Drat: It Happened Again

Ever wondered what a MS 461 Stihl looks like after it has been mashed into the ground with a 12,000 pound skidder? Well wonder no further, because I...rather than you thankfully...can show you exactly what such a scenario looks like.

For those that do not remember, this happened to a Husky saw last year when I backed over it with my bulldozer.

I think it can be rebuilt. Probably around $450, but I bought another saw to get me by for now. Nothing great, a Husqvarna 562, but might make a good yard saw once the Stihl MS 461 is back up and running.

 

What's all broken on the saw if cases are good look on Ebay and get a 460 tank handle they are the same

 

It'll be a lot lighter to carry around now.

 

The mention of "again" made me chuckle.

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Ouch!!!!

Sorry to hear.

 

"AGAIN!!!"

 

Bar n chain is in good shape

 

I know this is gonna' sound like a Mr. Obvious statement, but......you're doing something wrong.
On the positive side, you get a new saw and a chance to rebuild that one even gooder. Handle's in good shape.

 

Admit it. Your just wanting a 462.

 

Yep I remember when posted the Husky accident. Like you said just have to rebuild it.

So LodgedTree How are you feeling these days.

 

Yeah, light enough it only needs the front handle...

Shoot...I feel for you, LodgedTree !! I'd be sick in the stomach if that happened!!!

 

Not sure, I have not got back my results yet to see if I have cancer or not, but I should know next week. That will either alleviate my fears or freak me out completely. And I am not sure about my left knee. It has really been bothering me, but I am not sure if it requires surgery or rest. The Clark 664C is a really nice skidder, productive and all that, but its fairly high off the ground. A person would think it would be easy to get into the habit of climbing down, but I tend to jump to the ground out of habit (off my bulldozer too), and I think that plays into it. Of course wading through brush to limb trees and all that is not easy on the knees either. It tends to twist them.

Now say; is that a jet flying overhead? Nope; just LodgedTree whinning again.

 

I guess all that physical work will take it's toll over time so be careful.
Hopefully you will get a good report back from you lab tests and you can move on without worry.

The skidder looks like quite the machine with it all chained up there. Hang in there.

 

My dad did the same thing once with a brand new PM700. Set it down on the tracks of the dozer to talk to my uncle who was operating the dozer they both forgot it was there and next thing ya know it a nice pile of yellow aluminum scrap.
Hope everything turns out okay on the tests. Scary stuff.

 

My "D'oh!" moment was when I was about 19, in my first rental house. I got a cheap electric hedge trimmer at a yard sale and set out to tackle the severely overgrown bushes. I went back and forth, this way and that until it stopped suddenly. Yup, I went back and cut the extension cord from where it was hiding in the thick bushes. I trotted off to Home Depot and bought another cord, and got started again....for about 30 seconds and damm if I didn't do it again! That incident was a great lesson teacher- 1) know where your dang cord is at all times and keep it out of the way of the cutting instrument, and 2) buy cordless tools if you can. That was the most expensive cheap hedge trimmer in history!

 

Oh yeah I cut my cord one time about 30 years ago,, hooked it the back together and taped it up, loaned it to my ex-wife, showed her how to operate it and keep her fingers out of the way and said, now don't cut the cord, less than 10 minutes sure enough she cut the cord in half, put a new plug on the end that time cord was 4ft shorter, still have that cord.
Loaned it to my daughter showed her how operate it and keep her fingers out of the way, well she didn't cut the cord but somehow she cut quarter of the way through her little finger

A couple of years ago I got a cordless hedge trimmer and love it

 

At least the Skidder didn't get damaged! All in all, not a bad day

 

Now that photo makes me cry. Poor little Stihl. I do hope you can make her pretty again.

 

Being an optimist, it look's to me like you almost didn't hit the saw LT!

 

I really do not know what happened. Typically I put my saw behind a big tree if it is on the ground so there is NO WAY it can be hit by something (like a bulldozer or skidder), or of course on the skidder itself.

This was the twitch from hades anyway, starting with a tree that pinched my saw on the back cut, then I found it almost impossible to get to in order to push it over because the skidder was wider then the trees I was trying to squeeze through. I ended up finding a jill poke that was stout enough and long enough and jammed that between the blade and the leaned-back-tree, and was able to push the tree over then. After that I started to cut a clump of four trees, but they were so close my saw kept kicking back. I was not too happy about that!Then I proceeded to hook the twitch up (7 trees) by cable, sucked them in, watched them all get hung up on their butt ends, and then watched them go by me on the skidder. In other words, 180 degrees where they should have rested.

No big deal, I'll go the other way I thought.

So I released the winch, backed over my cable, jockeyed the skidder around, and was backing up to my twitch from the opposite direction when I could smell gasoline. I mean strong. Diesel smoke...yeah I inhale that all day, but this was gasoline, strange...so I thought a jill-poke got my chainsaw gas jug on the back of the skidder. That was fine, but that was when I noted my chainsaw was not under my feet. (I lay it on the floorboard of the skidder cab). Not seeing it I had to do a 360 degree look around the skidder before I found it...mashed.

As I said, I always leave it behind a big tree if I leave it on the ground where it cannot get mashed. This is very rare as 90% of the time I return it to the skidder. But this is not exactly a lawn I am working on. Very rough ground, lots of cradle-knolls, rocks, ledge and stumps. I hit all that and a big hemlock tree I drove over, so the saw might have been pitched out of the cab. That skidder is nice in that it can go just about anywhere, but you cannot see a blessed thing when you do. So I had a lot to watch as I turned it around while still connected to my twitch.

So pitched out, or set accidentally in a spot I never expected to drive the skidder; I don't know?