Mandu 🥟can't tell me this isn't skilled labor 🥑💨
C.S.StrowbridgeI couldn't find the exact quote, but it was something like, "Labour only seems unskilled if you've never seen someone with skill do it well."
Marcos Dione@csstrowbridge @yurnidiot in this case the skill is impressive, but sometimes the skill is subtle. Take a lumberjack. Almost anyone can take an ax and throw a few hacks at a trunk. Some might be able to chop down one tree. But few will be able to do it 8h a day 5 days a week¹ for years. If you don't learn the skill, you hurt yourself and end up not being able to do your job anymore.
¹ I'm assuming a 9to5 work schedule; I have no idea what a real lumberjack schedule is.
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The ax is mostly used for knocking wedges into the back cut, just after you removed some of the front of the trunk with a big enough chainsaw. The wedges adjust the tree's centre of gravity above the remaining hinge wood. You are fully aware of each tree's centre of gravity because you looked up (and maybe walked around) before you started cutting. The gentle creak of a hinge failing should be audible because you switched your chainsaw off before using wedges.
The ax is mostly used for knocking wedges into the back cut, just after you removed some of the front of the trunk with a big enough chainsaw. The wedges adjust the tree's centre of gravity above the remaining hinge wood. You are fully aware of each tree's centre of gravity because you looked up (and maybe walked around) before you started cutting. The gentle creak of a hinge failing should be audible because you switched your chainsaw off before using wedges.
@dec23k @csstrowbridge @yurnidiot there, you see? one thinks it's just a matter of hacking but in fact it's a whole science.
@mdione @csstrowbridge @yurnidiot
I tried to keep that reply to one toot, so the tree-work skills described are limited to on-the-ground felling, the kind of work that a lumberjack in a managed forest (where all the trees are perfectly vertical) would be doing all day.
There's also climbing work, and arborist work, where you are closer to buildings and roads and buried utility lines and untrained humans (none of which should ever be in the path of a falling tree if you can help it).
I tried to keep that reply to one toot, so the tree-work skills described are limited to on-the-ground felling, the kind of work that a lumberjack in a managed forest (where all the trees are perfectly vertical) would be doing all day.
There's also climbing work, and arborist work, where you are closer to buildings and roads and buried utility lines and untrained humans (none of which should ever be in the path of a falling tree if you can help it).
@mdione @csstrowbridge @yurnidiot
I am in no way any kind of a tree worker.
All of what I wrote above, I learned from watching videos online.
All of the tree work that I have ever done, was done using hand tools that I could carry. Anything more serious than that and I'm going to call in a trained and licensed professional.
I'm sure there are people around the world who can fell a tree with just an axe, but anyone who is getting paid to do it every day has at least a chainsaw.