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Storm damage, especially from a tornado leaves a lot of broken and twisted crowns in the canopy. I got into one of those in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area doing a post-tornado logout on a wilderness trail. Axes and crosscuts only.

I always thought of a snap cut as an undercut followed by a top cut to finish AND the cut piece would fall to the ground away from the main stem. The fence posting leaves a series of cut pieces stuck in the ground while walking back the main stem. I think of this video as more of a snap cut...

That was one I took down after a storm. It was hung up from the get go and I finally had to rig a Maasdam and a couple blocks to pull it free. Chunking out all those pieces made it easier to pull it loose.

Is that like the picket fence technique where the hung up tree breaks away and the cut pieces stay in the ground while you walk the stem up ever steeper angles (while hoping it'll finally drop out of its hangup before it goes vertical on you)?

Underbuckers are just one more thing to carry and seem to have more of a home in the PNW where the trees are bigger. Crosscut sawyers who use their axe handles to underbuck don't pay enough attention to dressing the backs of their saws, which are often chipped and rusty and have a serrated edge...

I like using crosscuts. You can hear every snap and crack before a release and hopefully get yourself and the saw back from the drop.

Eastern style saws had tab/non-toothed ends that would fit a loop handle. Western saws had teeth out to the ends. I'm on that Wilderness list as a saw filer, but I live in Michigan, a long way to mail a saw. I'll second John Starling as a filer closer to you. Filing charges are part length, part...

Yes, I don't think it's a Simonds, but it made me think of their etch.

This was the Simonds etch on their big saws.

It's a worn Champion tooth eastern felling saw. Western saws had teeth out to the ends. I don't recognize the etch, any words legible? Simonds saws had a sunrise logo on their big saws but it wasn't that prominent. I file saws professionally but I doubt you'd want to spend that kind of money on...

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Motor does all the work. A lot quieter than a gas engine.

A good crosscut (or any crosscut saw for that matter) will cost more than $100. Even if you find a quality used saw, you will still have to get it sharpened before you use it. Add the sharpening cost to the acquisition cost and you are well over $100.00 unless you can find a local bubba who...

Thanks! great link.

Almost every woodshed I see is well removed from the house. I live in the snowbelt and would like to build a woodshed directly behind my garage for easy access. Any reason not to do that?

The wedges were getting a little sloppy in the kerf just before the CRACK when it released. I was sawing light forward and heavy going back, and just continued out with the pull as it fell. There was some end bind on it and the whole tree slid back some before it stopped moving.

A buddy took a video of me dropping a big red oak deadfall off the stump in slow-mo. Started with an undercut and made the top an offset to the drop side. The trail was in a steep canyon and had to be single bucked the whole way down. Saw was sharp but still took about a half hour to get it...

Glad to see another member with an appreciation for crosscut saws. To know them is to love them and to love them is to file them. Dolly is a very good instructor.

Alive but probably on life support. Most folks seem to have pretty hardened opinions on the subject.

It was WAY excessive. There was a U-shaped trench at the end of the bar, both top and bottom, but nowhere else along the rails.