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First forte other than a couple of wheel barrel loads , well 6, as a chainsaw warmup. Filled out trailer so should be close to 2 cords. Mostly D Fir with whatever spruce or sub alpine fir that is the way. Its a huge slash pile so I hardly made a dent in it.
^Well, other than being dirty and dulling chains, that slash pile should make gathering easy.
Actually it was pretty clean. It was logged over the winter so not much in the way dirt. Did the two cords and didn't have to sharpen, was cutting fine at the end.
More thinning after I cut out of work today. The below pict (doug fir), I was pretty proud. It was a little tangled in the adjacent oak, but felled right where I wanted with a little tug from the cord that I set up.
The next (smaller) Doug fir was a super PITA, was much more tangled (beyond what I could see in the canopy) in an adjacent oak, and it took me about an hour to get it onto the ground: involved pulling via cord in multiple directions, breaking most of my hinge, sledging the tree off the hinge/stump with the butt spearing into the ground, wedge cut, and pulling with cord via rope come along. It finally came down, safely, and in the intended direction. Cold dinner and no picts of that one. I almost threw in the towel.
My thinning is starting to be noticeable, which is nice.
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Sweet!Quote:
Originally Posted by DougW
all that dirt you see is actually bark bits and other tree stuff, it was driving on a foot of mulch to get to the pileQuote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but I'm under the impression that it's easier and safer to pull the butt away from the stump rather than pull the top thru/out of whatever is hanging it up. But of course pulling the butt not always possible for a variety or reasons.
This is what I did in the end, after I broke my hinge and the butt was sitting on the ground. Most trees that I'm dealing with are a little tangled, but most are much smaller than the one I dealt with yesterday.Quote:
Originally Posted by steepconcrete
Lol.
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Question:Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
What is a widowmaker?
Oh fuck. Appears to still be attached?
It was all good. Some days every single little tree gets snagged on the way down. That one got a little tangled in another little Doug fir. I tossed rope over at head height, stood off to the side lookers left and gave a nice long tug, and it came down with hinge still doing its thing.
Nice
I just buck what I can and leave the rest to come down on its own.
This is how I handled the tree that hung up today. I did this cut about 4 times before the tree came down. Big open face on top with a back cut that I’d stop as soon as it started to move, leaving a hinge. It seemed to work well. Thoughts?
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It’s on the ground and you aren’t under it so I’d call that good.
^This.Quote:
Originally Posted by ~mikey b
I've seen that technique recommended in a Husky manual.
Thanks all.
Had to be careful not to get a face full of chips off the saw.
That's the technique I teach.
Favorite technique(s) for cutting down smaller dead leaners? I have a few. One ~10” diameter and one ~5” diameter. They’re both leaning a lot.
Gotta get this done before the mosquitoes and black flies suck out all of my blood.
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Getting my wood lot thinned. Lots of fire wood along with some saw logs.
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I'm done. No more room in wood shed, so about 4 to 3.5 years worth of wood. No more room in any garbage cans to put kindling. May go out in fall as a head start for next year as have access to a great slash pile, clean and mostly doug fir.
^tarps work fine for green wood.
I think if I collected anymore wood I would be considered abit too OCD in collecting wood.
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Originally Posted by DougW
Some semblance of a face cut on the 10", but a smaller version. Just a small kerf for a face in the general direction of fall on the 5". You'll have the 5" cut down to the holding wood before it can barber chair. The 10" you might consider a boring back cut to leave a small strap on the back and limit your exposure to a barber chair.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
These are small trees and with a hard lean just make sure you cut fast and move to your escape route.
This minus the bizarre 45 he throws in at the end. Just cut all the way out the back flat.
https://youtu.be/tVH3ShnhMRA
Funny haven't watched that in a while. My OCD is collecting a lot but trying to spend the least amount of time per cord.Quote:
Originally Posted by reckless toboggan
I hate those angled cuts - I always consider them the mark of a jong faller.Quote:
Originally Posted by mecc69
I’ll probably get sent to HR for this, but everybody I worked with always called that angled back cut a Chinese cut.
Who are you using for the saw logs?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peruvian
I've got 2 10' lengths of what I am pretty sure is white oak, 29" at the big end. Can't see (or pick them up for that matter) turning these into firewood. Got about 30' total of 12"+ diameter nice and straight too.
Spent the day cleaning up the odds and ends that I had laying around but were too knurled for hand splitting. Couple tons of hydraulics works wonders.
I dropped the bigger leaner today. Oak stem that was actually less than 10in diameter. It was leaning pretty good, maybe 60’, and was heavily “checked”. Did a big and shallow open face, bored to make a hinge, and then cut the back strap. Worked great.
This happened later today. It got spun at its crown by the oak that was gently hugging it. Lol:
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I feel the same way and we call them drunken Sweedes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
I don't understand the purpose of the angled cut. If the point is to quickly cut the back strap because you're cutting a leaner and there's a ton of tension on the holding wood, there's a lot more wood to cut through doing an angled cut instead a more direct line.
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May have been mentioned, but search was unsuccessful . . . what is appropriate time, morning and late day, for motorized saw when neighbors are involved?
It's especially useful to have the butt shoot out the exact wrong way uncontrollably if the tree happens to settle back onto the back cut.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
Wedge? But in that vid, he was felling in direction of the leanQuote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
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I'm just telling you (albeit sarcastically) why it's a bad idea from a safety standpoint.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
Wait, are you defending the slant cut?
A guy "who's been cutting his whole life" told me the angled back cut prevents the tree from sitting back and pinching your bar. When I asked if the lean of the tree and not the angle of your back cut would determine if the tree was going to sit back he just gave me a puzzled look and waved his hand at me.
Not defending. Does not make sense to me.