The modern labor saving devices for forest tending, safe work methods and protective clothes, operation and maintenance fundamentals using gasoline-powered tool as an example

In order to upgrade qualifications of timber industry workers the training and demonstration seminar “Modern labor saving devices for forest tending, safe work methods and protective clothes, operation and maintenance fundamentals using gasoline-powered tool as an example” was given at the premises of Lubyansky Forest Engineering College. The event was organized by the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan and Husqvarna Company. The coach of the national Russian team of loggers, athletes to participate in World Championships, Alexander Goncharov, and the owner of the international diploma of a specialist in working with a chainsaw on the assortment technology and working together with forwarders Vladimir Bogdanov told the seminar participants about the development history of the gasoline-powered tools, chainsaw operation techniques at tree felling, bucking and limbing, the fundamentals of the correct operation of gasoline-powered tools and typical failures. After the theory the demonstration was arranged:

- Felling using modern manual gasoline-powered tools;

- Demonstration of the protective properties of clothing for working with chainsaws;

- Operation of the hand backpack air duct for suppression of ground fire.