[TheForge] power tools OT:

[peter fels]

Scary!
Been doing a lot of pole saw hours, now that i'm getting kinda old to climb trees,
and i've decked myself more than once with falling branches.

On Jul 6, 2011, at 6:53 AM, Andy Gladish wrote:

> I know how easy it is to get hurt using power tools and how quick it
> happens, but in a lifetime of using them most of most days my worst injures
> and closest calls (that I was aware of) have been with sharp hand tools.
> I'm thinking of a day of trimming shade trees, when I hung the pole saw on a
> branch above me and moved to a different position in the tree...sure enough
> the hooked saw blade came down across the side of my neck-the E.R.doc
> said"about another quarter inch"and I would have bled out in seconds.
> This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around!
> Andy Gladish
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