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by Daub 2252 days ago
Plus one on the boots. I was 19 when I used a chainsaw for the first time. One month into the job, I was given a pair of steel toecap boots. That was also the day I accidentally ran the saw through my feet. The steel toecaps is the reason I can still walk.

Extra anecdote... I worked with a chainsaw master. We worked together on removing a tree that was overhanging a house, leaning heavily into it. With a hinge cut, he got the tree to fall in the opposite direction... essentially to fall uphill.