safety/idiots and sharp objects

[Delwin D Fandrich]

----- 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
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An hour and a half?  I don't think you're quite ready for Logger's Playday
quite yet...

Del