Actually... does anyone have any good resources for safely operating a chainsaw?
I received some good basic instruction from my dad, but would like to learn more. Build some good habits early on...
Seems like lots of homeowner types get injured by chainsaws every year.
BC Foresty Dept used to publish a logging safety book. I should still have one around here somewhere. But it was more about falling and bucking practices, spring poles, etc.
I started out bucking up saw logs in a mill yard with a huge ancient Homelite. Then I went to work for another guy one winter that had me following him around and de-limbing trees that he fell.
I've never really hurt myself with a saw, except for one time I was walking a big fir and stumbled, jabbing the extra long bucking spike into my knee. It swelled up like a balloon for a couple days and I almost
thought about going to a doctor, before it got better as most things do. I did get banged on the head pretty good one time while falling in a heavy snowstorm. There was a broken top hanging up there among the thick branches. If I had been working for myself then like in the good old days, I would have just gone home that day instead of working in conditions where you couldn't see well. :(