----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: August 07, 2001 3:28 PM Subject: RE: safety/idiots and sharp objects > My experience is that given enough time, all that power and fury becomes > familiar enough to fade into your conscious background and you become too > comfortable and secure around those whirling blades. That's when they bite > you. I've always felt that anyone working with power tools will eventually > hurt themselves badly - or VERY badly, and the trick is to stay afraid of > them (even using them daily) long enough to die of advanced old age before > your attention wanders enough that they whack you. That's the hard part. > > My attention was thoroughly held Sunday morning when I climbed to the top > of a dead 50 year old pine tree, topped and limbed it as I came down, and > felled it from ground level when it got short enough to be controllable. > Believe me, a 53 year old acrophobic with an electric chain saw 40 feet up > a tree is in hard focus and leaving finger dents in the bark even though I > tied off with my seat belt webbing strap at each level. By the way, the > altitude seems to increase dramatically as the surrounding limbs fall and > leave the lumberwimp exposed and clinging to the bare trunk at the top. A > real attention getter, and took some longer subjectively than the hour and > a half the clock showed. > > Ron N --------------------------------------- An hour and a half? I don't think you're quite ready for Logger's Playday quite yet... Del
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC