VFF Game of Logging Chainsaw Training
The Game of Logging training program combines Scandinavian logging techniques with the latest systems for working safely around trees. We cannot overstate the value of these courses. We have participants who’ve used chainsaws for 30 years prior to taking GOL Level I say that the course changed the way they work in the woods.
The Game of Logging courses (Levels 1-4) must be taken in sequence, so even if you have chainsaw experience, you must begin with Level I.
Basic Chainsaw Use & Safety for Beginners. This course is designed to introduce the safe handling of the chainsaw as well as boosting the confidence level of anyone who has very little or no experience with a chainsaw. This course is NOT a pre-requisite for taking Level 1. In it you'll learn basic saw maintenance, how to start the saw, basic bucking and limbing, chainsaw safety, and more. The instructor will fell the trees. All participants will get hands-on time bucking and limbing.
Level 1. Precision Felling Techniques.This workshop introduces safe and accurate open-face felling. Topics include personal protective equipment, chainsaw safety features, chainsaw reactive forces, bore cutting, pre-planning the fell, and understanding hinge wood strength. 8AM-4:00PM one-day course. Maximum 10 participants.
Level 2. Maximizing Saw Performance.The morning portion of this workshop focuses on maximizing chainsaw performance through basic maintenance and filing techniques. In the afternoon woods portion of the workshop, you'll learn limbing and bucking techniques and spring pole cutting, and will practice more tree felling. 8AM-4:00PM one-day course. Maximum 10 participants.
Level 3: Limbing, Bucking, and Difficult Trees.This workshop training includes dealing with lean when felling trees; limbing and bucking downed trees; and felling difficult and hung-up trees. 8AM-4:00PM one-day course. Maximum 10 participants.
Level 4 for Landowners or Storm Damage Training: Safe technques for working with trees under extreme compression/tension or damage due to wind-throw, ice damage, flooding, etc., where stems may be tangled, have root systems exposed, or other hazardous situations that need to be removed. Students must have completed GOL Levels 1-3 prior to attending this class.
Vermont Family Forests' Game of Logging chainsaw training courses are taught by the outstanding instructors from Northeast Woodland Training. Visit their website (www.woodlandtraining.com) for detailed course descriptions.