He caught the wrong end of the chainsaw?

[BeenThereDoneThat]

My dad once cut his arm with a chainsaw. He did all the gardening and tree cutting work in our yard. I had already moved to Florida so I wasn't there, but apparently he was up on a ladder with nobody else watching him, and he slipped or something...sliced his arm up good. Fortunately my mom was home so she helped him slow down the bleeding and get him to the ER. A couple of weeks later, my mom and I were having what I thought was a routine conversation on the phone...only after a few minutes of chit-chat did she say...

"Oh, and by the way, your dad cut his arm open with a chainsaw."

Guess that was a good way to soften the scare factor for me, eh?? (Dad still has a scar, but fortunately he didn't lose any function in his arm.)

[Tama]

One good thing about this, that scar will make multiple 'some dudes' avoid him. That has to look really badass, having a scar like that.

On the more serious side, YIKES am I glad he's ok!

[Seshat]

Seshat, I was starting to think that I was your nephew until you mentioned Purlingbrook Falls.
My grandfather had a near identical injury to your father but I believe it occurred somewhere around Tabulum or Bottle Creek (between Casino and Tenterfield.)

I only have one nephew, and he's just started high school.

But maybe my Dad and your Granddad are injury twins? Left shin, the cut almost perfectly vertical, extending from just above the ankle to miraculously below the knee?