I made a video this year cutting oak during which at one point I intentionally lifted my hand off the front handle to capture "self-feeding" of the chain - but it is on Digital 8mm tape, I have to transfer it to my PC to be able to clip & crop the session.
Why is it on an outdated video format You might ask?
Because I have that camcorder, barely used, and a high power battery pack with up to 525 minutes of recording time capacity for it.
It literally cost me nothing to set it up on a tripod in the shade, zoom in on the log pile and let it record unattended. But it is really time consuming to digitize the tapes afterwards.
A saw running a good self feeding chain feels just great, good chips, nice sound of the saw/PH under load, no energy required on pushing to force the chain to cut - one doesn't even need bucking spikes other then for the protection of the PH against scratches from the bark.
Why is it on an outdated video format You might ask?
Because I have that camcorder, barely used, and a high power battery pack with up to 525 minutes of recording time capacity for it.
It literally cost me nothing to set it up on a tripod in the shade, zoom in on the log pile and let it record unattended. But it is really time consuming to digitize the tapes afterwards.
A saw running a good self feeding chain feels just great, good chips, nice sound of the saw/PH under load, no energy required on pushing to force the chain to cut - one doesn't even need bucking spikes other then for the protection of the PH against scratches from the bark.