where I will be working but that will onlyi help after I've been gone at least a day. If I don't show up at coffee call in the monring, someone might come looking. Close calls? One, due to stupidity, Cutting down an old willow tree, made falling cuts but didn't look up. Big, as in about an 8" limb fell right in front of me about 3 feet away butt first.
Scariest was about a month ago. I'm 85 now so after about 2.5 hours work I dtake a coffee break sitting on a log. Stood up, took one step and a tree the land owner wanted to save fell landing right where I had been sitting. Almost brushed my back coming down. Examination showed it had been a sprout off the side of an old stump. I had been clearing brusdh around it - must have cut some kind of a prop limb. It did smash the clutch cover on the saw, a wonder it didn't totally smash the saw. I had to cut two rounds out of the tree to free up the saw.