Depth of face cut

[HuskStihl]

Any man in this tree business who has roughly 1400 more 'likes', than he does actual posts...speaks zero ******** in my book. Gotta tip my hat to ya. I'm no logger, woodsman by trade, just side stuff...I enjoy reading your no frills, no spills advice... Gypo Logger the same. Good reading gentleman!!

Sir, if this post was directed towards me then.....
1) thank you
2) you are a terrible judge of a man's character/knowledge

If this was directed at Gologit, then u'r assessment was spot on

 

[mainewoods]

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Yukon mosquito, up close and personal!

 

[Trx250r180]

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That must be Nome ,i see a ufo in the sky .

 

[nk14zp]

Skeeter logging.

 

[Hedgerow]

Yukon mosquito, up close and personal!

Bingo!!!

You beat me to it...

But it looks like ole gypo dun cut all the trees down...

 

[svk]

I can't believe this thread is still going....

 

[rwoods]

I can't believe this thread is still going....

The question is where is it going?

Ron

 

[Marshy]

The question is where is it going?

Ron

How deep should I make my back cut?

 

[Trx250r180]

How deep should I make my back cut?

 

[msvold]

Hey, just wanted to let you all know that I used some advice from this thread for a dead pine along a fence line. As I assessed the situation, I thought about making my back cut first due to this thread. So that's what I did, back cut, putting wedges (plastic) in, then made the face cut, finished the back cut, tapped the wedges, fell where I wanted. Told my wife, the credit goes to this thread.
Even though this thread has stalled, at a minimum it lead to one safe tree on the ground.

 

[treeslayer2003]

this^^^ is the only reason for this thread

 

[treeslayer2003]

and.....Bob, if every tree was the same we would been hauling giant dowels lol. and i'd prolly got bored with logging long ago.

 

[Gologit]

and.....Bob, if every tree was the same we would been hauling giant dowels lol. and i'd prolly got bored with logging long ago.

LOL...that's what a lot of our logs are like but I never did get bored. Aggravated sometimes, but never bored. They might look the same but they sure don't act the same.

 

[svk]

Is the sloping back cut the same as the "farmer's cut"?

 

[treeslayer2003]

pretty much

 

[treeslayer2003]

dowels

 

[nk14zp]

Is the sloping back cut the same as the "farmer's cut"?

Yep.

 

[Gologit]

dowels
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Nice looking logs. Here's more dowels...

 

[tla100]

How deep should I make my back cut?

I always go balls deep.....

 

[Trx250r180]

road hogs those dowels