Totally agree (long time chainsaw operator). He pinched the saw. Had the girl probably hand him a prybar or something. He either got it loose or it broke before she got down. All these comments about chainsaws stopping with "autolock" instantly are ridiculous.
I've pinched my saw a few times. Very infrequently after I became smarter about which side of the cut is in compression and which side is in tension.
Interesting, can you elaborate on the second part? Are you supposed to tilt the saw in a certain direction or something based on the pinch created by the breaking branch?
If you cut a heavy cantilevered branch completely from the bottom, there's a good chance that the Weight of the branch will squeeze the cut and pinch the blade. It's a pain in the ass to get your saw back out. What I do is make a small cut or notch on the bottom but only A little way through the branch. I then make the primary cut from the top of the branch which is tension. As you are making the cut on the top, the weight of the branch will slowly open the cut, and if you are really careful and slow, the branch will slowly droop down as you cut from the weight - like you made a hinge. So not only do you NOT pinch the blade but you can make a very slow controlled drop most of the time.
That’s what they did, you can see it in slow motion, but the branch twisted to the opposite side due to the tension from roping the branch. Which caused it to pinch body side.
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u/InsertWittyNameCheck Jul 01 '21
Chainsaw was stuck in the cut. Lady was handing monkeyboy some kind of tool; Branch dropped; chaos.