Serious question, my saw chain grabbed a 2 inch oak limb and flung it into my chaps, what now
I was cutting up a downed oak in my neighbor's yard in Cedar Hill on Saturday when the chain caught a 2 inch limb and whipped it right into my left chaps. Lucky for me the chaps did their job and I only got a bruise, but I stood there for a minute thinking about how fast that happened. I checked the chain tension (it was a bit loose) and tightened it up, then finished the cut way slower with a different angle. Now I'm wondering if I should be using a different bar length for small limb work or if this was just a freak thing. Has anyone else had a kickback like that on green oak and what did you change after?