Thread: Small chainsaw incident

A couple of weekends ago my mum asked me to cut down a small Loquat tree for her. It was about 4m high and had a ~100 mm trunk. I have 8 chainsaws and I grabbed the smallest one that had fuel and oil in (it was a 70 cc with a 25" bar). Most folks on the small milling forum will know how safety conscious I am and I threw a pair of chaps, muffs and face mask in the car and headed over to her place. I cut down the tree and then she asked me to cut it up so she could fit it over time into her units set of wheelie bins. I did this and then we went and had a cup of tea. When we came out to put the stuff in the wheelies a length of the trunk was about an inch too long to fit in the bin. I had taken off my chaps etc and thought I wouldn't bother putting them back on for one cut. Problem was I didn't see that the chain was loose so that when I started and revved up the saw the chain came off the bar and fair whacked me in between the legs. The chain also punctured a small hole in my daks and in doing so took a small divot out of my left knee.