Hazard Pine beats up my MS362

i jumped through the video and found it. 4:45.

yikes.

Smart to have taken the chainsaw leash off.

Glad that top didn't come back further and wack you.

Wow.

You had two climbing lines on to position you, right?

Good job locating youself, so there was no big swing.

Next time, maybe notch and cut the thing up there where you were cutting. Have a heavy bull line near the cut. Stop cutting when your backcut starts to open up and it looks like the hinge wood is thin enough, but thick enough to hold at the moment. Use two climbing lines again and descend over to the side, not under the log.(don't do a Daniel) Then stimulate the hinge wood to go from a safe distance. I think I showed something like that in beginning of Rope Rigging Part II.
 
Unfortunately yes, it was still running when I got down, but with all the damage to the handle and housing, after all was said and done the shop did a great job for around $300. From what I remember I had the lanyard wrapped around my hand once, I think you can see that in the video. There was quite a bit of cracking and popping going on the whole time I was cutting, I should have had no lanyard on the chainsaw for a cut like that, either way I decided to unclip it.

It's one of those bungee lanyards with a breaking strength of 250 lbs. I don't think it would have broke if I had left it on, but who knows. Lesson learned.
 
Good decision on unclipping! I did notice you wrapped it around your hand and it looked like it still gave you a yank?
Thankfully it was only the saw that got damaged and not you or a groundy
I personally don't like our 362, may have been a good excuse to get rid of it haha. I did really like the suspending cut, by far the safest way to perform that cut. As X said, I am glad the top didn't come back on you!

Thanks for posting and keep the videos coming!

Cheers,
 
I'll say again, cool of you to post the video.

Out of my 20 or so videos that I have edited in my head that I want to put together sometime, one of them is one that shows mistakes and notes climbers that got killed.

I have a mistake on film with me from years ago, might be on a tape, a butt of a limb bumped me in the face. Only busted my lip a little, but looks kind of violent. Crane pick from a tree that fell on a house. I had the two sling tensioned wrong. 2006 maybe?

I had a big log try to take my 460 once. I put the tip of the saw a little too far, chain stayed in that kerf. I had a loop runner as the layard too, and it was attached to my saddle. Maybe 2000 lb log. Up about 15 feet high. As it hinged over, i felt the saw was going, my right hand went fast to the biner and I suprised myself, I got the biner off before the loop runner got tight, just then the saw pulled out. That would have really hurt, probably would have been the chainsaw chain that would have been the weak point there. That's actually on video too, doesn't show it great until you watch in slow mo.
 
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