Burnham: Exactly. And yet... I couldn't quite tell whether you were being facetious or not with the last line of your post. What am I thinking, of course you were!
The U.S. gov's bigger than em' all. But what I was saying, is that there yet may still be hope, if you were willing. (I'm looking for an emoticon of praying hands or something, but my internet savvy is on par with my pedigree.)
I almost dare say that our safety guy--in addition to a few legal types, no doubt--might possibly have the soundness of mind to hear someone in your position explain extremely difficult concepts to apprehend, like how a high powered saw could, just conceivably, cut through a nylon three-strand flipline, thereby sending the climber plummeting to the ground, whereas, a steel-core might put up appreciably more resistance. I've got some hope, but not much.
I shouldn't complain as much as I do, but then again, I am a tree guy. Truth is: megalomonster or not, these folks have been pretty good to me, and the folks in this particular local shop have been REALLY good. They're a real Godsend, and, in many ways I owe them tons, but Fiddler hit the nail on the head: the whole super-corporate element gets ultra-aggravating at times. E.g.: why can't they allow for regional differentiation? Let's face it--the boys pruning palm trees in Las Vegas are up against a whole different set of dangers than we up in the NW, but we all must comply to exactly the same standards. :roll:
Boys: I'd apologize, but I pray that I'd never get pretentious enough to believe that my half-drunken ramblings could ever be constituted as a "derail". Oh yeah: I went into the shop today, and I go, "Hey Ed: That recall thing's just for weed-wackers and back-pack blowers and stuff. A guy told me it don't even apply to chainsaws."
Ed: (Without even missing a beat) "Yeah I know. Yeah!" (Just as if he knew the whole time.)
Me: "Well why'djya come over yesterday and take the gas cap off my saw then?"
Ed: "Well the thing is Jed: Blah bla blah bla blahh bla Blah bla..."
