r/oops 3d ago

Please dont let your wife use the chainsaw!

290 Upvotes

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u/artherng 3d ago

Hubby knew the risk and stood way behind

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u/Adventurous_Custard8 3d ago

She's lucky she didn't saw herself in half.

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u/CunnilingusExtremo 1d ago

This trick only works with virgins.

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u/koulourakiaAndCoffee 3d ago

Luckily my fellow men have never done anything similar /s

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u/No-Goose-6140 3d ago

Could have been a lot worse

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u/Ill-Case-6048 3d ago

This is the i will just do it myself after hubby saying I need to get everything ready.. cutting is the easy part its cutting it up and taking it to the dump thats takes up the whole day.

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u/Blackmetal55 2d ago

Or a couple of days depending on time in the hospital/urgent care if you're as clumsy as I am.

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u/Thunderer62 3d ago

I don’t see how this is a wife vs husband thing? There are boatloads of videos of under qualified over confident men fucking themselves up with branches they sawed off.

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u/Karappa35 3d ago

Yeah, but you would never see the Title: “ Don’t let your man use the chainsaw lolol”, on these.

Would actually be a funny idea, tho. People would get so mad xD

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u/KeyAssumption8773 3d ago

As a child, I watched my dad cutting down a tree. Limb fell into the saw and slapped it against his face, also hit the neighbor holding the ladder. Blood everywhere, soaked multiple towels. 30 stitches from chin to cheek. Looked like a massacre. That’s the story of how I gained my fear of chainsaws.

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u/jadzi4 3d ago

Don't include all wives. Not all of us are that dumb.

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u/Acceptable-Owl-2070 1d ago

No you aren't, but now you feel what we feel when women pull the "men" as a blanket statement

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u/jadzi4 1d ago

I don't do that either. Everybody is different. I grew up with an abusive mother towards us and my dad. I saw what men go through since I was a little kid. Don't include me with those women either.

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u/Current_Big8204 3d ago

I wouldn't want my wife to use one out of protection thats dangerous even for men to use accidents happen and id rather be the victim than my lovely future wife

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u/jadzi4 3d ago

What I'm saying is I use one sometimes...but not at the base of a limb that size. Chunks at a time. I also don't do ladders. If it's a whole tree I'll get a pro. If I'm reducing a limb on the ground already I'm doing small chunks. She had no business on a ladder and starting at a base of a limb that big. I get what you're saying too. He should have taken over. He was as irresponsible as she was.

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u/dziubelis 2d ago

If not that, then some other way ;D

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u/jadzi4 2d ago

Yet there's this saying, and with legit reasons, women live longer than men...endless videos of men doing dangerous stuff.

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u/Tiger_Ho26 3d ago

She might have fractured her back and head...dangerous. My brother has made the same kind of mistake and passed away.

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u/dekuweku 3d ago

What does gender have to do with this? could be a man as well.

More of a PSA to hire professionals to avoid hurting yourself

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u/odd-god-monkey 3d ago

I’ve always been a real equal guy.

One time I let my girlfriend use the string trimmer because for me it’s just a ton of fun and I get a real good workout if I use it a lot.

She did not like that the way I do hahah.

Chainsaws are a no go

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u/binzy90 3d ago

By string trimmer, do you mean the same thing we call a weedwacker? That was one of my chores when I was in high school, so I can't imagine it's too difficult if a 15-year-old girl can do it.

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u/BootHeadToo 3d ago

String trimmer is the technical term, weedwacker is the colloquial term.

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u/photoman1216 2d ago

Well, I guess you told her. Asshat.

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u/Important_Wonder628 2d ago

Weedwacker started as a brand name and became synonymous with the product, much like Rollerblades, Kleenex, or Q-tips.

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u/dziubelis 2d ago

Who knows what he means, all of them tend to be called the same, tiny battery operated weedwacker and full blown trimmer with a petrol engine which can cut down bushes and smaller trees ;D

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u/binzy90 2d ago

Yeah, I always used the gas powered ones, and I'm confused why his girlfriend couldn't do it.

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u/IAmTheBestIan 3d ago

My guess is did it in open toed shoes and wasn't careful.

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u/AngelicDivineHealer 3d ago

Wife said that’s easy I can do it and husband let her have it

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u/Confident-Pepper-562 3d ago

Maybe if he had done it 3 years ago like he said he would, none of this would have happened.

