I forgot to mention it, but there is a local guy here, friend on mine as a matter of fact that was helping one of his coworkers a few years back cut firewood and while cutting down a tree, it bounced off a stump and flipped around and got him, broke his back in many places and luckily he lived and somehow, he's able to walk, not great, but enough to get around and still function. He''s young, maybe low 40's and has a wife and kids to support. Its completely changed his life, the hospital bills alone he will be paying on the for the rest of his life, his job has changed, his wife has been forced to change carrer's, his kids live's have been changed forever, health problems and complications will plague him forever and the list is endless as to what this accident has done to him and will do to him till the day he dies.
Until that incident, it never truly hit home what can happen, so you could say, we've been very fortunate over the years nothing bad ever happened to any of us over, some could call it luck, some might call is being good and aware of the situation, call it whatever you want, but at the time of his accident I said, that's enough till I get a machine that can put the operator out of harms way and into a much safer position to do felling and bucking logs, we're going to let this work pass us by. Looking back now, I should have done it 30 years sooner to save wear and tear on our bodies, but better late than never I guess you could say.
