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- December 10, 2009 at 12:29 am #41158
lancek
ParticipantWent to the woods this morning and started working in some swamp ground that I thought would be solid enough after the single digit weather that we had last night ! Thats when all hell broke lose a large gale force wind hit us that had to be more than 50 miles an hour and trees started falling every where, The horses bolted and took off with us right behind my son seen a tree headed his way and ducked under a top and was covered by brush. we finaly cought up with the horses two hours later and a mile away! Everybody came out allright luckly Lancek
December 10, 2009 at 12:50 am #55938Scott G
ParticipantNever a dull moment, Tim! Glad everthing turned out alright. I’ve been in situations where I’ve been cutting in a sea of dead snags, winds pick up, and multiple large woody objects start falling out of the sky. Bad situations that have taken out many a logger. Definitely heads up operation. That is a situation where I would go in and pre-fell everything for the day, wallow in slash regardless, just so I didn’t have to be skidding under a sky full of widow makers. More escape options when it is just you and your saw versus you and your horses…
Unfortunately we are going to be exposed to more of that kind of crap out here as we have to remove standing dead hazard trees that are a result of our MPB epidemic.
December 10, 2009 at 2:06 pm #55939TaylorJohnson
ParticipantTim
I am glad that you , your boys, and horses are OK that could have been a real bad deal for sure. I have a cousin who was a good horse logger that lost his arm from a not to big a limb,, well he still has it but it is like a rubber arm it does not work. Him and I worked together since we were kids and it takes one bad day to change lives for ever . He was unconscience for 28 days in a trauma center . One of the stoutest naturally strongest men I have ever known and a maple limb of about 4” diameter and 5′ to 6′ long hit his arm so hard that all the muscle came off of the bone along with the nerves and arteries.
He still works in the woods ,he has a old iron mule forwarder that he runs now ( with one hand ) . He is going to get that arm taken off when break up comes this year so he has time to heal wile it is muddy and he cant work any way. He says there is a place in Madison that will take his arm put it in a room and beetles will clean it slick. He says he is going to get knife handles made out of it for me , his boy, his brother and my brothers boys. The Dr. told him he could not do that but Charlie argued with him and I guess he can. So come next fall I will have a human arm bone handled knife LOL but I would rather have my cousin back with 2 arms of course. If I were to list the injuries that my family has taken though the years it would take up a big page ,, it is sure easy to do.
For some time now I have been using the plunge cut and directional felling and that takes a lot of the danger out of it and if my cousin would have been using this method he would not have been injured. Tim I am glad to hear that you are alright I really am , when I seen this thread I got a little bit of a knot in my gut for you until I read it . Take care and be careful. Taylor Johnson - AuthorPosts
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