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Tag: Tension

  • Saturday, October 17, 9:30 am – 2:30 pm – Chainsaws: Use, Safety, and Maintenance

    Are you the new owner of a chainsaw or a weekend woodcutter? If so, are you using your chainsaw safely? If you’re at all in doubt, please put the saw down now and register for this class on Saturday, October 17, beginning at 9:30 a.m.,  at the Arnold Arboretum. In this lecture and demonstration by ISA-certified arborist John DelRosso, Head Arborist of the Arboretum, you will learn the basics of chainsaw use. John will talk about essential safety equipment and maintenance requirements. He will demonstrate sharpening and bar tensioning and discuss limbing and felling techniques, including tension cuts. Bring your saw, along with ear protection, for the maintenance discussion. Bring a lunch, too, and dress for the outdoors.  C’mon, haven’t you all secretly longed to work with a big, loud power tool? Fee $60 Arboretum member, $75 nonmember.  To register, log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu. The awesome photo below was taken by Jason Levesque, and can be viewed, along with other fabulous and quirky shots, on xstuntkidx’s photostream on Flickr.com.

    sarax chainsaw massacre by xstuntkidx.

  • Tuesday, September 1, 1:00 pm – Nordic Pole Walking on the Rose Kennedy Greenway

    The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy brings you a free 12-week instruction in Nordic Pole Walking, designed to achieve a low-impact, full body workout for all levels of fitness, health, and experience. Specially designed poles involve the arms, activate the upper body and achieve a total body workout with significant health and fitness benefits. Nordic Pole Walking is beneficial to opening up hunched postures and loosening tight shoulders developed from tension and poor working conditions. Instruction and equipment are free. Every Tuesday at noon on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Meet on the Wharf District Parks across from the Rowes Wharf. Walking sites may change. Check www.hellogreenway.org for more details on walking.