I found this video series on Youtube. Haven't watched them all yet - it's a couple hours worth of videos. Kind of "workplace training" style videos, focused on safety, but there's a lot of good info here. Enjoy! http://www2.worksafebc.com/Publications/Multimedia/Videos.asp?ReportID=36885
Some of the titles for those videos seemed very ineresting. For some reason when I clicked on the video link they wouldn't open for me. Might have to try the desktop later. thanks for sharing!
I haven't watched any yet. But one thing I would like everyone to keep in mind, the typical videos like these are aimed at loggers and I've always noticed many are taken in the Pacific NW where the big and tall trees are. So keep that in mind that you won't be doing things on their scale. The knowledge is good but you have to apply it to your situation. One thing that always gets me is seeing someone felling a tree that is perhaps 12-16" diameter and using plunge cuts and/or wedges. Even using wedges when bucking. We have wedges but I have to say it is very rare to use them and I don't ever recall using a wedge when bucking up a log. They simply are not needed if you do it right.
I did finish watching all of them, and I completely agree. They even did a few things I was taught never to do - the actually recommend drop starting a warm saw, and they never show the knee lock which is just as fast and 100 times safer in my opinion. And the one guy seemed to be having a race, tipped 5 trees in like 4 mins. They didn't use any wedges bucking though. I did learn a couple techniques in that regard to try next time I'm working a big tree. I think it was almost 3 hours worth of videos, lot of stuff I already knew, but I learned a couple things. Lots of tree falling p0rn if nothing else!
Its like anything really... take what you can learn from it and disregard the rest. Was it perfect? No, but what is?
