Did something dumb today.

[Old Greenhorn]

Bill, I don't see how you did something dumb. We don't do cat rescues either, but..... We were just clearing another job and got a call from dispatch on the radio (same thing as you), very distraught woman, cat was in the tree for nearly days days, apparently hur, etc. It was on our way back to the station anyway, so...
Turns out the old woman was a client of my son's lawn mowing business and when she saw him she knew he would 'fix it'. Well, he was young and needed ladder practice anyway, so we setup the 35' ladder and sent him on up. ;D Got the dang cat down, he was fine and took off. We told the lady not to tell anyone we had done that and left.
People problems were no problem for me, but animal rescues always broke me down if they were true rescues. I never did a animal 'recovery' job though.
I am kind of surprised you didn't call in PD for an investigation. Sure seems like suspicious circumstances and may not have been an accident. You never know. :D

[Old Greenhorn]

Seems to be a lot of that going around. I myself have never had the urge.... ;D

I think Ted mentioned once that if you saw long enough, a tree, a log, or equipment will find your saw.
So I add to your post....................................Yet.

Yeah, I might have doomed myself with that statement. But frankly, that's one of the benefits of this thread. I have read of so many of these incidents that I have become anal about where I set my saw down, with the exception of that situation where you find yourself saying "AW SHOOT!' and you drop the saw and run like heck. ;D But I haven't had one of those in a long time. Getting it pinched and having to leave it would be one of those scenarios. A lot of cutters might spend too much time trying to yank that saw out and get themselves really hurt, so this was a good call,

[Jim_Rogers]

I believe on of the solutions to this cut would be to insert a wedge to hold the kerf open and not pinch the bar. Then watch the trunk and when it starts to shift, pull the bar out.

Jim Rogers

[OlJarhead]

I'm glad I'm not the only one!  Crushed my Husky 576xpw a few years back falling a big Pondo..miss read the tree and before I could get my saw out of the way it fell 90 degrees to my intended direction and the butt drove the saw into the ground.  It was still running so I had to grab the tractor real quick and get the log off it.  Shut the saw down and that's when the fun began.  Case was cracked in 3 seperate places and the handle was sheared away too...in short I was quoted $1200 plus to rebuild it or $600+ just for the case plus other parts...

I bought a new 572XP and moved on...still ahve that saw hoping maybe someday to get a case for it and see if I can't rebuild it.  Maybe make a hotrod...or just leave it in the box as a reminder to do a better job of reading the bloody tree!  :( :D ;D

[SawyerTed]

Doesn't help with the trees crushing a saw but it keeps me from running over a saw IF I remember to put the saw back. 

These are plywood scabbards, basically scraps screwed together with space for the bar to slide in place.  The 1974 Massey Ferguson 135 is my firewood cutting vehicle.  The "carryall" mostly  lives on the tractor.  I imagine something like the scabbards could be put on almost any piece of equipment.   A bungee could secure the saws if necessary.



 

[Machinebuilder]

I have used the bore cut technique.
I've had to cut a few trees that are just too big for the saw and its a safer way to drop them.
the other place is a tree with a lot of lean, I had one barber chair on me, I really don't like leaners

[Southside]

Where cows have never been and never will go.

Are you joking?  Those things will always find a way.  One time someone left the milk room door open and in comes a HoJo - to the parlor, walks right past the stall area and proceeds into the milk room where she stands there.  Can't go forward, can't turn around, and those things don't have reverse..... I am standing there looking at untold value in equipment and one very confused cow who probably thought she was helping with the whole efficiency thing since that's where the milk gets bottled anyway, and quickly trying to formulate a plan, all the while hoping some stupid chicken doesn't notice the door is wide open and tries to make a break for it to add to the chaos.   :D

[TimW]

I ran over my new 461, a year or so ago, with my excavator.

Well at least you had the proper tool handy for a quick burial.
GAB

It's sitting in my shop waiting for a donor case and most everything else except the inside parts. 

[chickenchaser]

Where cows have never been and never will go.

Are you joking? 

Absolutely'
:D

[Nebraska]

I haven't been to the office since Thursday (until about 3 hrs ago). 1:10 this afternoon I decided that since I had the bigger tractor running and my wife really needed to get to town, I would try once more to dig us out and open up the county road. I tried to go South only half a mile to a paved road that I saw some traffic on so it's open to the highway, but it has a cut that drifts really bad. I tried south but the juice wasn't worth the squeeze.  I gave it up for the second time, so I went North it's a mile and a half to the highway and drifts about as bad as the stretch going South. Just not as deep but longer drafts and three bad spots by 2:30 I had broken through and headed towards the truck stop to get some number one fuel, I was down to a quarter of a tank. Called my wife and said the road was open and she could go and of I went. 
Got to the pumps, the station was closed but I knew that already.   Climbed down and  reached in my pocket for my billfold. .... :-[ :-[ :

[Nebraska]

Luckily my wife hadn't left the house yet and brought it to me....

[Jim_Rogers]

While I was traveling to the other end of the state, my wife took the recycling to the transfer station. Of course, it's a holiday and it's closed.
Before I left, I asked her, while you're out can you take a package to the post office for me? she said sure. So, after the transfer station, she drove over to the post office. It never dawned on her or me that the post office was closed also.
She was very upset that she didn't realize that if one is closed the other would be too.
I had completely forgot about it as well.

Jim Rogers

[Old saw fixer]

Ever since I retired I have to look at the calendar to know what day of the week it is, same for holidays.

