Advanced Felling workshop

UNH Extension and New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association will hold an Advanced Felling workshop on Kimball Fruit Farm in Pepperell, NH on October 1^st from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

This workshop will explain chainsaw care, maintenance, and safety features. Proper starting and operation. Demonstration of cutting techniques.

Instructors will discuss and demonstrate handling difficult felling situations: leaners, hazard trees, operating around power lines, and using mechanized equipment to get trees down or process wind falls.

The workshop will include hands-on practice felling trees in difficult situations. Practice safe preparation of area around trees to be felled, removing hazards,

gauging direction of lean, where the weight of the tree lies, wind direction, and planning escape routes.

This class will be held on an active logging operation. Participants should bring safety equipment, chainsaws, chaps, hardhats, hearing and eye protection and their own lunch.

A minimum of 7 and maximum of 15 participants are required to run this class.

Cost of this workshop is $75 for NHTOA members, $125 for non-members.

To sign up for this workshop, register at  Advanced Felling (qgiv.com)