How close have you come

[nyone]

I cut my pants once. Was half way though the pocket and stopped. That was years ago. Now i mostly just burn one tank of gas in the saw and thats about it forna few hours.

A simular thing i see with these injuries is over head cutting and/or being tired.

 

[Jstpssng]

I cut my pants once. Was half way though the pocket and stopped. That was years ago. Now i mostly just burn one tank of gas in the saw and thats about it forna few hours.

A simular thing i see with these injuries is over head cutting and/or being tired.

That's the underlying cause, anytime I do something stupid. You would think that I would learn.

 

[Molalla1]

Only happen to me once with a chainsaw, I did not have chaps on but did have the Carhart bibs (double knees) on . . . just skinned me . . . since that episode I always put the chaps on.

 

[yomax4]

Cut through my jeans but no skin. I was holding an 026 20" bar cutting overhead with one hand. The branch came down and pinched the bar just as it cut my pants. I have chaps now.

 

[CobyRupert]

20 years without chaps. Got chaps, within 3 week put a cut on them from holding saw vertical when chain was still spinning after cutting through a branch.

...however, had thick winter pants under chaps on, and I wonder if without extra thickness of chaps would I have even cut the chaps if I didn't have them on (Catch-22)?

 

[tractorshopper]

I usually limit myself to one tank of gas at a time, but have run through up to 3 tanks before. Haven't injured myself yet thank God. This thread is making me use my noggin though and remembering some stupid things I've done like standing on my tractor seat and reaching all the way up with one hand to cut back some higher limbs on our road instead of buying an pruning chain saw once my regular pruning saw broke a couple months ago. Thinking about counting on my strength to stop the saw with that one hand that is holding it after the branch falls with my only pre-thought being if it gets away from me to just kind of throw it and let it go is really stupid and I'm lucky I didn't have an issue last time.

I will go by a battery powered pruning chain saw before doing any of that again. Thanks.

 

[Gary Fowler]

I came about as close as you can come without injury with my chainsaw once. I cut a 4" long gash in my blue jeans but didn't scratch the skin. I had been using it so long cutting off low limbs that my arms just gave out. As I dropped the saw down from overhead, it was still turning a bit and just slashed the jeans. Lucky.


Another time I had the same close call with a pocket knife while working inside a cramped closet trying to clean off a copper pipe of some excess solder so I could re-solder the leaking joint at my sisters house. Not having the right tools for the job, I was trying to trim off a glob of lead solder using my pocket knife. The position required me to pull the knife toward me (I knew it wasn't a good idea to start with BUT) and when it finally cut thru the solder, my leg was in the line of fire.
Once again, it neatly sliced thru a new pair of pants but only scratched the skin without any bleeding. I did manage to finish the repair without hacking my leg off.

 

[orangeandgreen]

Up on a ladder, reaching around the tree to cut a limb and the limb kicked back and caught the ladder. Ladder went left, me and the saw went right. Was able to toss the saw away from me as I hit the ground.
That was the event that helped me decide I needed a pole saw.

 

[1930]

Thanks for the pics. OUCH is well an understatement.
Saved your image. Once house is built will print this and tape it to my tool board where reaching for the chain saw will be a visual reminder for me.
Can't thank you enough for that.
I do feel for your pain an injury because you described exactly how I've felt over the last two summers fatigued from cutting a total of about 80 hackberries. And yes the manly thing, just once more pass it's a small tree...lol...
For me the chain tip hit the stump/dirt but the kness was right there....whew....man....glad you are doing well.

You didnt read my post correctly. I didnt say ouch, I said Oouch. See the extra O

 

[fruitcakesa]

Up on a ladder, reaching around the tree to cut a limb and the limb kicked back and caught the ladder. Ladder went left, me and the saw went right. Was able to toss the saw away from me as I hit the ground.
That was the event that helped me decide I needed a pole saw.

My worst chainsaw run-in [yes, there was more than one over the years] was when I was up on a ladder cutting the log wall out of our home to install a pair of french doors when one leg of the ladder shifted on the uneven ground.
Down I went and was to slow to let go of the saw , which was still winding down, in my right hand and the blade hit the top of my left hand. Meat and blood but amazingly no tendon or bone damage.
Total operator error. Chaps would not have helped in this case.