Spent most of the day doing "something"...but I would hardly call it TSI
That would be like comparing a heart surgeon to a chain saw massacre (what I do, much closer to the latter
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Just a few notes that come to mind, since this is a somewhat dangerous segment of deer habitat management...
Make sure someone is with you, being pinned under a tree all alone doesn't seem like the best thing!
If you have a hardhat...wear it! Had a locust tree drop straight down and drive a thorn into the top of my head!
Make sure you have a clear path to "get away"...no matter that I notched the tree, allowed for the wind, etc....sometimes the thing just comes backwards, or rolls off another tree...and
Steel toes would have come in handy when one tree dropped straight down on my foot!
Basically plan for the unexpected because you may just find out how fast you can crawl thru a multiflora rose bush, or how easily you can trip and drive your chainsaw blade into the mud...trying to get away in the milli second it takes for a tree to come down...the wrong way!
Last but not least...for those of you that are married...don't forget to dump all the woodchips out of your pockets...BEFORE...your jeans end up in the washing machine!
If the falling trees or the chainsaw don't kill you...your wife will!