SteveSr
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Here’s a good question you say you’re putting a video together for a saw safety class, how much experience do you have falling timber? How about reading timber? Reading timber the lay the proper way to get that tree down into that lay without breaking it is an art of it’s own.
I am not putting together a video for a class... just looking for example / conversation video for an existing class. I have a fair amount of falling experience but it is not commercial. I am a volunteer sawyer and work on trails - mostly removing downed and hazard trees. I am usually the one that gets the call to remove/mitigate such trees if I think it can be done safely. While I don't walk away from many, I have done so in the past and wouldn't hesitate to again if the situation is above my "pay grade".
The course that I help instruct and field evaluate for is the USFS curriculum which is very similar to S-212 for wildfires. If you don't have USFS experience you have probably never heard of it. We try to teach trail trail volunteers how NOT to get hurt either with the saw or what they are cutting!