Eric,
I whole heartdly agree with you on the safety equipment when using chain
saws, steel-toes shoes are NOT enough! The saw can slip off the steel toe
and go through your ankle or worse.
<bold><color><param>ffff,0000,0000</param>Full protection</color></bold>
or don't use it! Take it from someone who knows.
Bob
(Happy to be walking again!)
At 12:16 PM 10/17/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Bob Hamilton writes:
>>
>> Kelly and Others,
>>
>> Be really careful with these puppies as I have been using one for
>> over twenty years until this past April when it kicked on me and I removed
>> my big toe and half of the one next to it on my left foot. Not a good
>> experience - 12 days in hospital, infections, blood clots, etc. I now have
>> a left foot that I can place a right shoe on! Both my feet "slope" the same
>> way.
>
>Sorry to hear that.
>
>Steel-toe boot are a must when running a saw, as are
>saw chaps and eye protection. Nothing like getting chips
>in your eyes just as you've made the final cut on a tree and
>you need to run to get out of its way.
>
>
>
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>Eric Murray Chief Security Scientist N*Able Technologies www.nabletech.com
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The Man of Many Sunbeams - Alpine, Drophead and Saloon 1953-1954
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