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The Hide Report from Tampa, V2.0 (aka The Mikes adopt Bogey)

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Long story at the end of a long day, with a long week in store. So to keep it brief for now:

I'm in Tampa, spur of the moment, for the remainder of the week. Came off the interstate and started woodchuckin' with the honey badger, ole @oneshot86 himself. Early wake up tomorrow to fish with @Mike Casselton, rinse and repeat until Sunday.

Time on the ground: 7 hours, already one no-shit near fatal accident at the 2hr mark.
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Apparently being hungry, exhausted, cutting left-handed, in the pile, at chest level, with an unfamiliar saw wearing a 28" bar, is one too many mistakes at once.

The chaps paid for themselves, and for every pair I will ever buy for the rest of my next 1000 lives.


The beer and full pack of cigs in the subsequent 15 minutes tasted wonderful
 
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bogeybrown said:
Long story at the end of a long day, with a long week in store. So to keep it brief for now:

I'm in Tampa, spur of the moment, for the remainder of the week. Came off the interstate and started woodchuckin' with the honey badger, ole @oneshot86 himself. Early wake up tomorrow to fish with @Mike Casselton, rinse and repeat until Sunday.

Time on the ground: 7 hours, already one no-shit near fatal accident at the 2hr mark. View attachment 6890860View attachment 6890861

Apparently being hungry, exhausted, cutting left-handed, in the pile, at chest level, with an unfamiliar saw wearing a 28" bar, is one too many mistakes at once.

The chaps paid for themselves, and for every pair I will ever buy for the rest of my next 1000 lives.


Thebeer and full pack of cigs in the subsequent 15 minutes tasted wonderful
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It's barely a scuff. Get the hell back in there. :LOL:
Glad ya had the chaps. Denim is a motherfucker.
Enjoy your time with those crazy bastards. I can't wait to see what the following days bring. (y)
 
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bogeybrown said:
Long story at the end of a long day, with a long week in store. So to keep it brief for now:

I'm in Tampa, spur of the moment, for the remainder of the week. Came off the interstate and started woodchuckin' with the honey badger, ole @oneshot86 himself. Early wake up tomorrow to fish with @Mike Casselton, rinse and repeat until Sunday.

Time on the ground: 7 hours, already one no-shit near fatal accident at the 2hr mark. View attachment 6890860View attachment 6890861

Apparently being hungry, exhausted, cutting left-handed, in the pile, at chest level, with an unfamiliar saw wearing a 28" bar, is one too many mistakes at once.

The chaps paid for themselves, and for every pair I will ever buy for the rest of my next 1000 lives.


Thebeer and full pack of cigs in the subsequent 15 minutes tasted wonderful
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You did that backwards. Beer supposed to come first.
 
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1J04 said:
It's barely a scuff. Get the hell back in there. :LOL:
Glad ya had the chaps. Denim is a motherfucker.

Enjoy your time with those crazy bastards. I can't wait to see what the following days bring. (y)
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We were gonna call ya earlier but the time zones had us fucked up. Today's only the first day buddy. @oneshot86 grabbed 2,000 (More) rounds of 22 for the upcoming backyard shooting and I am literally camping out in his plant nursery for the weekend. Laying here as we speak curled up with a fire and my woman's dog on an orthopedic pine-straw mattress we built.



QuickNDirty said:
You did that backwards. Beer supposed to come first.
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I was trying to be safe about shit ;)
 
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bogeybrown said:
We were gonna call ya earlier but the time zones had us fucked up. Today's only the first day buddy. @oneshot86 grabbed 2,000 (More) rounds of 22 for the upcoming backyard shooting and I am literally camping out in his plant nursery for the weekend. Laying here as we speak curled up with a fire and my woman's dog on an orthopedic pine-straw mattress we built.





I was trying to be safe about shit ;)
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sounds like a good way to live life. honestly a tad jealous right now.

Glad you had the chaps, they exist for a reason. No harm no foul.
 
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It's just a femoral artery, don't be such a pussy.
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More important than the femoral, was that if you follow the line of cut upwards towards centerline the chaps bound the saw before the heel of the blade could maul my wedding tackle. I'd have lost the twig while the berries were running for cover.

I've got two femorals and two berries, no do overs with the twig.

With the chaps the first indication I had that I'd fucked up was some pressure and a pinch. Without the chaps my first clue would've been blood spraying all over and me running around begging Mike to find my dick so it could be cremated with me after I died of blood loss and made a mess in his wood pile.

The ole lady's dog did her best to die on the first day too. Hopefully that shit is out of our systems, but seeing as she just woke me up wanting to fight something else, and I've got to be up in 3-4hrs, I'm probably going to wear a life jacket today, and @Mike Casselton can just laugh at me until I'm satisfied the juju has passed.
 
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2ndamendfan said:
sounds like a good way to live life. honestly a tad jealous right now.

