squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
Heh Steve are you cutting with your right hand on the handlebar or am I losing my mind?
Tree video
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gf beranek
Old Schooler
Speaking of the chain brake:
I once toss my 056 aside to grab the axe and knock out an undercut. So happened a forked stick wedged itself on the throttle lock and trigger winding out the saw full throttle, which torqued the saw over and the bar hit a limb, which kicked the saw 180 degrees over like a cartwheel. Then it proceeded to start digging a trench in the ground and hit a root or a rock and few out again 180 and continued it total out of control mannners.
Meanwhile I left the scene to hide behind a tree and the saw decided to leap over my way, I turned and run with the saw coming at me. Kind of like the Pink Panther cartoon. The saw finally found some soft ground to burrow into and I reached over with a long redwood limb, very carefully, to trip the switch.
When it was all over I had to rest for a few minutes to regain my composure. The chain was ruined, but I had a spare in my pack and put it on and finished the tree. Ever since then I'm very careful about how I just toss, or set, the saw aside.
I once toss my 056 aside to grab the axe and knock out an undercut. So happened a forked stick wedged itself on the throttle lock and trigger winding out the saw full throttle, which torqued the saw over and the bar hit a limb, which kicked the saw 180 degrees over like a cartwheel. Then it proceeded to start digging a trench in the ground and hit a root or a rock and few out again 180 and continued it total out of control mannners.
Meanwhile I left the scene to hide behind a tree and the saw decided to leap over my way, I turned and run with the saw coming at me. Kind of like the Pink Panther cartoon. The saw finally found some soft ground to burrow into and I reached over with a long redwood limb, very carefully, to trip the switch.
When it was all over I had to rest for a few minutes to regain my composure. The chain was ruined, but I had a spare in my pack and put it on and finished the tree. Ever since then I'm very careful about how I just toss, or set, the saw aside.
treetx
Traveler extraordinaire
Me too. Chainbrake is there for a reason.
If you buy a good brand of saw, that chain brake will Stihl work for the life of the saw
pantheraba
More biners!!!
That's a great story...who'd a thunk it?? A fine example of just how crazy the world can get.
Oh....I really want to see that video.
sotc
Dormant hero!!
wow quite the story jerry!
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
LOL at Jerry!!! I'd have paid good money to see that!
SkwerI
Treehouser
Pics or it didn't happen, Jerry!
brendonv
Tree Hugger
I too am an chainbrake fan. After every cut it gets hit.
R
Rotax Robert
Guest
Don't yell at me but I very-very rarely set my brake, then again I don't wear hardly any ppe. Boots and saw and off I go, but all my topping is done about a foot or so off the ground.
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If falling the tree wasn't exciting enough here is the wood from thursday's tree being deposited at the local recycling facility.
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sotc
Dormant hero!!
oooohhhh aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh 
actually im glad someone else is making vids now to
actually im glad someone else is making vids now to
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oooohhhh aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
actually im glad someone else is making vids now to
Yep, it's a pretty exciting life.
R
