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No license needed. But I would recommend buying a sensible amount of protective gear, and at least watching a few YT videos on best practice. tends to be much easier if you are just cutting up branches and trees that are already felled, more complex if you are felling trees, as you have to think about direction and pinching etc.
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Simply count limbs and appendages before and after use.
Or get some training and proper chainsaw clothing.
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There are gear city and guilds or lantra courses.
On a two day course over half the time is dedicated to maintenance as a poorly performing or maintained saw is a danger in itself. On that course you will do about half a day of cross cutting (sawing felled lengths into smaller pieces). On the four day course they add in felling trees which is an even more potentially risky venture. I have done the 4 day course and got lantra accreditation, other half has done the two day course.
It was then terrifying when a friend who has worked on farms for years and has never had any proper training offered to help with a windfall tree. Practically everything he did was poor practice- a bit like watching a poor cyclist who keeps putting themselves at risk but as they aren’t dead yet thinks what they are doing is ok.
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can you just go out and buy a chainsaw and then start cutting up logs? or does one need some form of licence?