Easter ChainPoint

Hi Everyone,

It has been a very busy three weeks. It seems getting ready for the Rugged Quarter Training, the great week of training following the preparation and then a quick training trip to SC filled the past two to three weeks exceptionally. It was a great time!
The latest ChainPoint eNews...

• I have written a few comments in follow-up to the recent wedge article. It’s found below.

• The Rugged Quarter workshop produced a winner. Adam Fyfe took the high score position and kept the Husqvarna 575xp (my last prize saw- thanks Husqvarna for supplying over the years).

• We are tentatively planning two other Trainer Workshops for later this year. One is being discussed for California and the other in the Memphis area. Stay tuned to ChainPoint for more information on these. The first one at RQ was a huge success! Thank you Bill and Juli for making it possible and producing the winner too. I also want to thank several of the ChainPoint manufacturers for supplying some other samples to the trainers; Gransfors/Woolpower, PFERD, TrueFuel50, Oregon Cutting Systems, and Elvex. (http://www.forestapps.com/chainpoint/chainpointhome.html ) Thank You!

• The eVideo Introduction DVD’s are in the house and we are preparing to mail out the first 150 free ones in the next week. They look great! Rob Lagerstrom at Streamline Studio did a super job! If you didn’t get in line for the first 150 free grades' via TruFuel wanting to introduce you – you can order your copy for $19.99 from the eStore at http://www.forestapps.com .

I pray that you and yours have a super and safe Easter weekend and realize the Grac

e that was given to each of us on this weekend in Jerusalem hundreds of years ago. Know the Gift is Yours!


Good Sawing,
Tim Ard
Forest Applications Training, Inc.

O 770.222.2511

www.forestapps.com


A Wedge Up...
By Tim Ard, Forest Applications Training, Inc.

Comments and questions came in from readers of my recent wedging article. One was regarding compression of the fibers and lift potential at the wedge site. During the RQ workshop I

lifted two trees to illustrate heavy wedging techniques. One of them a white oak with more than12 feet of back lean and the other an 18” with 5 feet back lean on a soft pine. Both were successful and no fiber compression was encountered.

The first of the trees, a 10” white oak, I placed three wedges to lift it just over 10 feet.


The pine, I did not get a picture - but 14 witnesses can attribute to the lift of the weight with double stacks at 90 degrees and there was no measurable fiber compression at the wedge sites.

So many times the notch, hinge, top obstructions cause the plan to be unsuccessful with wedging but with a little understanding and practice wedges are amazing. One of many tools in the box....

I mentioned several times at the RQ that ropes and wedges both do the same work- they lift or support. The real work is done and safety comes from the hinge. With these two trees you would have had to been there to realize the strength of the hinge. The Hinge=Friend!

Good sawing!