Look up, look up!!!!

[clearance]

Looked at that worlds tallest tree climb just now, I quickly became bored and looked over at the list of other videos. And there was Tim Ard showing chainsaw safety. Not going to mock the "groin start" method, I drop start all the time, so does everyone I know, millions of starts never an accident so whatever. What got me going is when he was showing how to fall, not going to beef about the crazy angle of the undercut, or him showing how to bend the bar by prying out the undercut, or the impossiblity of using the felling sights when you put in the undercut azz backwards. What realy rubs my fur the wrong way is that he never, ever looked up, not even once. And he teaches people?

 

[l2edneck]

Lookin up is a solid tip for those of you in our indutry...

Cant be lookin down for quarters.....doesn't pay.

 

[NickfromWI]

Clearance, do you have a link to that vid on safety? I always like to see those.

love
nick

 

[adam]

training materials

are sometimes really funny. guy on the ground is lookin up and thinking " what's gonna hit me first : chainsaw, polepruner or my foreman?". looking up is a good thing, but if he looked down, maybe he would notice climbing line neatly wrapped around his feet...

 

[polingspig]

I think this may be the one Clearence is talking about.
http://http://youtube.com/watch?v=lj2CFR_8feo&mode=related&search=

 

[clearance]

I think this may be the one Clearence is talking about.
http://http://youtube.com/watch?v=lj2CFR_8feo&mode=related&search=

Thats the one.

 

[diltree]

I Remember when I was in college, a good friend of mine and myself were complaining to his father about a professor of business management we had for a semester together. His father was a very smooth and successful business man and it was always great to pick his brain. When we complained about some of the things the professor was teaching my friends dad said; "Those who can do something well, usually do it for a living; while those who cant will get a job teaching"........

 

[booboo]

Well, it's better than this one...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pARstOsJEnA&mode=related&search=

Nothing like professionals representing the biz.

 

[adam]

****oo

everybody now who was Claudius, not too many remember Vespasian. Bad guys attract attention. Dudes with ponytails look better than old guys wearing hardhats. Let's face it : we are boring.

 

[treevet]

Back to Clearance video, the guy seems preoccupied w looking at the camera. He never looks up w back cut like you said. I m going to constantly watch the top in relation to other trees for movement. As for that notch, all those video guys seem to like it I think bcs they say they can watch for bypass. I don t hardly ever use it bcs like you said, then felling sights are pointing up in the sky or into the ground. I guess sometimes they want to hold hingewood all the way to ground to protect lumber or for on a downhill fall to prolong control.

 

[Rftreeman]

this is a disaster waiting too happen: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BZCgbtdNH6Q&mode=related&search=

 

[booboo]

Adam...

We may be boring in our hardhats, but that is why we're old :biggrinbounce2:
Besides, a long enough ponytail looks cool hanging out from under a hardhat. I also find wearing a shirt while climbing and cutting cuts down on the scratches in nasty places and keep sawdust out of my underwear! And some of us do choose to wear more than just a buckstrap when taking a top out. Also helps us to grow old.

 

[Rftreeman]

Well, it's better than this one...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pARstOsJEnA&mode=related&search=

Nothing like professionals representing the biz.

did anybody else notice that this could have been very bad, stop it at 40 sec and look at that stub bounce off of that one behind the climber, if it would have kicked the butt the wrong way it would have taken his head off. not too mention there appears to be room to throw that dead thing.

 

[Ekka]

Looked at that worlds tallest tree climb just now, I quickly became bored and looked over at the list of other videos. And there was Tim Ard showing chainsaw safety. Not going to mock the "groin start" method, I drop start all the time, so does everyone I know, millions of starts never an accident so whatever. What got me going is when he was showing how to fall, not going to beef about the crazy angle of the undercut, or him showing how to bend the bar by prying out the undercut, or the impossiblity of using the felling sights when you put in the undercut azz backwards.

I was a little bemused when the commentry said

"make the horizontal cut same as terrain"

Now I can see some problems with that, especially if the vertical cut follows level not terrain or tree is leaning etc ... how about if you were felling across a slope ... wow, some wild implications there. :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[clearance]

I said I wasn't going to mock any thing else, look up, thats all for now.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

did anybody else notice that this could have been very bad, stop it at 40 sec and look at that stub bounce off of that one behind the climber, if it would have kicked the butt the wrong way it would have taken his head off. not too mention there appears to be room to throw that dead thing.

I saw that coming, I also saw the groundsmen jerking the pull line as he was back cutting. I hate that, especially on tops with back-lean. Just give me a steady firm pull, thank you.