[AT] Accident Video

[Dennis Johnson]

Last weekend I was cutting a 10” branch that was that was blocking top of driveway. I cut through about half of it, and then decided to move the ladder. I moved it the ladder where I had to reach a bit more and finished cutting the branch. It fell right where I originally had the ladder.

Dennis

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> On Feb 6, 2019, at 7:40 PM, Dean Vinson <dean at vinsonfarm.net> wrote:
> 
> A month or so ago I had a very near miss with a YouTube "fails-worthy"
> episode involving gravity, a chainsaw, and a ladder.   I'd taken what I
> thought were very careful precautions prior to trimming off a medium-sized
> branch that was higher than I could reach from the ground.  The precautions
> worked just fine against the threat I was worried about (falling branch
> swinging back and hitting the ladder), but didn't do jack for the threat I
> hadn't considered (falling branch swinging back and hitting me).   I escaped
> with a couple of sprained fingers and a sense of "Dean you are way, way
> luckier than you deserve, and if you have a brain in your head you'll never
> do anything remotely like that again."   As was well stated on this list
> last summer, chainsaws and ladders do not play well together.
> 
> Dean Vinson
> Saint Paris, OH
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AT [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Carl
> Gogol
> Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 8:03 AM
> To: 'Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group' <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] Accident Video
> 
> Its easy to deny its existence, Mark.  However, do so at your own peril.
> Carl
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
> Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 7:50 AM
> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> Subject: Re: [AT] Accident Video
> 
> It is one law that the Congress cannot repeal :-)
> 
> Mark Johnson
> Columbia, MO
> 
> 
>> On 2/6/2019 6:07 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:
>> Gravity is a persistent sonofagun, isn't it?
>> 
>> Dean Vinson
>> Saint Paris, OH
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: AT [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of 
>> STEVE ALLEN
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 9:42 PM
>> To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> Subject: [AT] Accident Video
>> 
>> Gents,
>> 
>> Some time back, we were all looking at a video compilation of chainsaw 
>> accidents.  Here is a link to a similar compilation, but the tools 
>> involved--and the sometimes tragic results--are much bigger.  Some of 
>> these are hard to watch.
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_BgZxmCm34&app=desktop
>> 
>> The "original" Steve Allen
> 
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