Personally I think I'd have kept the handle on the axe...
[video=youtube;92ejWHlPLaE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92ejWHlPLaE[/video]
[video=youtube;92ejWHlPLaE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92ejWHlPLaE[/video]
Scary log splitter...
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Nice bit of redneck engineering 
I see worse round here every week - but the users are rarely known as "stumpy". Of course its as dangerous as hell - but I suspect the person in A&E will be the idiot who finds a cable with a power drill whilst "just putting up a shelf". A guy who welds his own hub is likely to understand how dodgy that is and treat it with care. Sounds odd but, when it comes to mad rednecks, the Devil looks after his own as a rule
I see worse round here every week - but the users are rarely known as "stumpy". Of course its as dangerous as hell - but I suspect the person in A&E will be the idiot who finds a cable with a power drill whilst "just putting up a shelf". A guy who welds his own hub is likely to understand how dodgy that is and treat it with care. Sounds odd but, when it comes to mad rednecks, the Devil looks after his own as a rule
I couldnt watch to the end, but I suspect both Messrs Heath and Robinson would be pleased.
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That looks like a job you could pass on to your kids for a bit of pocket money. What could possibly go wrong?
My buddy cuts his firewood on something like this
No blade guard - all runs off an old Lister engine.
He's been doing it for years - scares the snot out of me - particularly when he talks to me over his shoulder whilst doing it!
He still has the right number of fingers though!
No blade guard - all runs off an old Lister engine.
He's been doing it for years - scares the snot out of me - particularly when he talks to me over his shoulder whilst doing it!
He still has the right number of fingers though!
Aye but that's a saw, at least it's all one blade to be aware of, not a turning belt of a sharp edge that clearly sends the timber flying.
Never mind that it's a missing hand waiting to happen, I hope he's wearing a facemasked helmet
It only needs to skite off at an angle he doesn't catch once, and he's in a world of hurt.
Prize eejit.
Just because we can, doesn't always mean we should
I spent a lot of time in small boatyards and joiner's and engineer's workshops, tools don't always come with guards, but that 'thing' is just glaikit.
If the timber balks were contained within some kind of frame and he'd used the motor to power a downwards blow with a rocket spike he'd get a quicker, and a much, much safer, result.
"Redneck engineering", that's a euphemism for oiling it with blood, is it ?
M
Never mind that it's a missing hand waiting to happen, I hope he's wearing a facemasked helmet
It only needs to skite off at an angle he doesn't catch once, and he's in a world of hurt.Prize eejit.
Just because we can, doesn't always mean we should
I spent a lot of time in small boatyards and joiner's and engineer's workshops, tools don't always come with guards, but that 'thing' is just glaikit.
If the timber balks were contained within some kind of frame and he'd used the motor to power a downwards blow with a rocket spike he'd get a quicker, and a much, much safer, result.
"Redneck engineering", that's a euphemism for oiling it with blood, is it ?
M
Weirdly they rarely do - which always amazes me.
Redneck engineering is standing in a free swinging JCB bucket with a running chainsaw in your hand "cos its quicker that way"...
Clearing mole runs with a roofing torch and piezo sparker.....(whummmmp)
We wont even mention clearing vermin using the bleach and...well you are old enough to know what gave off chlorine mixed that way!
Got to love a bit of redneck engineering
Did I tell you the tale of my bother clearing a blocked cast iron drain pipe ( a soil pipe from a kitchen sink) with a homemade squib affair His pipe bomb successfully excavated a trench deeper than the house foundations
I now know what to call his occasional total obliviousness to the potential for things to go other than as planned
atb,
His pipe bomb successfully excavated a trench deeper than the house foundations I now know what to call his occasional total obliviousness to the potential for things to go other than as planned
atb,
How about two men in a tiny aluminium dinghy on a canal, one standing with a running chainsaw cutting a diseased tree that was leaning over the bank.
Saw this one on youtube a few years ago, same thing basically.
[video=youtube;2bVAAx3mMKY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bVAAx3mMKY[/video]
[video=youtube;2bVAAx3mMKY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bVAAx3mMKY[/video]
I now know what to call his occasional total obliviousness to the potential for things to go other than as planned
atb,
You call it "being manly"
[video=youtube;0V9YZ7C88iU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V9YZ7C88iU[/video]
How about two men in a tiny aluminium dinghy on a canal, one standing with a running chainsaw cutting a diseased tree that was leaning over the bank.
Promise me it was an electric chainsaw
Promise me it was an electric chainsaw
A petrol.
Was a bottom clenching moment wondering whether the tree was going to drop in the canal and create a wave, or if it'd hit the boat.
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