no casual chainsawing

ripped my shorts with a chainsaw-Duh!

I did something the other day that I don’t usually do and I got away with it but now I’m telling you;

Don’t Do It! I had been using the chainsaw in the morning on a watershed restoration project in the

backcountry and when we broke for lunch we left the equipment there. When I came back later

I had changed out of my safety gear and I was wearing my new favorite pair of carthart shorts. As I loaded

the equipment into the truck I noticed something I had missed and rather than put the chaps back on

I (you guessed it) decided to chainsaw in shorts. This is not recommended. Everything was going fine until

I held it just a little too low and literally one cutter just grabbed the top of my shorts and put a big L-shaped rip in the front. No blood, no skin, and I knew I had been lucky. That’s when you promise yourself to never

ever be careless again until the next time you’re careless. A certain blogger from Roshambo winery has been

known to use a chainsaw while wearing shorts and flip-flops. He only burned his leg on the hot engine.

So the moral is: this is a dangerous game!

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