Hmmm. I finally had to start chanting in my head, "Time and Speed are not important." "Do not think of speed." It was day one of Crosscut Saw certification and training for doing volunteer trail clearing. My goodness, so many tricks and techniques and we've barely got started. I'll try to remember my camera tomorrow.
Let me see, we did offset bucking to make a little shelf as an extra safety precaution to keep the saw from hitting the ground. The saw is sharp, and isn't hard to operate, except I had a hard time underbucking even with the special tool. There is a lot of preparation work to do. The bark has to be chopped off, underbucking done with a pruning saw if that's where you start, sometimes poles are laid across to roll the chunk onto and then off the trail, etc.
It was a long day today. Tomorrow I'll return.
Let me see, we did offset bucking to make a little shelf as an extra safety precaution to keep the saw from hitting the ground. The saw is sharp, and isn't hard to operate, except I had a hard time underbucking even with the special tool. There is a lot of preparation work to do. The bark has to be chopped off, underbucking done with a pruning saw if that's where you start, sometimes poles are laid across to roll the chunk onto and then off the trail, etc.
It was a long day today. Tomorrow I'll return.
