[AT] Saw safety

[Spencer Yost]

To sort of being this back to tractors, I’ll re-tell a story of stupidity.    I was pulling a very small - like 1.5” - stump  with my Farmall A.   Being a very small stump, I’m sure I was not being a quite as careful as I normally would be.  So somehow I got the rope tangled around the rear tool bar lift - well above the axle plane - and didn’t see it.    I am sure that with my 57-year-old reflexes, I would not be here. That thing came flipping over in a split second. Being 32, I was able to get the clutch in before It flipped over and come down with a huge thud on the front axles.

I still nearly wet my pants thinking about that one.

Spencer Yost

> On Feb 7, 2019, at 8:07 PM, Ralph Goff <alfg at sasktel.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/7/2019 6:27 PM, Dean Vinson wrote:
>>    If you ever find yourself tempted to mix ladders and chainsaws, I hope you’re wiser than I was.
>>  
>> Dean Vinson
>> Saint Paris, OH
> Been there and done something even dumber years ago. I was up the ladder and standing on a branch of the tree. I was smart enough to not carry the running 
> 
> saw up the ladder but then of course I had to start it once I was up there. I guess the branch was not as strong as it looked because it snapped under me as I pulled the recoil start 
> 
> and sent me and the (still not running) chain saw falling to the ground. I don't think it was more than ten feet and some of the protruding branches might have slowed my fall. 
> 
> I survived with some badly bruised ribs and a bent bar on the chain saw. Even typing these words I can't believe I was ever that foolish and lived to tell the tale. 
> 
> Ralph in Sask. 
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