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Top-handled chainsaws: appropriate use and management

Author:  Paul Elcoat
date_icon.png  25/02/2019

In the course of my business, I get to observe many contracting companies and climbing arborists performing their day-to-day duties. This is either in my advisory capacity helping contractors to get ready for the ARB Approved Contractor assessment or as a scheme assessor actually putting companies through the assessment.

If you're an Arborist, then you need to read this!

Read Here: https://www.trees.org.uk/News-Blog/Latest-News/Top-handled-chainsaws-appropriate-use-and-managem 

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The subject of top handled chainsaws, the potential for them to wreck you, and the likelihood of of them being banned has been rolling around since before the turn of the century. 

 

It has certainly been covered in great detail on most forums.

 

It's a nice article, and my thoughts go out to those who have been adversely affected by these tools, but I guess that it is easy for employers and employees to dismiss the dangers when you consider the slight attention paid to these tools in the fields of training and assessment. 

 

I appreciate that few users would want more assessments being penned, but maybe a good starting point would be to come up an assessment that actually covers the use of a top handled saw.

 

Just a thought.

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Interesting article which will be read by many climbers and then totally ignored.
I work with climbers all over the country and one handing is the norm.
As a ground based saw user, I can't understand why anyone would use one.
Even in a tree.
I'm now refraining from posting the photo of my mates arm after the top handled saw flipped and the tip bored through his forearm.
He was very lucky. Kept the arm.
Stay safe.

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29 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

As a ground based saw user, I can't understand why anyone would use one.

Using a properly working MS200t up in the canopy just puts a smile on your face.

 

I guess it's not easy to explain to a non-climber but (arboriculturaly speaking) it's the very best feeling.

 

Some may says it's the effect of the dappled sun on your skin, some may say it's the view that few others have ever seen.  Some may say it's the smug satisfaction of looking down and seeing the mess you've just generated dissappear efficiently through the chipper, some may say it the simple outrageousness of the climbers work choice.

 

It's probably just that you can't believe that the soddin' '200 is actually working properly. 

 

Snedding small Douglas with a new and bitching sharp 254xp on a sunny spring morning in runs a possible close second.

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Reminiscences. Ahhhhhh, life's lost loves.
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31 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

I'm now refraining from posting the photo of my mates arm after the top handled saw flipped and the tip bored through his forearm.

Thanks for holding back on the photo, rather than shattering my rose-tinted illusions.

 

I appreciate how his experience was far from "the very best feeling".

 

How is he doing now?  Is he still in the industry? 

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No, but by some incredible fluke he missed all the tendons and clever stuff (you could put your finger in the hole without touching the sides) and it looked like a small scar a few weeks later.
Then he moved to Amsterdam. [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]

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