Nice when they actually learn and listen.
My new kid wants to run before he can walk.. I think I mentioned him before. About telling him about learning buttons and levers on the rake first.
He can use the chipper now. Feeds it mostly.
I pretty much ascertained he has not much aptitude for this work. Rob, Katy and Mike have bigger hearts than I and convinced me to try to train him on a chainsaw. So I tried...
He does not absorb information, or is a contrarian. Tell him to not cut over his head, he will. Show him how to read tension and compression wood, he cuts opposite. You pretty much have to tell him how to approach every cut. I blame our education system...
Mike, closer to my age, is becoming a damn good faller, as did Jason and the other Mike before him.