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Not required of contractors, or any other private industry chainsaw operators here in the freedom loving USA :). Gov't employees is a different matter entirely.

Bump...another for your consideration, Butch.

Yes I did, Stg. I must be orientationally challenged. Thanks, I'll fix it...again!

Here's where the whizzy thread back-tracked to this one. http://gypoclimber.com/showthread.php?13702-Whizzy&p=418842&viewfull=1#post418842

Before I bumped any other old theads forward, I asked the elders if anyone minded...only got positive responses, so here's another good one. This is the one where we explored the idea of boring vertically in under the front of the hinge to increase the hinge's ability to flex and thus function...

Yup, I'm gonna see about getting one...I used to keep a Madsen's catalog around, but when I changed duty stations a year and a half ago I culled out alot of resource materials. Even so, you'd think I would have noticed that item before. It worked slicker than you might think looking at the pic...

Hey, thanks Red.

Ye gods :\:...though the bling look would be awesome ;). It's made of pretty light-weight stock...maybe half as thick as Brian's traffic sign would be. I'll see if I can get a micronometer on it.

I'll get some pictures and measurements, see what you think after that, eh?

Probably right, Brian...I could even retain the YIELD text!

It's up to them, Brian...though I'm free to make suggestions ;). If the excavator hadn't been there with good access, we could have done that. The contract is for hazard tree felling...if they decide it's too dangerous to do, they can ask me to delete the tree from the contract. If I agree...

I mentioned that Dan had learned some of the tricks of the trade...here's one you don't see often any more. Danny set a make-do springboard to get above the root flare and extreme goosepen in this big red cedar. I just got there in time to get one pic of the action :cry:.

Sometimes there is just no real safe way to handle a hazard tree by saw work alone. Here's a nasty one, broken out partway up and leaning real heavy into a second tree...easy to get hurt or worse trying to trip this one from underneath. Fortunately we had good access, so Dan crippled it and...

Started another contractor working I started a third hazard tree felling contract Monday...this one is on the west side of the Mt. Hood NF, where the brush and trees are dense and big. Some of the pics are kinda dark, not much light under that high canopy, sorry about that. This outfit is...

I've looked at those before...man are they lovely.

Aw hell, Jerry...it'll always be your axe. I'm just the lucky guy using it now.

Hey, Jerry, the package was sitting on my desk when I got to the Zigzag office this morning! It felt like Christmas! Jerry really was going short on the handle on this baby...right at 20 inches from head to tail. I'd never in a million years change it, even if it is shorter than I'd choose...

No kidding, Stig. This is gonna be extra special!

Sending you a PM, Jerry.

This came up in another of these wedge driver threads, I think the one I started titled something like "Bounce, why on earth does Wesspur not sell a proper fallers axe?" I posted a pic then, but I'm pretty sure this is one of the threads that lost attachments back in the crash...if anyone wants...