Don't Be Afraid Of Chainsaws! - Safety & Responsibility
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- Опубліковано 23 чер 2024
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Pat Hennin started using a chainsaw in 1962 when he worked as a lumberjack in the Targhee National Forest in Idaho to pay for college.
From milling whole houses worth of timbers, to practicing tree surgery, Pat has been regularly using a chainsaw for the last 40 years, and it is one of his favorite tools!
In this first video of a six-part series, Pat explains more about how his first lumberjack experience and how he approaches safety & responsibility when it comes to wielding this powerful tool.
Look out for Pt. 2 to this series coming out next week!
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Really great story. Being responsible for your own safety is a great message. Thanks Pat.
The way in which Pat presents shows that he has learned to laugh at the trials in life. The dry humor made the content entertaining.
I'm so glad to see you guys are still producing videos! Thank you from the urban core of Miami!
So great! The concept of being responsible for your own safety and others safety, at all times is a crucial component of being aware and functional on any job site. Listening to others while working is crucial. Even while digging a ditch, with shovel in hand, head down, doing work; situational awareness makes the work place more safe. Same could be said for working in a shop, framing a house or any other aspect of construction.
Maintaining awareness of both yours, and others surroundings and happenings is a crucial skill for any construction person.
Excellent video! My "intro" to chainsawing was clearing a piddly two-acre house lot of maple and beech for the house and landscaping (deadwood, driveway etc.). I had three chainsaws - one borrowed monster with a long bar and two smaller ones of my own with 18" bars. These days I run even shorter bars on my saws since I am mostly just cleaning up deadfalls and as you note, a 16" bar can cut a 32' tree
Wow! Great information. Pats stories on his experiences are wonderful!
Inspirational !
8:30 you're like David before the battle with Goliath, he didn't need to wear any of that protective armor that was offered to him to take down the giant. ☺️
I have a couple chainsaws now, but growing up in the 90s my family didn't have chainsaws, it was all crosscut and buck saws as a kid. Thankfully we weren't felling forests.
Great worth in that chainsaw.
I agree that no amount of safety equipment will be effective without situational awareness. Glad to see you guys back.
Absolute great video, agree 100 %.Government is not the answer, they don't help they hinder any process. Rely on your self not the socialism of government in any field.
😂 LoL! What funny story! I had to share it with my friends! Wish you have mentioned in the end, did you finish cutting that plot? Or you quit? Did you found the tuition going to the class? How was that story end? Haa, love your parents! Thank you for the wonderful chainsaw class I learned a few more things about you and Chain saw. Love to see more videos of you!
My favorite lawyer. And the only one I'd trust with a chain saw.
Nice 700g and 770d
Crazy stories
Really expensive…4 months of work for a high school kid. Boy have times changed. Now a kid in 4 months makes maybe 4K.
The most mindblowing thing about this video is the world he describes in 1962. The scenario in which a greenhorn, unskilled 18-year-old kid could be shipped out to work in the woods for a few months and make enough money to pay for a full-year's worth of tuition, room and board at an expensive private university is either bullshit or some sort of economic utopia I can't fully fathom.
Thank you so much for being a Give'er your whole life. We are a dying breed!
I’ve seen more injuries from chainsaws on experienced people who let their guard down.
Agreed that the biggest cause of injury and accidents are inattention, but the assessment of accidents always being "someone else's fault" is demonstrably untrue. Not only are there provisions in OSHA guidelines for proving that an accident or violation is not the fault of the employer (i.e. protections for the employer from the employee), but the whole point of OSHA is to protect the employee from rampant, institutionalized unsafe practices by employers and the people who holds the positions of power over their workforce.
If you're on your property and don't want to wear any of the OSHA PPE when doing anything, more power to you, OSHA doesn't care. When you are employing someone who doesn't know better because it's their first time using a saw (or whatever other piece of potentially life threatening equipment) then OSHA and other similar laws and agencies put the onus of creating a safe working environment on the employer (i.e. the individual with a position of power). OSHA was created because employees were being injured and killed due to unsafe conditions that were created by, or at least not properly mitigated by, an employer. The rules were created by regulators AND industry representatives and continue to get updated by BOTH parties to try and keep the American people safe and healthy.
I love your videos and what you teach, but please, as a person who is viewed as and presenting yourself as an expert on the subject, do not encourage more people to be less safe. I have known multiple people whose lives have been forever changed or even ended because their boss wanted it done for as cheaply and quickly as possible and thought that OSHA is just some "socialist nanny state bull crap."
For the record, I use a chainsaw on my family's property without any additional safety gear other than a hardhat with ear muffs and a face shield. I'm not some safety square in every aspect of life, I just know and believe, through years of working and schooling in the construction industry, that OSHA and the right to a safe working environment is the responsibility of the employer.
Checked the comments to see if anyone addressed this, thanks for pushing back on this.
Loved the rest of the content in this video, but thought, "Wouldn't it have been nice if his employer had been required to give him proper boots when he was a kid?" He was so close to being permanently maimed partially due to the poor decisions of his employer (overly long bar and all that).
This video is aimed at private chainsaw users. Please always follow your employers safety protocols. OSHA is important and saves lives. Situational awareness and an ownership of personal safety is important and saves lives.
Pat Hennin has developed his personal approach to safety through extensive life experiences. He is not an advocate of his work style, simply a raconteur of interest.
I appreciate your candor discussing the degradation of society at the altar of socialism. It's very "based" as the kids say.
Lmao his dad killed all the trees just so he can cut them down.
Come on. You cannot blink fast enough to prevent a splinter or something else from flying into your eye and blinding you. Wearing eye protection can save your eye. If you slip and fall on a running chainsaw, you can literally gut yourself or sever a limb. Chain brakes and PPE stop that. You got lucky in your life. Many people are not so lucky.