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To: one_less who wrote (74931)	2/22/2000 1:18:00 PM
From: pezz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I don't know if you have been following this debate but your response indicates that you haven't or just choose to ignore what we have been talking about. First although Tree trimming is the job description, in NJ where the Dutch Elem disease has killed many very large trees we were often called upon to remove them.I know about large removals...I did it for ten years. Second the discussion was about injuries from spiked trees not casual accidents that you mention.....Please explain to me and others who have experience in these matters how hitting a spike in a tree can cause injury. <<When sharp, however, a chainsaw can go through a leg, shoulder or other body part faster than it goes through wood.>> Of course this is true...[ even when dull] What does it have to do with "spiking " trees? This is a part of the inherent dangers of the job.Logging or tree trimming. What you have described about a dull saw is true but no experienced operator is going to injure him/her self because of working with a dull saw.That makes no sense. A sharp saw can buck just as well ...bucking is caused by pinching ... ..Sure the saw once dulled will cut crooked causing pinching. ..But this happens to any tree trimmer hitting a nail . It happened to me hundreds of times. Not the big deal you make of it. If it's bad enough ...sharpen the saw... Otherwise the job stops as the saw will not cut. When steel is hit in wood the chain will stop...It will stop when pressed into a knot for that matter. Continued use will be with a dull saw. So??It does not break and if it did break it would stay in the cut. <<As ussual, pezz, you are very callous in your concern for the welfare of your fellow human beings when it suits your political agenda.>> As usual... You have in no way demonstrated this! . It is your agenda that you are trying to promote with half truths and comments irrelevant to "spiking" I would like to see just one report where a logger was injured because of "spiking"..If there were any they would have been made very public.