[AT] Accident Video

[Mike M]

A friend who is an arborist told me trees and chainsaws do no go hand in 
hand. If you sever a femoral artery while cutting on a ladder, you'll 
bleed out before your wife can call 911.

Mike M


On 2/6/2019 10:21 PM, Dennis Johnson wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> 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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