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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: pezz who wrote (74922)2/22/2000 1:06:00 PM
From: nihil  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I agree that the chain saw is a great tool, especially with an automatic oiler, and if it bucks or kicks back the sawyer may be seriously injured. Experience and supervision is necessary, and a tyro quickly becomes overconfident. I got in the business during WWII with axes and two-man saws, when my older brother crippled himself with a glancing ax. With big trees and saws shorter than BHD you have to keep the tip out of the kerf, make several shallow cuts, use (aluminum) felling wedges and be patient.
You sound like you enjoyed the life. Men who work around trees are somehow different (and maybe better) than others.
Trees, even big wild trees, need to be fed, cared for, pruned, and retired when they become a danger to others. Trees hate being hugged.
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