Broke two rules and paid the price.

Damn dude! That's gonna leave one helluva scar to remind you every day. I really hope that's the only real lasting damage.

Heal up man!
 
My cheap 2nd hand chaps just made way for the bar. Happened during a drop of maybe 18 inches. I pitched the saw, wrapped the worst of wounds up and bombed out of the tree. Once on the ground I improved the dressing with my shirt, finishing up with duct tape out of the truck. took 25 minutes to reach town pulled in front of the fire house and leaned on the horn. The ride to the hospital is still foggy, sent the son in law back up for my gear.
I'm 68, and I'm probably done. I'll post an update in a couple weeks when they remove the wraps, stiches and staples.
 
Not nice to hear. Hope you heal up well. Flesh/muscle damage may be easier to recover from than ligament damage and I hope that turns out in your favour. Every once in a while a case of gotta bomb out right to the ground happens and I'm so glad you were prepared and able.

I once met a guy guessing in his 30's with an angled dent/scar across the top of his left forearm muscle, on the side(?) where your thumb is. Wasn't hard to guess what happened. He just rolled with it.

Get well soon!
 
Wow, I hope recovery goes well.

To clarify, did the saw pull the chaps off to the side, allowing the saw to cut your leg, or are you saying it cut right through? I niked a pair of chaps just a tiny bit once, and it pulled tons of fiber and locked up the saw quick.
 
Notaneasytarget said:
At first I thought it was just a close call, then reality set in.
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I know that feeling.

Anyway, sorry to see this, I was thinking about you today, you’re 68, you’ve done bloody well to still be bending your back in anger with a saw.

I’m 63 this year if I’m still at it at 68 I’ll be a happy man, but I hope circumstances don’t bring it to full stop in the same way it has with you.

Good luck and let us know once you’ve figured out the exact chain of events.
 
I am wondering about the phrase "18 inch drop" from your description of your injury. Does that describe your style of starting your chainsaw? Maybe you gaffed out and fell 18 inches?
 
This may bring about an observation of a medical oddity. I once did a small but deep handsaw cut to my forearm where I could see the underside of the flap and there was almost no bleeding. Pain wasn't bad. I figured I sliced the local nerve. Another time I was waiting in the ER and a guy comes in with his tricep sliced open deep on a broken window, again hardly any bleeding and he says to the doc "you have to stitch me up because I've got a baseball game to pitch tomorrow" I kid you not. I wonder what's up with the little pain or bleeding. Skin layers? Shock? Shock is supposed to wear off. I get the gist you had little pain or bleeding too, from that pic anyway.
 
Animals have evolved with major nerves and vessels running on the more protected side of our skeletons.

It has survival advantages.

(knife fighting 101)
 
Definitely would like to know how this could happen, even with 2nd hand chaps? And what's an 18" drop? Are you talking about drop starting, without the chain break on and hand on the trigger, like you're trying to clear a flooded saw?
 
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