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!
3 comments:
How come they have a White Pass caboose on that train? Well, it is almost the correct color scheme. Is there another White Pass RR? I've ridden the White Pass from Carcross to Skagway. http://www.joeordonez.com/pics/train.jpg
Hobie: The MCRR picked up this caboose around 1990, according to their website: http://www.mcrr.org/PAGES/cabooseMain.html
I heard at the time how it happened to come to Iowa, but I have managed to forget> I will send out an inquiry to my uncle who volunteers at MCRR.
Hobie: I received a reply to my info search! "White Pass caboose. It was gifted to MCRR from a benefactor who was very interested and supportive of the RR. He was able to buy the caboose, I assume at the time of the break-up of the White Pass RR in Alaska. He donated it to MCRR. In addition to this, he purchased two Henschel engines and donated both of these to MCRR. One of these engines was not repairable due to having bullet holes through the boiler from World War II."
Donors and volunteers have been extremely important to make this little railroad work.
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