Posted on 06/21/2024 5:33:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
I spent most of the summer of 1985 in Alpine for geology field camp, staying at the 4-H camp about two miles north of town. Beautiful country. I wonder if Jeep’s Bar is still there.
Wood chippers scare the hell out of me.
Years ago, I occasionally worked a system designed to turn special documents into powder. It was the size of a truck trailer and required two people to operate. One person’s sole job was to hover their hand over the big red kill button whenever anyone was feeding paper into its maw. It was SOP when first powered up to feed it 2x4s to clean the grinding plates.
Maybe they could incorporate the similar stopping system that SawStop(the hot dog saw) invented for their table saws years ago.
Fully agree about wearing saw chaps. I spent a lot of time running chainsaws on Forest Service fire crews, and I knew several guys (and one woman) who had impressive zippers on their legs.
I wanted one until we got rid of all our trees on the lot.
Now I don’t need one................
I wanted one until we got rid of all our trees on the lot.
Now I don’t need one................
Absolutely right - people get tired, start seeing the end of the task instead of the one at hand...
I just put the downed limbs and trimmings onto a couple of brush piles for the quail to nest in. I didn’t see any tenants this last spring, though. Maybe again next year.
Sounds like really throwing yourself into your work
I used to camp in the winter woods of the 4 corners area to cut firewood, with a truck arriving every two weeks to collect the wood and take me to town for a shower, wash my one set of clothes and get more pinto beans, bacon, and instant coffee.
Once, I hit my leg just above the knee cap with the chainsaw which left a pretty ugly and very open wound, the only human I saw during that 10 day period after the injury and before the truck was a trapper who didn’t have any first aid, luckily it didn’t get infected and aside from an ugly scar it worked out.
Seeing what touching human flesh with a commercial chainsaw does is not a pretty thing to see.
Sawstops are great tools but even with using normal lumber they sometime activate falsely and that is a pretty expensive and time consuming replacement of parts. I think it would be much harder with varied material with different moisture contents to use the same or similar technology.
Holy carp!
I have never hurt my self with a power tool until this Memorial Day morning. I was ripping a 12” long piece of 4x4 on my Powermatic table saw. It kicked back and I touched the blade with my left middle finger. It just skimmed the end. Trimmed the nail, took off the skin and just a little flesh.
I was extremely glad when I looked down that 99% of my finger was still there. Then it started bleeding like crazy. I did not need stitches but it bled like crazy. Today is the first day I have not worn a band aid to work. Fortunately, I did not do much damage to the nerve endings there. Although, for the first couple weeks it was extremely sensitive.
I am LUCKY. I was been a woodworker since I was 14. Hence the tag name my dad gave me(woodbutcher).
“ Probably the most dangerous machine I have ever operated.”
I guess you have never seen a bale shredder.
When I was a teenager I got a summer job working in a paper factory. After I had worked there for several weeks, one of the older men explained how dangerous the machine was. Easily a hand could be caught in it and amputated immediately. I hadn’t thought of that. Nobody had explained it to me before then. I cringe as I think about it.
see post 32
I DO NOT own a SawStop table saw.
“When I cut a tree down now I switch to my small battery operated saw to limb the log. That way you only have a 12” bar exposed instead of an 18-20” or more bar spinning.”
I heard from a logger that kevlar chaps don’t work well with electric saws. But they’re no doubt better than nothing.
We can burn in NH in the winter as long as there is snow on the ground.
I typically have two brush piles on my property. One in the woods on the north side. Another on the edge of the woods on the south side.
I have 12 acres. So, I am cutting trees down every year. They break, die, blow down, etc. So, I cut the trees down/up and pile the branches on the closest brush pile. Burn it once there is at least a couple inches of snow on the ground.
Not sure what the difference between an electric battery powered motor spinning a chain or a 2 cycle engine spinning a chain.
It is the sharpened carbide teeth that cuts you. Not the engine.
You need a couple of goats.................
I was wondering the same thing.
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