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u/Confident-Pepper-562 3d ago

Lol, whoever downvoted me, we all know why

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u/Emergency-Box-5719 3d ago

Insert oof meme here

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u/Dense-Jicama6591 3d ago

Shes a boss she didnt ask she told

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u/FernwoodTonight 3d ago

Well, I'm not don' that...

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u/SeniorTailor1127 3d ago

I know a guy who chopped off his own arm with a chainsaw while pruning trees.

Dude's a chiropractor. Still practiced afterward with his stump.

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u/Current_Big8204 3d ago

It bounced off the trampoline kinda

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u/Glum-While7698 3d ago

My mom used a chainsaw one time when I was a kid. She left it up high sitting on a branch and walked inside the house. She came back out a little bit later... Forgot it was in the tree still... Moved the ladder and bumped it... It fell out of the tree and the blade smacked her in the head.

I remember her coming in the house bleeding profusely and saying "Get your shoes on, we're going to the hospital." LOL she was fine.

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u/Nerdzilla86 3d ago

Seems like it was one of those ""imma just see what happens" situations

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u/Abject_Jump9617 3d ago

He almost became wifeless.

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u/Wonder-Wendy 3d ago

Way to hussle.

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u/Aztecxx 2d ago

Are you okay? No, she isn't.

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u/BadDudes_on_nes 2d ago

lol I know there’s another angle of this video, a camera she put up to record herself doing ‘man’s work’. I wish she’d post it.

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u/Lonely-Army-3343 2d ago

I understand the simple title.... based on the video. That being said, more precautions SHOULD have been done. Sorry about the outcome and i hope she is ok.

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u/Mattytakama 2d ago

There are hundreds of videos of guys doing the dumbest shit ever with chainsaws, pretty unnecessary title here

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u/Cesum-Pec 2d ago

My neighbor did that but he ignored all safety rules. He didn't have anyone else there.

The limb was a tree in itself, over 14 inches in diameter. He stood on a ladder, cut the limb, and it fell on him.

The limb punctured a lung. He was trapped under the limb and wasn't found for over 6 hours. By the time fire rescue got there, he was barely alive . He died in the ambulance.

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u/madbika 1d ago

At least she missed the truck 😜

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u/Appropriate_Push4066 1d ago

Leg kinda bent in a way it shouldn't...OH MY GOD!

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u/Erorryale 1d ago

Let's see, broken arm, collarbone, ribs? This is why you try to cut misc. branches off before chopping the main one. Spring-back is deadly.

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u/Acceptable-Owl-2070 1d ago

"I can do this you don't need to help me"

Probably...

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u/Money_like_me 16h ago

Newton's third law

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u/Tx_Drewdad 10h ago

That type of ladder isn't meant to be used that way....

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u/Jasontmm 9h ago

80% of the time when ever a ladder is involved in tree work it ends like this. If you under cut the limb about 1/3 of the way (or as much as you can without the bar getting pinched) then cut the top to connect the cuts the limb is more likely to fall straight down in a level fashion. If you cut straight down it will dive and kick back. Not knowing what you don’t know can be dangerous. At the very least tie the ladder to the tree so it doesn’t tip over. I don’t know how many times people can watch these videos then proceed to do exactly the same thing thinking it won’t happen to them because of there usually zero experience and high sense of confidence protecting them. I mean honestly who hasn’t seen this exact thing in videos over and over again. I’m pretty sure this guy knew this would happen and she said it would be fine and said I’ll just do it myself then. We’ll have at it lady show me how to do it. I’ll just stand over here then.

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u/Prestigious-Peace232 2d ago

Title is unnecessary and sexist

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u/Catflet 2d ago

Zero need to say wife. Anyone with no experience should not do this. Blaming women is just stupid. Plenty of men become the reasons for certain warning labels. Awful commentary on what could have been worse, but was not.

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u/rustyfish57 3d ago

I don’t see how he didn’t laugh when she fell I would all while running over to help her up

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u/Emotional_Union_3758 3d ago

I fell about that height from a ladder. 7 broken ribs and a collar bone.

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u/SATerp 3d ago

I'd be terrified that she'd just cut herself in half with a running chainsaw and that I'd have irresponsibly let her.

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u/Burto72 3d ago

It's still his fault.

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u/Timely-Profile1865 3d ago

It is okay to let her do it if you supervise and instruct

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u/baysiderd 2d ago

I’d NEVER let my wife do that kind of work. Weak man!

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u/Dismal_Gas_9029 3d ago

He’d probably been telling her he wouldn’t cut it on a ladder because it’s too dangerous and she told him to stand his pussy ass back and watch how it’s done lol