- Jun 12, 2006
- 1,053
Hi -
Over the years folks on the board here have encouraged me to get appropriate safety gear, clear slash away from the tree base and a long way down the escape route and I'm sure it's saved me a good deal of grief.
So Saturday I was dropping a couple of Ash trees. They had already been topped and almost all the branches had been cleared from the site. So I dropped the 18" and 24" trunks and buck them to 16". I rolled them to make a path for the truck so I could load them. When I pulled up I heard/felt a massive tire failure. A small Y shaped branch with a sharp end had cut the sidewall on both my passenger side tires!!
I'll be adding a stiff rake to the tool complement in the future. I think I got used to ignoring a lot of the smaller brush working in a swampy area last Spring. I needed a set of tires, and the adventure didn't upset any plans for the day so I'm counting it as a blessing/learning oportunity.
All the best,
Mike
Over the years folks on the board here have encouraged me to get appropriate safety gear, clear slash away from the tree base and a long way down the escape route and I'm sure it's saved me a good deal of grief.
So Saturday I was dropping a couple of Ash trees. They had already been topped and almost all the branches had been cleared from the site. So I dropped the 18" and 24" trunks and buck them to 16". I rolled them to make a path for the truck so I could load them. When I pulled up I heard/felt a massive tire failure. A small Y shaped branch with a sharp end had cut the sidewall on both my passenger side tires!!
I'll be adding a stiff rake to the tool complement in the future. I think I got used to ignoring a lot of the smaller brush working in a swampy area last Spring. I needed a set of tires, and the adventure didn't upset any plans for the day so I'm counting it as a blessing/learning oportunity.
All the best,
Mike
