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Kim explains the saw at the chainless ‘safe station’.<\/p><\/div>\n

Enthusiasm wasn\u2019t dampened by a little afternoon rain last Thursday when female high-school students learned how to safely use chainsaws and cut tree cookies\u00a0at the Women Can Do Expo<\/a> at Vermont\u00a0Technical College in Randolph, Vermont. The Expo is an annual event put on by Vermont Works for\u00a0Women<\/a>, an organization dedicated to helping women advance in non-traditional careers and investing in the next generation of working women. NorthWoods Stewardship Center has participated for the past 6 years running a chainsaw skills booth. The workshop booth consists of two stations, the beginner\u2019s safety and starting station, and the cookie cutting station.<\/p>\n

\u201cRev it up, really make some noise!\u201d Kim encouraged the young woman starting her\u00a0saw.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Meg lends some advice in preparation for cutting cookies with the working, chained saw.<\/p><\/div>\n

It was the station with the \u201csafe start\u201d saw, one with\u00a0the chain removed to minimize the\u00a0intimidation factor for first-time sawyers. Many students boldly approached the tent we shared with\u00a0Ashley Fife who was running an axe skills station \u2013 immediately getting into the protective equipment we\u00a0provided (chaps and helmet with built in eye and ear protection). Others took some persuading, and the\u00a0zero-risk nature of starting the saw that had no chain on it appealed to these more reluctant\u00a0adventurers. Their faces lit up as they started the saw at Kim\u2019s station and revved the engine, adding to\u00a0the din of the Expo.<\/p>\n

With their personal protective equipment (PPE) on and their chainsaw starting and\u00a0safety skills newly learned, they graduated to using a chainsaw with the chain on to cut a tree cookie, a\u00a0thin horizontal cross-section of a tree, at Meg\u2019s station. Many of the young women took home one or\u00a0both of their tree cookies as souvenirs of their first time wielding a chainsaw.<\/p>\n

We are proud to say that\u00a0despite some initial reluctance, every single person who came through the chainsaw skills booth\u00a0survived the experience!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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A satisfying pile of tree cookies!<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,420,226,12],"tags":[1222,1071,1328,698,1327,411],"class_list":["post-5494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-forest-stewardship-institute-2","category-front-page","category-news","tag-career","tag-chainsaw","tag-safety","tag-staff-2","tag-vermont-works-for-women","tag-women-can-do"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWomen Can Do: Chainsaw Practice 2016 | NorthWoods Stewardship Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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