....and then all my chips turned red.....yuck. WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT

It's days like this that makes me want to give it all up. Has this ever happened to you? I was clearing a bunch of hollow blow-downs with my 462 and suddenly noticed my chips went red. Odd for Basswood I thought. The irony is I was banging on this trunk with my track-loader for several minutes and 5-10 minutes of cutting limbs prior to making this last cut. The wood was punky, the chain was new and I went through it like butter. At least it was fast for this unfortunate guy. Still doesn't make me feel any better about it.

 

Yikes!!! Never seen that happen. Was it a squirrel?

 

Unfortunate to say the least. Few years back i sliced a small hollow limb and mustve been a mouse nest as i saw some blood. None in chips that i remember. I think a member here sliced though a critter last year. I forget who though.

 

Happened once for squirrel nest checked my jean TWICE! Before I learned about PPE

 

Tough luck for whatever it was in there. There's no telling what a man might find inside a tree.

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Raccoon. I'll spare you the other pictures.

 

I do not shed any tears over coons. They even get into my oriole feeder that has jelly in it.

 

Done something similar with a pitchfork and baby rabbits.
Oops.
They make more.

 

I agree, I don't either. Same here on the Oriole feeders and there's not a week that goes by when several don't get terminated and blown off my deck. I just hate the thought this one was trying to hide and I cut it's head off. Plenty more hanging around my wood lot. I found this little guy when I crossed my crick this afternoon.

 

That looks like a little snapper.

 

I work at a gravel pit along a river seldom a year goes by with out finding a couple baby snappers. Haven’t this year yet though

 

Could be a snapper but I just learned this year there’s another turtle that looks like that. At least in baby stage. Forgot what it was tho LOL

 

It was acting like a snapper when I reached for it, but then tucked in when I picked it up.

 

That's always been a fear of mine.

 

Is that a baby snapper?

 

I've never hit anything other than ants and other insects while cutting wood, but since we live in a woods, we trap nuisance varmints a lot to keep them out of the veggie garden and the wife's flower beds. Since it is illegal in OH to relocate nuisance animals, I end up taking them over to the orchard for a dirt nap.

We have several buzzards that roost over in that area of the farm. They seem to be well fed...

There have been days when mice go zipping out of the sawdust chute of the sawmill if it hasn't been run for a couple days...

I hate if I hurt something in its natural home, but when they come to my home...

One of my go to Eastwood lines "Get off my lawn"

 

Well, at least it wasn’t a bee hive or hornet nest. Had that happen to someone I know. He got attacked and severely stung. Eyes swelled shut. Now when he cuts he wears a hooded sweatshirt to pull over his face in case it happens again.