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Game of Logging - Level 1

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Time: September 29, 2012 from 7:45am to 4:30pm
Location: Arnot Forest
Street: 611 County Road 13
City/Town: Cayuta, NY 14824
Website or Map: http://www.ForestConnect.info
Event Type: outdoor, hands-on, workshop
Organized By: Peter Smallidge
Latest Activity: Sep 5, 2013

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This training presents the Game of Logging program, re-designed for private forest owners, firewood cutters, and homeowners wishing to gain a more thorough knowledge and practical, hands-on experience with safety and productivity. No experience is required for Level I participants. Participants learn increasingly advanced techniques during Level I, II, and III for directional felling, safety, and saw and chain maintenance. Each level builds on skills from previous training levels, so advanced levels require participation in earlier levels. Registration includes hands-on training with a Game of Logging Certified Instructor, handouts, light refreshments, and a certificate of completion. Participants personally fell a tree under the guidance of a certified instructor. All sessions start at 7:45 AM and conclude at approximately 4:30 PM, though occasionally longer. Trainings are held regardless of weather so please dress accordingly. The program is offered at Cornell University's Arnot Forest

Pre-registration required via this secure site.

Level I includes: Using and maintaining safety equipment, safety features of the saw, how to hold and handle a saw safely to reduce fatigue, understanding parts of a tooth for sharpening, understanding the reactive forces of a running chainsaw. We will learn the proper way to do a bore-cut. Participants learn the mechanics and physics of hinge wood, directional felling to a plan, and how to identify the lean in a tree.

Level II includes: Saw maintenance to reduce downtime and improve the performance of your chainsaw,

Safe handling of spring poles, felling to a plan with more precision, introduction to limbing, and safe removal of hung trees.

Level III includes: use of the GOL "Pro-sight" tool to calculate tree height, understanding hinge length to control side lean, advanced felling and wedging techniques, limbing techniques for side hill and tension wood, trees will be felled against the natural lean. Some limitations in felling will be identified.

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