I was doing a crane job last thursday. It started out to be an unusually easy day. I had to run up a pin oak to remove a few low limbs while the crane was setting up in the driveway. I set my line and a lowering line with my throwball and made my way up to the lower limbs. Since I had a nice tie and the groundguys were busy setting up the crane, I decided to walk out and piece the limb out instead of roping them out as I originally planned. I guess you can see where this is going. The saw kicked back while I was holding on to a limb and caught me between my elbow and armpit on the underside of my arm. 47 stitches - 30 internal and 17 external. I swore it would never happen to me, but here I am. Luckily I managed to avoid cutting any tendons, veins or arteries.
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- Thread starter petes
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- Retired in Minneapolis
Glad to hear that it was only a 'flesh wound'
Are you back climbing now?
Are you back climbing now?
- Location
- Lexington, KY- USA
2 hands
- Location
- Longmont, CO
Wow! That could have been really bad. A good lesson to communicate to others. I hope you heal fast.--It's tree season baby!!!
Oh for Pete's sake, all the Pete's are getting whacked by saws. What's going on?
Internal stitches hey, must have been deep. You gotta be careful but those bloody statisticians bugger you up and eventually that wheel comes round.
Looks like a good repair job, hope you get better quick, I really feel for people who get hurt in this job ... I sometimes think for what we do and get paid we must be crazy ...... it's really not a place for race tactics, quote them right and do them right.
Internal stitches hey, must have been deep. You gotta be careful but those bloody statisticians bugger you up and eventually that wheel comes round.
Looks like a good repair job, hope you get better quick, I really feel for people who get hurt in this job ... I sometimes think for what we do and get paid we must be crazy ...... it's really not a place for race tactics, quote them right and do them right.
- Location
- Springfield MO
Man I'm so sorry to hear about that. I've been working on changing my bad old habits for so long. One handed operation is one of them. I do it a lot less now and hope to be done with it someday. whiz heal quick
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Wow! That could have been really bad. A good lesson to communicate to others.
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...and that lesson would be 2 handed chainsaw use...it's not that hard! Hope you heal, and hope you change your work operations!
would you have used 2 hands if you hand lowerd the limbs?
Wow! That could have been really bad. A good lesson to communicate to others.
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...and that lesson would be 2 handed chainsaw use...it's not that hard! Hope you heal, and hope you change your work operations!
would you have used 2 hands if you hand lowerd the limbs?
Steve Connally
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Suffolk, Virginia
Man, I'm having flash backs of my knee. Heal well brother!
was that one handed to? what was the damage?
- Location
- Lansing, NY
Glad to hear you are ok nad back in action, last pin oak I climbed left a good ole bruise on my thigh. You will hear it alot here but as my old boss said to me " god gave you 2 hands Damnit usem on that friggen saw a@#whole"
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I do, I use one on the saw and one to hold the piece I cut, and I've been training to use both hands, that's cut with the left and catch with the right and vice versa, that way everything within reach both sides of me is history ... isn't that what your supposed to do? Heck, why else do they build them saws!!! /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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Steve Connally
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Suffolk, Virginia
Yep 1 handed trying to chuck a big pine nub so I wouldn't smash a crappy plant. 26 stitches, 5 internal. Right knee. Now have SIP pants!
- Location
- The Kingdom of Fife
BETTER BEING IN STITCHES IN THE LAUGHING SENSE, than all stitched up by the docter. Get well soon, How many handles does a top handled saw have? Answer 2 please use them.
They almost banned them in the UK, a few years back because of the injuries that were occuring to climbers, due to the one handed approach that they were adopting. Yes more politics. But rules are rules.
Scotty
They almost banned them in the UK, a few years back because of the injuries that were occuring to climbers, due to the one handed approach that they were adopting. Yes more politics. But rules are rules.
Scotty
