A little different story, but maybe it'll help somebody. I had a tree that broke in the wind and fell over and stuck out about 30 feet into a field. The trunk broke about 5 ft. above the ground, and was still hinged at the stump. There was quite a bit of tension on the trunk out toward the end. I started trimming limbs, and everything went great until I hit one that was actually supporting the trunk. Wham! The trunk slammed me to the ground and COULD have caved in my chest. Fortunately, there was a little free space. I could breathe, and I managed to crawl out backwards. The saw was out in front of me. I guess I just dropped it and released the trigger. I was never real comfortable around chain saws, but had begun to think I knew what I was doing. 'Spect that's the beginning of lots of accidents, or else we just don't think of what MIGHT happen. Before I touched that tree again, I attached a LONG chain to the trunk and pulled it around with a tractor until I could tell there was no more tension trying to pull that trunk down on anything that might release the pressure. A source of some awful accidents used to be the PTO shaft, which a lot of people left uncovered because they didn't want to bother attaching the older-type shields. I have never seen this, but I have heard of people whose loose clothes got caught in the PTO shaft. Not hard to imagine what happens. Nowadays, with the PTO guards that are free, I guess there is less chance of getting caught, but I always try to remember that the PTO is a lot stronger than I am. Also, some of the modern fibers don't rip like an old cotton shirt. Just as an example, a one-inch wide strip of the nylon fabric now used to cover old airplanes can lift at least 150 pounds. I don't think our modern clothing fabrics are that heavy, but I'd bet they're pretty strong.
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