Oh how you make me laugh! sadly the truth of the certificate based courses are far from proper training. My late father was a commercial faller for close to 40yrs, In his 50s he became an instructor for all of 3 months. His final words on the subject were that "All of these bits of paper are good for is convincing idiots that they can fall trees." he stopped been an instructor as he wanted no part in it. A couple of his friends had him teach their sons, that he was happy to do. But it is an ode to health and safety in a dangerious industry. I never learnt a single thing on a course that I didnt all ready know from my dad, but you do pay handsomely for the paper at the end of it. Clearly if you have to have 3 goes at clearing out the center of your tree, the lesson hasnt been instilled in the student strongly enough the importance of clearing out the Fing center of the tree. Now admittidely my fathers communication included its fair helping of swear words, but it only neeeded to be communicated once
This is a training during which you have to bore in and sweep round. The idea is you practice and then demonstrate cutting a tree where your bar will not reach through.
@@gorillagroundsandgardens even if taking it seriously i had most problems with small diameter trees especialy if they are tall like normal tree. In forest not a lot of room and small tree is light it is hard to get it on the ground because other tree branches and because they are small not a lot of room for your chainsaw for cuting notch and back cut. If there is plane and room for felling no problem in thick forest smaler trees are a nightmare.
The tiny notch (around 15-20%) is what we are taught to do here. This was one of the first trees so taking it slowly is better than going too far and creating other issues. I'm sure you were born cutting down trees but some.of is have to learn. ,👍👌😜
Never knew how many different techniques it takes to fell a tree! 😮
I just completed this myself a few months ago. Very cool and nice to now be insurable to fell larger stuff. Well done and congrats!
Thank you! Always nice to get another qualification under your belt and build up those skills!
Good to see you guys get proper training!
Oh how you make me laugh! sadly the truth of the certificate based courses are far from proper training. My late father was a commercial faller for close to 40yrs, In his 50s he became an instructor for all of 3 months. His final words on the subject were that "All of these bits of paper are good for is convincing idiots that they can fall trees." he stopped been an instructor as he wanted no part in it. A couple of his friends had him teach their sons, that he was happy to do. But it is an ode to health and safety in a dangerious industry. I never learnt a single thing on a course that I didnt all ready know from my dad, but you do pay handsomely for the paper at the end of it. Clearly if you have to have 3 goes at clearing out the center of your tree, the lesson hasnt been instilled in the student strongly enough the importance of clearing out the Fing center of the tree. Now admittidely my fathers communication included its fair helping of swear words, but it only neeeded to be communicated once
Always!
Why use metal wedges over plastic metal ones destroy your if you clip them in the cut
I'm curious as to why he chose to do a bore cut. Most of the time I see guys just do a straight back cut out here in the US PNW.
This is a training during which you have to bore in and sweep round. The idea is you practice and then demonstrate cutting a tree where your bar will not reach through.
Big trees are easy to fell. small ones are dangerous.
I think not taking a smaller seriously is dangerous which can lead to other issues.
@@gorillagroundsandgardens even if taking it seriously i had most problems with small diameter trees especialy if they are tall like normal tree. In forest not a lot of room and small tree is light it is hard to get it on the ground because other tree branches and because they are small not a lot of room for your chainsaw for cuting notch and back cut. If there is plane and room for felling no problem in thick forest smaler trees are a nightmare.
Tiny notch, not all the way thru. Poor saw bout wore out. No rpm
The tiny notch (around 15-20%) is what we are taught to do here. This was one of the first trees so taking it slowly is better than going too far and creating other issues.
I'm sure you were born cutting down trees but some.of is have to learn. ,👍👌😜