My old man
almost chopped his leg off with a chainsaw once.

It was a bit less than 30 years ago now. We used to live up a mountian in a village just outside Newport in Wales. Behind our house, there was a forest and dad had been felling trees to get wood for the winter.

He finished chopping the tree he was doing up and shut the saw off. He then lowered it from somewhere around waist height downwards. Only the chain hadn't stopped moving yet. It wasn't until he wondered why his boot was squelching that he noticed what he had done.

Because we were up the side of a mountain and the emergency services in the village were unreliable at best, my mum, who didn't have a licence at the time, had to drive him to the hospital while he strapped himself up with a tourniquet (sp) and applied pressure.

Still, he got a cracking scar and invested in a guard for the saw after that!
(Pirate Monkey is not the goddamn Batman, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 14:47, Reply)