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I reckon it was in the school of hard knocks, with graduate work in seeing too many other fallers get busted up or killed. Dent was, and is, smart enough to recognize that cutting techniques could be analysied and described...and that he might make a decent living as a trainer easier and longer...

Yeah, I'm an Area Instructor for S-212 and certify A and B level sawyers. We, as most Regions/Forests require, have an outside contractor train/certify level C cutters...by great good fortune I've been under the eye of D. Douglas Dent for 25 years or so.

:lol: I have been tempted, but so far have resisted that little prank.

Of course they were, Squishie, all of them :lol:...and a couple did get a bit of a ride, but nothing too bad, really. A pretty good bunch, and of course they got input on how many wraps to take ;).

It is true that the flagship training venue for USFS tree climbers and instructors is indeed in Cottage Grove, OR...at the Dorena Genetic Resource Center. While it used to be Region 6 (Oregon and Washington) in scope, over the last 10 years, since the R6 climbing program was adopted as the...

Couldn't only be from Oregon, Greg. They've been using climbers from the Smokejumper bases since the ALB first showed up in Chicago and NY...bases in CA, WA, ID, MT, as well as OR. other FS climbers as well, but the bulk have been jumpers. It may be true that finding qualified climbers who...

Some success in edit mode...still not quite getting how it works...or it is intermittent in how it does work. But I got 'em arranged a bit better.

I thought so too, had no luck with it...they just jumped back to where they'ed been...but thanks anyway :).

A few more pictures.

We call this EC-4...endorsement category 4 for chainsaw use by climbers. This past week I facilitated yet another of these coveted training opportunities for FS tree climbers. Nothing special to members here, just a week of some classroom and mostly hands on experience in learning the ropes...