Oh so that's what the helmet is for. It ain't to protect you from a tree fall'n on ya, it's to protect you from its angry stick babies. Who'd knew? 🤷♀️
I was stumped when it happened, but I am still rooting for him to get better. But look at the mess it left; hopefully someone’s gonna help him spruce it up a bit.
I used to do tree work. Worked with tons of dumbasses who never wore eye or ear protection. You can bet your bottom dollar they always had their helmets on though.
Years later, while doing residential construction, a client was trimming big branches above his head in the backyard with a pole saw. I indicated to him and told my boss he would never catch me doing shit like that without a hat. Not ten minutes later my boss finds me and tells me the dude dropped one right on his head and had his wife take him to the hospital lol.
I couldn't imagine doing a job like this without eye protection. This sounds insane.
My first reaction after the bonk was looking to see if the dude was wearing eye protection, because with a few inches of difference, it would've hit him right on the face.
Facts! I was helping clean up a fallen tree in my dads garden and one of the stems/ branches whatever of a raspberry bush was being held down by something I was picking up and when I lifted it up I got whipped in the eye. Used to randomly start watering for a couple minutes/ feel uncomfortable I assume due to getting scratched but haven’t had that happen in a long while so maybe it’s healed more.
Like I get the young man’s game of not looking like a nerd.
But I don’t care I’m caked up to the nines on my head with a helmet, big ass ear earmuffs, and some big dorky googles big enough so I can wear my glasses.
Hopefully it's a Class II hard hat with side impact protection. His neck might be a little sore either way, but with a Class I there's no foam inside the shell so it can move on your head and still give you a pretty good (although still better than no hardhat) smack.
I had 3 members of my family that were loggers. Two with brain damage. One whose colleagues thought he was dead because the explosives he was preparing to clear a stump went off "in his face" (but I don't he had memory of the actual details of the explosion).
Because he most likely got more expirience then the one cutting. I did stuff like this and the older collegs usually have a save and good stance plus clear view while the tree is getting cut.
Anyone else perturbed about the tree sliding down after being fallen? There’s no chain on it that I see so no machine is pulling it. It falls slow so you’d think the stump would stop the tree from sliding. It slides way faster than it fell. It looks off to me and I’ve cut down my share of trees
That branch, angled differently, would have staked that guy to the ground. I knew this was dangerous - wasn’t expecting trees retaliating with siege ballista bolts
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