The nanny state is coming for us...

[SteveinUT]

Good Lord...
http://dripline.net/france-joins-european-countries-requiring-license-run-chainsaw/

 

[RIDE-RED 350r]

Just reading the link without actually clicking I can say, GFY to that!

 

[Homemade]

Good thing we live in the land of the free and home of the brave. Free to use a saw, if your brave enough.


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[huskihl]

Can't fix stupid....

 

[Simondo]

From what I know this is "Employment Law" they are talking of ...its been common since 1996 (in UK) to have a employer put employees through training for the use of chainsaws and felling work .They need to comply with "Health and safety at work " laws or public liability insurance is void along with the employers cover for his workers. Same applies to the self employed to do with these rules .

 

[Wilhelm]

Money milking crap!
The same is being pushed here in Croatia.

Just imagine what is required to be allowed to legally own a firearm around here!

 

[tree monkey]

 

[paragonbuilder]

Wtf!
Lol


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[tree monkey]

 

[P.M.P.]

Any relation?

 

[earlthegoat2]

There is big business in protecting people from themselves.

I wonder where most of that 200 Euro goes to?

 

[RIDE-RED 350r]

Ok I did end up reading the article and it stated that there are already those who want to push for the same requirement for private individuals. I get the whole OSHA part of it, there are alot of things you can do at work that requires training and in many cases, certification for better or for worse. As we all know, a certificate doesn't always mean that person is worth a damn at it. Lol!

But to mandate that on the private individual working on his own not in a business capacity?? Male bovine excrement!

 

[Wilhelm]

Just because someone attended a training course and got a certificate doesn't mean that the same individual will actually implement any of the information received.

Just look at every day's traffic, every other driver shouldn't be allowed behind the wheel, still they all have a driver's license.

If they start requiring certified training for handling a chainsaw, they best do the same for weed whacker usage too!
Around here people use them dressed in a T-shirt and shorts without any PPE whatsoever.

 

[Al Smith]

If I'm not mistaken John Lambert AKA Gypo Logger and several other on line personas had to take some course pertaining to chainsaw usage when he went to either the Yukon or North West Territory of Canada .He had already been a logger in Ontario for years . From what I hear Great Britain has always been somewhat of a "nanny " state about a lot of things .

 

[MarcS]

Lol, at least she has her thumb under the wrap handle.

 

[angelo c]

OMG....how close was that tree to her ?

 

[angelo c]

you know that xhit will NEVER happen here in the USA.....but it is happening in NJ..

https://njtreeexperts.org/index.php/licensing

 

[danimal]

you know that xhit will NEVER happen here in the USA.....but it is happening in NJ..

https://njtreeexperts.org/index.php/licensing

I didnt know NJ was part of the USA

 

[angelo c]

I didnt know NJ was part of the USA

only certain parts are....seriously..
in the area where we live a local H.S. radio station pumps out Country Music 24/7
drive 25 miles East of us and its all thugs and ....not Country Music

 

[RIDE-RED 350r]

Jersey is as misunderstood a state as NY with the urban parts of it gobbling up all of the the attention