HuskStihl
Chairin'em for the sound
Fiber pullerMe too. Except when I'm not. Sometimes it's "screw the fiber pull, I'll long butt it, I'm outta here".
Fiber pullerMe too. Except when I'm not. Sometimes it's "screw the fiber pull, I'll long butt it, I'm outta here".
Not Randy. . . He's made out of testosterone and steel.
And pirate.
With nerves of nylon.
I have had a few noisy events when the tree didn't follow the plan.
This Red Fir decided to leave early and split vertically in 3 or 4 places. It started to collapse before it left the stump. I left a chunk of undercut as I was trying to swing it a bit to the right to avoid a pumphouse and another big pissfir. It tried to take my 850 with it, had a hold of the bar tip, me and the saw were 40 feet away when it hit the ground.
right........live to cut another.........no log is worth my well being.......or even mah saw lol.Me too. Except when I'm not. Sometimes it's "screw the fiber pull, I'll long butt it, I'm outta here".
Learn something from your elders you say?If you do a search of threads randy mac has participated in and actually read them you can learn a couple of things. What he taught me was to not be sloppy. Anybody can cut a crooked face that doesn't meet. Make the back cut to high or too low, and not level. The tree falls over and they don't get killed, and they think the know what they are doing.
I have learned many techniques on here. Most of the trees I throw have a rope in them. Even with that, I now have learned to be precise in my cuts. Not slow, precise. I practiced until I could get things to be level and lined up and have face cuts meet where they should.
I didn't like his posts early on. My ego got in the way. Now I am glad he is critical of sloppy work. I can see many of the things he points out in my work. So I stopped being in a hurry and tried to learn to be in control of where I was cutting.
One last technique, early in the back cut put a wedge in only about an inch or so. When the wedge moves the cut is opening or closing. You'll see that before you actually see the opening move.
excellent book to get you started, IMO if you haven't read that book you don't belong cutting any standing trees at all.Ive ordered this book professional tree falling by Douglas? Guess thats a good one?
+1 these guys helped me refine my falling. ya got to have an open mind to learn.If you do a search of threads randy mac has participated in and actually read them you can learn a couple of things. What he taught me was to not be sloppy. Anybody can cut a crooked face that doesn't meet. Make the back cut to high or too low, and not level. The tree falls over and they don't get killed, and they think the know what they are doing.
I have learned many techniques on here. Most of the trees I throw have a rope in them. Even with that, I now have learned to be precise in my cuts. Not slow, precise. I practiced until I could get things to be level and lined up and have face cuts meet where they should.
I didn't like his posts early on. My ego got in the way. Now I am glad he is critical of sloppy work. I can see many of the things he points out in my work. So I stopped being in a hurry and tried to learn to be in control of where I was cutting.
One last technique, early in the back cut put a wedge in only about an inch or so. When the wedge moves the cut is opening or closing. You'll see that before you actually see the opening move.
Im all ears.+1 these guys helped me refine my falling. ya got to have an open mind to learn.
excellent book to get you started, IMO if you haven't read that book you don't belong cutting any standing trees at all.
Head in a swivel
Oh? I know quite a few guys, professional fallers, who haven't read Dent's book. Or any other book for that matter. They seem to do okay.
ramble on, it gives me somthing interesting to read.I didn't get there overnight, it took a few years working with old guys. I also had the benefit of different forms of training, CDF, USFS and being an apprentice. It helped being born with talent and having nearly unlimited opportunities to practice. Under the guise of training and hazard tree removal, I participated in sportfalling, lots of fun there. Many Saturdays were spent cruising around with my brother, looking for the biggest, nastiest DF snags and monster hardwoods. We had access to a large amount of timberlands in Southern Humboldt.
I tend to ramble on, gets noisy in my head these days. Time for an Ativan.
back baring...........i do it limbing alot and somtimes on smaller stems. it is harder to match cuts doing this and harder to control the saw......its not ideal. if you don't need a real low stump, you don't need to on any tree.I have noticed alot of fallers using the saw with the pushing or pulling side of bar? Advantages and disadvantages of both and what determines which? I have 3/4 wraps on my 461 and 362 so either way work?
back baring...........i do it limbing alot and somtimes on smaller stems. it is harder to match cuts doing this and harder to control the saw......its not ideal. if you don't need a real low stump, you don't need to on any tree.
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