Mimosa

[Tom Hook]

Thanks Fons, Akira and Dave for your nice comments.

Hugh, both Stihl and Husqvarna have found their way into my toolshed at one time or another. Unfortunately, after an accident twenty years ago with my Husqvarna chainsaw, my wife put her foot down when I returned from the emergency room with 25 stitches in my arm and told me to sell it. There was no permanent damage but a nasty scar that reminds me of the wisdom of her words every time I see it (shudder). Now my arsenal includes handsaws only, better for both me and the environment!

[Hugh_3170]

Glad that you have only been left with scars Tom.  Chainsaws are great servants but very gruesome masters. 

Fortunately my only accident with a chainsaw was when I dropped one that was not running onto my left knee.  No cuts - just lots of pain.

[David H. Hartman]

My one incident with with a chainsaw in hand was stepping where I beleived there was earth but there was not. I was on a slope with one foot on a retaining wall and one among the leaves and branches of a fallen tree. The retaining wall was about eight feet high (2.7 meters?). A friend grabbed my belt with two hands lifted me back up. The chainsaw was idling in my my hand.

No harm, no foul but scary.

Dave