Not only the truck. We had two guys hit their chaps today on the exact same day
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No offense intended here, Nick...this whole time I've had in the back of my head, one pair... A frig-up, it happens. Two incidences on different days, long apart, wow! Two incidences in the same day...YIKES!!! Maybe more training is needed. Twice, your crew members' LAST line of defense against serious injury was put into play.
I know that I usually have to beat dangerous chainsaw handling habits out of my employees. In some ways, I'd rather have a green person, than someone with a little, bad experience. Gary, who started cutting 30+ years ago, need to get his thumb wrapped everytime, and is working on it. People so often hold the bar in the wrong spots for cutting, like the top, left corner of the wrap handle when not making a diagonal cut, like a conventional face cut. The other day, Gary was trying to use the 1/2 wrap like a 3/4 wrap handle. Terrible work positioning/ saw handling. I stopped him, and showed him how to hold it properly for the cut, on the starter side of the wrap handle, and backchain instead of cutting with the gut/ bottom of the bar. Alternately, walk around the tree.
I used to train the Conservation Corps members. I had a 5'0"-5'2" woman, former gymnast, running a 440 with a 28" bar, well for her second day, on her second day in the field, after classroom training. Transferring the idea of a need for exacting technique in gymnastics, I trained her to use the saw properly. She worked like a champ on a basic thinning project (falling, bucking, piling short mountain mahogeny on a steep, loose, rocky hillside. Hit the ground there, and you were in for a lot of hand filing.
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