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Safety precautions

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Have a suitable first aid kit on hand at the work site (see below). Take care with billhooks, slashers, axes and saws. Tools have to be sharp to do the job properly, but this makes them potentially dangerous. Billhooks in particular must be razor sharp to cut pleachers cleanly and without dangerous effort. Take great...

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