how old before you taught your son to use a chains

[Daniel]

Just a question to all the fathers of sons out there.. How old was your son when you taught him to handle a chainsaw? And if you taught your daughter, how old was she???

Maybe size/strength and maturity / common sense would be more of an issue than age..

 

[RopeShield]

Hey Dan

In and around 8 yrs old. Two sons and a daughter on the 660.

I never once let them go out of my hands. Hands on hands on chainsaw.They loved it. Gain a great respect for it and what we do day to day.
And every time I am out tuning up or somethin they are out there like white on rice. Be many years before they have the strength to actually start one up.

Climbin the same thing they can climb what ever they want if they have the strength to get up.

By the time they are old enough to work with me, they and I will have the confidence to perform the task well.

I know parents who won't allow their kid to hold a stick.
Real shame.

 

[Daniel]

I see that on estimates from time to time.. Most parents want their kids to stay in the house, which is a hard place to learn much about life from.. Then if the kid does by chance get to come out.. forget about it if he picks up a stick and run around the yard... Parents are all over it..."Johnny.. PUT THE STICK DOWN!" for God sakes, he's a kid.. let him be one!

 

[surfarmer1]

My grandaughter just turned 2. She sits with her grandmother in lawn chairs and I operate the crane and chipper and saws in their view...She knows its time to work when I put on my hard hat.. she says grampie, crane??? learning by example and as soon as she is old enough she will get a helmet and ear protection and some cool tree person glasses and I will teach her the trade..

 

[rfwoodvt]

Familiarization as soon as they can understand the language and then progressive introducton to new and advanced as they mature. Familiarity and respect lead t fewer problems later. ive done the same with tools,guns and cars with good sucess

 

[guymayor]

When my son was in 5th grade, his teacher needed a stool. I volunteered to make one, and let my son make a few cuts. Now 21, he respects the tool, and knows how to use the big ones competently and safely. He's chosen a very different career path and is well along on that, but the experience was valuable, to both of us.

Parents who confine their kids and deny them normal experiences due to hypersafety and control issues are guilty of child abuse imo.

 

[Babberney]

no kids here, but my dad handed my a saw for the first time when I was about 12 or 13. It was a small mccullough with no anti-vibe. My arms tingled for two days.

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[treeness]

My old man let me fire one up when I was around 12. I now tell him to be careful when he's cutting stuff down up at the cottage to which he pulls out the do you know how many trees I've cut down in my time. To which I reply do you know how many trees I cut down 5 days a week?

 

[southpaw]

my dad took me fishing and camping from the time i was really young but i remember i was around 13 when he taught me how to use a chainsaw, shoot a rifle and drive.

my friends own a landscaping company and when their son was 2 he already had his own mini peltors and carhart overalls and would ride around in the bobcat with papa, so cute!