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Gruesome way to die
jimdeere
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Don't those things have safety guards?
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Not even going to click on that
Getting pulled in head first is the only way I would want to get pulled in.
Say, are we able to get Joe Biden a job as a tree trimmer?
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
No safety guards, other than be VERY careful! This things are designed to pull trees into them and shred them......a human has ZERO chance!
You have to know how to feed them. Take no chances of clothes being caught. I have had scary situations with gloves caught in limbs.
The great debate goes on: Does life follow art, or does art follow life?
That was a scene from Fargo. "The Snowman" that made the snow for many scenes for that movie lives a mile from us. He also "shook" that chipper as it made too much noise for the audio in the movie!
That looks like it is a modern unit that should have a safety bar.
I had an old Asplundh "Chuck-N-Duck" with a large Ford V-8. It would make an 8' - 4x4 disappear in 2 seconds. If a branch caught your clothes, it could suck you in. Had to have a second person on a lever to disconnect the drive if that happened.
I did a quick internet search.
just , holy cow it happens way more that I imagined lots of stories of falling or getting pulled into a wood chipper
I heard about that as not far from me. I have fed a few of those large chippers and if you get caught and pulled in, maybe three seconds and they might as well bury the load.
A good operator running a commercial size chipper can fill a 48 foot semi trailer in 12-15 minutes. They can handle a tree 24 inches on the butt end easily.
allen griggs - In the movie "Fargo" dude was dead put in, in bits and this wood chipper pulled a live guy in is kind a different. So neither.
I bet he doesn't do that again!!!
wow
We had a guy plow into one of these on a motorcycle on the highway . Police estimated the cycle was doing in excess of 110 mph when he collided with the wood chipper. Dead right there in pieces from hitting the blades . Took several hours to extricate all of his bits and parts . Cannot imagine what it would do to a body if it was running .
Virginia OSHA actually has specific safety training required for arborists including running a chipper. Bottom line- if it can eat a tree, you will not make it hiccup.