/diy/ - Do It Yourself

This thread went on way too long without mentioning pic related.

Most other tools have one way to fuck you up. The pole saw will fuck you up in many ways.

1) It’s a heavy saw on the end of a long pole, puts you on the end of a really long lever mechanism, so you get up on a ladder and reach for a branch off to the side and lose your balance and take a fall

2) If you remain on the ladder from #1 and get the saw on top of that branch, you cut through it and as soon as you get through the branch, the heavy end of that sharpened chain comes falling down from the tree

3) You cut a big branch at the wrong angle and get the blade wedged in there, now you have a half cut tree limb and a piece of equipment precariously hanging until something gives

4) You aint got time to trim little branches all day, and it’s a chainsaw so you can go through a limb just as thick as the bar on the saw, and you end up dropping 1/4 of a large tree from 15ft above you right onto your dome.

#4 almost got me. I actually cut most of the smaller branches off and then chopped off a log like 6” wide and 3’-4’ long, forgetting how heavy wet wood like that is. The corner of the log clocked me in the forehead.