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Landslide

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Not a great impression this guy is leaving with his boss on his first day on the job, I can think of other ways to get hurt to get off work than doing this. :homer::flipoff2:

Apparently this poor fawker was trying to clean up his life and get off drugs. Got a job but things didn’t go very well on his first day. While stuffing the last tree branch into the wood chipper, the tree branch had a hook bend in it. The hook bend caught hold of his ankle monitor he had to wear and then proceeded to drag his ass on up into the chipper along with it.

The chipper got hold of his legs (I’m still trying to picture this happening in my mind) and started chipping them up as it force fed him into the spinning blades, because, wood chippers don’t care and will chip anything put into it. As it was eating the guy up, he was screaming for his coworkers to help him from his most certain demise. But as the chipper was munching on his body, the coworkers couldn’t hear the victims screams due to them wearing ear protection.

Finally the coworkers saw what was happening to this guy and shut the chipper down but not before the chipper had consumed both his legs almost to his crotch area. Now he has two short stubs that is what’s left of his legs. Meanwhile, his coworkers have to clean his remains out of the chipper before they can head back to work again.

No doubt this traumatic event will live with the coworkers for the rest of their lives in which even alcohol won’t erase from their memories

I have a hard time imagining what this guy was thinking while watching his own body get consumed by the wood chipper. I guess being a nOObie, he didn’t think or possibly couldn’t reach the feed rollers shutdown bar. Either way, it would no doubt leave nightmares for this guy for the rest of his gimpy life.

Bright side to the story, at least he doesn’t have to wear an ankle monitor anymore. But the government will probably charge him for the one he destroyed. :laughing:

‘Miracle’ Colorado worker loses both legs in wood chipper freak accident on first day on job​


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‘Miracle’ Colorado worker loses both legs in wood chipper freak accident on first day on job

A Colorado tree worker miraculously survived a freak accident with a wood chipper that left him losing both legs minutes into his first day on the job.
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That fear was always on my mind when running the chipper. I can’t imagine the fear going through his mind .
 
Dude looks surprisingly upbeat for having his legs chomped off, hopefully he can keep his shit together and have a good life, I'm fairly confident he won't be worrying about money ever again.
 
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alk1174 said:
That fear was always on my mind when running the chipper. I can’t imagine the fear going through his mind .
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This. I haven't worked with any machinery that inspired as much respect as a big chipper
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ToughBowtieTruck said:
That's why I always liked the mechanical safety bar the Morbarks I operated had. Just lean on the bar or pull the cables inside the chute to reverse the feed.
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Yup. Grab the cables and reverse the feed.

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We have 5 Vermeer units too and they have a safety bar under the chute that kills the feed but it's such a shit design, leaning into it or a branch hitting it as it's fed in kills it too. Frustrating pile of shit to use. :homer:
 
DWT said:
Yup. Grab the cables and reverse the feed.

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We have 5 Vermeer units too and they have a safety bar under the chute that kills the feed but it's such a shit design, leaning into it or a branch hitting it as it's fed in kills it too. Frustrating pile of shit to use. :homer:
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Ya gotta make a machine that works, but those look useless. Leg bones jammed into the chute, muscle getting torn free a strip at a time, blood flying everywhere, and you're gonna have the focus and dexterity to grab those slippery little tampon strings? Ha.
 
Landslide said:
Not a great impression this guy is leaving with his boss on his first day on the job, I can think of other ways to get hurt to get off work than doing this. :homer::flipoff2:

Apparently this poor fawker was trying to clean up his life and get off drugs. Got a job but things didn’t go very well on his first day. While stuffing the last tree branch into the wood chipper, the tree branch had a hook bend in it. The hook bend caught hold of his ankle monitor he had to wear and then proceeded to drag his ass on up into the chipper along with it.

The chipper got hold of his legs (I’m still trying to picture this happening in my mind) and started chipping them up as it force fed him into the spinning blades, because, wood chippers don’t care and will chip anything put into it. As it was eating the guy up, he was screaming for his coworkers to help him from his most certain demise. But as the chipper was munching on his body, the coworkers couldn’t hear the victims screams due to them wearing ear protection.

Finally the coworkers saw what was happening to this guy and shut the chipper down but not before the chipper had consumed both his legs almost to his crotch area. Now he has two short stubs that is what’s left of his legs. Meanwhile, his coworkers have to clean his remains out of the chipper before they can head back to work again.

No doubt this traumatic event will live with the coworkers for the rest of their lives in which even alcohol won’t erase from their memories

I have a hard time imagining what this guy was thinking while watching his own body get consumed by the wood chipper. I guess being a nOObie, he didn’t think or possibly couldn’t reach the feed rollers shutdown bar. Either way, it would no doubt leave nightmares for this guy for the rest of his gimpy life.

