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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>A Notch in Time…</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>By Tim Ard, Forest Applications Training, Inc. </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'> </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>In the past couple months I
have led training workshops and demonstrations in several areas of the country
and met several people who have been operating a saw for years. Preparing for
the eVideo I watched a passel of videos online that show felling, bucking,
limbing and other chain saw techniques that cover and display a wide range of
skill and applications. Hundreds of face notches, bore cuts, miss-matched cuts
of various configurations are visible on these websites. I have heard
statements of how techniques used originated and how they have been “the way
I’ve always cut”, they say. </span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><img width=144 height=20
src="cid:image001.png@01CADECA.9D896DEF" align=left hspace=9
alt="Text Box: Soren Eriksson "><img width=143 height=147
src="cid:image002.png@01CADECA.9D896DEF" align=left hspace=9
alt=":::::Old Files and Documents:WEB:Old Web:Workfile:SOREN.TIF"><span
style='font-family:Arial'>I have been following chain saw training in the USA
very closely since 1983. Even before that, in the late 70’s, I remember the
name <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Soren Eriksson</i> in and on chain
saw related materials from Scandinavia. Jonsered</span><span style='font-family:
Symbol;mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;mso-hansi-font-family:Arial'>Ò</span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> and Husqvarna</span><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;mso-hansi-font-family:Arial'>Ò</span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> had Soren in pictures, films and poster materials
back in the early 1970’s. Soren made some of the first training visits to the
USA in the late 70’s working on projects for Weyerhaeuser and Westvaco wood pr</span><img
width=144 height=148 src="cid:image003.png@01CADECA.9D896DEF" align=left
hspace=9 alt=":::::Old Files and Documents:WEB:Old Web:Workfile:SOREN.TIF"><span
style='font-family:Arial'>oducts companies. Jonsered distributor, Tilton
Equipment organized many workshops with Soren and Dan Tilton was one of the
first to begin spreading Soren’s Swedish Logging Techniques throughout our
country.</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'> </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>The first time I met Soren
Eriksson was in 1983 at a Stihl</span><span style='font-family:Symbol;
mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;mso-hansi-font-family:Arial'>Ò</span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> function but it was in or about 1986 when I finally
was afforded the opportunity to assist in putting on a demonstration in South
Georgia where Soren was brought in to work with a group of loggers for the Stihl</span><span
style='font-family:Symbol;mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;mso-hansi-font-family:
Arial'>Ò</span><span style='font-family:Arial'> Distributor Meier and White
Equipment. At that time I was the Shop Manager for MWE and was responsible for technical
training. I held some basic chainsaw safety meetings for local dealers and
power companies but it wasn’t until the logger workshop that my eyes and ears
were open to the possibilities and huge need of training for the chainsaw
operator. Logging was Soren’s focus venue but I knew the techniques were
something that could change all chainsaw operators everywhere. </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'> </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>I researched it heavily and
it was Soren Eriksson who had pioneered the techniques of “Open Face” and
“Bore-Cut” into the USA but the real accomplishments of his techniques; Soren Eriksson
brought thought, safety, planning processes and professionalism into USA chainsaw
operations. Soren’s major promotion arm in his early days in the states was the
American Forest Resources Association (at that time called the American
Pulpwood Association) and Dave Zerfoss of Stihl</span><span style='font-family:
Symbol;mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;mso-hansi-font-family:Arial'>Ò</span><span
style='font-family:Arial'>, later US President of Husqvarna</span><span
style='font-family:Symbol;mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;mso-hansi-font-family:
Arial'>Ò</span><span style='font-family:Arial'>. Soren’s training really took
off when he and one of Scott Paper Company’s foresters organized the first Game
of Logging. </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'> </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><img width=202 height=20
src="cid:image004.png@01CADECA.9D896DEF" align=left hspace=9
alt="Text Box: Tim Ard and Soren Eriksson - GOL Finals 1995"><span
style='font-family:Arial'>When I went to work nationally for Stihl</span><span
style='font-family:Symbol;mso-ascii-font-family:Arial;mso-hansi-font-family:
Arial'>Ò</span><span style='font-family:Arial'> was when I began to travel with
Soren and organize his training and the GOL events. I wrote the above to more
or less illustrate this in the timeline…. There <u>was not</u> any use or
discussions of big notches and bore-cuts before Sor</span><img width=201
height=158 src="cid:image005.gif@01CADECA.9D896DEF" align=left hspace=9
alt=":::::Old Files and Documents:PM5:squarechain:S&TPHOTO.TIF.GIF"><span
style='font-family:Arial'>en Eriksson brought them to the USA through his
training programs. When I became involved in promoting Soren Eriksson and his
training with Stihl</span><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-ascii-font-family:
Arial;mso-hansi-font-family:Arial'>Ò</span><span style='font-family:Arial'> and
later Husqvarna</span><span style='font-family:Symbol;mso-ascii-font-family:
Arial;mso-hansi-font-family:Arial'>Ò</span><span style='font-family:Arial'>, I
can assure you not many knew anything of what he was doing and fought against
the training and techniques in both the eastern and western states.</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'> </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>So from now on, when you
make that face notch you have always made, bore-cut to establish a hinge you
have always used, after putting together a five step felling plan you’ve always
used-- you can say a quick thank you to Soren Eriksson – a logger and training
instructor for bringing them to you. Yes, those logging techniques work well
for Tree Care, Logging, Government Crews, Disaster Volunteers and me and you!
Every recognizable training organization in the USA teaches with Soren’s
techniques and training formats. They just make them their own… they think!</span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'> </span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Thank you Soren for being persistent in training,
techniques and design to make our chainsaw work safer and more productive.</span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>Good Sawing!</span></p>
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