I havn't got any half good stories to tell like yours, Weta and Boa, but I have had a scary near miss to this very day I still ponder on.
I was removing a liquidambar. I went up to cut a significant branch in size, I had then started the under cut then proceeded for the finishing top cut. Well as I finished my top cut the chain actually caught the branch that I was dumping! Luckily enough the day before I had bought a brand spankin' new breakaway lanyard - $50 later, It tore away and dumped the saw on the ground. There were no targets under the tree so it was all top n flop'.The saw was an old 019 so it's lanyard attachment wasn't a breakaway.
I remember looking at the chain after that cut... It was a little loose, just loose enough to grib and catch the branch (which it did). So the lesson to be learn't here is always inspect your gear everytime you go up the tree. |