Bright side to the story, at least he doesn’t have to wear an ankle monitor anymore. But the government will probably charge him for the one he destroyed. :laughing:

‘Miracle’ Colorado worker loses both legs in wood chipper freak accident on first day on job​


nypost.com

‘Miracle’ Colorado worker loses both legs in wood chipper freak accident on first day on job

A Colorado tree worker miraculously survived a freak accident with a wood chipper that left him losing both legs minutes into his first day on the job.
nypost.com nypost.com

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Maybe he was just looking for a good pay day and to never work again...and drugs lots of free drugs.

Any witnesses? thats the real question. By the time the random hooked branch pulled his leg up and into the chute, no one there to stop it?... seems questionable.
 
RusM said:
This. I haven't worked with any machinery that inspired as much respect as a big chipper
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I have a old-school monster lathe with a giant head that gives me nightmares of losing a limb eveytime I use it. Just the sound of it spooling up is terrifying. All the gears and belts are exposed out in the open. You have to mentally prepare before you even start it.
I refuse to even use it in the winter wearing long sleeves.
 
DWT said:
Yup. Grab the cables and reverse the feed.

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We have 5 Vermeer units too and they have a safety bar under the chute that kills the feed but it's such a shit design, leaning into it or a branch hitting it as it's fed in kills it too. Frustrating pile of shit to use. :homer:
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But you still have 2 legs ......so there is that :homer:
 
Pook said:
Maybe he was just looking for a good pay day and to never work again...and drugs lots of free drugs.

Any witnesses? thats the real question. By the time the random hooked branch pulled his leg up and into the chute, no one there to stop it?... seems questionable.
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The more I think about it, how do you end up feet first in a wood chipper if a "hook" on a limb drags you in. Seems like you'd get pulled in head-first no matter how it hit you. :confused:

Dumbass was probably trying to kick in some jammed brush and got a little (lot) carried away.
 
I've told this before, maybe here, for sure at the old place.

When I worked for the NPS we had Vermeer's biggest end-load chipper, 20" if I remember correctly. Next size up was top load.

We had a bunch of new seasonal employees for the summer, and the chipper was new, so we got Vermeer to send a rep down and spend most of a day teaching us how to operate and maintain the thing.

Vermeer guy told us about an employee that had been having a rough time post divorce, decided he had enough, emptied his pockets, fired up a chipper, and jumped in one feet first. :eek: He was done before anyone could do anything to stop it.


We put a watermelon through our Vermeer, that was neat. Had one of the seasonal morons put a box turtle through it. Boss was an idiot for not firing him, he got a talking to and a warning. I'd have sent his ass packing.

It had a safety shutoff bar, we took turns manning the safety bar, someone always had a hand on it.
 
subybaja said:
Ya gotta make a machine that works, but those look useless. Leg bones jammed into the chute, muscle getting torn free a strip at a time, blood flying everywhere, and you're gonna have the focus and dexterity to grab those slippery little tampon strings? Ha.
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I'd have to go out on a limb and say you'd be grabbing for anything to pull yourself out. Those are better than nothing.

What you see inside the chute is just the feed wheels, those are what reverses when the cables are pulled. The chipping drum is inside and doesn't give a fuck about what it's eating.




These are the knives that go on the drum, they're razor sharp when fresh and held on with 4 3/4" bolts. There is a 3/8" plate they have about .020" air gap to that does the cutting. That'd be a terrible thing to feel.

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Lee said:
I've told this before, maybe here, for sure at the old place.

When I worked for the NPS we had Vermeer's biggest end-load chipper, 20" if I remember correctly. Next size up was top load.

We had a bunch of new seasonal employees for the summer, and the chipper was new, so we got Vermeer to send a rep down and spend most of a day teaching us how to operate and maintain the thing.

Vermeer guy told us about an employee that had been having a rough time post divorce, decided he had enough, emptied his pockets, fired up a chipper, and jumped in one feet first. :eek: He was done before anyone could do anything to stop it.


We put a watermelon through our Vermeer, that was neat. Had one of the seasonal morons put a box turtle through it. Boss was an idiot for not firing him, he got a talking to and a warning. I'd have sent his ass packing.

It had a safety shutoff bar, we took turns manning the safety bar, someone always had a hand on it.
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We always have 2 guys around every running chipper too. It's just good practice even for a seasoned employee.

I'd guess you had a BC2000 it's a big bitch. We have one, it'll eat most anything. :laughing:
 
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