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Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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I wasn’t sure. That would put prices right in the range you said if they got some options.
The chainsaw course is 8-4:30 Saturday and Sunday, for first timers. Re certs only need Sunday. Saturday is classroom, Sunday is out in the Forest.
Their instructors are fallers with many years experience, they know what they’re doing.
Around here the training opportunities are rather limited. I took the GOL training so I could cut on NYS DEC and NYC DEP lands for Ruffed Grouse Society habitat projects. The government entities ended up squashing every project that RGS and their forestry folks worked out... management turnover was the biggest problem. The NGO trails... outside of construction project crews I believe I'm one of 5 people in the county working on the trails with training and experience--the other 4 got their training in the GOL 1 class I hosted. Part of the problem is there isn't a long formal history for maintenance on these rail trails... Most were abandoned rail corridors that people like me starting using 40 years ago. The NGOs took control of two of them about 10-11 years ago.
I'm helping train the future trainers. If I'm lucky I've got 10 years of cutting left in me... I figured out that I will in fact not live forever!
You use a lot of abbreviations I don’t recognize.
Joe is a penis head. He throws everyone off his facebook firewood page that tells him how unsafe his vids are. YouTube shouldn't even allow such unsafe $hit.
We recently talked about spring poles, this is on my property and will have to be dealt with eventually. The fallen tree has a small standing tree on each side, maybe I’ll just lift it over the broken one with the loader and take the pressure off of it.
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It was a joke Howdy! A joke! Maybe not a funny one? Maybe even a stupid one, but a joke none the less. Im sure his Mrs.will just love it!think you may just be in the wrong thread! kid... she's gunna like it, and i doubt seriously if all the gal's statewide will say much...
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Not the War Wagon. Nor will it be "OVERLOADED!!!' by hand. You shall see! All in good time kind sir! In the near future. You shall see!
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Two in tandem was also a joke.
You really don't think I would purchase a trailer like that to tow behind a 400cc wheeler now do you?
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Shhhhhhhhhhh!That's nice.
Sure hope you can get the work for it.
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Change out a few words and that would describe a Maryland concealed carry course to a tee.
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You may already know this, but Im going to mention it fir those that don't Sir.
When bucking the root wad off a Windfall. Very often the root wad will clam shell shut back down to the ground. If it has been blown up hill on steep grade? You can almost count on it. One should never walk to close a distance behind the bottom of the wad to look at it once bucked off. Many have been killed this way!
Also, If bucked incorrectly by simply bucking straight down? Once the root wad starts to close back down to the ground. The trunk can often slab without completely breaking free of the root wad. In turn, the wad will then often drag the entire tree length with it. If limbs are present near the butt of the tree length? A limb could very easily and probably will! Sweep you right off your feet. If the limb is big enough it can possibly pin you down, and/or break off and run you through, maybe break off causing the tree to roll or drop if the limb was suspending the butt of the tree length...How much time ya got. So many different extremely dangerous senerio's are probable! Its scary just to list a few! Blowdown get taken too lightly too often by novices with a saw. Simply because they think. "Oh! Its already on the ground!
What harm can it do?"Very dangerous blowdown they are! Very dangerous!
Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!
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Good advice! First time I cut some more or less 'serious' blowdown was a birch tree, about 25" diameter at the base. I thought freeing up pinched/tensioned branches, as well as overhead stuff, was the most dangerous part about it (took my time, as usual, to do some 'risk assessment' etc.), but when I was cutting +/- 4 feet from the roots the thing decided to fall back to where it came from, and not exactly slowly. Should have taken that possibility into account. Nothing happened to me, but it could have, the part I was cutting off rolled in my direction too... It was as simple as taking a good step aside, but still... Good thing that providing an 'escape route' and clearing the ground of things like blackberry, is something I did learn...
I suppose it has something to do with the fact that some roots were still connected, so alive, and flexible? They made it fall back as if there was 'spring tension'? Not sure though.
I suppose it has something to do with the fact that some roots were still connected, so alive, and flexible? They made it fall back as if there was 'spring tension'? Not sure though.
That’s funny, I don’t care who you are.
A few years back my daughter in law had to take a chainsaw course for her State DCR job. She hammered it and beat all the guys taking the course when it came to dropping a tree where you wanted it to land and the distance it would cover when down. Back in 2010 we had a really bad ice storm. I taught her how to use a chainsaw using a 346XP NE. We spent quite a few days using two of those saws clearing tree damage. I sure was proud of the way she could handle that saw.
Good idea. This log was from a standing dead Oak that should have come down a few years ago.
Don't worry, Global Warming Czar, John Kerry will have an excuse for it.
Mine was fresh cut. Dead standing is partially dry (past the major checking period) so you ought to have a good chance of drying without cracking. Keep out of heat.
So I shouldn't bring this in the house.
I meant out of sunlight. Yes, bring it in which will help it dry. Basement if available would be good.
