Good morning folks,
today’s training:
13" bars and Scandinavian branching method.......
It boils down to how to effectively pruning a tree where you use your body as little as possible, and also reduce the vibrations.......
The first thing is to plan, to see the terrain, to use the necessary small trees as supports for those you are going to fell.
5 steps, branching.
Blind side, allow the chainsaw to slide on the front of the chainsaw body while pruning the blind side, no longer than your normal stride length.
Flip the chainsaw so the chain cover is the sliding surface, branch the top of the tree.
Let the chainsaw slide down between you and the tree, leave the transition between the chainsaw and the handle on your right knee, step forward and you branch your side using your knee as the tool instead of your shoulders.
One step to the same method with the knee.
Saw the top of the tree as described earlier.
You will now be back to the blind side again without actually using your shoulders.
Every other process you have to branch at the bottom which is the only time you have to use your shoulders.
And quite obvious why a 20" bar is not suitable.....
And no, I don't think you choose regular chainsaw polishing lol