nittany_tim
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This weekend I'll be breaking in a new MS290 I got yesterday by bucking a bunch of about 5-foot sweet gum logs sitting in my back yard. A good number of these are thicker in diameter than the 20" length of my bar (the biggest ones range from 24" - 27"). For several years I've cut up my own firewood from neighbors' trees with my old, smaller 16" Poulan, but all of those have been smaller trees that the bar has been able to span. What's the proper & safe technique for approaching these monsters? Specifically, I'm worried about kickback since the bar won't be clear through on the other side as I'm cutting through and the bar tip will always be close to touching the rest of the log as I'm cutting down through. Also, since these things are way too heavy to lift up onto anything, how can I buck these without inevitably touching the bar into the ground? Thanks for any advice! -- Tim