... I'm also a Wildland Fire "Sawyer" and lived in Australia for 2.5 years on a cattle station where we cut wood every day for cooking/camp fires (like 3-4 cords of wood a day) I learned how to use chainsaws from my uncle who was a comercial logger in the Mt. Hood Nat Forrest for 25 years and I heat my house with a wood stove meaning even in my FREE time I'm working with a chainsaw. So no, not an arborist, but... I own 5 saws currently (7 if you count the electric and pole chainsaws) and have had more then 4X that many in my life (the Husky''s been relegated to "dirt and root duty" it's so problematic...). Def. not as many saws as you've had over those 12 years, but certainly enough to fully understand the ins and outs of a chainsaw. Oh then there's having been a Firefighter/Paramedic for more then a few years and all our rescue saws, Circ and Chain alike, were Stihl... It's funny you mention passing out at the sight of blood, years ago when I first got into EMS, I was in school at a Wilderness Med. Ins. class down in Mariposa Cali. and we had to do ER rotations through Fresno UMC and 5 of our classmats got into a "code room" (where all the bad stuff happens) and saw an arterial wound that was spraying blood all over the place...so they passed out and one fo the cracked their head ope... guess who decided to give another industry a try It's just something I feel like I should do cause I CAN do it aye. For whatever reason, when the "$#!* hits the fan" for some reason I just get clam and see everything in an organized way... It's not for everyone, but hey... About Us
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