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I've nicked myself 2X while one-handing, and 3X while two-handing...these stats suggest I'm less injurious one-handing, or perhaps something else entirely: hand-eye coordination sometimes sucks, or occaisional distractedness combined with fatigue.
Butchers likely also slice themselves once in awhile, secretaries get paper cuts, squirrels get run over crossing a street. It's an arrogant panapoly of mayhem out there.
 
Yeah, and that part about the "jackass cop on the motorcycle." I met that guy once.
he gave me a no seatbelt ticket.
I was in an espresso drive up line and had taken my seatbelt off so that I could get the wallet out of my front pocket.
 
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A non-sequitur comment but, have you guys noticed that forum tree guys tend to be crafty with words. Even the priggish twats are poetically clever. I'm not thinking of anyone specific in this thread by the way, just saying it leaves me with a feeling of brotherhood and common bond when disagreeing with people is made fun by their eloquence.
 
You drink espresso???
The drink of choice for bourgeois one-handlers.
Worth noting here is that bull riders only get to hold on with One Hand?
What's up with that, huh? It would mebbe cause less injuries if they could use Two Hands.
 
Funny you mention that, me on the left in the late 80s/early 90s.
They had tennis balls they would put on the end of those horns but they were on the other side of the arena when my time came up and I didn't want to mention it.

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Pelorus said:
You drink espresso???
The drink of choice for bourgeois one-handlers.
Worth noting here is that bull riders only get to hold on with One Hand?
What's up with that, huh? It would mebbe cause less injuries if they could use Two Hands.
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Actually, us distinguished one-handler types, (being better than the rest) prefer espresso in the morning and wine and caviar in the evenings.

It's the anal-retentive tightness of the priggish colorblind 2 handler twats who's childhood stepmothers made play with one toy at a time before their 7 o'clock bedtime, who now drink Carlo Rossi out of depressingly frugal water glasses, still bearing the brain-pinching safety glasses temple indentations they wore underneath their helmet shields earlier in the days mediocre skilled work that they wish everyone would do.
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Not sure if I'm the only one sensing that there is more than a mere linguistic difference between 'one handing' a saw and 'one handling' a saw.

Think of the linguistic difference. Its embedded in the language " Things got out of hand" , "I've got one hand tied behind my back", etc., whereas "I've got a handle on things" or "He's handling the situation". See--one term sounds prone to calamity, the other sounds like things are in control.

'One handing' a saw: any one handed use that may result in injury or accident, sloppy cutting, damaged stems, pinched bars, etc.
'One handling' a saw: any one handed use without incident, accompanied by feelings of invincibility and total control, of being 'in one's power', "godlike".

For the obvious reasons I am against one handing a saw, but "one handling" a saw--perhaps not? :)
 
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According to my eminently qualified wife, a chainsaw is little more than a penis extension... it would seem only natural that one handing or one handling the saw, or even swapping the sisters during its operation, is qualified by vast experience and practice with the proper handling of its anatomical counterpart. You ambidexterous monkey spankers would therefore be justified in saw juggling and other advanced techniques normally limited by brain hemisphere dominance. You could possibly even master the double diddling technique of bore cut felling two trees simultaneously.
 
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When I (rarely) give my top handle to a groundie I invariably find them grabbing brush with their left hand and cutting it with their right. I'm shocked. I'm on hiatus from this for now until I can figure out how to stop them from doing it. Using a top handle on the ground encourages off hand injury due to lack of repetition with the style of saw, and an environment that doesn't benefit from having 3+ points of attachment. Idle hand is the chainsaw's workshop.
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Give them the biggest saw around, even if they're limbing small trees. That'll teach 'em.

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At risk of sounding like one of those priggish twats, I'll say that one handing is always a deliberate and rare choice for me, never a default action. Same as not tying in twice. I call them 'managed exceptions'. Oddly maybe, these two so-called violations seem to go together when I choose it. Not very often.
I'm slow and uncool and will spend the time to get a solid work position every cut.
Unlike what Thomas writes (and I have plenty of respect for him), I feel most secure when I can be hands-free.

Also, don't people who one-hand as a matter of course get elbow and wrist problems from the shitty ergonomics?

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Here's a climber with what looks like a good amount of ecperience that got himslef in a little trouble one handing. Making matters mch worse: left handed, horizontal plane in line with his body, another limb in the vicinity to catch the tip.. plain and simple a bad move... VERY BAD!!! now it's easier for the powers that be to just so "no one handing" rather than conditions to avoid while one handing.. This climber got lucky.. that easily could have been a fatality if he caight a major artery and bled out before he could get down!! see 3:20.. good of him to post the mistake...
 
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