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anyone see this type of face used anymore?
got beranek's "fundamentals" book for christmas
and have been reading it nightly
got beranek's "fundamentals" book for christmas
and have been reading it nightly
I snipe quite a bit on small drops in the terrain. Especially with sugar pine. It is often times amazing.
What a great book indeed, also High Climbers and Timber Fallers. Priceless investments for the book collection. Bailey's is the cheapest source, buy them, read them, share them. You will be pleased!
Humboldt - the face (notch) of the tree, where the top cut is square to the trunk and the bottom cut is on the diagonal. Common on hill sides.
Snipe - (loose term) for a wide variety of diagonal cuts taken from the face, to influence the outcome of the trees lay.
cut up the face and add a snipe.
The "snipe" you refer to sounds like what I was shown when I worked for the ROW clearing dept here for the local util.The term tought me was "Dutch cut",used to influence or swing a tree's fall about 10 -15degrees.If you parous the OSHA logging guide they call it a "swing dutch cut".As long as your hinge wood is sound,lean not to great it was an awesome technique to influence the fall.
ak4195
thats different. a "swinging dutchman" cut is a dutchman: an unclean portion of the undercut [face cut] if you carry the horrizontal cutof your undercut past the angled cut on one side of the tree, you can encourage the tree to swing to the side.
the cut they're talking about here (my interpretation) is cutting the backcut on an angle compared to the undercut's direction. like when you're falling a side leaner, you leave more holding wood on the tension side (the side opposite to the lean).
Nope, gentlemen. It has nothing to do with the back cut and it is not a dutchman. It is a third cut in the face that angles down that allows the butt to slide down. It has little or no practical purpose for tree service or small limber trees. If you are not falling timber on bad ground that is decent sized, don't even worry about it. It is still used but knowing the why, how and when is not something you are going to learn over the 'net.
yeah thats basically a swanson. the way they're teaching is to not make two angles, just one really steep one (should be 45 degrees or 1:1 depth to opening instead of the 3:1 of the humoldt). same effect, so the butt slides off and hits first to try to stop the tree from moving.
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