Another Canada Post Oddity.

Some times I wonder if proof readers at Canada Post exist...haha...Take a look at this Scott # 272 and see if you can see TWO things that are not normally done in the actual working environment...Thanks

Umm...working?

One: Both men have their backs turned to a falling tree. Not exactly a safe situation.
Two: Two trees being cut at the same time in close proximity. The noise makes communication harder.

My two cents, Robert

Trainwreck...Number one is correct..But the guy on the left should inform the guy on the right that a tree is falling..The guy on the left is doing the right thing, as a tree begins to fall..Drop your chainsaw immediately and get out of there..He did not inform his fellow worker...I will give you a hint..The tree that is falling has something wrong with the technique..

I could post dozens of these oddities with stamps all night long...yikes eh...haha



Is that referring to my name or yours...haha

isn't the tree that's falling heading in the wrong direction? seems to me if it falls into a stand of trees, it's liable just to get hung up in there.

jamesw...Not quite...Think out of the box..Here is the answer and the picture to show you...When a lumberjack falls a tree he cuts it with a powerful chain saw..Not rocket science there...BUT, look at the picture below..The red lines show what the tree was balanced on before it fell..They do not (as far as I know) cut a 1.5 foot chunk out of it as it shows by the arrow..Does that make sense..??

When you fell a tree, you're supposed to first cut a v-shaped notch on the side you want the tree to fall. You then cut from the opposite side at a higher level. This forms a "hinge" which helps direct the tree to lay down where you want it, and also reduces the chance of kickback from the butt of the tree (the end you just cut through jumping up or sideways). Lots of guys are killed not because the tree falls on them, but because the tree kicks away as it falls. So you should see some material in the center of the tree as that is the "hinge", but this image does not look right.

Artistic rendering by an artist who does not understand the processes and precautions of felling trees. I have felled many a tree in my earlier days and several depictions on the stamp are just plain wrong. I was not a professional logger and maybe one who is would take issue with my comments. But I can say that my goal was to drop the tree in a certain location was almost always achieved.

1 The wedge should be on the direction of the fall as says JR1960 but occasionally it did not fall as one expected. Wind or contact of upper branches with close proximity of a standing tree can change direction of a fall. Watching a tree rotate right after beginning to fall is not a fun experience.
2 The odd looking hinge may actually be part of the stump splitting away and being pulled up with the tree as it fell. That would give the appearance of a 90% cut which is just not possible.
3 We never dropped the saw unless it was unexpectedly pinched and basically pulled out of our grasp as the tree began to fall. We did always shut off the saw as we moved away from the tree. Saws are too expensive to drop and run as part of a normal fall.
4 The guy on the right in a real life situation would not be that close, especially with his back to the other logger and tree. I think this is where the stamp artist's rendering is artistic license to get it all in the space of a small stamp.

I'll buy that.

They're both lumberjacks and they're OK,
They sleep all night and they work all day…

LaLaLa..and so on…

If they are working in British Columbia, they're called Loggers.

I don't see Canada Post acknowledging the west too much, though.

David Y....
I wonder how many people got that bit of humour...??

quigngt...Impressive...Did you ever do logging, and I think when you release the trigger on the chainsaw it automatically stops..Am I correct..???

You think that is a bad example of not proof reading...Take a look at the stamp below..A hunter in the same forest...haha...look at the squint of his right eye as he is shooting right handed..It is impossible to site your target with your eye closed..

Wert, I have not been a logger, but I do/did know loggers who were on the wrong side of the fall. I have cut down a few very large trees and can be a scary ordeal at times.

Yes, the chain should stop when the trigger is released, but here in BC we are so tough we just grab the chain to stop it.

Here is a site full of these Canadian postal faux pax. It is great :

http://www.edbmb.net/stamps/index-5...20idE=CANADA

Wert, privately for my own purposes but not a professional logger. My and my family's property adds up to well over 100 acres of forest. We built our own homes, garages, furniture and whatever from our trees. I have a commercial sawmill (currently not in working condition) so our logging included all steps from felling to finishing the final product. Three of our families even to this day heat our homes with firewood. That is in south central PA but since I live in Guatemala, I am not much involved anymore.

A chainsaw will automatically stop when releasing the trigger unless the clutch is out of adjustment. In that case, the chain will continue spinning on the bar and then much more care was required until proper adjustment or replacement was made. Actually there were less challenging trees in which, contrary to what I said above, we did not need to shut it off as long as the chain stopped. For large trees, we always shut down not so much as a safety precaution but mainly because it took time to assess how to continue with cutting up the downed tree.

David Y...Great site (almost)..I didn't know there was one..He has made a few mistakes, but I will forgive him...haha

That site itself has at least one mistake I can spot
right away.

It was the designer Dennis Burton who substituted
his own visage for Henry Kelsey not the engraver, George Gundersen.

lithograving...He called the Bell stamp below and error saying they put telegraph poles instead of telephone poles...Excuse me sir..I am an ex telephone man...That is called "open wire" and was still used in the sticks until about 1975...