Modern Lumberjacking: Felling Trees, Using the Right Tools, and Observing Vital Safety Techniques

Just about every technique discussed in this book is wrong and dangerous. It should be removed from Amazon. Please take no notice of what this person says.

I was hoping that this book would be a professional guide to the lumberjacking. Unfortunately it was really badly written and it is obvious there was lack of editing. Pictures repeat themselves. Content tends to be unorganized. And the writing skills are lacking. That said, some of the content I find useful and hard to find in other books. A book like this is useful, however it needs more professional writing.

I was hoping it would be a little more advanced. It is the bare bones basics if you have not touched a saw before. If you already know a little bit about chainsaws stick to looking for tips on youtube.

Good book even if you are experienced valuable reference and safety reminder in many areas

The cover implied a comprehensive description of lumberjacking as a profession. Sadly, the material in the book could have been presented in about 10 pages total if there had been someone to edit the author's prose. When he dives into instruction about sharpening of a saw chain or an axe, his directions become indecipherable. He talks about moving a file across the edge to be sharpened as making a shallow or deep angle, without any understandable explanation of what these descriptors are related to (yeah I know, sorry about the split infinitive there). The sheer number of typographic/grammatical/logic errors in the text is so great that I started to wonder if he was simply dictating the text and someone in another country was trying to transcribe his words to the page.The cover promises information on tree identification. Not a single word on that in the book. Instead, most of the second half of the book was a repeat of the information in the first half. As I said before (speaking of being repetitive) the information in this book should have been condensed to about 10 pages or maybe 20 pages max if there had been any effective editing. Instead there were lots of nice photos of trees being cut with a felling wedge or else lying on the forest floor; sometimes the placement of these pictures bore no relation to the discussion in the text. There were almost NO images of any kind to help explain his description of sharpening procedures.I could go on and on about the deficiencies in this book . . . there are enough to write a book about them!! The bottom line is that no one should spend his/her money on this volume. Instead, go to the Stihl website and download instructions there on how to cut down a tree or do maintenance on a chainsaw. Lots of really great videos and instructions, all for free!!!