SteveBunn

I've been told never to cut with a saw at neck level. It's a good rule. Another good rule is not to cut when you have leaves in your face. The one rule i never break is making sure my feet are not going to slip when I am cutting and if that is at all possible then I check I won't be swung to where the chainsaw is. Especially when cutting the trunk. Last week my spikes slipped out as a big piece of bark broke out next to a dead patch. very unexpected and fortunately the saw wasn't running at the time.

3 dead wandoo - west aust 4 sugar gum - south Aust 6 Tasmanian blue gum - very stringy bark 7 maybe a bunya pine - queensland 9 maybe a stringy bark - South aust 11 sugar gum 12 WA peppermint tree 13 wattle - yellow flowers in winter 1300+ different types of Acacia 15 bottlebrush nuts - the flower looks like a bottlebrush 16 sheoak nuts

I've been climbing trees with a chainsaw for 7 yrs now. When i first started i did a lot of reading on the internet of chainsaw accidents. I recomend this to anyone starting out in this field. A chainsaw should always be respected. Many peoples first accident with a chainsaw is their last. not because they are killed but because of the fear that follows and they leave the industry. In seven yrs i've have met so many people with a chainsaw story and the scars they show me. sometimes they tell me it's why i'm doing the job and not them. A guy here in margaret river is in an incident report after felling a big tree. He did everything right except for one thing. When the tree hit the ground the vibrations went through the roots of another big tree and a high dead piece fell out of the tree and killed him where he thought he was a safe. After reading this the chances of it happening to you are lessened. checkout incident reports to learn what can go wrong. A lot of knowledge means less unexpected things will happen and it's the unexpected that will hurt you the most. I cringe at watching youtube videos of people racing their saws through logs. This game is not a race. Understand what a kickback can do and always maintain the respect a chainsaw deserves.

My guess is the third one down (Bark.jpg) is a Wandoo. I live in perth, australia and this is common here. It's very hard to identify dead trees but the curl in the grain at 45% is common in old hollow Wandoos. It is one of the heaviest and hardest of all Eucalypts. When it is seasoned you can't hammer a nail into it and you can't split it by hand. It used to be used for railway sleepers and dance floors. A guy called brady in the SW makes one piece drums out of old hollow wandoos and his snare drums are used by a lot of big name bands. Theres 900 different eucalypyts and i haven't even seen half of them.