BC Faller Training Standard - Falling Small Trees (10 of 17)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ส.ค. 2012
- This video series is the companion to the BC Faller Training Standard, which was designed to teach new fallers safe work procedures for falling and bucking. The goal is to help workers with forestry experience develop the knowledge, attitude, skills, and abilities that will enable them to function as safe and productive fallers. Note: Some practices demonstrated were modified for filming and may not be consistent with the BC Faller Training Standard.
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I want to tell you that other than the Classes we can take here in our part of the Western Mountain States of the US from the Forest Service these are top notch!
We own our own Mom & Pop Logging Company.
When we wanted a series of training videos these were recommended to us by a good Friend who is a Certified Faller in British Columbia. Both our Son and I watched them and I was very impressed, they even helped me remember some things that over the years I have let slide that I shouldn't. So when we decided to expand our company a bit due to getting more and more work when we hired New Employees (4 now) no matter what their experience level and to be honest we decided to find young guys who wanted to learn like in an apprentice program and train them the right way and start from the ground up.
Well to be honest this video series has turned out to be our greatest teaching help. Not only do they see it done we take them out on the clock and they get to actually put what they have learned to practical use and I spend time with them each day going over the videos they have just watched. It's been a tremendous help and now since doing this 2 of the original guys we hired right out of High School have gone on and both work for other places now and I have received phone calls from their bosses asking me for more information about it because they are so impressed with the knowledge these young guys have. Both of them are now Certified Fallers (certifications they passed with ease) and both running crews on their own.
So thank you Work safe BC.....and keep up dating the videos and add to them as safety practices change or improve. Our #1 thing is we want to all go home to our family every night.....and education......and solid good safety practices is the best way to ensure that happens.
H & H Logging
Charlie & Tracie Hill and Family.
Always nice to visit the forest moon of Endor.
A great series of films about safety and the order of work in felling, in Poland trees are placed a little differently, but the substantive value itself - cannot be overestimated.
the trees are different in poland lol
I learned the least from this one in the BC Faller Training series. Glad I watched all the others first.
Did you mean…”Thanks for the video, I have watched others from this series and learn something from each one. Much appreciated.” ??
Wow there's so many "experts" that leave comments on these videos.... the high stump thing is because of comfortable working height... apparently while walking up and down mountains carrying all your gear your suppose to make your job more dangerous by cutting in the most uncomfortable position. Plus makes it harder to hit your escape route if you gotta jump up then run instead of just turning and going....
Corey Morgan agreed. It might also be the trees, and the experience they have in what is the safest way to cut the tree. These are old fir and cedars, not oak or walnut. All trees are different, and the root structure could be what determines how they’re doing all this. What works in Florida might not work in BC....
I enjoy watching this
Congratulations!!! Excellent!!
Funny to see him looking over his shoulder all of the time watching for when Bigfoot comes running out of those North Island woods at him asking, ‘What ya did my front yard bra?’
The BC Training save is the best for me
Im injoy all movements what me to sharp up in my Woody cuts
I'm not sure I would consider that a "small tree". One challenge I have with cutting small diameter trees is there isn't enough room to get your first wedge in without hitting your bar and wrecking your wedge. I assumed this video would show solutions but this is just standard cutting/wedging. From other videos I found that the best way is to put your first wedge in parallel to the bar and slowly tap it in and rotate the butt of the wedge outward as you continue your back cut until it's perpendicular to the bar as it should be.
They get that small, so long as you aren’t against the lean, roll with no wedge. Otherwise, be quick to yank your bar out, carry two bars and chains min, and wreck your wedge and live with it.
They make small wedges specifically for smaller trees
I have a 5in wedge with the corner cut off that I set 1st.
The second tree was small. As you may have noticed, he made the backcut first and inserted his wedge before making several small kerfs on the face side to simulate a felling notch. In wildland school those notches are called “tap cut”…also…any tree whose diameter is at least twice the width of your bar can be plunge cut straight back thru the center of a felling notch and a wedge inserted then…then removing the two small side pieces of course leaving two small hinges…easy peasey…
I’ve watched a number of this series, and the only complaint I have is that the entire tree is not shown. There are many times when I just can’t get a good read on which way a tree wants to go. Are these fallers looking up there and reading the tree and then deciding which way to drop it, or they’re dropping it where they want regardless? If I saw the tree the way they see it before they start cutting, it would help me learn.
Every tree they cut fell in its pre-dominant lean direction…as you saw, only one or two required even the slightest driving of a single wedge…
He is checking the lean and felling it with the lean in every case here I admit it annoys me on other vids but this does show the whole process ok he is very good so makes the assessment fast but you can't really tell lean in a video it requires your inner ear balance and eyes can be deceptive even in person!
