My wife got a chainsaw for birthday.

[Redneck in training]

My wife got a chainsaw for birthday. We have about 30 ac of forest. I used to cut and she pulled the branches and stocked the logs. That is hard work. So she got her own chainsaw. She will do the cutting and I will do the hard stuff.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

At least you will make sure all is well before you go to sleep from this point forward. :laughing:

 

[buckeyefarmer]

What a sweet wife.

 

[Mousefield]

That痴 a good size saw. What it the blade length on that beast? Hope she has many happy hours of safe cutting.

 

[Thomas]

Good for the young lady..wishing your Mrs. many many more trips around the sun.

 

[SensibleNick]

Nice saw - and excellent to see a lass looking genuinely happy to get a serious piece of machinery as a present

If she's doing all the brashing and snedding, then make sure she's got boots and trousers too :thumbsup:

You may know this one already: but as the work she's doing with it will involve walking around with a running saw in an area that has logs/branches strewn over it, get her into the habit of putting the blade brake on whenever she's not using the saw.

My brother's an arborist/tree surgeon, and says the most prominent noise when he's at work is the continuous "Dink" noises as he and colleagues trip the blade brake after each cut. "If you're finger's not on the trigger, blade brake should be engaged" He reckons that habit has saved his arms a couple of times as he tripped and inadvertently pulled the trigger while falling: even pros mess up

Not trying to be a harbinger of doom: but I've heard too many horror stories from my brother!

 

[westbrooklawn]

What a guy.........

 

[eepete]

Atta boy! I gave my wife a Sthil Farm Boss for Valentines day one year. She lets me use it.

Pete

 

[arrow]

When we first moved to the woods, my wife was cutting with one of my smaller limbing saws. While cutting off a branch at shoulder level, the saw hopped off the branch, and to my horror, came down on her wrist . Now I'm watching this from about 75'away and I thought she severed a major artery. As I am running toward her in that slow motion ,dream way that happens when you cannot get there fast enough, she is looking on the ground. I asked if she was alright and she said she was but her watch was missing. The chainsaw had cut off the thick leather banding people wore in the 70's as watch bands neatly in two. That was the last day she used a chainsaw.

 

[radioman]

When we first moved to the woods, my wife was cutting with one of my smaller limbing saws. While cutting off a branch at shoulder level, the saw hopped off the branch, and to my horror, came down on her wrist . Now I'm watching this from about 75'away and I thought she severed a major artery. As I am running toward her in that slow motion ,dream way that happens when you cannot get there fast enough, she is looking on the ground. I asked if she was alright and she said she was but her watch was missing. The chainsaw had cut off the thick leather banding people wore in the 70's as watch bands neatly in two. That was the last day she used a chainsaw.

wow! that is scary! glad nothing is serious though. Hope you guys kept the watch as a good luck charm.