One handed saw use and safety protocols

HA! Mike do tell, do tell, I'd have kept reading...

The cab/car analogy caught me, but then I thought, who of us can really say they've ever felt comfortable in the back seat with a death defying cabby at the wheel?

Anyways, in honoring the original posters request to not bash I will just say I've seen plenty of safe one-handed cutting, the question is, is it the safEST?

If you can't find a way to feel comfortable/safe with two hands on the saw then one handed might be the safest way, though I find those times are rare.
 
Many great climbers are young kids, young compared to me anyway. The problem is, if they one hand the saw and don't chop their other hand off, or take a hit in the face, to them, it seems like a safe practice.
You younger climbers don't know what we old timers know. In time, one handing will either bite you, or wear out your joints.
If you're in tree climbing short time, you're young, strong, pay attention, and nothing unexpected happens, you may very well get away without a one handed saw use injury.
However, if you go long term, make a career out of climbing, you will need to change your ways, or be put out to pasture. Even if you don't take a direct saw hit injury, the repetitive motion injuries will eventually get you.
Like many safety practices, once you learn them, they don't slow you down, or make it one bit more difficult. In fact, they often do the opposite.
I apologise to the original poster for not keeping with his request not to change the topic from how to do a really stupid thing a little smarter...
 
I used one of those smaller sthil climbing saws today (192 I think) for the first time today. I liked it a lot for prunning but did find myself more tempted to one hand it. It is so nice and light it felt like a little toy saw. I know all too well that it is not and that it could give me a nasty bite. So I was very careful while using it one handed.
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It's always good to hear from MM, the voice of 'reason' :)

No one else can pull off sarcasm and wit as good as him!

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Using the O.O-1 scoring system I give Mike a 1 for sarcasm but only 0.5 for wit.
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Many great climbers are young kids, young compared to me anyway. The problem is, if they one hand the saw and don't chop their other hand off, or take a hit in the face, to them, it seems like a safe practice.
You younger climbers don't know what we old timers know. In time, one handing will either bite you, or wear out your joints.
If you're in tree climbing short time, you're young, strong, pay attention, and nothing unexpected happens, you may very well get away without a one handed saw use injury.
However, if you go long term, make a career out of climbing, you will need to change your ways, or be put out to pasture. Even if you don't take a direct saw hit injury, the repetitive motion injuries will eventually get you.
Like many safety practices, once you learn them, they don't slow you down, or make it one bit more difficult. In fact, they often do the opposite.
I apologise to the original poster for not keeping with his request not to change the topic from how to do a really stupid thing a little smarter...

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More, More, MORE!!!!! Encore!
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Hey, come on it's not all that bad. I just bought a new ms200 and frankenstiened a 18" bar onto it just so I could reach further with one hand.
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Sorry, bad joke.A wise man(Mangoes) pointed out to me what a lunitic I was pulling the old "Zorro" act, since then I've made an effort to knock it off especialy when you have young eyes watching. It's like swearing in front of kids, monkey see-monkey doo (no pun intended)Thanks for the insight Kev.
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As Mike said,
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Like many safety practices, once you learn them, they don't slow you down, or make it one bit more difficult. In fact, they often do the opposite.

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...among the other valid points Mike makes in the same thread I don't understand why people fight the idea so much. You all would consider me a young climber and a lot of you have experience years beyond mine, though young and old alike, why in anything that involves risk would you not do it more safely, especially if it's so easy to do.
 
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Hey, come on it's not all that bad. I just bought a new ms200 and frankenstiened a 18" bar onto it just so I could reach further with one hand.
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Sorry, bad joke.A wise man(Mangoes) pointed out to me what a lunitic I was pulling the old "Zorro" act, since then I've made an effort to knock it off especialy when you have young eyes watching. It's like swearing in front of kids, monkey see-monkey doo (no pun intended)Thanks for the insight Kev.
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BW, it wasn't so bad, just one day there was alot of it, and Zorro began as a term for an excessive need for fencing with a tree. No worries, its no slam on you, you and I created Zorro.
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If you want that 18" bar to handle a bit better contact EHP, he's a member, lives in Haliburton, and can REALLY help you out.
 
I don't actualy have an 18" bar on the new saw, But I do ned to find a 14" bar w/replaceable sprocket so I can CHROME it!
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Who or what is an EHP?
 
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