Before swinging an axe or starting up the chainsaw, take some time to learn how to cut down a tree safely.

Before swinging an axe or starting up the chainsaw, familiarize yourself with key safety practices for felling.

A Swedish World Champion logger shows us how to properly fell a tree with a chainsaw.

Make sure the radius of the tree is clear of your gear and be sure to have a quick escape route. Start by making a notch—a v-shaped cut—on the side of the tree that will fall.

True, felling trees can push the DIY envelope. But for the residential-level logging most people do (basically pruning and making firewood) there are only a few cardinal rules.

Got fallen or broken trees in your yard (or, worse, on your house)? It might be time to break out the chainsaw, but be careful.

Then trees fall over your driveway, and you can’t start the saw to remove them. Or you manage to start the saw and find yourself operating a dangerously dull or cranky piece of power equipment.

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