Tree cutting accident

[RandyT]

Spoke to the wife earlier. Told that he was hit in the head but refused medical treatment for a couple hours before loosing consciousness. Currently in ICU in an induced coma with bleeding on the brain. So the time line between injury and reaching the trauma center was 4 hours.

 

[Rockbadchild]

Spoke to the wife earlier. Told that he was hit in the head but refused medical treatment for a couple hours before loosing consciousness. Currently in ICU in an induced coma with bleeding on the brain. So the time line between injury and reaching the trauma center was 4 hours.

That's too bad, time is crucial in these case...

 

[MossRoad]

I'd guess the most dangerous tools sold at hw stores is chainsaws. And to anyone who shows up with $200 gets one.

Was just talking to a sister of mine that recalled grabbing my dad's small chainsaw and clearing some trees in his yard after he passed away to enhance the view in preparation for selling his house. She'd never used a chainsaw before. Last thing she remembered as she tumbled down the escarpment with the running chainsaw in her hands was:
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Chainsaw
Dirt
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Chainsaw
Dirt
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Chainsaw
Dirt
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Chainsaw
Dirt
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Chainsaw
Dirt
Lake.

Fortunately, she was only bruised.

 

[MossRoad]

My hardware store sells firearms and ammo, so does the liquor store.
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'Merica!

 

[Rockbadchild]

Was just talking to a sister of mine that recalled grabbing my dad's small chainsaw and clearing some trees in his yard after he passed away to enhance the view in preparation for selling his house. She'd never used a chainsaw before. Last thing she remembered as she tumbled down the escarpment with the running chainsaw in her hands was:
Sky
Chainsaw
Dirt
Sky
Chainsaw
Dirt
Sky
Chainsaw
Dirt
Sky
Chainsaw
Dirt
Sky
Chainsaw
Dirt
Lake.

Fortunately, she was only bruised.

unreal ... This makes me think of a important detail, the break of a chainsaw should be adjusted in such that if drop as low as a foot it should engage on its own.

 

[MossRoad]

Same thing with new motorcycle riders.

I used to teach motorcycle safety. Riders would arrive just before our 8am class. Sometimes they had to wait in the center lane until oncoming traffic cleared. When I could I would watch their arrivals.

More than once I saw new riders slow down in the center lane and fall over before the oncoming vehicle cleared. Splayed out in the center lane. Yikes those riders needed the training but had no business riding a motorcycle enroute to receive it.

I'm sure many of those also operated chain saws ....

IF I ever take up motorcycle riding again, I'll definitely take a class. I have friends that still ride and from what I've been told, the classes are well worth it.

I recall one year when I put the bike away for the winter, got it out in the spring, took off on a curvy road I liked to push it on, and found that my skills had diminished greatly in just the 4-5 months, and ended up hopping a curb into the grass before I could stop. Fortunately, there was a driveway cut in the curb that I managed to go through, or I'd have lost it.

A good lesson in keeping your skills up. Use it or lose it. Etc.

 

[ning]

IF I ever take up motorcycle riding again, I'll definitely take a class. I have friends that still ride and from what I've been told, the classes are well worth it.

I recall one year when I put the bike away for the winter, got it out in the spring, took off on a curvy road I liked to push it on, and found that my skills had diminished greatly in just the 4-5 months, and ended up hopping a curb into the grass before I could stop. Fortunately, there was a driveway cut in the curb that I managed to go through, or I'd have lost it.

A good lesson in keeping your skills up. Use it or lose it. Etc.

Definitely worth it. I had rudimentary knowledge, read a lot, then went and took the class (which in CA lets you skip the DMV rider's test plus I got 10% off on insurance) and still learned a lot. The MSF classes out here provide the bike.

Sounds like you possibly had target fixation or just failed to "look through the turn". Definitely takes a lot of getting used to trying to ignore the pavement you're about to ride over in favor of looking at where you need to go but it's necessary otherwise you tend to stand a bike up in the turn - and once it starts standing up you'll hit the brakes to try to slow down, and hitting the brakes makes the bike stand up more and turn less, and before you know it you're off the road - biggest cause of single-vehicle motorcycle accidents I know of. I've never gone off the road but came close a number of times and whenever I get back on the bike after any sort of break I make a point of looking beyond. It's kinda like walking a balance beam or on top of a wall, if you look where your feet are stepping, you're going to fall, but if you look towards the end you'll be fine. (My paranoia is sand and gravel on the road in a turn which makes me stare right in front of me, hard to break that)

 

[Streetcar]

I have never worn a safety device in my life outside of safety glasses maybe 50% of the time.
Been at it for 40+ years without a significant injury.

My regular glasses are safety version. Thirty years ago when I started working on bridges my safety equipment was a hard hat

 

[Torvy]

Another plus for my electric. Blade stops when trigger is no longer depressed. No slow down, it stops cold.

 

[ArlyA]

Another plus for my electric. Blade stops when trigger is no longer depressed. No slow down, it stops cold.

My baby sized Mikita(s) has a bar brake, just like all saws do. But having that is not a panacea