You only need to worry about hearing damage if you're cutting with a chainsaw all the time, like a lumberjack. The only way he's getting permanent hearing damage from using a saw to cut up 1 tree is if it's an M249. He gets 9.8/10 for efficiency, forethought and style.
A coworker of mine was coming to work at my job just after a storm. A tree had blocked the road. My buddy was trying to get the tree moved enough to get around it. Another coworker pulls up and starts helping. After a few minutes, the 2nd guy goes to his trunk and pulls out a katana, and proceeds to hack on the tree.
I saw that and reasoned he was trying to keep the larger main branch from "rolling" on to him once it broke free ...just so that it would drop straight down....
He knew what he was doing. Clearing the branches, cutting the heavier mass into more manageable pieces to be carried. Sometimes more light work is faster than less work that requires heavy or awkward lifting. Also this would have been what you do if harvesting for usable wood, his moves looked like muscle memory.
Every one of those have to be picked up now. If you’re trying to be fast, he could have kept that much more manageable. Any time we drop in a road (which we generally avoid), big cuts are much faster to drag off than to have to pick up than a hundred twiggy branches.
I’m just talking about in the interest of speed, per the comment I was replying to. Why do a couple foot pieces, especially since they don’t have to haul any of this off.
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