Chainsaw use - alone

[grnspot110]

Always alone, 30 miles from home, in the middle of nowhere. Nearly everything I do, I do by myself and have nearly all of my adult life. Not saying it's safer, or for everybody, just the way I work!

 

[ovrszd]

Yeah, unless Lowell's wife comes looking for him the only way he'll be found is by the circling buzzards. My farm isn't that remote. Maybe 4 vehicles go down the road per day. One being the postman.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Out in the boonies, everyone driving by is probably texting. Maybe a guy needs to carry a flare gun along with all that other safety equipment and bubble wrap mentioned..

 

[fried1765]

Out in the boonies, everyone driving by is probably texting. Maybe a guy needs to carry a flare gun along with all that other safety equipment and bubble wrap mentioned..

A flare gun???
To set the woods on fire?
That will definitely draw some attention!

 

[oosik]

EVERYTHING I do out here is all by myself. Thirty eight years and no incapacitating accidents. Just gotta recognize - there will be nobody to come save your scrawny azz if you screw up. Think things through - recognize danger. Don't be foolhardy. Take it slow and easy. Live to enjoy tomorrow.

 

[Industrial Toys]

My Mom once told me, if in trouble to YELL FIRE, NOT Help, as people care most about themselves.

 

[newbury]

I "chainsaw" alone virtually all the time. If I'm going to be doing it while up in a tree or on a roof I try to make sure the wife knows and I'll usually call to say "going up in tree" and "back on ground".

I've had my share of minor accidents usually within shouting distance of the house. Things like a small tree falling wrong and brushing me, getting wapped by a branch springing free.

 

[PILOON]

I've seen my 80 th go by and have always cut alone but then mostly as a week end warrior.
I however am on my 6 or 7 saw (1st was a Cobra) and now own a big Jonsered and a nice Stihl 009 for light trimming. (lots of power for such a small package*)
I escaped my 1st widow maker as a teen so became real cautious after that.
OK, it helped some as in the Cobra days I worked alongside an old experienced lumberjack.

* So light for power that a guy can limb onehanded standing on top of a ladder ( or belted with climbing irons). Really liked by professional tree surgeons (no longer produced).
In fact a professional offered to even trade me a new Johnsered for my 009. (LOL, got it from a pawn shop for a huge $40.cdn) his trade offer was a new $400, ish saw)

 

[Industrial Toys]

I think, making people watch an hour of Youtube chainsaw fails would be more valuable than maybe some of the safety equipment. I have learned a lot from that, and even though having using a saw for fifty years (without injury) , it's just I have never come across some of those situations YET!

Anyone using a chainsaw from a ladder is asking for hurt!

 

[/pine]

This thread conjures up memmories of the climber that got his hand caught under a huge bolder and all he had was a pocket knife...boulders...big heavy logs...pocket knives...chainsaws...just sayin...!