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:lol: love your sense of humour, made me laugh despite no evidence of awesome treecutterry :)

Hey there 'feller! Glad to see a post, I was just about to bump this one as you hadn't been on in a long time! Good luck with the job, think twice cut once :)

Sense of accomplishment! Well done. I picked up a few nuggets in Sean's post too, especially hand sawing on a slant heading tip-wards. I Use my Hayauchi from the ground sometimes and it's very hard to undercut and 9/10 the saw blade gets bound or stuck, so I'm going to try it.

Good update! Boggy lightsabre...maybe a chance your chain tension was too tight? The sluggish response with a burny smell, combined with maybe not enough oil... Looking at your ratchet strapping, I don't know what the wiser owls might say but the top one might, I say might, just be pushed down...

...the towball of the truck...1st gear...yup its out. Spell, I flake my throwline into a 3gallon paint pail, you can buy empty clean ones from the hardware store. Yes, it takes up more room when storing, but out on the job the line stays OUT of the twigs and crap. I have a little bag with three...

Good to see you back Jeff! Happy day on the baby news to Griff too!

Nice! Pretty good looking stump too. On a completely different topic, looking at your groundies and their ear plugs...we were doing our chainsaw course for the Fire Brigade the other day (super basic crosscut felled timber) and in the discussion about hearing defence the instructor mentioned...

Ditto with finishing with the hand saw, I do that as often as I need to. It's a sensible thing to do when your safety is on the line.

Back to the trees... You've got the 540 wrap going, that's what I was talking about, Gary's is like a reverse 360...instead of going around the back of the tree from your side D, come across the front first, then wrap once. You'll end up with an 'X' in front of you. I'll repeat what some...

Ditto that about the rope on the ground where the groundie is standing! Super important, I know you get it but get everyone into the habit real early!

For a fair sized limb (with corresponding weight) the top cut should be on the tree side...putting it on the tip side will one day give you the horrible experience of having the saw snatched out of your hands...mmmhmmm, I know ;). This is for basics, once you can make some assessments about how...

...takes all types Butch. When I was being trained, the first three weeks was all handsaw in the trees before they cut us loose with a chainsaw up there.

I'm glad to see you just using your handsaw at this stage! Take all the time you need to get comfortable with climbing and positioning before moving to the chainsaw. Yeah, shorten that split-tail and get above your work. Try not to dangle in your lanyard, rather put most of your weight in your...