Chainsaw Safety and Certification

Sorry!   This Workshop has been Cancelled!

Peter Jensen, Peter S Jensen and Associates
Sunday & Monday, March 21-22, 8 AM - 6 PM
Two day outdoor workshop
Location: Meet at the Inn of the Ozarks, Cedar Room for first day,

then carpool to the Outdoor Worksite.

The Session

Chainsaws are an important tool when building and maintaining trails located in densely forested areas. Corridor clearing is step one in building a trail and this often involves chainsaw use in challenging terrain.

After the trail has been built, there is often maintenance work clearing blow down from wind, ice, snow, or large rain events. Clearing the trail area of hazard trees (snags) is often also the responsibility of trail maintainers.

Chainsaw work clearing downfall and storm damage is regularly handled by trail volunteers due to a lack of in house capacity by many land managing agencies.

This 2 day course will provide attendees an excellent overview of all aspects of chainsaw work for trails including: limbing, bucking, and felling operations. The goal of this workshop is to train and certify students in safe chainsaw use. It is designed to help students become familiar with OSHA and Forest Service standards, chainsaw maintenance, required safety equipment, proper saw use, situation awareness, hazard analysis and cutting plan. Successful candidates will be issued a PTBA Chainsaw Operator Certification.

All workshop attendees should bring good work clothes and required PPE (helmet, hearing protection, leather work gloves, eye protection, long sleeve work shirt and leather work boots 7” tall). If you want to bring your own chain saw to work with, please do. Some chainsaws will (and limited PPE) will be provided.

The Presenters

Chuck Ramsey of Trail Dynamics and Peter Jensen of Peter S Jensen and Associates

When and Where

Sunday & Monday March 21-22, 8 am -6 pm.

Our group will meet 15 minutes before departure in the Cedar Room of the Inn of the Ozarks.  Transportation will be via car pool, please let us know if you will or will not have a vehicle at the conference.

Fee
The cost for this workshop will be $150.   Fee will include lunches on both days.  Registration is on a first-come basis and is limited to 12 attendees.

For More Information
Contact: Mike Passo at mpasso@trailbuilders.org, or 360-734-7270