I have been cutting all my life, and never gave a rat's a$$ until learning on here how dangerous it is to have bad cuts, and how to read a stump after the tree has been felled. Now that I know, and am trying to be more careful out there, things bother me that never did before! I even bore cut into a large dead oak yesterday to be sure it was not hollow! Never would have done that before. lol Guess I have been lucky all these years.
The last 20 or 30 trees have come down safer, just from trying to watch closer, but still have miles to go! lol
Was just hoping there was a trick to getting the cuts straight.
Thanks for all the input guys! Nice to have a place to go where I can not only ask these kinds of questions but get answers as well!
by the way, bar and chain are fairly new. When I put new chain on, my dealer trues the bar, blows all the crap outta the machine and fires it up to make sure it's tuned right. All for the price of the chain, which is Stihl full chisel on my 18 inch bar.