Loggers

[glens]

Take a close look at the saw images here!

 

[SawTroll]

Well, I think they should be quite easy to remove.......

 

[tony marks]

il double that bet blaster.. that just wouldnt fit into my working style..you can either run a saw or not.. this from a fello that tried a little artwork on his leg recently..

 

[steve oj]

hi mate in australia the laws for chainsaw use is so strick you have to do training to work as a chainsaw operater and you need a ticket to say you have done all the training.plus all the tree felling tickets you need too . hope this helps

 

[P_woozel]

I firmly beleive that treeworkers should have similar requirements regarding chainsaw use in daily operations. Never have I seen the varying levels of incompetence as I have in the urban tree care industry.

 

[PetrolHead]

Hi Mange.
Can't see too much from the pics, but I was wondering what model the Valmet forwarder was?
890?

 

[Mange]

I copyed thease pics from a sales site, I looked again, but it was gone.

 

[Blowdown1]

Mange, what does mange mean in Swedish (anything)?

 

[Mange]

It is short for Magnus: The strong, or great.
There was a king called Magnus Ladulås.
Guess what the worlds stongest (last few years) man is called?
Samuelsson in last name.

 

[mktest]

It is short for Magnus: The strong, or great.
There was a king called Magnus Ladulås.
Guess what the worlds stongest (last few years) man is called?
Samuelsson in last name.

I wonder what kind of chainsaw he (M Samuelsson) wields, in a hunters magazine I saw him carry an elk on his back after a successful hunting trip It wasn't a full grown elk, but still... (edited: you'd probably call it moose over there, I don't mean wapiti-elk)

When it comes to logging, I have no clue about the laws around here, but I reckon that Mange is right (of course) - to work as a commercial logger you need a license, if nothing else for insurance reasons. I've seen shorter courses for this, it doesn't seem necessary to go to forest school for three years, although that is probably a great beginning if you are into forests in general, not just cutting them down

As for safety equipment : the professional industry (with "help" from unions) have been the leaders in safety equipment here, which means that "Joe Public" (that would be Medel-Svensson...) doesn't think it's "silly" or "un-manly" to use safety equipment, it makes him look more professional

 

[Blowdown1]

Ahh, thanks. Are you familiar with the English meaning?

 

[Mange]

Yep.

 

[Blowdown1]

gotta love those words that don't quite mean the same thing in another language. There are some famous examples of botched marketing by companies using the American product name in a foreign country, only to find that it means something very different.