twochains
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Prolly most of you guys have cut timber side by side with another cutter, well today was my first time...and it was awesome! A guy came out and cut with me today and we flat layed out the timber. This guy evidently went to school to cut high grade walnut veneer. I learned some tricks and showed him a couple.
We were pretty evenly matched; near the same age, same skill set...I out lasted him physically :msp_w00t:, but I won't hold that against him...it was in the high 80's today. I was a little apprehensive about cutting that close to someone but it worked great! Normally if another cutter is with me, they are across the hollar or something...never right beside me.
One trick he taught me was a bore cutting technique where the stump had 3 main points, he skipped the notch like I do but he bored between the 3 points leaving them and popped the back 2 to release the tree with a finger on the front to keep from jumping the stump. Pretty neat actually!
Anyway, I just wanted to express my enjoyment of working beside a good faller and having a VERY successful day! :msp_biggrin: Hope everyone made it home safe today! Cheers!
We were pretty evenly matched; near the same age, same skill set...I out lasted him physically :msp_w00t:, but I won't hold that against him...it was in the high 80's today. I was a little apprehensive about cutting that close to someone but it worked great! Normally if another cutter is with me, they are across the hollar or something...never right beside me.
One trick he taught me was a bore cutting technique where the stump had 3 main points, he skipped the notch like I do but he bored between the 3 points leaving them and popped the back 2 to release the tree with a finger on the front to keep from jumping the stump. Pretty neat actually!
Anyway, I just wanted to express my enjoyment of working beside a good faller and having a VERY successful day! :msp_biggrin: Hope everyone made it home safe today! Cheers!