Have you have been wanting to learn how to safely operate a chainsaw to cut firewood or work in your woods? The course is designed to introduce safe handling of a chainsaw, and to boost the confidence of anyone with little or no experience with a chainsaw.
This course is taught by the same excellent instructors (from Northeast Woodland Training) who teach the Game of Logging chainsaw training courses Vermont Family Forests has hosted for the past 15 years or more. In it, you'll learn:
-Basic saw maintenance
-Starting the saw
-Daily engine and bar maintenance
-When to sharpen or change the chain
-Basic bucking and limbing techniques (The instructor will fell the trees. All participants will get hands-on time bucking and limbing.)
-Practice cutting "cookies"
-Challenge: cutting through log but leaving bark, emphasizing control.
You do not need a chainsaw to take this course, since you'll be using the instructor's saw.
When: April 29, 2021(Thursday) 8am-4pm
Cost: $200
Where: The Lands of the Watershed Center, 4783 Plank Rd. Bristol, VT
For information and to register: https://familyforests.org/basic-chainsaw-safety-training-for-beginners/
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