Some ol'buzzard passed this on........Loggers Glossary - OSHA
Also links to other OHSA logging stuff from there. The user guide link takes you to a small course. Here is a page from it.
OSHA Results of Incorrect Felling
Going on to the next page, shows bucking out of bind strategy, that follows Dent's lines, for his 'bible' "Pro Timber Falling" (a must have, probably about the best, cheapest investment you can make in efficiency and safety; save perhaps eyewear) and the manipulation of compressed/tensioned fibres goes into bucking and is shown there. A lot more cuts are made bucking than dropping; understanding and predicting forces in bucking can teach a lot about felling. For it is all dealing with force, fibre, leverage etc. with the same tools : saw, wedge (sometimes line) and brain!
i learned a lot about triangle hinges and there power while bucking, in bucking you can practice and observe that many times in immediate succcession, dialing in things; till they sink in!
Also links to other OHSA logging stuff from there. The user guide link takes you to a small course. Here is a page from it.
OSHA Results of Incorrect Felling
Going on to the next page, shows bucking out of bind strategy, that follows Dent's lines, for his 'bible' "Pro Timber Falling" (a must have, probably about the best, cheapest investment you can make in efficiency and safety; save perhaps eyewear) and the manipulation of compressed/tensioned fibres goes into bucking and is shown there. A lot more cuts are made bucking than dropping; understanding and predicting forces in bucking can teach a lot about felling. For it is all dealing with force, fibre, leverage etc. with the same tools : saw, wedge (sometimes line) and brain!
i learned a lot about triangle hinges and there power while bucking, in bucking you can practice and observe that many times in immediate succcession, dialing in things; till they sink in!
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