This is an in person event.

registration is required for this training

Continue your chainsaw safety with more information! Designed to hone your skills fresh from the day before, or with prior consent of the instructors. We heard your call to offer something immediate....here's your chance!

The class continues developing your chainsaw skills combining more hands-on, with lecture while covering more about reactive forces, more chainsaw maintenance, more tools to aid your chainsaw skills, and when and why to use certain notches. More of Level 1; yet developed to expand your skills. Attendees will spend more time cutting with real-time feedback and guidance.

You will leave with a better understanding of the safety + features of a chainsaw and be able to operate a chainsaw based on using safe fundamentals. Prior to taking this course, you should have taken a Level 1 chainsaw course.

Note: Equipment will be provided; if you have your own chainsaw or personal protective equipment, please bring it with you.

This program will be held in case of light/misty rain; in case of stronger rain or storms, this program will be held on May 29th.

Lunch: Not included, bring a bag lunch.

This chainsaw class is built on the pre-requisite of attending a Chainsaw Level 1 class. This workshop is designed for the chainsaw operator who wishes to gain greater confidence with this powerful tool. This Level 2 chainsaw class will combine lecture and hands-on learning covering topics such as PPE, review of safe operations and move on to advanced bucking and basic felling techniques.

Note: Attendees will be required to wear PPE. Please bring your own chainsaw in good working order. (Running well, chain tensioned and sharpened, fueled and oiled.)

Registration is required and costs $250/person. Refunds only available until May 12, 2026; after that date, ticket is non-refundable. Space is limited. Coffee, water and snacks will be provided; please plan to bring a lunch.

Instructor Melissa LeVangie Ingersoll adores sharing her love of trees and the skills she’s acquired over the last 29 years in the industry of arboriculture. Melissa is a passionate educator and her down to earth approach lends her subject matter expertise to be accessible by students, newbie to advanced people alike. As the Women’s Tree Climbing Workshop® Owner and Co-Founder, Melissa serves as a lead instructor, curriculum developer, website designer, and head of marketing... and more. Melissa is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, B.S. in Forestry; with a diverse background Melissa brings a wealth of knowledge to her passion of arboriculture. With trail construction and maintenance, firefighting, chainsaw training and more, she is passionate to learn as much as she gives.