I’ve grown fond of the larger diameter tree felling technique that preceded the full back cut with two quarter, corner cuts. Frankly, I prefer that over the use of a wedge.
Good for training
Those are some high stumps...
TheTreeHuggingTreeCutter not going to be processed if I had to guess
Tailhold for the yarder.
I always thought that a high stump made it easier for a dozer to uproot the base for ground clearing. 🤔
They are not dozing so much as desiring the most wood from a log…it is apparent from their use of the humboldt…
9:00 no holding wood? un cleaned undercut? chainbrake? worksafe
Mark for crosscutting with your saw, it's easier.
Look up!!!!!
@18:00 What is the standard length in BC (metric) and in USA (imperial)? Thx! In EU it is 4,10m.
If you’re asking for log lengths, BC does it in Imperial. They buck it down to 41 feet but boom sticks are usually between 50-70 feet. Trees on the west coast of BC easily make 35 metres.
These sound suspiciously like not stock saws
Can anyone explain why they seem to level the top of the stump after the tree falls?
To remove the sharp slivers the hinge leaves behind.
Clearcutting.
Why don't we see a crew of workers in the background? I realize there's a cameraman and this is a training video but in a typical situation wouldn't there be more people working w/ these guys?
Not always. It is usually safer NOT to have too many workers in the area, and if they are they should be a minimum of two tree lengths away from the faller.
Chainbrake?
Oh I'll be damned. Everybody see the faller backcut that little tree at 3:00 with the back of his bar and set a wedge first and then gnaw the face cut out with four passes? Then he went to snatch the wedge as the tree falls but he missed it. Oh yes he did.
Yep that is a good technique for trees too small to set a wedge in the back behind the saw when felled the conventional way.
I don't get it, why exactly aren't you allowed to cut with the backside of your bar?
I think hes just disrepecting that tree and its toughness to knock his head off.
Vakmannen zijn het top
What i do not understand,they cut them all small and big WY?,Leave the small ones to grow.
ze da Cruja tree planters come by later and replant new trees.
An inch at the base is a foot a the top.
Are they wearing chaps ?
Chainsaw pants. Much more comfortable to some
This video has shortcomings as an instructional video:
No narration or text or diagrams, so the viewer doesn't know what's intended and what's important to note and remember.
The camera is always positioned behind the tree, so the viewer can't see the initial undercut.
The whole tree isn't shown, so the viewer doesn't know how big the tree is and whether it has special problems (lean, limbs tangled in adjacent trees, etc.).
Kevin Byrne it’s number 10 in a series, to be watched in order.
Why do they clean off the stump?
In hand falling they usually yard the trees with a machine. It’s etiquette to cut off the whiskers for the Chokermen, rigging crew, whatever.
Us who live on the Wet West coast call these trees
Pecker poles
High stump those things why don't ya!
Yes...it bothers me to see those high stumps
I’m sure they have their reasons. Might be better control on fall direction. Or that it’s a safety training video, part 10 of a series.
Seems a bit cocky in this video. Use the wedges don't use the wedges some were rushed. And he almost fell a few times using the saw as a weedeater. What is the reasoning to take your eye off the saw between cuts?
They look up to see what the tree is doing. A 5 degree shift may not be apparent while looking at the cutting point, but looking up at the tree 5 degrees would be a noticeable shift.
Stumps that high I would fire the person cutting like that lol
@Indigator Veritatis ? Umm. . . . .you always do the backcut first on a "back-weighted" tree? Falling 101. Duh?
@The Big1 😵🔫🤦
chaps buckle in the back of the legs etc. He as the protective pants, made of the same, just pants (way to damn hot to wear all day compared to chaps imo)
Sometimes you need to man up.
Modern protective pants are light years ahead in comfort compared to chaps and jeans or any work pant. Chainsaw protective pants have a thinner stretch material at the backside and ventilation openings.
Govt job?
I think they titled the wrong video. I say that because most people would look at these tree's not as small but freaking monsters (sleight exaggeration). But holy balls, to call them small is laughable. Also there was nothing in the video that was educational. Just a man felling "BIG" tree. Still, I do enjoy watching professional loggers getting it done. So not a waste of 20 mins. Lol
why do they not wing-cut there trees in bc?
what is wing cutting?
They don't have palm trees?
tung and groove. Plunge cut with side cuts lower
they are cutting to much trees why? this is not good
Cry about it.