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Title: The Good Woodcutter's Guide: Chain Saws, Woodlots, and Portable Sawmills by Dave Johnson ISBN: 1-890132-15-2 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.12 (8 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Hardly A Guide
Comment: The author has an easy readable, style that found me reading the book in one evening. It is laced with humorous anecdotes, but that is where the "goodness" stops.The information on saw and tree safety is a gloss over at best and very disturbing considering the immense danger involved in proper cutting, nevermind improper. A chainsaw manual from a reputable dealer has more safety and technique information than this book. Novices beware, this book will not teach you how to be a "good" woodcutter.The pages on selecting clothing at the Salvation Army and driving around in a beater of a truck would have been better used discussing wood cutting, but it obvious that his self-taught methods and his "it's not the right way, but the way I do it" attitude will get some unlucky beginner killed. Don't buy this book if you are looking for info on Chainsaw milling, he knows nothing about it.
A better title might have been "Subsistence Living with Pulp and Cordwood."

Rating: 3
Summary: The Good _Logger's_ Guide
Comment: The title is misleading. While they mention sawmills in the title, there is precious little information on milling, 11 out of 212 pages. If you are looking for info on wood and drying it, try Hoadley's "Understanding Wood", and "Fine Woodworking On: Wood and How to Dry it".

Rating: 1
Summary: A sad book.
Comment: This book might be of interest for experienced woodcutters but is useless for an inexperienced person who wants to learn about chainsaws. The author does not define any of the dozens of technical terms he uses.

As a retired professor of mathematics I am full of sympathy for people who have great difficulties with elementary notions of arithmetic and geometry. Dave Johnson is obviously one of those. One example among many : "Cubic inch displacement is the volume swept by the piston in a single full stroke. Basically, it is the diameter of the piston time the length of the stroke" (page 35). A good book editor should have protected the author from flaunting his shortcomings.

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