As you might or might not know, NYS would like all operators of chainsaws or any type of motorized equipment to take a safety course. Basically, they want you to be certified to operate equipment on state lands, making insurance less costly. This is for operating this type (chainsaws) of equipment on State Land not private lands. Chainsaws are essential to keeping trails clear for our groomers and snowmobilers.

The Cherry Creek Sno-Goers, Inc. in conjunction with Stihl and the Cassadaga Volunteer Fire Co. are offering this course. The date is to be December 16/17. Time is TBA. I will post when I find out. There are two classes. Each class is limited to 25 people. There will be classroom instruction, then a hands on training situation. There is no cost to attend. There will be pizza & refreshments available. I believe that these will be offered by the Cassadaga Volunteer Fire Co. If you are interested in attending, send me a pm. Thanks :div20:

Keep a sharp saw, keep a tight grip at all times, never ever ever cut towards yourself, in any way. Never cut sideways towards your foot. Keep yer left hand thumb curled UNDER the bar, do not have it laid out across the bar (more comfy but asking to get hurt!), be sure the inertia brake is working, and that the saw itself is in proper working order. Wear chaps, and always wear eye/head protection in the form of a helmet with a screen.. Safety glasses will only fog up and cause you more danger.

I am not a saw safety teacher, jus a dumb logger who's run saws for 20+ years and never been cut...

I urge all of you to take the course Gal here is speaking of.

Gal, is that you in the avatar?

Hey oldtimer, if you could pin this that would be great! That way it doesn't get lost in the forum. :beerchug:
My family is a third generation logging family. My dad is actually the contact person on this and he has been cutting trees for over 45 years. The state is saying that it doesn't matter how long you have been doing it, they want you to take the safety course.


Nope not me, but I get told that I look like her, a lot. It's Jessica Alba. :div20:

Mmmmmmmmmmmm...Jess Alba.. There IS a God..lol...

I will pin it for ya! :beerchug:

LOL thanks :celebrating:

The best advice for chainsaw users - WEAR CHAPS!! :div20:

Dates & times have changed due to response:

December 18 (Monday) 2:00pm **Absolute Time TBA**

December 19 (Tuesday) 7:00am **Absolute Time TBA**

Class will consist of 1.5 hours of instruction, then 1.0 hour hands on training of how to properly limb & cut down a tree. :celebrating:

hey OT do you guys have to be CLP certified in NH?

CPL - "Certified Professional Loggers" not CLP.

the course in maine is CLP ,"certified logging proffesional"

http://www.moosehead.net/clp/

It's CLP here for some reason, and yes they want me to be, but I tell them to go get fucked. I do not need some educated idiot telling me how to go logging. I figure the last 10 years alone in the woods making my meager living without getting hurt is all the certification I need...
It's legal extortion. If the big wood buyers need the "green" label to sell, they should send people to the logging jobs to verify that all is well and no toadstools are hurt...on their OWN DIME...passing on the costs of certification to the logger so that a big mill can sell to the greenies is a shitty thing.
I can not get a pulp contract with IP unless I fork over 300 bucks and sit 24 hours or more in a folding steel chair in a cold building on the other side of the state listening to some shmuck talk about shit I ALREADY KNOW...
One I did go to had us watching films of logging with trains in the early 1900's...it was a few hours of it...tell me how that makes me a better logger? Tell me how they can preach all the SFI and BMP crap...insist we do it...then turn around at the end of that same 45 dollar 8 hour torture session and say: "You always gotta do what the landowner wants!"
Well....my current landowner wants money, all of it. He don't care what I cut, where, or that I make ruts and destroy everything I don't cut by dragging hitches sideways or any of it. He wants MONEY. All the preaching I paid 45 dollars for went right out the window.

I have ways around the CLP shit. Helps to have a greedy trucker who can hide my wood in with his "certified" wood...it's all PR for the huge companys that could give a fuck about the logger or the landowner.

ya thats what it is for us too, that other dude said it was CPL in NH but i aint never heard of CPL, i cant even find it on the web. for us as long as we work on PRIVATE land we can ship wood in IF the trucker is a certified CLP guy but if not or we work on paper company land we HAVE to be certified or we dont work. i worked in teh woods for a long time but smartened up to much hassle and not worth it anymore. :beerchug:

It's feast and then it's famine. It allows me the life I want, my own timeframe on everything. I quit a good job running a brand new Cat 966F-III and vowed I'd never punch a time clock again. 3 days later I had agreed to cut 80 acres of old growth pine. I didn't even own a saw or a skidder. Somehow, I managed to get both and I haven't looked back. It's the longest "job" I ever held. Before that, I'd had over 10 different jobs, the longest lasting 2-1/2 years...I'd get hired, learn the job well, get really good at it...get bored, quit...I will never quit the woods though..unless medical issues make me.
What did you do in the woods Mach?

sorry to hijack the thread Jess..er..I mean Gal!

actually i started when i was 12 yrs old and i drove my dads 440 cable skidder for him during the summers then when i turned 14 i chopped for him summers, then after highschool i started off running a 3 wheeled tree shear called a morbel for PH chadbourne in bethel Me then i went to 4 wheeled shear, ran a multittude of those, hydroaxe, franklin 105, john deere 653 and then i went to a johndeere 493 with a 20" rotosaw head and a timbco with the same rotosaw head, that bastard was BAD to the bone, 35ft reach, cab would tilt 8* forward and 3* to both side so you could level yourself out on a steep hillside. after that i got my own skidder a 1983 JD640 cable and ran that for 4yrs before it got so bad in the woods for us i just said to hell with it. and went into the carpentry business. :burp:

Classes are filling up! RSVP today :celebrating:


December 18th at 1:00pm Cassadaga Firehall is the only class available now.

Class almost full only a handful of seats left :beerchug:

I've started clearing a 5 acre wooded lot for my future home and was stunned to see these numbers for "employed chainsaw operators".
http://www.stihl.us/apparel/PPE_stats.html

Day one went well. The class was full. The trainer had a two hour in class instruction and 1 hour on site instruction. It was very informative. There was a blanket certification issued to all who attended. Remember, very shortly (Jan 1) I think, you must have this certification to clear trails and remove debris with a chainsaw on state properties. Thank you to all who attended! :div20:

Sounds like the course is designed for those types who have difficulty driving and using a cell phone at the same time.