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Good morning all.
Yesterday my next door neighbor asked me to help cut off a broken branch on one of his trees. Well we got the chainsaw out, I went up the ladder and within a few minutes the branch was down.
What we didn't expect or see was the rotten branch higher up the tree that came down straight after it, which hit me right on the bridge of the nose!
I now have a lovely v shaped cut in my nose and the skin around it is coloring up nicely. It may be broken but as it's straight, not too painful and I can breathe easily through it, there's little that can be done except to let time heal it.
I've cut down literally hundreds of trees and this is the first time anything bad ever happened. It just goes to show that no matter how well you know a job, the unexpected can always sneak up and bite you in the ass. Ordinarily I would have worn a hard hat but I don't own one over here. That's something I will be changing later today.
Of course that's like shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted but in another week, I am felling a dead tree in our back yard that's around 60ft tall and that is full of rotten branches. I am not going to have the same thing happen twice and you can believe I will be far more careful!
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