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Similar thing happened a couple years back, a few miles down the road, Kubota compact tractor, open station, ROPS folded down. Guy was pulling on a standing pine he was felling and it came down onto him, pinned him to the steering wheel. His son found him, the ambulance came but it was just to make the family feel better. Had a 6" poplar break off today while I was in the buncher, never knew until it hit the cab, and rolled off onto the tires. Just looked at it and kept on working, never run anything in the woods without FOPS and ROPS protection. Hope you heal up soon Barge. I caught a widow maker a number of years back that collapsed the suspension and cracked my helmet, got a nasty concussion for a month out of it. Was only a 2" diameter, dead, pine branch, from at most 15'-20' up. Doesn't take much.
Funny thing about this is that it strikes one with a more serious and immediate concern when one is experienced. Meaning that an inexperienced person might say "well who would have though that would happen, freak accident nobody could predict" and an experienced person would say "Holy cow, what was I thinking, that was really stupid and I got lucky, I had better step it up a notch and pay attention, I am getting sloppy". I know when I get whacked if I didn't see it coming I had better stop right there and figure out what I missed and how I could have missed it. I have a serious talk with myself and I am in a pith poor mood the rest of the day giving myself grief. I feel like a failure. Barge's story is a case in point, all those years in the woods, yet he still gets whacked, you can't let your guard down and even good folk catch an odd flip once in a while, no matter how careful they are. Heal up buddy, I hope you are OK. 30 years ago I flipped a tractor backwards on myself. All alone, no help, gas running all over me, I can't shut it off, and trying to get myself out was a wake up call. I had not thought about how high the pick point was on the tractor (just a few inches over the axle) and was trying to roll a log. Physics won out. (Spoiler alert, I survived.) A year ago I dropped a dead tree, it went as planned, no magic, but the top caught a branch on another tree, snapped off and came straight back at me. There was NO time to move and part of it landed at my feet, the other part went over my head. I broke out in a cold sweat. I could go on, but the point is you can never leave your guard down, never turn your back, and never forget to calculate the physics. Glad everybody here is ok. Concerned about Barge, knowing him, when he says he got hit 'bad' that is likely something that would have killed me. Just how 'bad' is 'bad' Barge?
Quote from: Old Greenhorn on November 15, 2020, 09:44:27 PMFunny thing about this is that it strikes one with a more serious and immediate concern when one is experienced. Meaning that an inexperienced person might say "well who would have though that would happen, freak accident nobody could predict" and an experienced person would say "Holy cow, what was I thinking, that was really stupid and I got lucky, I had better step it up a notch and pay attention, I am getting sloppy". I know when I get whacked if I didn't see it coming I had better stop right there and figure out what I missed and how I could have missed it. I have a serious talk with myself and I am in a pith poor mood the rest of the day giving myself grief. I feel like a failure. Barge's story is a case in point, all those years in the woods, yet he still gets whacked, you can't let your guard down and even good folk catch an odd flip once in a while, no matter how careful they are. Heal up buddy, I hope you are OK. 30 years ago I flipped a tractor backwards on myself. All alone, no help, gas running all over me, I can't shut it off, and trying to get myself out was a wake up call. I had not thought about how high the pick point was on the tractor (just a few inches over the axle) and was trying to roll a log. Physics won out. (Spoiler alert, I survived.) A year ago I dropped a dead tree, it went as planned, no magic, but the top caught a branch on another tree, snapped off and came straight back at me. There was NO time to move and part of it landed at my feet, the other part went over my head. I broke out in a cold sweat. I could go on, but the point is you can never leave your guard down, never turn your back, and never forget to calculate the physics. Glad everybody here is ok. Concerned about Barge, knowing him, when he says he got hit 'bad' that is likely something that would have killed me. Just how 'bad' is 'bad' Barge?One of our commercial logging insurance companies here in Virginia provides quarterly safety briefs to their insured. I set in on meetings from time to time. This particular company had 4 fatalities in the last 3 years. The average age of those killed was 63. It's not the young guys that are getting hurt. More often than not, it is the employee with 20+ years of experience. Inattention, a brain fart, or some other slip up costs a life.My pet peeve on logging jobs is a truck driver walking between his truck and a log pile. I speak up every time I see it. Pull that truck out of the hole before you get out to bind the load. I was on a job the other day and a log rolled down the pile and dinged a saddle tank on the truck. The rear axle took most of the impact, so there was not major damage, but it would have crushed a man. The driver was sitting in the cab at the time. He was one that I had cautioned before. He pulled out of the hole and came to me. "I see what you mean now". Stay safe out there.Wudman
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