Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => Fire Wood => Topic started by: CountryBoyJohn on July 22, 2014, 11:13:31 AM
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Guys, wear your PPE and don't do more than you can handle. Southern Indiana was dealt a big blow this week when a local Christian Church Camp director was killed in a tree cutting accident. I'll be ordering a hard hat and chaps before I do any more cutting. We've got a dangerous job heating our homes with wood. One small slip and it's over. We should do our part for our families and our children and take the time and effort to put on the PPE and take our time. One log or great looking tree isn't worth our lives.
Stay safe guys.
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Very troubled to hear of this type of loss!
Spent my working life in the Woods (Canadian West Coast) and now retired. Started using a chainsaw at the age of 12 cutting firewood on the farm, but under the direction of my stepbrother - an experienced West Coast Faller. As personal protection gear has become available, I have made use of it and Good quality fallers pants are a must!
A little understood concept is that a short bar is More dangerous than the longer bar. In a kick back, the short bar can strike you in the face or worse yet the neck; the longer bar in the legs.
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I use high power saws...I always wear chaps..I only wear the helmet is for the ear muffs..Running the saw without ear muffs for a long period of time..Try hearing when your done...
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I use high power saws...I always wear chaps..I only wear the helmet is for the ear muffs..Running the saw without ear muffs for a long period of time..Try hearing when your done...
Have you met my mother in law? I might have to volunteer to cut wood for people using my Stihl 460 with no earmuffs.
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HUGS, I know what you mean, sounds like you may have married my Ex Wife!
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[ "A tree-clearing accident has killed the director of a southwestern Indiana Christian youth camp.
The Daviess County Sheriff's Department says 60-year-old David Ira-Mitchel Bean died Monday at Camp Illiana, about 50 miles northeast of Evansville.
It says Bean and another camp staffer had cut a large, dead tree at its base and were attempting to pull it down when a rope connecting the tree and a front-end loader snapped, causing the tree to sway and a large limb to fall and strike Bean in the head."]Quote
The above description of the accident and from many aspects, it was avoidable and PPE may have made a big difference!
In the West Coast Logging Industry Dead Standing Trees have acquired the nickname and rightly so, of Widow Maker!
In the small logging towns where I spent my working years, the death of a co- worker was felt by every one and I'm very sure is just as hurtful and grievous to those associated with this Church Group.
Country Boy John - thank you for bring this accident to our attention. The wise will take heed!
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Thanks Mr. Hobbyheater.
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Yeah, that sure is a bugger, sorry to hear of such a thing. It sounds like rigging may have been the culprit and "maybe" PPE could have made a difference. Whatever occurred and why, it is a bad result. SAFETY FIRST AT ALL TIMES.