Western Fallers Association

[Kevin]

bcforestsafe


The Western Fallers Association

[Tom]

Is there going to be anything left of that tree after it hits the bottom.....   way down there?

That's a precarious place for a springboard, but I don't know how else he would have made the cut.  I think I would have tied myself to something though.  :-\ :D

[Kevin]

Tom;

I don't know what the story is with that photo but it doesn't look very safe.
Maybe the top is gone out of it.

[Tom]

Well, If that is a wedge he is taking out that side, the tree shouldn't be going anywhere until he gets back on terra firma.   I would still have a line tied to a stick or something on the high ground.

There is a pretty good rule for spear fisherman who dive.  Don't tie the line from the spear to your body, tie it to the gun.

The only thing I see that he is tied to is the saw. :D

Maybe it isn't really that far down and it's just an optical illusion. 

[Jeff]

Thats an amazing PDF. Don't stop at just the cover, lots of great stuff in there.

[Tom]

By golly, you're right.  Nothing loaded when I clicked on it before.  I just figured Kevin must have made the post for the picture.   :P

[chet]

 8)  I was on page 26 before I came up for air da first time. Very interesting. 

[Frickman]

Thanks for the great link Kevin. I spent so much time reading it that I had to log back into the Forum.

[boboak]

   Thanks for the link.   Besides making some good points it gives a view of being a faller that most people don't ever get to see.

[Kevin]

I'm glad everyone is enjoying the reading and it's nice to know that someone is actually trying to make a difference .

[Ed]

Excellent reading!
Thanks.

Ed

[Bob Smalser]

I'm glad everyone is enjoying the reading and it's nice to know that someone is actually trying to make a difference .

Yes.  Fine effort, but he leaves me a bit confused.

The author makes it sound like y'all don't skid out and harvest ROW timber, merely push it off the downslope to make life hard for fallers.

He also says what he's calling "retention logging" and what we call "thinning" should be stopped immediately as a dangerous practice.   Well, we thin stands all the time by hand falling without damaging adjacent trees, let alone endangering the faller.  Not sure what he means here....he wants clearcuts only?

He also says 58 "fallers" were killed between 1995 and 2005.  Do buckers, choker setters, etc, et al have a voice or is he including them, too?

[Frickman]

Was the bcforestsafe website redone? I went back to look at it and seems totally different. More professional looking too.