Glad you had the chaps, they exist for a reason. No harm no foul.
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Thanks man. This was totally impromptu, and I'll try at some point to give more of how it came about, but it is indeed great to have buddies this solid.
 
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bogeybrown said:
More important than the femoral, was that if you follow the line of cut upwards towards centerline the chaps bound the saw before the heel of the blade could maul my wedding tackle. I'd have lost the twig while the berries were running for cover.

I've got two femorals and two berries, no do overs with the twig.

With the chaps the first indication I had that I'd fucked up was some pressure and a pinch. Without the chaps my first clue would've been blood spraying all over and me running around begging Mike to find my dick so it could be cremated with me after I died of blood loss and made a mess in his wood pile.

The ole lady's dog did her best to die on the first day too. Hopefully that shit is out of our systems, but seeing as she just woke me up wanting to fight something else, and I've got to be up in 3-4hrs, I'm probably going to wear a life jacket today, and @Mike Casselton can just laugh at me until I'm satisfied the juju has passed.
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I don't think Florida likes you. Prolly cuz you were sobre and trying to be safe.
 
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You're a lucky man to have good friends , cold beer and some hard ground to sleep on . I got a buddy about an hour and a half up the Pa turnpike with a small farm . We would do the same with exception of shooting . I'm smilin ear to ear reading this . Have to take a trip to my buddy's, thanks for the reminder .
 
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I can't believe this thread hasn't degenerated into a"shoulda bought a Stihl" thread yet....wait for it wait for it....
Saw? 372xp?

Thank God your ok Bogey. That's some scary shit there!!!
 
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bogeybrown said:
More important than the femoral, was that if you follow the line of cut upwards towards centerline the chaps bound the saw before the heel of the blade could maul my wedding tackle. I'd have lost the twig while the berries were running for cover.

I've got two femorals and two berries, no do overs with the twig.

With the chaps the first indication I had that I'd fucked up was some pressure and a pinch. Without the chaps my first clue would've been blood spraying all over and me running around begging Mike to find my dick so it could be cremated with me after I died of blood loss and made a mess in his wood pile.

The ole lady's dog did her best to die on the first day too. Hopefully that shit is out of our systems, but seeing as she just woke me up wanting to fight something else, and I've got to be up in 3-4hrs, I'm probably going to wear a life jacket today, and @Mike Casselton can just laugh at me until I'm satisfied the juju has passed.
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i can not lie...

if anyone ever starts yelling bloody murder, find my dick mike, find my dick, while pumping blood all over my gravel road, im really not sure how i will handle that...

i dont have a crystal ball or nothin, but i dont think i would be able to find the lopped off willie...
hell a seagull would prolly swoop down and get it before boogey even starts screamin
 
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Just be grateful that sharks don’t fly, you might get bit while dodging seagulls with a lisp or you might get tea bagged, you never know.
 
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oneshot86 said:
i can not lie...

if anyone ever starts yelling bloody murder, find my dick mike, find my dick, while pumping blood all over my gravel road, im really not sure how i will handle that...

i dont have a crystal ball or nothin, but i dont think i would be able to find the lopped off willie...
hell a seagull would prolly swoop down and get it before boogey even starts screamin
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And from one gravel Nazi to another, think of the damn mess all over your pristine gravel! ;)
 
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Sounds like it was caused by resting the saw against his leg while using left handed. Right handed you’re fine, left handed puts the chain right at your leg.
 
You done good. And you're lucky that you done good.

I've got scars on my leg from hanging where I shouldn't have been hanging, cutting with one hand when I should have been using two, and not wearing chaps.

That was the first time that I walked away, VERY thankful that I still had my leg(s) after what had transpired. The second time, well.... that was quite a number of months before I had to learn to walk again,,,,, but that one didn't involve a chainsaw.

Safety equipment. It's not just a fashionable accessory anymore.......

Be a leader.
 
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Bogey and his trash fish trophy.
Beautiful day out there but a bit windy.
We found the reds and snook, but they didn't want to play.

Just to let you guys know. I stole ALL of Bogey's bad juju today.
Broke my push pole, my Power Pole and the A/C in my truck all in one day.
To top it off, my brand new Simrad won't show side imaging.

So, Bogey brother, it should be smooth sailing from here

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Just finished chow and the final brew ski with @oneshot86.

While I was out all day his family, and especially grandkids, cleared out a feed container and made me an apartment, complete with a new straw mattress. They even lugged all of my shit out of the equipment room and stowed it in my new quarters:

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And my geisha approves:

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Awesome!!
That sure beats the hell outta some of the shit Uncle Sam set up for you.
Question,
Does that make you part of the tiny home nation?
 
demolitionman said:
I can't believe this thread hasn't degenerated into a"shoulda bought a Stihl" thread yet....wait for it wait for it....
Saw? 372xp?

