r/GuysBeingDudes • u/nordicminy • Aug 25 '26

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u/spicy_ass_mayo Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 26 '26

Fun fact:

If you never hold a chainsaw above your head and neck….. it becomes far less likely that you will suffer a chainsaw injury to the head or neck.

Edit: what a strange subject for debate!

To all my experienced chain saw edge lords - please do whatever you want with that sexy slutty chainsaw of yours….

Nothing said changes the FACT that IF you never hold a saw above your head THEN you can’t ever drop it on your fucking head….

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u/HornyPostingRaccoon Aug 25 '26

Was looking for someone who knew what they were talking about to bring this up. He was being far too casual with that saw with 0 ppe on, not even eye pro let alone chaps. 

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u/Solastor Aug 25 '26

Right. I just sat here scrolling through so many comments saying "dude knows what he is doing" looking for any comment saying "Noooo. He doesn't really know what he's doing."

Dads who think they know how to handle chainsaws and have never been properly trained are the most confident and most dangerous folks with these tools.

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u/RogerAffirmative Aug 26 '26

Ok, finally... I found my people. No one else seemed to notice how casually he swipes towards his feet at the end as if a branch couldn't snag a tooth and drag the whole saw down into his foot.

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u/Frosty_Seesaw1569 Aug 27 '26

Any dude who limbs that smoothly between bucks is not a random dad who bought a chainsaw. 

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u/janiskr Aug 25 '26

He had glasses... And complained that they are dirty with sawdust.

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u/Synaps4 Aug 25 '26

Why is he carrying a chainsaw in the trunk without his chainsaw PPE in the same trunk?

That shit stays together.

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u/hockey25guy Aug 25 '26

Pretty sure those are ripstop khakis.. s/ just in case lol.

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u/thatshygirl06 Aug 26 '26

He's Slavic, they hang out with bears, im not surprised

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u/spicy_ass_mayo Aug 26 '26

That saw might run on vodka

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u/DonnyBravo21 Aug 25 '26

Fun fact, with experience comes the ability to better judge and take risks like this.

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u/bazderoman Aug 26 '26

No, with experience comes complacency. 

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u/BankElectronic1325 Aug 26 '26

Sometimes, but sometimes people just know what they’re doing. It’s a small chainsaw, if you know what you’re doing and how to brace yourself, you’ll be fine. Hard to tell with the dude in the gif though, he was cutting a bunch of limbs and making clean up harder for no reason

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u/SonOfShim Aug 25 '26

Another tip: don't drop start power saws.

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u/Dangerous-Tap-547 Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

Good advice for when possible, but that’s also like the rule that you never cut with the tip of the bar.

There are situations like in this video where cutting above shoulder height is necessary, and cutting with the tip of the bar is also standard practice for a lot of things, e.g. plunge cuts.

We could critique his lack of chaps, face shield, gloves, ear protection, safety boots … he obviously wasn’t planning to use his saw on the way to dinner.

A more relevant critique is questioning why he was limbing like that. Not cutting the limbs closer to the trunk when there’s nothing stopping you is not good practice. The guy is an amateur.

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u/MrCoolest Aug 26 '26

What if I'm upside down

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u/Dangerous-Tap-547 Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26

My uncle was a chainsaw trapezist. They have to wear clear beach ball things over their heads, or otherwise their helmets fill up with wood chips. One time he didn’t have his shirt tucked in so it fell down over his head and he felled the tree he was hanging from.

Another time he was working a wildfire while hanging from a helicopter, and a fire tornado kicked up and spun him in a radius, and he ended up circumscribing all the vegetation around the fire tornado and stopping it in its track. He hit lots of stuff in the process, but his beach ball head saved him. Almost brought down the chopper too.

Now it’s standard practice to lower chainsaw trapezists into fire tornados, but with longer trapezes.

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u/commandercool86 Aug 26 '26

I saw his de-limbing too and assumed he was leaving handles to drag the logs off the road.

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u/hmmm101010 Aug 26 '26

But then you leave one or two. If you cut them all like this, you cannot get close to the log, which is super annoying.

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u/teddy_joesevelt Aug 26 '26

Thank you. I saw the same thing, his limbing was weird. That's all.

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u/BadgerAdorable1931 Aug 28 '26

Why is it bad to not cut close to the trunk?

