Monday, July 7, 2008
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13. Clear your work area and your escape path of brush, vines, and other hazards that can trip you or catch your saw.
14. Escape from the bullseye when the tree tips. 90% of accidents happen within 12 feet of the stump. Go more than 15 feet, and stay out of the bullseye until things stop falling.
15. Keep spectators away more than twice the height of the tree in the direction it will fall.
16. Don't cut alone.
17. Keep your body and the swamper's out of the line of the bar in case of a kickback.
18. Set the brake when taking over two steps or when moving through tripping hazards. Keep your trigger finger off of the throttle when you are moving.
19. DO NOT operate a chainsaw from a ladder! Operating with your feet off the ground requires special training.
20. Do not cut above your shoulders.
21. Springpoles must be shaved on the inside of the apex between the ascending and descending sides. If the apex is higher than you shoulders, stand under the springpole and cut it low on the descending side. It will release upward, away from you.Leaning and heavily loaded poles that are too small to bore cut for a hinge should be shaved on the compressed side until they fold.
22. Do not cut a tree that is holding up a lodged tree. Do not work under a lodged tree. Think about a mouse trying to steal the cheese out of a trap.
23. Instruct your swampers and helpers to NEVER approach you from behind or the sides to within the reach of your saw when you are cutting. If you pull out of a cut with the chain running, or have a severe kickback, the swamper can be killed if he is coming up behind you!
24!! Quit When You Are Tired!
4 comments:
There was a great film called "Ben's Mill" which was shown on PBS yearsback...
http://shop.wgbh.org/product/show/10154
I have a copy and have watched it over and over, enjoying the sound of leather belts on wooden line shaft pulleys. If you haven't seen it, I think you'd enjoy it.
- gsc1039
Thank You! I will look that up. Are you goung to any steam and gas shows this summer? True Blue
I haven't been to a "real" show, but would like to go one of these days. I get into that rut of doing all the things I feel I should be doing instead of the things I'd like to be doing, and before you know it, I'll be too worn out to do anything, let alone the fun stuff! As close as I've gotten is the display at the local county fair or at an agricultural machinery show here and there. They used to have a big show down in Vista (southern CA near San Diego) periodically, but I never made it down there, and I think they've stopped doing that one. I usually check in the back of new issues of Gas Engine Magazine to see if there's anything local coming up. Do you do the show circuit on a regular basis?
- gsc1039
We always spend four days at Midwest Old Threshers at Labor Day, and go to the fall show at Boonville, IN. We go to Pinckneyville on a less regular basis, and plan to go this year for their August show. The SIAM show at Evansville was really a good one, so I think we will attend it again next year. You have some engines in California that aren't seen in the rest of the country. If you go to a show you should shoot some video and post it on YouTube. True Blue
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