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I almost died the other day at work. I work for the California Conservation Corps, and I was camping out at a work site in Ano Nuevo for 8 days doing rockwork and brushing trails with state parks.
I I was pole-sawing a grove of cypress trees on an access road that had been done quick and dirty for years. Raising the canopy over the road but leaving a spiderweb of widowmakers and dreaded tangles of branches in the area beside it. I was sawing support branches holding up a massive horizontal widowmaker about 25 feet up. This widowmaker was supporting 2 others, one hanging down almost to the road and one I didn't see until it fell. My swamper (person who hauls off branches and watches my back) was watching as I did it, and due to the position of the branches supporting the widowmaker I had to stand slightly behind and underneath it. After the support branches fell, all 3 of the widowmakers swung/fell down. A branch the length of a limo and about a a foot and a half across swung right past my head and knocked me over instead of braining me. before that, a piece of the supporting branch I sawed fell onto my thumb, pinching it between the polesaw. Miraculously, my thumb barely swelled and I felt fine. Im alright, but holy shit that was a fucking close one.
