On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 23:55:34 GMT, (Roy) wrote:

On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 21:11:16 GMT, Janet Baraclough..
wrote:

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=== Janet
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=== You also need chainsaw trousers which have a fibre lining to choke and
=== stop a moving blade.
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=== And special socks? :-)
===
=== The trousers overlap the protective boots.
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=== One should always be carefull, but if I had to wear
=== special clothes when ever I use my chainsaw, I would probably never use it.
===
=== Really? I don't know any professional chainsaw operator who doesn't
===wear full gear, even for a very simple half hour job.
===
=== Janet.
===


Well I would say the utility companies that clear right of ways, as
well as the largest Arborist and trimmin company in the USA Asplundt,
as well as Davey Tree, rarely if ever do I see them using chainsaw
chaps. Hearing and eye protection yes, other than that is steel toed
boots, and pants of their choice as well as a company T shirt. Even
the professional loggers here don't go to that extreme. Try and put
all that gear on and work in the woods in the hot souths humid
weather and see how long you last. They may do it up in the great
white north and some other places up north working for companies and
mandated by OSHA, but its rare to ever see them in all that protective
equipment.
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The city used to have their people use spikes to climb trees in the
past. Not so great an idea, so most of the them are working from
"cherry pickers" or using other means of climbing that doesn't damage
the bark and potentially spread disease from one tree to another.

Janice from "The City of Trees" Boise .. supposedly from the french
explorers coming in from the high desert area to look down into the
valley and exclaiming Les Bois! Les Bois! (The Trees! The Trees!)
heh.. somehow I kind of doubt that! And we've been losing Elm trees to
Dutch Elm disease, anthracnose and fusarium wilts, Locust trees to
borers, Willow trees get borers too.. and the tree keeps on going
until the wind topples it, or it collapses from its own upper weight.