On 10/09/2020 00:46, RayL12 wrote:
On 09/09/2020 21:17, newshound wrote:
On 09/09/2020 18:54, charles wrote:
In article ,
Â*Â*Â* John Rumm wrote:
On 09/09/2020 16:44, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 14:45:33 +0100, Tim Lamb wrote:

If you want horror stories, the guy who decapitated his wife when

the hedgetrimmer he was using fell from his hands while he was up
a ladder takes some beating.

Do you think he practised a lot first?

Even chain saws go to *tick over* when hands free so something
suspect
about his story.

Electric hedge trimmer with sticky "on" lock, like my reciprocating
saw?

Still a hell of a job trying to get through a neck with a hedge trimmer
I would have though?


I can see that it could break someone's neck, though

Not so likely, but it would only have to nick the carotid artery. There
was a fatality locally a few years ago involving cutting logs with a
tractor driven circular saw, that was caused by severing an artery.


Our Stihl hedge trimmers would often make a mess of the bark of trunk
when the noobs got clumsy. I can easily imagine a neck getting mangled
in the right circumstances.

That is still a very long way from "decapitated" though - especially
with a falling trimmer rather than one being held in place against the
thing you are attempting to cut (or at least "nibble" your way though)

--
Cheers,

John.

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