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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!
2 comments:
Good video, I will have to try the stick trick, and and proof why I should not be dropping trees.
Thank you.
I have told this story many times.
Years ago I dropped a Sugar Maple that was almost as large as this one.
It was within twenty feet of a garage. With a slight lean away from the garage and large branches in the direction of the lean. With about a 10 mph wind blowing in the direction that I wanted the tree to fall.
The tree ended up exactly on the ground where I wanted it.
But during the back cut, the tree spun a few degrees on its axis.
This spin grabbed the saw out of my hands and it ended up under the trunk when it came down.
I had a good escape path and used it.
I salvaged the pull handle and the outer part of the clutch, every thing else on the saw was broken or bent.
There was much more punky wood in that tree than expected.
Sometimes even when everything looks good, things go wrong.
At least I got to buy a new saw.
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