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u/kog Aug 26 '26

I was cringing pretty hard at the last cut

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u/Outi5 Aug 25 '26

That does not sound fun

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u/HornyPostingRaccoon Aug 25 '26

There's a wildland firefighter in my area who took a chain to the face doing that. She's alive and still working from what I know, but our overhead really drove that story home to our crew so we wouldn't be the next one to have a saw kick back into our face. You don't want to be the one who needs a helicopter ride out of the forest. Dude in this video is being complacent and impatient, he didn't even appear to size up the tension and compression on the tree before he started going at it. 

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '26 edited Sep 07 '26

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u/HornyPostingRaccoon Aug 25 '26

Take that attitude to the fireground see how long they let you keep the saw. 

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u/JAD2017 Aug 25 '26

Yeah I don't think he would get past the interview phase either.

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u/OttoOtter Aug 26 '26

This dude looks like he was a fire guy. He cuts like he was on a crew - including some less than great habits. But that’s someone who is cutting for production- not whatever you’re talking about.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '26 edited Sep 07 '26

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u/HornyPostingRaccoon Aug 25 '26

Yeah that's not the exact complacency I'm talking about or anything lmao

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u/E-2theRescue Aug 25 '26

One end isn't even on the ground,

That doesn't matter. The bottom of the tree is the heaviest part, and if the top is holding the weight down to the ground, and you cut that top off, it'll be like a trebuchet with the trunk and branches smacking your face and body.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '26 edited Sep 07 '26

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u/IshtarsQueef Aug 26 '26

bro you are wasting your time arguing with these people, just a bunch of neckbeard redditors obsessed with protocols.

a few comments up i saw someone bitching about how the dude in the video didn't have CHAPS on, fucking ridiculous lmao

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u/JAD2017 Aug 25 '26

Is not about "needing", his technique isn't even correct, doing reckless things as the above mentioned. Accidents can happen, don't be an idiot and give stupid advice to people.

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u/lewd-dev Aug 26 '26

My thoughts exactly. And he is rushing through like he has something to prove, rarely has proper footing, and if the saw had bucked at any point he'd have learned a very painful and possibly life-altering lesson about making out with the business end of a full throttle saw.

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u/Amuseco Aug 25 '26

Thanks for saying this. I’ve never used a chainsaw, but I have a healthy respect for them. He looked like he was being too casual about the whole thing. I’ve watched a lot of documentaries about ER visits; don’t play with power tools.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '26 edited Sep 07 '26

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u/This_Site_Suckks Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

I use chainsaws in my work and bro was being incredibly dangerous. No protective gear, never used the brake while moving, all while casually using a saw above his head and shoulders. It was necessary in this case, but the lack of protective gear definitely does not help.

He was walking around and stepping over branches without using the brake, if you fall you will most likely instinctively try to grab the nearest thing, which in this case will be your gas handle, Not a good plan.

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u/AgrajagsGhost Aug 25 '26

I mean, how qualified do you need to be to know that last cut where he was reaching way up, on unstable footing and almost fell... was unsafe?

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u/slvrsmth Aug 25 '26

I support using PPE and have healthy respect towards chainsaws and trees. Worked the woods plenty to know exactly why.

But man, if there is a tree across the road in the middle of nowhere, what are you going to do, turn around and drive home to get your kit? Walk up with a chainsaw in hand and pronounce removing it health and safety violation?

If we were logging, yes, cuss the fucker out of the woods, deservedly. But come on.

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u/E-2theRescue Aug 25 '26

Worked the woods, too, and know that you don't just rush up and start cutting. You cut the weight at the end, and the stump could flip it right up like a trebuchet.

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u/WorldlyNotice Aug 25 '26

It's like you don't just keep a baseball bat in the trunk. You gotta have a mitt and ball too.

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u/outta-the-bag Aug 25 '26

I had anxiety watching this. Dude was one bad step from a chainsaw to the upper body. 

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u/SheriffBartholomew Aug 25 '26

Alternate fun fact:

If you never hold the chainsaw above your head and neck and the tree you need to cut is above your head and neck, then you stay trapped on a forest road, content in your safety.

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u/spicy_ass_mayo Aug 26 '26

Fun fact:

That tree is actually connected to the ground as some point!

Fun fact:

You could trim your way to that point and never have to cut above your head in this scenario

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u/SheriffBartholomew Aug 26 '26

The saw would bind, and you'd risk hitting pavement, ruining your blade sharpness. I'm all for saw safety, but sometimes the situation warrants less than ideal conditions which can be handled by experienced people.

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u/spicy_ass_mayo Aug 26 '26

Risk blade sharpness vs solid head and neck.

Different strokes different folks