Tree Doctor Should Try Welding Next

If you make a living climbing trees, it helps if you know how to operate a chain saw. This guy in Pennsylvania was doing it wrong.

From CBS here:

A tree trimmer was seriously injured after being cut in the neck with a chainsaw Monday, and now we’re getting our first look at an X-ray of his injury.

21-year-old James Valentine, from Adler Tree Service in Gibsonia, was in a tree in Ross Township when the accident happened.

“It was just a freak accident. It could happen to anybody climbing a tree,” said Valentine one day after the accident from his hospital bed. “The chainsaw came back at me and got stuck in my neck.”

Valentine was in a harness halfway up the tree along Perry Highway when the accident happened, and the chainsaw blade partially embedded in his neck and shoulder area.

Valentine turned the saw off, held it in place and began climbing down the tree. “I was holding it with this hand and scooted down with this hand,” said Valentine. “Soon as I got down… Just seeing the blood just squirting out, that was crazy.”

Police were able to get the motor off the chainsaw, but left the blade in the man’s neck to keep him from bleeding to death.

Doctors say the victim is very lucky because the chainsaw missed major arteries, and just cut into muscle.
Valentine had stitches and sutures to the neck, and is expected to make a full recovery. As for his future, Valentine says, “I am a tree climber; that’s what I do.”

No word on whether this young man signed up for Obamacare. And his Xray is just the ultimate selfie, AmIRight? He should try welding next since he has the aptitude.