re: My chainsaw broke. Questions within (paging hammertime)

Just glancing for parts for ya and noticed that your saw was recalled

LINK

I've never bought off of ebay but just did a search and was surprised what I saw there. Check it out, you may find the part(s) you need- if the warranty won't cover.

Oh and next time a tree is falling and you decided to haul arse- don't forget the dam saw.

I never had one, but I didn't cut trees if I thought I couldn't handle them. The occasional oops happened, but it was typically when I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing

I did cut maybe 12 pine trees around a buddy's Nascar-sized pond once and the one thing he told me was to not drop one on the pump in the middle. Sho nuff, the last tree spun around on me and smashed the pump, which was all of 4sqft

Next day I had to come back and fix all of that shite underwater

Tree was already on the ground. It just twisted.

Ill be at LSU at some point tomorrow. Ill holla at you.

cutting trees down surely is unpredictable. my stepdad was a logger, so i was involved quite a bit. he wouldn't allow me to cut down trees, only using the saw at the ramp. Mostly ran a skidder full time. I've seen some shite, you never know what will happen out there. Had one worker to get under a tree that was hung up, cut the other and it fell on him killing in is tracks.

I'll tell ya one thing. I damn sure am not getting under anything behind a few dollars of firewood.

I'm not much on serious tree cutting. I try to only fool with shite that's already on the ground.

I did some real logging for a few months. Y'all can keep that dangerous arse shite.

Agreed. That shite is stupidly dangerous. It does make you feel like a manly man though

sorry it was taking too long to type on the phone.

so...

I get the longest extension ladder I could borrow 20 ft, some rope, heavy jeans, heavy gloves, and my 16" pouland chainsaw.

I leaned ladder on tree and climbed up and tied it to the trunk. I wrapped a piece of rope around the main trunk multiple times creating a simple bull riders saddle/handle if you will. I used another piece of rope to create a short safety length for the saw and tied it to both the trunk and the saw handle.

While still on the ladder I cranked the saw and hung it from the tree on the rope with the chain disengaged. Then I climbed on to the tree straddling the trunk centered over the rope handle and slipped my gloved left hand into the rope loop and tightened it down. I wrapped my legs around the trunk to steady myself and pulled up the saw. With the saw in my right hand I made a partial thickness cut in the limb out in front of me.

The plan was to cut half way through the top and let it swing down and stabilize. Then with it hanging hinged to the main trunk retreat to the ladder and the ground. Then finally cut the main trunk dropping the tree and missing the house.


Well, the cut was partial thickness as planned.
The top hinged safely away from the house as planned. But that is where the planning fell short.

The top had so much force that when is swung down it went ahead a ripped the remaining portion of intact wood in half and fell to the ground. Now 1000 or more pounds lighter the main trunk literally sprung into action. I immediately let go of the chainsaw which dropped and hung below the main trunk with blade still engaged and turning, albeit at idle. Luckily my left hand was still firmly fashioned because it was the wildest bare back trunk ride I have ever been on. I swear that tree bucked 4 ft up and down. Of course when it was over the ladder which was still tied to the trunk was now 2 ft short of the ground because the end of the tree was not being held down by the weight of it's top. After finally climbing down I was amazed that all I had suffered was a sore left shoulder and arm, , road rash on my forearms, bruised inner thighs, and stained drawers.


Someone was watching over me for sure.