Who is cutting wood?

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.

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It’s on the ground and you aren’t under it so I’d call that good.

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^This.

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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I think if I collected anymore wood I would be considered abit too OCD in collecting wood.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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This minus the bizarre 45 he throws in at the end. Just cut all the way out the back flat.

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I hate those angled cuts - I always consider them the mark of a jong faller.

I’ll probably get sent to HR for this, but everybody I worked with always called that angled back cut a Chinese cut.

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Getting my wood lot thinned. Lots of fire wood along with some saw logs.

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Who are you using for the saw logs?

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 hate those angled cuts - I always consider them the mark of a jong faller.

I’ll probably get sent to HR for this, but everybody I worked with always called that angled back cut a Chinese cut.

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I feel the same way and we call them drunken Sweedes.

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?