Monday, July 11, 2016
Do NOT Stop For A Mob
Back up, turn around, or go through the mob if you have to. Just don't stop.
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13. Clear your work area and your escape path of brush, vines, and other hazards that can trip you or catch your saw.
14. Escape from the bullseye when the tree tips. 90% of accidents happen within 12 feet of the stump. Go more than 15 feet, and stay out of the bullseye until things stop falling.
15. Keep spectators away more than twice the height of the tree in the direction it will fall.
16. Don't cut alone.
17. Keep your body and the swamper's out of the line of the bar in case of a kickback.
18. Set the brake when taking over two steps or when moving through tripping hazards. Keep your trigger finger off of the throttle when you are moving.
19. DO NOT operate a chainsaw from a ladder! Operating with your feet off the ground requires special training.
20. Do not cut above your shoulders.
21. Springpoles must be shaved on the inside of the apex between the ascending and descending sides. If the apex is higher than you shoulders, stand under the springpole and cut it low on the descending side. It will release upward, away from you.Leaning and heavily loaded poles that are too small to bore cut for a hinge should be shaved on the compressed side until they fold.
22. Do not cut a tree that is holding up a lodged tree. Do not work under a lodged tree. Think about a mouse trying to steal the cheese out of a trap.
23. Instruct your swampers and helpers to NEVER approach you from behind or the sides to within the reach of your saw when you are cutting. If you pull out of a cut with the chain running, or have a severe kickback, the swamper can be killed if he is coming up behind you!
24!! Quit When You Are Tired!
2 comments:
Along about then we had a small riot here. One of the nurses where I worked Security was accosted late at night on her way home. She put the big Dodge camper special in 4WD and went up and over the road block. God only knows what they would have done to her, but ......
Merle
We took Dad on a trip to South Dakota with us many years ago. Driving through the Pine Ridge Reservation, we saw a pile of tires next to the road. Dad wondered out loud what the tires were for. I told him it meant you don't drive on this road after dark. I saw the same thing in Eastern Kentucky, and you better have a gun with you if the roadblock is up.
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