My bro decided he would take out 35 mtrs or so of a nine foot tall hawthorn & privet hedge that took up two sides of his property . Armed with all the PPE you can get and a can of two stroke mix away he went .
All on his lone some save for his wife looking out the kitchen window at his antics.
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Like a bloody loon he waved the racing chainsaw like the guy in " The Texas chains saw massacre " laughing like the same & shouting " Come on ya mother f....ers , I'll get you ....... Wahoooo !"
Arrrrragh....... screaming like a banshee he fell back like he was pole axed , luckily the chainsaw fell away from him as he fell back.
Sis in law is Polish and tends to phone me when things needed a bit of help .. she thought he'd tripped then she saw blood .. phoned me first as I lived two miles away, luckily I was near the phone , grabbed an arm full of fresh dried towels and tore off to their place .
His brain was just starting to show through the saw cut.
I wrapped him up and expertly drove him to the nearest hospital having done a 999 call to advise them of the situation and my car number etc.
They gave me a blues & twos escort to the casualty dep at the back & front and had kept the control advised of our progress . The casualty folk got him out the car & wheel chaired him away whilst I filled out the forms etc.
That was 34 years ago , two weeks ago John suffered a massive stroke from a tumour that is directly under the saw cut site ... it's not looking good either .
What caused the injury ?
Him being stupid and also failing to see that there was no chain link or barbed wire etc in the fence line before he started to cut .
The saw climbed up some six foot tall plastic covered old but well protected chain link fencing and cut right through the peak of his hat , deep into the safety goggles and down through his skull to his brain .
Had he actually had his peaked safety hat correctly secured on his head with the chinstrap set up is it highly likely he'd have just had a sickening fright, as it was he had not bothered with the chinstrap.