Apply on-line now for Colorado Firecamp's upcoming S-212 Wildland Fire Chain Saws classes:

• July 8-11, 2010

• Aug. 12-15, 2010

• Sep. 23-26, 2010

• Nov. 4-7, 2010

What to Bring to Class

Job Hazard Analysis (JHA)

Felling Boss Training — next class is Nov. 5-7, 2010

Little Grass Valley Tree Felling Accident FLA — August, 2009

Freeman Reservoir tree felling fatality, 72-hour report & OSHA citation — June, 2009

Storm Mountain Ranch tree felling accident, OSHA citation — May, 2009

Andrew Palmer Fatality, Dutch Creek Incident, — June, 2008

• Appendix C, Chain Saw Technical Report
• Assessment of Accident Site
• Findings
• Policy
• Glossary
• Human Factors

OSHA citations

Volusia County Tree Felling Fatality —
Scene Pictures — November, 2007

Big Creek Fire Accident — August, 2006

NWCG Hazard Tree and Tree Felling Task Group — link to hazard tree safety information

USFS Region 2 letter to Sen Udall, re: S-212 cutting area — June, 2009

CSFS Faller Qualification Guidelines — May, 2006

USFS Region 2 Chainsaw Policy — February, 2005

S-235 Felling Boss Training, Issue Paper #12 — January, 1996

Wildland Fire Chain Saw Glossary — S-212 Pre-course work

• ANSI — Butt
• Calks — Crossing the Lead
• Danger Tree — FSM
• Grounding — Humboldt Undercut
• Indirect Attack — Open-face Cut
• Peavey — Root Wad
• Safety — Swamp Out
• Tension — Windfall

S-212, Wildland Fire Chain Saws

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Other than safety, safety, safety — shop instruction is perhaps the most valuable to apprentice sawyers: learning how to tear-down, inspect, re-assemble, and properly adjust a chainsaw in the field.

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Something else that sets Colorado Firecamp apart: the formal, written field evaluation for all our S-212 students that accompanies the recommendation for faller certification. Instructor Jeff McGinnis fills out the paperwork as a sawyer and swamper finish limbing a tree.

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You probably couldn't get this crew to sing along — but if Maria hadn't gone off to be a nanny in “The Sound of Music” — she might have trained to become a sawyer: “...besides which you see I have confidence in me.”