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Personal protective equipment is the equipment that you wear to protect yourself
from harm.
Uh... we have boots, we have chaps, we have our reflective vests,
our helmets, our eye protection and our ear protection...
...and our gloves.
Alright before starting the saw, you always want to put your ear protection on.
That will keep you from going deaf.
And, when you are cutting with the saw, you always want to put your visor down to keep
shavings out of your face and so...
this is your eye protection so the shavings won't get into your eyes.
Our chaps are made of kevlar. We have buckles to keep the sides around us but
the Kevlar is built so if the saw chain gets caught on your
chaps,
the Kevlar will bind up inside the chainsaw
and it will completely stop it so it can't cut your leg.
And, when you carry a sway, you always want to have the scabbard covering the bar and
chain...
so it can't cut you.
And, this is
the proper way to carry it is to have the bar facing behind you.
When you go to start a saw you always want to have
the chain brake on before you do anything else.
When you're using a saw, you always want to
keep your thumb wrapped around
the front handle,
and your arm straight. And, when you go to put the chain brake on after using the saw
you can just nudge it forward.
If you don't have the left arm straight and your thumb wrapped around the
front handle,
you can
cut up
with the saw and it can
cut your face.
When you are the
one running the saw, you always want to watch your footing.
Where you're standing can really affect how you running the saw. You always want to
have good placement of your feet so your legs are
holding you up the correct way.
Then, whenever you using the saw, if you take more than three steps from where
you've used the saw,
you always want to put the chain break back on just for safety.
When I'm cutting a tree,
I always want to make sure that
I have an escape route.
At least two different escape routes to get away from the tree when it's falling.
Whenever I do cut a tree, I always want to make sure that I check for widow makers,
which are branches high up in a tree that can get caught, and snap,
and fall, and hit you in the head and possibly kill you.
And I want to make sure that when I am cutting a tree that I have
the proper footing
so i don't slip and have the saw cut me
or...
potentially could hurt someone else.
Some consequences when you cut a tree is that it will land on smaller trees or even
just the branches from the tree that you've cut.
And, those are called spring-poles. When they're pushed back
or under the tree like this.
And, once you cut the tree or... cut
part of the tree, some of the spring-poles can fling back like that
and they can be even more dangerous or more violent.
And, after you cut it, it can cause serious harm or even kill you.
If somebody wanted to run a chainsaw, but they never have before, I would tell them that
when you've run a saw it's not as scary as it seems. You just need to...
really pay attention to what you doing.
The rest of it's actually pretty fun.