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[Peter Drouin]

I'm not slipping, I just don't pick my feet up at the end of the day. At that time, I have trip over a 1" rug in the house.

[thecfarm]

Same here Peter.
My feet don't come up as high as they use too. 
I have learned to walk around things. A few extra steps is easier on the body than a sudden jolt when I fall.

[Ed_K]

 I'm scared to death of falling, the dr.'s say I could break bones real easy. So I wear my orange spiked boots if I go into the woods to work.

[Hilltop366]

I use my chain break a lot, before I set the running saw down, moving branches with the saw in one hand (left), walking with running saw... It becomes natural after a while but I still pick the saw up and try to cut with the brake on once in a while.  

A few years back I was limbing a spruce tree that had blown over in a bunch of raspberries bushes, I would cut a few limbs and then hold the saw by the top handle with my left hand below my waste and push my way ahead through the pickers. As I was pushing through the pickers (with the brake off) the chain was creeping and it picked a hole in my chaps on the left thigh and pulled a strip of the lining out and wrapped it around the crank shaft jamming the clutch drum on I looked down and noticed the chain turning and applied the brake but it stalled the engine. When I took the clutch off the string of chap lining had made a nice nylon washer around the crank shaft against the clutch drum.

[Peter Drouin]

Same here Peter.
My feet don't come up as high as they use too.  
I have learned to walk around things. A few extra steps is easier on the body than a sudden jolt when I fall.

At the end of the day, I guess I shuffle.

[jimbarry]

I learned a long time ago, just regular leather work boots will put me on the ground when cutting wood. Slippery wood, short rolly polly wood, slippery tree roots, you name it. Most of the trip'n is due to that stuff. That is why I put on my chaulk soled chainsaw boots and stay on my feet. I haven't worn leather work boots working in the woods for years. They are OK walking my trails, but don't walk on spruce roots too much or the inevitable will happen. A trail in the woods where you use a SxS on will expose lots of stump roots. Those are the worst between the stump and a foot along a lateral root. Might as well be on clear ice.

I walked on a stump root the other week that put me down. I had walked into an area where someone got a skidder stuck real good. As I walked out I was stepping on or around large spruce stumps. I seen the exposed root flares and new enough to keep clear. I got to one and the bark was on it, stepping on it was the shortest route around the mess. Soon as I put my weight on it, down I went. The bark had been pulled off but settled right back in place. The temple region of my skull just missing the edge of the stump. Kinda sat there for a few seconds realizing how close my fate had become.