Ditch the dawgs and use a slide on my bucking saws. Keep a small set of dawgs on the felling saws but not for leverage, just a pivot point. A sharp chain is not enough on its own, the chain/depth gauge relationship needs to be correct for the type of wood being cut along with the correct cutter shape for self feeding.
The "dawgs" work on big limbs also, but I agree that on small limbs they mean little. A few cottonwood limbs are huge around here--big as some good-sized tress.I use em, that's what they are there for right. Except limbing.
Sharpen your chain .
Pfffttt...
I back bar everything..
Ditch the dawgs and use a slide on my bucking saws. Keep a small set of dawgs on the felling saws but not for leverage, just a pivot point. A sharp chain is not enough on its own, the chain/depth gauge relationship needs to be correct for the type of wood being cut along with the correct cutter shape for self feeding.
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Have no problem using the dogs on a saw. Once you start thinking of them as a solidly anchored pivot the argument kind've evaporates. Yes it's obvious you don't use them to force the saw through the wood....kind've like preaching to the choir on a site like this.
And "The Force". Yes...A cardboard box?
And "The Force". Yes...
Lol.
I like the term, "pivot point".
And totally agree on the chain matching the wood, but how does one setup a chain, for say 10 logs - 3 hickory, 2 ash, a maple, 2 red oaks, a walnut and a gum?
Yes..I need to get me some "force".
Can I get some at the co-op?