You don't want to do this...

[DouginUtah]

Close call when falling forward with a chainsaw.


http://news.yahoo.com/video/oddnews-22772304/odd-news-chainsaw-mishap-beer-for-dogs-jesus-in-cliff-27271943.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Foddnews-22772304%252Fodd-news-chainsaw-mishap-beer-for-dogs-jesus-in-cliff-27271943.html

[clww]

Sorry but this video is no longer available" message on the screen.

[JustWondering]

A vid like that will have you thinking about the chainsaw safety manual.

[beenthere]

Still available as I just watched it.  Typical news reporting tho.

It looks close, but might not be as close as it looks (and can't tell if the saw is running or not).
However, not a good work plan to have a big log being jerked by a grapple while someone is that close. That is likely a case where the chainsaw was stuck (pinched) and getting it loose by grabbing it with the machine. The guy was trying to keep his saw from being trashed as he hung on to it.

Just not the best laid plan, IMO. ;)

[Al_Smith]

That vid was on another site I visit about a week ago .It's the general concenses that's not the proper methed to cut a rootball blown tree loose .

I'll bet ya one thing,that guy never tries it that way again if he's smart .He could have easily been called Stubby or one eared Bill after that incident .

[John Mc]

Couldn't get the darn thing to load in Firefox on my Mac. Finally tried Safari and it went OK.

Scary. They mentioned he almost went face-first into the chainsaw. It looked like he also almost planted one of his arms on it. Wish we could see the whole thing, rather tan have it hidden behind the root ball. Sure looks like someone read that situation wrong (or maybe just didn't bother to try to read it at all...)

[Al_Smith]

If that guy wanted to hook anything it should have been the root ball .Gravity was going to put the roots back in the hole . It could have been bad .

[shelbycharger400]

if you bind it up bad,  just unbolt the bar,  not what you really want, but its easer to replace a bar, then a new machine

[Warbird]

You're right, I don't want to do that.  No one should.  The guy is lucky, IMO.  All kinds of bad things could have happened.

[clww]

OK, tried to see it and this time it worked. Maybe because it's my birthday...?
That whole thing looked bad! Two biggest things I saw was it looked like he was standing on unstable ground, and when he lost his balance, he nearly tumbled face-first into the bar. OUCH! That would have left a mark.

[beenthere]

My saw bar stayed the night in an ash tree. Had three plastic wedges placed and tapped in, but they didn't prevent the tree setting back on the bar. Removed the saw and went back to study the situation this morning.
Managed to get a thin steel wedge in (after shattering a plastic wedge thanks to the 8° temp and the maul) the cut to free the bar. Then a splitting steel wedge in to raise and tip the tree uphill. Wheew!

Could have cut into the hinge but didn't want that tree falling back into a nice white oak about 10' downhill. One of those that is planned but not well executed. Think I should have plunge cut perp to the hinge and placed a wedge in that cut. Had I known.
pic of the 'tools' it took to getRdown.