Yipee, I'm a Sawyer

[Old Hillwalker]

I'm Feeling pretty good for an old man! Today I successfully completed the USFS Sawyer certification as a Level "B" (journeyman) sawyer. Or as one of the other students put it, "a regular feller". Blowdowns beware. Now all I've got to do is find someone to tag along as my safety as all of my previous trail work as been essentially solo. Now I wonder if I have to change my name from Wheeler to Sawyer ? I know Weary, 67 is not yet old.

[emerald]

When you go out on the A.T. to do battle with blowdowns, what do you like to use to render them into bolts and sawdust?

[jlb2012]

favorite saw - 21 inch Corona Pro - does most blowdowns around here
heavy iron - 5 ft. felling crosscut saw - needed maybe 5% of the time
favorite wedge - 1.25 pound head to a cheap hand axe dulled with a file
hammer - 2 pound hammer for driving in said wedge
crowbar - for moving logs and assorted digging needs
come-along and towing straps - for moving big logs

[Speer Carrier]

Now you can practice the sawyer motto: "every tree a potential stump"

[emerald]

I rarely tangle with anything that my trusty 026 with a 16 inch bar can't handle. The model that replaced it is called the MS 26.

[Kevin A. Boyce]

Congrats!

I am awaiting word on a possible Sawyer class myself in November in VT/NH area...They have been moving/postponing the class due to lack of enrollment I guess.

Blowdowns beware!!!!

[Nean]

Welcome to the club. The patch is neat..... but the little chainsaw pin they gave us was enough of a reason to get certified.

[Lone Wolf]

I'm a sawyer too. But I ain't trained or certified. I don't need no stinkin patch!

[Old Hillwalker]

When you go out on the A.T. to do battle with blowdowns, what do you like to use to render them into bolts and sawdust?

Husqvarna 353 20" bar so I don't have to lean over too much when limbing due to age. Me, not the trees.