Tree cutting accident

[CalG]

No amount of gear will replace common sense.

Alas, there is no market for that.

 

[MossRoad]

I think yall are confusing saw brakes with the way most electric saws stop the chain immediately when you let off the trigger without hitting the stop.

It would be useful in the videos where people are cutting limbs on a ladder and the limb knocks the off and they're falling with a spinning chain on the gas saw.

It would be more useful if one didn't get on a ladder and drop a limb on themselves in the first place. There are a lot of videos about that on youtube.

 

[sandman2234]

I was cutting a tree laid over onto a powerline that went to inlaws house. Main line had no power, so electricity wasn't the issue. Polesaw in a man-bucket, I cut limbs past the wire, then cut them one foot on the other side of the wire. A short piece about 1" in diameter bounced off the wire and hit my hard hat on the way down. I FELT THAT IN MY NECK INTO THE NEXT DAY!
I wouldn't have believed it could hurt that much!
Hard hat with ear muffs and face protection, chaps and gloves are worth it!!
David from jax

 

[1Mech]

Who here has had any sawyer safety education?

I would not even know where to find such a class in my area!
Who offers them, the saw manufactuer?

 

[Fixastuff]

It would be more useful if one didn't get on a ladder and drop a limb on themselves in the first place. There are a lot of videos about that on youtube.

Of course, but based on YouTube there is a limitless supply of people willing to or unknowingly taking that risk.

When I get a new piece of equipment I search it plus fail and find out what not to do. Lol.

 

[AnotherBueller]

Who here has had any sawyer safety education?

I have, was required to do volunteer work with the Boy Scouts.

 

[CalG]

Just this summer, I topped a dead hemlock that was a hazard to nearby buildings.

That entailed climbing the shaft with irons, limbing as I went up. I'm not young, and not particularly familiar with climbing methods. But I went as high as I thought necessary to drop the upper part short of any danger.

On the final ascent, I used a double flip line, and cinched in tight in case I would be knocked off the climbing spikes.
I wore a forestry helmet, gloves, long pants and steel toed boots.
The felling cut was made with a one handed toy electric chains saw. (Makita)
The top hung on a nearby maple tree in the horizontal position. I had just enough time to express "OH! Sh-t" in consideration of having the but end of that top expel me from that lofty perch.

Then it let go, falling safely below as I waggled and swayed on that free swinging hemlock stem.
I don't feel a need to do that again... safety wise. I'm getting old.

But what a ride!

You only live ONCE!

 

[WinterDeere]

It would be more useful if one didn't get on a ladder and drop a limb on themselves in the first place. There are a lot of videos about that on youtube.

A chainsaw should never be used on a ladder, period. Your options are:

1. Pole saw
2. Learn to climb
3. Get a lift or bucket truck

 

[ArlyA]

ladder + chainsaw = hospitals ER......

 

[D&D]

ladder + chainsaw = hospitals ER......

Life flight - one (saw guy) with back injuries and one (steadying ladder) with compound leg fracture.