Dennis Cahoon
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If you're doubling up wedges try putting a small thin layer of dirt in between both wedges.
if you're concerned about the tree sitting back, and depending on size of tree, use a split level back cut. make your first cut from the right hand side of the tree, pushing chain, horizontal, no more than an inch above the bottom of the sink cut, and cut across 2/3 of the tree diameter leaving a decent hinge.
due to the 3rd remaining behind the sink/scarf/face/whatever, the tree cannot sit back. you should also be able to get a bar, lever, wedge, etc in the perfect 6 o clock position in the cut so as to get some pressure on in the right direction.
next, make your final cut, from the left of the tree, making sure not to get in your danger zones, pulling chain, with the nose angled down slightly so that it slightly undercuts the original cut, and takes out the remaining 3rd up to the hinge. reason for the undercut being if you use a felling lever, there is no steel object in the same cut as the saw chain.
since the wedge is already in the first cut, the weight can go onto it, but the tree cannot physically sit back. now wedge or lever it over to your heart's content
Clearance,
Ekka has some video of the split level back cut, it works good if you don’t have enough diameter to get the saw back into the cut without hitting the wedge
Heres a stupid one. I was helping one of my team buck a log and we were using wedges to keep from pinching. I tapped the wedge in and backed off, but not off line. He finished the cut, the wedge dropped onto the running chain and hit me in the chin. Maybe those full-face shields aren't too silly after all...
Hey, what the hell happened to the dogs on that Husky in the pic?
Like everything else on a husky, it fell off.
Hey, what the hell happened to the dogs on that Husky in the pic?
i try and get my customers NOT TO FORCE A DULL CHAIN TO CUT so i remove the dawgs and put on smooth bumpers,EVERYBODY KNOWS dawgs are for the horizontal position,but are loved in the vertical position.Hey, what the hell happened to the dogs on that Husky in the pic?
Like everything else on a husky, it fell off.
i try and get my customers NOT TO FORCE A DULL CHAIN TO CUT so i remove the dawgs and put on smooth bumpers,EVERYBODY KNOWS dawgs are for the horizontal position,but are loved in the vertical position.
and besides real woodcutters that know how to file a sawchain don't need dawgs
Looks like they were replaced by a distanse plate, without teeth - makes perfect sense to me.......:yoyo: :yoyo:
i try and get my customers NOT TO FORCE A DULL CHAIN TO CUT so i remove the dawgs and put on smooth bumpers,EVERYBODY KNOWS dawgs are for the horizontal position,but are loved in the vertical position.
and besides real woodcutters that know how to file a sawchain don't need dawgs
thanks troll
oh,while i'm here do you think that new saw you got (339) would cut better with 91 vs chain ?
the old ones i got in stock here have 95vp (very clubby)
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