Thank God your ok Bogey. That's some scary shit there!!!
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Thanks man. Saw is a 365 wearing a 28" full comp. It's the 372 that they added restrictor plates to in order to downgrade performance. It takes all the parts from a 372 and can become one in a couple of minutes. Today I'll be running the MS260 Pro that @Icallem hooked me up with, along with the 365.


Veer_G said:
You should go to Ybor City and get truly lit.
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I hit Ybor on the way back from fishing since there couldn't be an inch of Tampa's traffic I'd missed while driving around lost.


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Forgot to ask, did the chaps stop the chain?
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to answer you and @Forgetful Coyote, completely stopped it. I got lucky: I only caught the very top of the Kevlar pad and into the unprotected area near the belt line but I was off the throttle. Wide open I'm not sure how much Kevlar would've been grabbed up, but it certainly would've still made a huge difference in wound severity.


Geno C. said:
Keep going south...
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If you're sending me to "Gibtown" I saw it 5 times yesterday: twice with Mike C and 3 times afterwards lost in traffic on my way back "home". That's a cool little area and I didn't realize you were down this way until Mike C mentioned it.


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Was Bogey’s injury due to a negligent engine-rev caused by improper trigger discipline?
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No sir. Off the throttle at time of occurrence, thank God.


MtnCreek said:
Sounds like it was caused by resting the saw against his leg while using left handed. Right handed you’re fine, left handed puts the chain right at your leg.
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It actually kind of happened in reverse of that: I would never "willingly" cut left handed, but the way I was into the pile the only way I could set my feet safely and get the cuts I needed was to reverse my stance. So instead of deciding to cut left, my footing and angles just set me up that way.
I did a lot of things you're not supposed to do all at once, which is how all great accidents happen, but I had thought most of it out. My single biggest mistake was that because I was cutting "overhead" in the pile I didn't give myself enough room to get safely out of the cut with that long of a bar.

There's quite a bit more to it, but in a nutshell with everything else I did wrong, it was the extra 4" of chain or so that "got me" in that situation. At the same time, I never would've tried those cuts from where I was without at least that long of a bar.
 
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i meant if you were in MLK you needed to go farther south to get to Mike C. Gibtown is interesting, I'm only there a couple times a year and met up with Mike C this year.

Ybor, since you were through there, it should have definitely stopped and grabbed food and beverages!! I found a sweet BBQ place just a block off the bar street. I could suck beers and smoke cigars there all winter!!
 
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i meant if you were in MLK you needed to go farther south to get to Mike C. Gibtown is interesting, I'm only there a couple times a year and met up with Mike C this year.

Ybor, since you were through there, it should have definitely stopped and grabbed food and beverages!! I found a sweet BBQ place just a block off the bar street. I could suck beers and smoke cigars there all winter!!
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I thought you were sending him to Sun City for retirement.
 
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A couple of pics of Capt Mike from yesterday. Let me tell y'all that that man knows his bidness. I've fished with a LOT of guys over the years, but he's a badass. Compared to what he does, what I do shouldn't even be called fishing.

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Many thanks again @Mike Casselton for taking time out of his busy retirement to spend some time on the water with a saltwater rookie.
 
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Hey Bogey, fwiw; I was a certified wildland fire fighter for a few years and one of the demonstrations the Red card instructor did was running a 460 stihl full throttle(about 10,000/11,000) engine rpm's into a pair of saw chain chaps. Locked that fucker up in a split second like I never would have thought. Pretty impressive really....of course no-one was wearing them at the time....
 
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Demoman, et al.... someone here put up a video of "what chaps are made of, and how they work" not too long ago. That isn't exactly the title, but that's the topic.
For ANYONE who owns a saw.... watch that vid. Knowledge is something that no-one can ever take away. It only builds up through life. Extremeties though..... that's another story.
 
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Geno C. said:
i meant if you were in MLK you needed to go farther south to get to Mike C. Gibtown is interesting, I'm only there a couple times a year and met up with Mike C this year.

Ybor, since you were through there, it should have definitely stopped and grabbed food and beverages!! I found a sweet BBQ place just a block off the bar street. I could suckQUbeers and smoke POLEcigars there all winter!!
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Geno,
It's a good thing you didn't set yourself up for something like this, one of the asshats around here might have fixed it for ya.... :eek::eek:;)
 
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@bogeybrown
Thanks for the compliments. I don't think I earned them. A good captain would have thrown a cast net and brought in some greenies or mullet for bait. My back and shoulders wouldn't allow for it anyway.
The way things were going yesterday, I would probably have ended up like that guy that caught his net on the trolling motor. Splash!

After going over everything in my head, I think most of the fish had been gorging on those glass minnows. Some days it shuts a lot of the bite off.

I really wish I had brought my phone out when that snook took you into the mangroves. Woulda been a cool video.
 
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