Time for Chainsaw Chaps

[Industrial Toys]

I think the Diet or stopping addictive behavior is much harder. Use a saw, be focused and mindful of the task and tool at hand. I'm guessing, most can do it with firearm safety. Why should a saw be different. Carpenters don't gear up when using a table saw, short of safety glasses. They simply know, not to touch the damm thing.

 

[DMW]

I think the Diet or stopping addictive behavior is much harder. Use a saw, be focused and mindful of the task and tool at hand. I'm guessing, most can do it with firearm safety. Why should a saw be different. Carpenters don't gear up when using a table saw, short of safety glasses. They simply know, not to touch the damm thing.

I once saw a soldier shoot himself in the face. He had just finished cleaning his rifle, was doing after assembly checks, and for some reason put the magazine in, looked down the barrel and pulled the trigger. Luckily it was a training exercise with blank rounds, flash burn to his face, safety glasses saved his eyes. Even "professionals" have lapses.

 

[Industrial Toys]

You would think that if carpenters were less mindful, there would be many more around missing fingers. So, what is it about chainsaws that make people "apparently" think they don't have to pay attention, but just get more safety gear?

Putting in a magazine and looking down the barrel is a tad more than a lapse if you ask me. But yes, certainly, lapses happen.

 

[Fuddy1952]

I once saw a soldier shoot himself in the face. He had just finished cleaning his rifle, was doing after assembly checks, and for some reason put the magazine in, looked down the barrel and pulled the trigger. Luckily it was a training exercise with blank rounds, flash burn to his face, safety glasses saved his eyes. Even "professionals" have lapses.

Dear Lord! As kids Dad said always-Always assume the gun is loaded. I can be 100% sure a gun is not loaded and I still shoot into a compost pile to be 110% sure. Anything like a chainsaw I'm thinking "what if this or that happens".
Dad (rip) was Sears service manager after WWII. Guy brings in a JC Higgins 30-06 because a bullet jammed in chamber. "See?" He said as he pointed it to Dad's belly and pulled trigger. The gun repairman took it in basement, pulled trigger and it fired. Me...I would have beat that idiot to death.

 

[DMW]

I just got a scratch thanks to the chaps. It could have been much worse had I not been wearing them. I would have had to explain to my wife why, as she was the one who bought them for me after a friend of hers cut his knee to the bone.
Her wrath would have been greater then the injury.

 

[CobyRupert]

... So, what is it about chainsaws that make people "apparently" think they don't have to pay attention, but just get more safety gear?
.....But yes, certainly, lapses happen

I don't think it's an either/or situation. (Pay attention OR get safety gear.)

I see it like this: It's a numbers game. You can be 99.9999% perfect (safe). Which is REALLY REALLY good. Almost perfect. ....but that's still not good enough. Like you said, lapses can happen.

 

[MossRoad]

Would you take the airbags and seatbelts out of your kids' cars, or just tell them to pay better attention to what they're doing and the world around them?

In a best-case world, you'd never need safety equipment. Your brain and body would work perfectly together. Your equipment would never malfunction. And acts of God would never happen to you. In reality, people have lapses of attention, loss of balance, lapses in good judgement, equipment has catastrophic failure, and God drops trees on people. It's called accidental for a reason.

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1. happening by chance, unintentionally, or unexpectedly.

 

[Buggs67]

I don't think it's an either/or situation. (Pay attention OR get safety gear.)

I see it like this: It's a numbers game. You can be 99.9999% perfect (safe). Which is REALLY REALLY good. Almost perfect. ....but that's still not good enough. Like you said, lapses can happen.

In everything I do I shoot for 100%, for perfection. Then when my ineptitude, negligence or inattention to detail kick in I get an acceptable result. So. I'm careful. wear my chaps, watch my footing and so far (knock wood) no chainsaw injury.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I was thinking about this. All the safety hype. I have been around dangerous stuff all my life. Never bubble wrapped as a kid. The not caring attitude of my parents would be incomprehensible today. Worked at jobs, where I was told to do dangerous stuff.

Is it possible that many people have never been around anything dangerous and NOW go to use a chainsaw, and OMG is that thing dangerous!