Don't mean to be nit picky but he should never use his nee to prop the saw up for the cut that's asking for trouble in more ways than one. I am just pointing this out so you can correct this in the future. I know maybe it's just me but I was trained to look for things like this as I trained Meatcutters off and on for 40 years and looked for danger before the accident happens and correct the problem.
Don't mean to be nit picky but he should never use his nee to prop the saw up for the cut that's asking for trouble in more ways than one. I am just pointing this out so you can correct this in the future. I know maybe it's just me but I was trained to look for things like this as I trained Meatcutters off and on for 40 years and looked for danger before the accident happens and correct the problem.
Don't mean to be nit picky...
This ain't timber for sale... Cut at whatever height is comfortable for the sawyer!Any reason to make the stump so tall? On most timber sales we do, we have to keep them under 12" tall.
This ain't timber for sale... Cut at whatever height is comfortable for the sawyer!
I was more thinking about the previously mentioned 12" height. It was obvious that the face cut was too high for him. I think the saw was a little too big/heavy for him as well.Realize that, but doesn't even look comfortable to cut that high.
One thing I learned over the years is the more one uses the equipment the more skilled and confident one gets, the trick to is to not let them create bad practice along the way, that bad practice will become ingrained also and sooner or later come back to bite them.
In my profession I did as much safety training as I did Meatcutting skill set training, to me they were one in the same. You spend all day with a knife in your hand, or your hand less that an inch from a running saw blade and there is no room for a mistake. That is the reason I trained my Meatcutters this way and I gave them the latitude to be observant to others around them. They carried these skill sets through life and pasted it on to others, in that I was proud to be a part.
In felling one must clear a path to get away from a falling tree.
Next he needs to learn how to steer the tree as it falls using different horizontal angles of the back cut, more back cut on the left side of the knotch the tree goes to the right, more back cut on the right side the tree goes to the left side.
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