[firefighter ontheside]

With the schedule a firefighter has, I never know what day it is. I don't know when holidays are because I only get them off if when that's how the schedule falls for that year.  I have showed up at the post office and other locations on holidays and was surprised it was a holiday.

[Old saw fixer]

It was the same when I was a cop and later a deputy sheriff.  Work your shifts as they come, you always give more than you get. 

[rusticretreater]

Ever since I retired I have to look at the calendar to know what day of the week it is, same for holidays.

Easy.  Every day is Saturday except when its Sunday.

[Old Greenhorn]

Well, here's a good one, and it's not me or anybody else I know. So today my son is driving between plowing cleanup jobs and he is on a residential road when he sees a hose laying in the snow on the side of the road. It's a red hose, about 1-1/2" with a distinctive purple/red spray pattern around the end of the hose in the road. He follows it up to a house where the end is connected to an oil fill pipe on the front of the house. Then he realizes he saw an oil truck pulled off the road 1/4 mile before he found the hose. He backed up and took a quick video. I can't figure out how to share a FB video that is part of a 'story' here, and besides it contains some profanity (he was a bit surprised).
Yeah, it's a pretty funny scene. Now I know these guys work a lot of hours during the cold months and all of the oil companies are having a hard time getting drivers and paying crazy money to bring them in from out of the area, but still, really? You forgot to reel in the hose? :D ;D :D ;D Wondering how it is that he drove a bit further down the road before he stopped. How much force did it take to part that hose? how did he not rip the pipe off the house? how did he not feel or hear it? Inquiring minds want to know. ;D

[firefighter ontheside]

whoops.

driving to downtown st louis to deliver that desk the other day it had snowed an inch the night before.  wrecks everywhere.  sitting at a light a car rearended the car next to me.  no one hurt.  drove a little farther an flashing light had street shut down under I40 coming into downtown.  i saw a city dumptruck with its bed raised under the bridge.  when you get closer you realize its just bed wedged up under the bridge.  the truck stopped about 100 feet down the road.  whoops.

[Southside]

It was the same when I was a cop and later a deputy sheriff.  Work your shifts as they come, you always give more than you get.

Then there are the times you sign on and wonder why so many guys from the other section are signing on, maybe they are all going to court today, maybe there is a detail, wonder why they are all being assigned the calls.... umm, better check the day of the week, oh I am off today....  well I think I will just sort of drive around for a bit and then go home and maybe not sign off on the radio but call in instead.... or so I have been told happens....  :D

[firefighter ontheside]

Man, we've been some smart folks for almost 3 weeks.  Personally, its hard to do anything too dumb while spending most of your time sitting in a recliner.  I've got about 3 more weeks of this, though soon I may go out to my shop and do some cleaning.  I think I can do that without needing my left arm too much.  I get this wrist brace off in about 10 days and then a little more freedom.

[WV Sawmiller]

   I could add the 14-15 ft long 20+ inch dia dead ash log I dragged off the hillside above the house for firewood if you need an entry. I used my JD 750 tractor, a snatch block and long 1/4" cable to pull it to a poplar tree at the edge of the woodline but when I freed it from the snatch block and pulled about 10' it started rolling on its own down the steep side hill slope, broke in the middle, one half stopped when it hit the pasture fence, the other half jumped the fence and stopped when it hit the uphill side of the well house. Does that count? :-\

[Old Greenhorn]

It's not a competition Howard.

 I did post something last week, but it got lost in the DB Error debacle. I was kind of proud of myself for doing something smart for a change.
 I was working on restoring an old set of sewing machine legs and had them all apart. I was going to clean up the screws and threads on my wire wheel and just as I hit the switch I thought "Hey, wire wheel, I really should have glasses on'. Well I had to do some searching to remember where I laid them down last and almost gave up, but I found them and put them on. By about the 4th crew I was zipping along when it caught and came flying up straight at my right eye. All I saw was an ever growing blur as it hit. I found the screw and continued on feeling VERY smart.
 Of course, a few minutes later I moved over to the beartex wheel to polish up the heads a little. This time I slipped off the face of the wheel and as the head slid down the slide of the wheel, the top of my left thumb slid across the face of the wheel. Now I wasn't pushing very hard and as soon as it all slipped I began to withdraw, but it was enough to just remove the very top layer of dermal tissue along the top of my thumb for about 2". That made it really sensitive and it oozed some blood. Very sensitive for the next 3 days and stupid. I wound up wrapping it over the weekend just to prevent making contact with it.

 But I haven't taken out a fence with a tree in quite a while.

[doc henderson]

It was nice to take a few weeks off from doing something stupid.  Tom, yours was not nearly as bad as Howards!   :tongue2: :tongue3: :coolsmiley:  love the new emogies!

[WV Sawmiller]

    Every year I save walnuts off our tree int he yard with every intention of cracking them but usually forget. This year I rolled them to a pile, de-husked a bunch and while the grandkids were visiting one weekend we picked up about a 50 lb feed sack full of them. I leaned them against the fence intending to bring them inside.

   I noticed the sack was getting smaller and there were suspicious holes in empty walnut hulls and I kept seeing morbidly obese red fox squirrels in the yard. This weekend the grandkids came to visit and I pointed to the empty sack and told my granddaughter "See where those mean old squirrels stole Grandpa's walnuts?" My soon to be 5 y/o granddaughter sagely replied "Well, you should have taken them inside."

   Oh the pain of being chastized and corrected by a 4 y/o! :-\

[WV Sawmiller]

Doc,

   Au contraire! There was no blood involved with my log rolling so Tom wins this one hands down!