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!
5 comments:
Anybody got any good receipes for gator? :)
Looks to me like this one favors smaller calibers - less likely to go "outside" the lines!
Time to bring out the little guns.
Merle
They generally deep fry gator-meat on the Swamp People show. Most of the hunters on the show use a .22 for the head shots, and some are using .22 WMR. They have shown Liz using a .22 WMR pistol on some of the shows. Liz's daughter was using a .38 snubbie last season. An angled shot with a .22 LR can ricochet, and that has been demonstrated with injuries a few times on Swamp People. I think I would prefer the .22 Mag, but that does hurt the ears more. I sure hope they are filming another season right now!
Two comments come to mind: I had gator while I was in New Orleans for temporary duty - it was pretty good, but tasted somewhat fishy.
Now the real comment; since some of the gators are smaller, do we get "bonus points" for the smaller ones? :) :) :)
Merle
:-) The size differences are there to improve the point spread. I shot it, and have decided to let everyone shoot as close as 15 feet. Newbies might be more inclined to shoot it at that distance. Those who have to shoot at longer distances will move ahead of identical scores when I add them up.
Finally got to the range today after being carless for the first three weeks of the month. I just have one question; how in the world can those gators move around so fast? I just KNOW several of them ducked the incoming round :)
Merle
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